The Herrscher Who Loved Humanity - ELYSIA's Sacrifice Explained | Honkai Impact 3rd

[@HomuLabs]

Since this was the year of Elysian Realm, what better way to end it than a video about Elysia? Let me know your opinions of her in the comments. Many new announcements and plans for next year. Stay tuned for more info and Happy New Year!!! Thanks & Please SUBSCRIBE!!!

[@Whole-U]

I love Elysia 🗿

[@Crystalwatcher]

... Did you HAVE to end it like that?!?! I feel like someone punched me in the feels dammit.

[@ibrahimhussam2777]

Can u make a more detailed video about elysia explaining how she's derived from the imaginary tree or how she's connected to it cause everyone says that she comes from finality just like any other herrscher 😊

[@cosmoskymasterall]

I imagined that Elysia asked Kevin for one final ball dance, knowing that Kevin's icy aura will consume her completely, so they danced until she was completely frozen in Kevin arms and as he approached her to say goodbye, she just shattered with a smile on her face.

[@onemoregodrejected9369]

Maybe that is why he says trusting her was a mistake, because she made him unintentionally kill her.

[@PJammaGod]

A flawless flower frozen in time. Now my head canon

[@onlyjaydenhere]

@@PJammaGod This is so poetic, I might write a story about them

[@andrewdavid9589]

Lowkey ship them

[@famirodriguez8301]

nah ,she just sacrificed herself to give to future herrsher humanity

[@roymustang5850]

She is an epitome of 'nice girl' trope that actually really a good girl, not a nice girl that pretend to be nice but like to backstabbing people, her love for humanity is admirable and many people fond of her, even someone like Kalpas and Mobius is fond of her, she is the glue that held together 13 members of Flame Chaser

[@TheKhairzNewtype]

I like how Mobius is HEAVILY have this tsundere attitudes towards her.

[@Riaval]

She is a pure reflection of all that is good. she is heavily known as god's daughter meaning she was the birth of perfection itself, her love for humanity is as such as god creating us to live a perfect life.

[@carlomeris2184]

She is my main lol

[@jondonom]

I gotta feeling the original story of elysian realm was more of a Shakespearean tragedy play with the whole betrayals and dark secrets of each flamechasers. But as they wrote the characters they started to love them just like we did so they changed it into a fairy tale towards the end. Also after seeing the bat shit horror of the will of honkai torturing poor old Wendy in GGZ's latest preview, really appreciate baby jesus... I mean elysia.

[@dihong4497]

Link to the will of honkai torturing wendy video?

[@gameplaystorage3881]

"If paradise doesn't Exist, I shall create my own. My name is......Elysia" -Elysia

[@kadruninsaf5467]

She's an angel descent from heaven to save the world and humanity.

[@yharnamiyhill787]

Well... She is Hoyoverse spin on Jesus Christ. Elysia, 0th Herrscher (Alpha and Omega), born as a "human" and was killed by 1 of her 12 MANTIS (Apostles). *Last Banquet - Last Supper She declared her herrscher identity only to be killed - for the sake of humanity. She dies and resurrects in 3 chapters (3 days) of her introduction. (Her archer suit even has a passive of resurrection.) She resurrects and ascends back to the afterlife (heaven) Her "For You" battle cinematic. There was a reddit post that gave more details on her Jesus Christ parallels. Also God is the Groom and Humanity is the Bride. Elysia being the Bride, the Humanity her Groom.

[@Altersaja]

@@yharnamiyhill787 i need a link to the Reddit post

[@campctrlmari]

@@yharnamiyhill787 As beautiful this comment it, the first statement is slightly inaccurate. Im pretty sure Homu Labs said Elysia’s death was literally unknown, there’s no info in how she really died. Some say Kevin killed her but it doesn’t match up. The game implies she vanished to the Sea/Ocean of Stars, which makes a bit more sense.

[@yharnamiyhill787]

@g.a.s1756 I posted the link and it KZbin deleted my post. You can simply Google it.

