belyi tsar (genshin impact)

Raised among the Snowland Fae with no knowledge of his true origins, he unified the northern fae tribes after defeating King Miscislav and the Volkodlak Alliance. Drawn to uncover his true nature, he sent expeditions into the Shadow Realm to study the ruins of Hyperborea, where he learned he had been engineered from the remains of the Cryo Dragon as a failed Hyperborean attempt at a Primordial Human. He chose to pursue that ascension himself, founding the Hvergelmir Institute toward that goal, but the passage he opened into the Shadow Realm also gave the Abyss a way in. He fell in battle against it during the Cataclysm roughly 500 years ago, and the Tsaritsa took the throne in his place.