Genshin Impact: Who is Pervases?
Last Updated on: 27th June 2022, 03:47 pm
Genshin Impact has quite a number of NPCs and playable characters. If you have been playing the game for quite some time, you’d understand why.
Well, the fantasy world of Teyvat is vast. While it is home to seven nations, we have yet to travel to three of them—Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma. Each nation has its people and supernatural beings. And each of them, past and present, has a story to tell, making the lore of Genshin Impact as seemingly endless as its world.
One of the many NPCs in Genshin Impact is Pervases. But who is he? And what is his story?
Who is Pervases in Genshin Impact?
Pervases is one of the many NPCs in Genshin Impact. However, he’s definitely not your everyday ordinary individual. He might be designed as a regular-looking NPC, but Pervases was a Yaksha who fought the manifestations of the fallen gods during the Archon War.
If you have no idea what Yaksha‘s are, we highly recommend that you check out more about them here.
Specifically, Pervases was a junior Yaksha, but unlike Xiao, a Yaksha who is still alive after thousands of years, Pervases, unfortunately, perished in the fight against the fallen gods.
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Where can you find Pervases in Genshin Impact?
The Traveler can find Pervases at a run-down shrine near Mt. Tianheng through Xiao’s Story Quest (Alatus Chapter, Act I: Butterfly’s Dream).
In this story, the Traveler is in need of a censer and some lamps as advised by Xiao. With the said materials, they can perform an Adepti art called the Dream Trawler and confiscate the sigil of Starsnatcher, an individual who claims to be an Adeptus for personal gain.
The Traveler meets Pervases at the shrine, but as they take the censer and lamps, Pervases disappears and talks to them through a statue. It is here where Pervases reveals that he isn’t human but a junior Yaksha. He also reveals that he perished a thousand years ago and was only using an illusory body through a ritual called Mortal Lingering to witness the modern-day Liyue and celebrate his death anniversary. With the Traveler taking the censer and lamps, Pervases’ Mortal Lingering ritual is dispelled, but he still allows the Traveler to leave and use them.
Using the censer and lamps, the Traveler, Paimon, and Xiao perform the Dream Trawler to confront Starsnatcher. Realizing his wrongdoings, Starsnatcher sincerely apologizes, returns the money he has gained as a fake Adeptus, and goes on a journey of self-reflection. Moreover, he drops his alias Starsnatcher and continues to live his life as Wang Ping’an, who is now determined to carry out a project for restoring Pervases‘ run-down shrine to good condition.
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Pervases’ Personality
Although he was a Yaksha and speaks in a distinctly old-fashioned way of the Adepti, Pervases isn’t arrogant like the others. He sounds down-to-earth, compassionate, and respectful.
During the Story Quest, he senses Xiao’s karmic burden through the Traveler and expresses his sadness that Xiao still has to endure it for thousands of years. Moreover, Pervases tells the Traveler to send his regards to Xiao, whom he considers his senior.
It is also important to note that Pervases allows the Traveler to take the censer and lamps despite knowing that it will cause his illusory body to disappear.
While it’s impossible for Pervases to be a playable character, he sounds like a very nice individual and would have been a great fighter. What do you think was his Vision?