[@dan_chen]

@@campctrlmari But MOTH's records still say that it was Kevin who killed the 13th herrscher, just for the sake of a hero bringing forth deliverance, like how the Bible states that Judas killed Jesus, we aren't even sure if it was true or not anyway

[@animeturnMMD]

I think that the ER is one of the best things ever made, Mihoyo make a bunch characters appear out of its ass (thirteen), situation that usually goes badly, but integrated them to the story in an almost perfect way, I think that the people who don't like the ER is because they are either too lazy to read the dialoges and lore in deep or doesn't have feelings XD, because once you start to understand their story their circusntances, their futile resistance against the apocalypse, you just can't feel moved and impressed by their actions and resilience.

[@exhalerwolf1272]

more like I had higher expectations from the 13 mysterious heroes of PE. Anything PE related had this dark aura as if we're not supposed to fully know what happened cause it's too dark. Then in the actual reveal turns out nearly half of the flamechasers were clowns.

[@famirodriguez8301]

they were mentioned in the manga years ago

[@animeturnMMD]

@@famirodriguez8301 No, we knew that they existed but we didn't have idea how fire moth operated or who they were, we knew about Dr. MEI, Kevin, Fu Hua and kind of about Su a little, but just the most basic information.

[@Flameboi]

While I don't agree that ER is the best thing ever, I agree about their story and its place in the main story. What I didn't like about ER is that it delayed the story of Kiana and the gang for nearly a year for a game mode that's grindy and stories (that while cool and interesting) weren't necessary to know for the main story (except specifically the parts of the authority of origin & HoC which is like the very end in its own story chapter, not in the game mode). I agree with Homu Labs, I also didn't connect with Elysia's Archetype but respected and loved her & the flame chasers place in the overall story, eventually.

[@Ellie-Elysia]

Elysia is the greatest charcater ever created She is gorgeous pretty awesome and lovely and all of the Flamechasers ’s and her deserved better

[@Ellie-Elysia]

@user-wt2cg1mf1d well… who wouldnt like to praise a girl as pretty as dancing petals 🎵

[@Ellie-Elysia]

@user-wt2cg1mf1dThats Correct!

[@kou6244]

At first people don't really like her because she's annoying

[@Ellie-Elysia]

@@kou6244 because not everybody knows how to accept a pretty girl’s greatness, but i’ll forgive them anyways, all humans are lovely arent they?

[@Duong-dc6cm]

@@Ellie-Elysia gun girls z players: hey can you go to our universe? Were busy dying here. Its seem like honkai in our universe dont want to "embrace" like you say.

[@EganCraft]

How can you hate Elysia. She’s kind, beautiful, self sacrificing, unbelievable forgiving, and sees the best in everybody Edit: I don’t care if you dislike Elysia, everyone is entitled to their own opinion

[@Cata-qp6fi]

I mean everyone has their opinion, there's some people who don't like her and that's ok.

[@kadruninsaf5467]

@@Cata-qp6fi yeah, there are some people who hate or dislike someone who doing good things and has kind-heart. 🙁

[@kadruninsaf5467]

Only the morons hate her. The world might not want her but the humanity need her.

[@Cata-qp6fi]

What I'm trying to say is that not everyone has the same taste, for example an artist on twt who I follow likes Sirin but I don't, I like Elysia but she doesn't and that's ok, we just have different points of view. Plus, to be fair, her personality can be a hit or miss depending on the person 😅

[@voidfiend5]

i personally love women who are murderous monsters. manipulate people, and want the world to burn.

[@animeturnMMD]

18:05 wait... then Otto did use a similar method to Elysian's to "Hack" the tree of origins? Turn himself into an enemy of humanity (The Herrscher of Binding) make himself be "killed" by the heroes, to fool the system, return to origin and produce a change in the system that isn't possible without access to the "source code", damn Otto he knew it!!!

