Genshin Impact: Jeht steals the show on Valentine’s Day

That eye color reveal is what the people desire

Marco Wutz | Feb 14, 2024

Genshin Impact: Jeht steals the show on Valentine’s Day /

It’s Valentine’s Day, which means many developers and publishers are hosting special events in their games or spice up their social media presence with some cute artwork for the day. Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse is no exception, posting some sweet character illustrations and messages from those figures. Funnily enough, though, the most popular Valentine’s Day artwork does not belong to any playable Genshin Impact character – no, a certain NPC seems to be the Genshin Impact community’s chosen Valentine this year.

Brushing aside the messages sent by Beidou, Lynette, and even Navia, fans have flocked to the image depicting Jeht, a major NPC who players encounter during two World Quest storylines in the desert of Sumeru. Her appearances in these missions have earned her a lot of love and her story has proven to be very engaging for a great many community members. It helps that she’s quite attractive and pretty badass in combat, of course.

Genshin Impact artwork depicting Jeht. — Jeht seems to be the most popular pick for Valentine's Day / HoYoverse

Jeht’s artwork depicts her holding out a gift, cheekily stretching out her tongue. Crucially, it also reveals her official eye color for the first time, as she can be seen lifting the band of cloth that usually covers them. Just like in a popular fan-made depiction of her that debuted during the latest HoYoFair event, an officially sanctioned festival celebrating fan works, Jeht’s eyes are colored golden and brown. In addition, the little automaton Benben accompanies Jeht and is crowned with flowers. Cute!

“It's been so long since we last saw each other,” Jeht’s message said. “Missed me? You haven't forgotten me and Benben, have you? I heard that it's customary to send gifts during some special holidays, so you were the first person I thought of. This is a little trinket I made myself... B—But don't open it yet! Maybe wait till you get back?”

Fans have long been speculating about Jeht becoming the first NPC in Genshin Impact history that could be promoted to become a playable character and her popularity during this Valentine’s Day celebration may serve to give HoYoverse a nudge in that direction.

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Published Feb 14, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg