EiSara

SaraBaal is the femslash ship between Kujou Sara and Baal from the Genshin Impact fandom.

Canon
The two characters have not been released as playable yet, but are mentioned by others and appear in the Inazuma Archon Quest as NPCs. Baal will be released in the 2.1 update and Sara will be on her banner.

During the archon quest, "Chapter II: Prologue Autumn Winds, Scarlet Leaves", Kazuha mentions that his friend challenged Baal, the Electro archon, in an attempt to fight back against the Vision Hunt Decree. Kujou Sara is known to work for Baal, and promptly stepped in to fight Kazuha's friend for Baal. Sara is powerful, and managed to beat Kazuha's friend, leading to divine punishment which was carried out by Baal.

Sara is shown to be very loyal to Baal. Though she sometimes recognizes the cruelty of Baal's actions, she has decided to obey her regardless. Her life goal is to see Baal's dream of "eternity" become reality.

As far as we know, Baal has no particular opinion on Sara. She does seem to trust her enough to lead her army and keep a vision.

Promotional Content
In the stream showing some of the new updates coming to Teyvat, the narration talks about how Sara is 'loyal to the Raiden Shogun and her duty'. Sara is then shown nocking an arrow with electro energy and saying 'By order of the Almighty Shogun!', dedicating her attack to Baal. Her words also show that she thinks highly of the Electro Archon by calling her almighty.

Voicelines
In Kazuha's voiceline about Sara, he says that he recognizes Sara's great strength because she beat his friend, but uses that strength to serve an oppressor. He doesn't understand why she does that, and for that, cannot forgive her. Perhaps Sara has some sort of agreement with Baal and serves her because of such a thing. Even so, she leads troops to carry out Baal's command and follow the rules of the Vision hunt Decree.

Fanon
SaraBaal quickly gained some popularity after the first trailer and subsequent release of Inazuma, as shippers expectedly found the idea of Sara's extreme loyalty to her ruler enough to speculate about her romantic feeling for the latter. This was also helped by both the fans projecting their admiration for Baal onto Sara, and that Sara subjectively matched the many anime tropes of butch warriors who are extremely loyal to their oujo female rulers. One way or another, at the moment, the story or characters doesn't give any explanations about the motivation for her loyalty (for example, Kazuha's voicelines mentions that he doesn't know any reasons for this).

Since it has been mentioned that Baal remains cold to mortals and any possible feelings other characters may have for her will likely be one-sided, fan content for this ship often portrays Sara as either her passionate fangirl or something like the Maniac Pixie Dream Girl who helps her open up to ordinary people.

Fandom
FAN FICTION