[@dan_chen]

Dude found out the methods of creating the backdoor from Void Archive, tested his world merging/timeline splitting theories with Bianka's abilities. All of those were implied to us in the manhua, in visual novels and even in the game itself. Just that we were none the wiser back then to realize all of them

[@dan_chen]

Also I gotta add: it took all of humanity back then for Elysia to become the "enemy of humanity", and almost cost the current era the same for Otto to achieve his goals. Different goals, almost the same means, same end

[@animeturnMMD]

@@dan_chen Yeah but I think people tend to underestimate, how knowlegable was Otto about the Honkai and the old civilization tech (I mean Theresa is a (coff) perfected (coff) mantis soldier) I even would dare to say that Otto was more of a genius than Dr. MEI, Mobious and Vill-V combined (he had no issues handling machines, biology, forging weapons or any obscure part related to honkai "management"). To be fair he had access to all that knowledge and a very long life spam, but one of the first things he achieved (when Kallen was still alive and he was in his 20's) was to casually create a cure for honkai based illnesses (one of the reason why the old civilization was f@ck up is because people were dying left and right from illnesses related to honkai corruption and no one could do shit about it, even Dr, MEI died from that, Otto found a cure in his first "act", so people since then could be treated from Honkai corruption, as long as they don't receive a lethal dose capable of killing a normal person instantly.

[@AnArtistInAVoid]

Elysia honestly is my favorite character aside from the main trio. Her kind and all loving nature is, while originally incredibly suspicious, incredibly charming in the end, while also being well balanced by her harmless prankster trickster side. Even if some don’t recognize it, Elysia really is the thing that binds the flame chasers, and also in the long run, humanity. Probably why she adopted the title of Herrscher of Human. Also side note: the fact that Elysia is honkai jesus is hilarious, but it makes sense, since it definitely isn’t Kiana, who’s clearly Hoyoverse’s golden child.

[@riku861]

Another thing that likely confused people about whether or not, she was a mantis, was the Miss Pink Spy log; where Mobius states she has memories of Elysia getting the surgery, but no records of it actually exist. While I liked the angle they were going for before with Elysia, I actually really like what they went with; because her words and personality just didn't fit with the theme of PE, leading us to not trust a thing she says, but nevertheless she wore her heart on her sleeve. Amazing video for an amazing character 👍Happy New Year! Wishing you a speedy recovery on your back, since you're carrying the entire lore community on it. 💪

[@HomuLabs]

Thank you! Happy New Year! :D

[@Soundwave1900]

Now this makes me wonder what were the original plans for her... that she's a herrscher of human manipulation, Honkai's spy within the moth, that made everyone think she's one of the strongest heroes but backstabbed them all in the end? It kinda sounds like that's the direction they were going but... what was there to backstab after HoC already destroyed the last big groups of humanity and only moth personal were remaining?

[@riku861]

@@Soundwave1900 I thought about this a lot since then and I actually think they didn't change their plans with her; I think it was always the same. There's 2 scenes that come to mind when it comes to alluding to other plans; 1.) When Ely and Kevin are talking about if Kevin didn't master shamash then PE would've seen a different end; and Kevin says that wouldn't have changed anything and then goes onto to say how they could have met a different end if he knew her true intentions sooner and that it was a mistake to trust her. 2.) When Kevin says that herrscher's have never fought for humanity, and that /she/ wasn't an exception. If we say that her true intentions were to pass the torch to the new generations of humans instead of taking a gamble on saving the current humanity as well as support project stigma (which she would not be in support of), I think those 2 scenes don't necessarily have to be retcons to make sense. For 1.) Kevin saying it was a mistake to trust her is likely just him being petty. In case of 2.) Ely didn't fight for the current humanity, but the future humanity, Kevin just being petty again with cryptic wording or it might not even be referring to Ely at all. I believe Eden even mentions something along the lines of how Ely could be seen as a traitor, but she didn't betray humanity. Records of Ely's Mantis' surgery not existing and Dr. MEI's meeting about everyone's first encounter with Ely don't really insinuate any kind of direction change, because they are too ambiguous and can still exist without retconning.

