Genshin Impact New Characters in 2023 and Upcoming Characters in 4.2

Shikanoin Heizou is the newest character to arrive in the Genshin Impact 2.8 update on July 13th, 2022. 

Heizou is a four-star Anemo Catalyst user and is an Inazuman detective who works for the Tenryou Commission. He was first mentioned in Kamisato Ayaka’s voice-overs and by his distant elder cousin Kano Nana, and is later mentioned by other characters and in Inazuma’s bulletin boards.

Heizou’s banner –  Leaves in the Wind, ran alongside Kazuha’s Rerun Banner  -, from July 13th to August 2nd, 2022.

A young detective from the Tenryou Commission. Free-spirited and unruly, but cheerful and lively.

At first glance, Heizou seems like an ordinary young man, but he is actually the undisputed number one detective in the Tenryou Commission.

Not only does he possess a wild imagination, but he also has a mind for meticulous logic and reasoning, as well as an extraordinary sense of intuition when it comes to solving cases.

Whenever a crime occurs, his colleagues rely on experience to help them with handling the case, but Heizou brings in an out-of-the-box perspective and gets straight to the crux of the case.

People are impressed by his razor-sharp intuition, thinking that his reasoning ability and efficiency are godlike. Here, Heizou would simply reply with his signature smile: “I don’t know, maybe this is something that even the gods can’t do!”