Cold Steel - Inazuma Gaiden
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  • Reads 16,294
  • Votes 896
  • Parts 36
  • Time 20h 15m
Complete, First published Dec 10, 2021
Time passes, seasons change, yet old wounds remain. Even as the Traveler finishes their business within the nation of thunder and lightning, Inazuma remains a broken and fractured land. Smoldering embers and past trauma left the country torn in half still, even as the arctic wind approaches.

Splintered, weary, and still yet to recover from the Civil War, Inazuma was brought to its knees while the people bleed, and yet threats of past, present, and emerging would continue to haunt the islands.

Inazuma was entering a new cold season, one without the light of the Shogun to guide its people.

This is a tale of two opposites, a heron who's graceful and as faultless as the snow, and a wounded thrush - unwanted and unable to fly without its wings.

This is a tale of a noble and a simple lowly thief, one who wants to fight for the nation, while the other wanting nothing but to escape from it. Both shall come together in search for answers of their nation's future in a dark, Inazuman winter.

This is a tale of two songbirds.

This is the tale of Cold Steel.

A Side Story of Inazuma.



[Non-canon take of lore, character, and locations. Only follows in-game lore up to Patch 2.1-2.2. Better to be consumed as AU material!]
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♡⇢ "𝘠/𝘯... 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶. [...] 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘥... 𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓸." ⇠♡ • • • A small girl named y/n was having the time of her life in Inazuma. Everything was peaceful, she was healthy, happy, and even had a nice friend, a boy, who she met not long ago. In those times, that's all one could ask for. Later on, a disaster, a war broke out. The girl was trembling, and while her parents tried to put up a fight they told their daughter to run. Her friend went alongside her, until they both reached a safe space. The boy told the child to get some rest, it was a long day after all. The next thing she woke up to was... an unfamiliar area surrounding her. • DISCLAIMER: • - I do NOT own these characters, they all belong to Hoyoverse; Genshin Impact! - The story will somewhat follow the lore, but more on this a little later - Scaramouche art used in the book cover belongs to @inertraccoon on Twitter (check them out they are so talented omg)