[@campctrlmari]

A though of mine: Elysia’s death is pretty much how Rukkadevata exhausted her strength to eradicate forbidden knowledge, and how Nahida erased her from Teyvat. So pretty much, she dissolved herself/returned to honkai to help humanity have a 2nd chance to break the samsara. P.S:. Her Herrscher design is really gorgeous and well made too. The Bride is usually the most beautiful in the wedding, and white also resembles purity. Overall, she truly is the Flawless Human ever created, even if she’s just fictional. Live Love Laugh Elysia 😍

[@seulbilee1025]

I'm kinda getting the feeling that the reason she doesn't like the Abyss flower, due to it's power to destroy , power of decay, destroying the beautiful things

[@cristopheracosta4610]

Elysia always wants to protect the beauty,this is the best explanation why she doesn't like Abyss flower

[@dergrive88]

I don't understand why people can't bear her personality, it seemed annoying at first but after getting to know here better I just love that she is that way and like her even more because of it, she is a must protect. I can't believe I'm saying this but I cried when she sacrificed herself yet again.... Men hoyo is a bi hahaha

[@Malick-ix9io]

Of all characters we met in Honkai Impact, Elysia was the most... *human.*

[@pristinegirll]

elysia is such a beautiful well written character absolutely loved this video

[@zafkeil_27290]

As someone how is too lazy to ready & finds the lore and the back story very confusing, your videos are really helpful. I'm very excited to see you cover chapter 33, and how exactly does it all end.

[@Korgass]

Feel ya. The newest story chapters are screwing my brain.

[@Cata-qp6fi]

@@Korgass x2

[@uwu-chan]

@@Korgassthe moon chapter is killing my patience

[@zafkeil_27290]

@@Korgass I know but the most surprising & confusing part of the story was otto for me, I was so surprise and devastated at the same time when I figured out what exactly happens.

[@muhammadsoleh4725]

Yea, after the ending of Elysium Everlasting, I was like "So, what's the banquet? Am I missing something? Am I too stupid" and turns out they never give a proper explanation about the banquet bruh

[@asyrafzara5698]

You are our hero, Homu! A lot of players are unaware of the lore behind these characters. You made it simple for us to understand. Thank you!!

[@alifpatria2135]

Not gonna lie, at the final banquet i can confirmed that kevin was not the only one crying at that time. Seeing that side of kevin is somehow heartbreaking to me. Someone who i believed has turned so cold towards everything still has the ability of feeling hopeless and loss and expressed them while i saw him turned the way he is rn because of he just had so much losses he couldnt comprehend anymore of those things, but he is still vulnurable. Whenever im going through hardships and when it rains, it pours, i also tend to close off and just not care about anything, i dont wanna be seen vulnurable because that's just the nature human's defense and coping mechanism. But something or someone unexpected could always make me feel like it's okay, that it's fine being vulnurable again. Elysia was probably the last good thing that ever happened to my boi kevin. And Eylisa did have the ability not only to see but to bring out the true human side from all of us.

[@weirdfish09]

This is how you create a loveable flawless fictional character. Indeed, Elysia will be my reference as my anti-Mary Sue like characters.

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Tfw she was actually a glitch. And the best glitch humanity has ever gotten. Can you even imagine Evil Elysia?

[@emilioperez6888]

Horrible, but hot as fuck. I think evil Elysia would be like the Herrescher of Corruption.

[@sep4707]

we're bacccck

[@IAmDAN004]

As much as Honkai or Finality is talked about, it seems that "Fate" comes up less often but there's always a tinge of ominousness whenever it's brought up Relatedly, in Genshin it's said that there's no way for people to manipulate fate while gods may have some slim chance And here we have Elysia being someone who can "manipulate" fate in a specific manner, though she has to "sacrifice" herself for it

[@zacklol8075]

On the character design, I saw an interesting theory: Elysia’s Herrscher of Human battlesuit, after ulting, resembles a mermaid with her seamless movement through air and the manta ray. A content creator on bilibili speculated that it might be referring to the Little Mermaid, whose story was centered around the theme of “becoming human”.

[@lali8719]

18:20 When I first opened up the Elysian Realm I loved her design but wasn’t Elysia’s biggest fan. Elysium Everlasting really changed how I felt about her character. Now she’s my favorite.

[@Dew_Spring]

I feel like every new thing I learn about Elysia makes me love her even more. Thanks for this video, it cleared up a lot of my confusion on her story!

[@GracefulMage3089]

I loved the Elysian Realm story, well crafted and with easily some of my fav characters especially Elysia.

[@2navycadet]

For the coming new year I hope your content reaches a larger audience as your videos are always spectacular and very detailed involving the lore behind HI3rd. Keep up the great work!

