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Overview

Alice is Klee's mother, as well as a famous adventurer who authored the Teyvat Travel Guide. She is a polymath whose skills include alchemy, astrology, engineering, magic, and medicine. Additionally, she is an elder within the Hexenzirkel, an organization which both Mona and Mona's Master also belong to.

Personality

Alice is a free-spirited person who exercises little restraint and acts impulsively. She blew up parts of Stormterror's Lair because she felt that the ruins didn't seem ancient enough, and concocted a potion to cure Echo's stutter, only to leave him with the side effect of only being able to imitate others around him. Both Jean and Albedo remark that Klee takes after her mother in many ways, with Albedo commenting that his only relief is that Klee is not yet as destructive as Alice.

Despite her impulsiveness, Alice is also quite powerful and intelligent, taking inspiration from her adventures to draft various ideas and experiments. She also dotes on Klee a great deal and Klee, in turn, adores her. Alice devised Dodoco after observing Amber's Baron Bunny and designed an entire fictional story revolving around it for Klee to enjoy, going as far as to arrange the events at the Golden Apple Archipelago and invite several people whom Klee is close with for a summer vacation. She also secretly checks in on Klee at Mondstadt while she performs her job.

Alongside doting on her real daughter, Alice shows her maternal side to those who treat Klee well. She insisted that Albedo call her "mother" (to which he refused) and decided that he was now part of their family. Following Crepus' death several years ago, Alice sent Diluc a condolence letter in which she also insisted on treating him like her own child due to the way he had cared for Klee in the past.

Story

History

Alice became acquainted with the Khaenri'ah alchemist Rhinedottir at an unknown point in the past; the two have a close enough bond that Rhinedottir later sent Albedo, her apprentice and creation, to seek Alice out for help with his final assignment. Alice, in turn, brought him to the Knights of Favonius in Mondstadt, believing they had the resources to build a large research lab for him.

Centuries ago, Alice encountered an otherworldly outlander in Teyvat, which was the last time such an outlander appeared before Aloy's arrival. She became acquainted with Yae Miko at some point, calling the over 500-year-old kitsune a "little girl" and recounts in the Inazuma edition of the Teyvat Travel Guide how easy it was to make Yae Miko cry. Alice also mentions Asase Hibiki as "that killjoy shrine maiden" and Neko as "that fat cat," further indicating that she traveled to Inazuma after the cataclysm 500 years ago.

Fifty years ago, Alice made a pact with her friend and rival, Mona's Master, resulting in Alice taking possession of her diary, which Alice in turn eventually left in Klee's care.

At some point in time, Alice met Klee's father, another renowned adventurer, during her travels. They had Klee, and decided to stay in Mondstadt for a while to raise her. Around this time, Albedo sought her out at Rhinedottir's behest, leading Alice to take the boy in and insist on treating each other as a "real family," further insisting that Albedo refer to her as "mother." Alice also imparted Barbara with the "Idol Magazine," inspiring the young deaconess to become an "idol" for Alice's "Teyvat Idols!" group, although the group never came to fruition due to recruitment troubles.

Sometime after Crepus died four years before the game's start, Klee noticed Diluc's disappearance, which prompted Alice to look into the matter. After finding out about Crepus' passing, Alice sent Diluc a lengthy letter to express her condolences and give him words of encouragement. Three years before the game's start, Alice and Klee's father went to travel "somewhere dangerous and far away," and entrusted Klee to Albedo and the Knights of Favonius.

Alice began writing the Teyvat Travel Guide in the recent past, documenting notable areas and features in her travels, although its highly personal and subjective writing style make the work read more like her personal diary rather than an actual travel guide. The Mondstadt and Liyue editions began circulating some time ago, as Jifang of the Wanwen Bookhouse claims the Liyue edition has been out-of-print for some time due to its unpopularity.

The Mondstadt edition was likely written shortly after Alice's arrival in Mondstadt, before raising Klee. During that time, she observed Amber's Baron Bunny and was inspired to build an explosive doll, which eventually became known as Dodoco. She also became known for performing aerobatic stunts after launching herself with an Anemo Slime, only to receive a Gliding Violation from Jean.

While writing the Liyue edition, Alice became acquainted with Zhongli, whom she described as "the sternest person" she knows. She also cured Echo of his stutter, but the potion's side-effects cause him to be compelled to perfectly imitate those around him, which he is still afflicted by to this day.

While the Inazuma edition was first published during the Irodori Festival, its contents set Alice's experiences as occurring shortly before the outbreak of war a year ago. She attempted to recruit Ayaka for "Teyvat Idols!", only to be rebuffed at least six times, and befriended Yoimiya.

Present Day

Shortly before the events of Version 1.6, Alice found the Golden Apple Archipelago and thought of Klee. As a gift to her and to the people who were taking care of her, she decided to dress-up the islands, leaving behind various gadgets and games to turn it into a "summer park" for everyone to enjoy. In order to get everyone to come, she concocted a plan of leaving behind threatening letters, encouraging them to go to the island to deal with a fictional enemy, called 'Dodo-King.' However, once the last puzzle was dealt with, the truth was revealed through one of Alice's inventions, which she calls the "Alice Phonograph." She explained herself and the island and that she was already exploring another area in Teyvat.

Sometime later, Alice returned to Mondstadt to visit Klee. During the trip, she ran into Venti and gave him a Dodocommunication Device to give to a friend of his, which he would give to the Traveler.