(contribution to the Infinite Loops project) Venti knew time wasn't linear, but that didn't prepare him for being stuck in a time loop. Aether just thought it was a prank at first. (It wasn't.) When Yggdrasil —the Multiverse Tree— became unstable, many of its universes were put on time loops to sustain them. One such universe, the Genshin Impact Branch, has just started Looping.