[@ekkawing4117]

after this video I start to think that maybe we will have a similar story with Tsaritsa from Genshin Impact. She fights Celestia( that's no so good as we know) and has made herself an enemy of everyone. Tsaritsa probably god of love and maybe just want to save people of Teyvat. She also has 12 people (according to some leaks Jester(?) doesn't have number as harbinger, so it's like him + 11 harbingers (9 because of Scara and Segnora(?))). It's probably just my delusion because it's 1:32 am and I'm drunk. anyway, sorry for my english, it's not my language

[@nawawii3750]

We already know the eleven harbingers, and know the number of each. Jester is number one Doctor is number two And the little girl singing in Signora funeral is number three These three have powers outmatching archons.. and most of their powers doesn't come from Tsaritsa.. she only recruited them to her cause

[@Ash-qd2ke]

@@nawawii3750they’re referring to the new leaks that actually reveal their real numbers. And the nature of the Tsaritsa’s deal with her Harbingers

[@serojaaliyah]

it's true that the Jester isn't the number one of the 11 fatui harbingers. he is sort of like the head of it, with number 1 being Capitano. so there you have it, 12 people (originally)

[@serojaaliyah]

​@nawawii3750 it's true that the Jester isn't the number one of the 11 fatui harbingers. he is sort of like the head of it, with number 1 being Capitano. so there you have it, 12 people (originally)

[@pistonfry]

Damn, what an amazing video explaining one the most beautiful character in Honkai. Thank you very much 👏👏

[@tuxmaceo2020]

Babe wake up HOMU Labs posted! Love your stuff man. It is the only reason I stuck with this game (a lot of the lore and stuff just flies past me so having you break it down makes me appreciate the game so much more)

[@imaginarygaming79]

Can't wait to see what HSR's version of her is going to do for that world 💖

[@IAmDAN004]

16:15 I guess this analogy of "forbidden fruit" fits even better in Genshin's Sumeru storyline King Deshret insisted on getting the secret knowledge from Goddess of Flowers (who was a Seelie and thus knew stuff from the ancient unified civilization), but this brought Eleazar and the Withering to the world as "whispers of death" (and GOF died too afterwards) Then Rukkhadevata came and tried to save everyone from the forbidden knowledge pollution, but she got tainted with it too, and the problem is that while she can cleanse the pollution from others, she can't do it on herself, so she created Kusanali to do the deed for her Rukkhadevata basically willingly died (got erased) for freeing her people from this "forbidden knowledge" that was released since ancient times

[@aminebachir3394]

She is very interesting... Yeah that's the word, I find her character type to be a breath of fresh air in Honkai

[@proudsaiyajin]

thanks for this amazing video, Elysia deserve much love

[@dreambreakerremixfactoryof6160]

I found that part hilarious too 😂 she prefers to use cute weapons me picturing Elysia using A pink mini gun with those fake diamonds that you can glue on 🤣 Also Kevin being clueless makes me laugh so hard them Kaslana genes run deep

[@Sskysnake]

I would watch a video of 1 hour about elysia, bet a lot of people will do too. Nice work!

[@thebrutalistboi1846]

You studied quantum physics to understand the mysteries of our universe. I studied quantum physics to understand Honkai Impact lore We are not the same. *insert Giancarlo Esposito suit-pic here*

[@likoris7593]

What a nice video! Hope that your channel will be appreciated, because thats a lot of effort has been put in!!

[@JoyofBoy]

I think an interesting topic to hear you talk/explain about would be all the Herrschers and their abilities.

[@Riaval]

I'm so late but in my imagination elysia is a formation of perfection, she was the birth of god or known as the perfect being, she has a passion that never ends to a point that her own life is not nearly as high as her love for humanity. and she's just so perfecttt, to think that she is the reason new life was born after it was seemingly impossible due to finality and the fact that she influences all of the new era, she is literally the reason the world didn't collapse, its kinda like when she vanished that was the point that signified that a new era is born.

