Genshin Impact Heavenly Principles: Who Sealed the Twins

The Genshin Impact Heavenly Principles are named in-game as "the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles," a title rather than a personal name, and it is the entity behind the single event that starts the whole game.

What it actually did

At the beginning of the story, this force attacked the Traveler and their sibling as the twins arrived in Teyvat. One twin was sealed away for five hundred years — that seal is the reason your sibling is missing when the game starts, and the search for them is the plot running underneath every regional Archon Quest.

Why the vagueness is deliberate

HoYoverse has kept this force almost entirely undefined: no confirmed identity, no confirmed motive beyond the initial attack, and no confirmed connection stated outright to any faction you meet early on. Guides that state more than this as fact are filling gaps the game itself has not filled.

What it is reasonable to say

It represents a cosmic order or authority above the Archons — the framing used throughout is one of "principles" governing Teyvat, not simply another god with a name and a domain.