Dunyarzad — Genshin Impact Character Guide

The Akademiya’s plan turns the Sabzeruz Festival into a repeating dream, using the Akasha to harvest the citizens’ dreams. Already seriously weakened by Eleazar, Dunyarzad suffers a collapse of consciousness as the cycles continue. The apparent Dunyarzad who later appears within the dream is not proof that the real woman is unharmed. The possibility of losing her becomes an urgent and deeply personal part of the Traveler’s attempt to escape the samsara.

After the dream cycle ends, Nahida explains that Dunyarzad’s fading consciousness escaped the Akasha’s control when her strength gave out. Nahida found its remaining fragment and sustained her dying dream while the Traveler searched for a way to end the samsara. The Traveler discovers that Nilou is the dream’s host, and her Dance of Sabzeruz brings the cycle to an end. Dunyarzad survives, initially weak and unaware of how many days have seemed to pass, but Eleazar still afflicts her at this point.

In Sumeru’s Chapter III, Act V, the removal of forbidden knowledge from Irminsul causes Eleazar to disappear, curing its sufferers, including Dunyarzad. At Port Ormos, she tells the Traveler and Paimon that she has never been happier and that familiar scenery now feels different. Dehya has resigned from her paid bodyguard position, explaining that she wants to keep her skills sharp, but she still accompanies Dunyarzad as a friend. Dunyarzad later attends the gathering at the Grand Bazaar, where she finally speaks with and thanks Nahida.

In Dehya’s “Lionsblood” story quest, a trail of supplies from the Homayanis raises concerns about Dunyarzad’s father Shahzaman. When confronted, he explains that he provided food and medicine to the Eremite Kusayla’s group in gratitude for Kusayla saving the Homayanis from bandits when Dunyarzad was a baby. Kusayla later recommended Dehya to Shahzaman as a bodyguard, wanting Dehya to leave the mercenary life. The investigation reveals a more complicated history than the initial suspicion of support for violent raids. Dunyarzad participates in learning the truth and supporting Dehya.

In the limited-time Version 5.1 event “Chromatic Ode of Candies and Roses,” Dunyarzad appears in the quest “Give Her Memories” during another celebration of Nahida’s birthday. The return to the Sabzeruz Festival shows that the occasion continues to bring her together with Sumeru’s friends and performers.

A later altered-dream sequence in “Where Flowers Awaken” casts Dunyarzad as the acting manager of Puspa Café, where she worries that visitors have been overfeeding the shop cat, Ashru. The café job and the cat’s changed name belong to that distorted dream, not to Dunyarzad’s ordinary life in Sumeru.

During preparations for the crisis in “A Tower Unto Wisdom and Folly,” Dunyarzad joins Dehya, Candace and Dori in a quieter conversation after speaking with people during an evacuation. She describes the Dendro Archon as a friend rather than a distant ruler and is glad to have a chance to contribute after others repeatedly protected her. Her prayer is for everyone facing the coming battle to meet its challenges and return safely. In the aftermath, Candace explicitly recalls Dunyarzad’s view of the Archon as a friend.