[@darianstarfrog]

Elysia made me cry, just for being so pure, honest, loving, cheeky, damn Kawaii, genuine, .. all in all, just so ideal!!! The peak epitome all that's beautiful in humanity, and beyond, other worldly, yet so very approachable and warm, a real flirt! I never got her myself yet, but I can wait, her ultimate is mind blowingly ethereal beautiful.. exactly like her personality.. by far the herscher that touch my heart, so deeply, in such a small time.. what a joy to replay Elysian realm, k owing who she really is now... Ok.. feels I've finished my Ted talk here.. I don't have other people to talk about ..anything with, soo.. oops! 😊

[@PatPX]

Very great breakdown and analysis! Thank you for your work and time!!

[@-nomo-3538]

I think your right when you say she didn't know she was herrscher in one of her lines while playing the Elysiam realm she says something like "Do you think I would have long hair as a herrscher?" or something like that

[@yokin_owo]

I am just going to cry while watching this every time someone talks about ely or himeko I end up crying

[@darkomiku8902]

Happy new year!!!

[@thefurylacolereinfini8809]

Elysia best Jesus of Honkai.

[@mickysaif]

finally more elysia content

[@audrick737]

Glad you make more content about her personally because of her i start to play honkai impact 3rd more intensively before just pick the login bonus and co-op only and doing gacha BTW I just Got Her 2 days ago

[@zeinabcisse231]

You know what ? I just started the game only to get HOH Elysia and her gear that was my only goal 😅🤣

[@audrick737]

@@zeinabcisse231 great hope you achieve your goal i got both her and her weapon and i got so lucky i got her weapon in just single pull 280 crystal

[@MDX484]

Nice vid, well constructed. Just now well be going to know more of the Herrscher of Origin and Finality with the new chapters.

[@thedabisme61]

8:57 It was a bit of a mistranslation. What Dr.MEI said was something on the lines of "As a Herrscher fighting for Humans". 10:02 Correction: YET

[@zunarex]

Another well put together vid. Respect for all the work you put in into these, takes time to properly understand the story, but you invest even more time to read reference materials and explain it. Cheers

[@diabolike8055]

Lovely as ever and clear explication in other word Great video ! I hope you will make a video on the Herscher of reason and truth for Bronya Keep going !💙🤍❤️

[@ApoIIogetic]

Atp I truly believe she's probably the most important character in the hi3rd universe. And while I think the previous angle they went for was really interesting, what they actually went with ended up making her probably my favorite fictional character of all time

[@Duong-dc6cm]

10:02 he had no idea

[@Chuu-Chan]

I’m so happy you do these videos. I also have a little question. Are you going to explain the latest Honkai chapters cause it’s so much information and I’m lazy to read all of the dialogue. I would prefer to watch your videos instead. You don’t have to but I’m sure it would be appreciated.

[@HomuLabs]

Yes. I plan to start working on videos explaining everything soon.

[@audrick737]

@@HomuLabs that would be great thx

[@notreal334]

WE FREAKING LOVE YOU ELYSIA

[@EvellerMac]

Perhaps i spoke too soon, she is actually the goat

[@omgitstruesatisfact]

is it normal that everytime i hear some facts about elysia i want to cry? jeez, i never thought that i would like this character so much.. Praise the pink! o7

[@tortellini28]

This is very simplified yet detailed analysis and breakdown it makes me understand much better about elysia thank you as always your honkai lore videos helped me a lot!

[@ajina4516]

Thank you for making these recap videos, they are very helpful for the community. I just wanted to make a couple of comments related to the parallels between Original Sin and Herrscher Humanity. I should preface this by saying that the following is what I was taught and it might be different for other denominations. - We believe that God gave us free will since the very beginning, which is how Adam and Eve were able to defy God's will in the first place. In contrast, herrschers were not able to go against honkai until after Elysia's sacrifice. - Original sin wasn't permanently removed with Jesus's sacrifice. In order to remove it, we believe that we need to participate in the Sacrament of Baptism, which is something that doesn't seem to be mirrored in Honkai (to my current knowledge) - Since we believe that we are all born with Original sin, it is sort of the opposite of Herrscher Humanity since they are "cleansed" initially but can choose to still go against humanity Based on that, the nature of Herrscher Humanity seems to be more akin to free will and the way it is implemented in the story is similar to original sin, though not entirely. Regardless, it does seem like the writers were trying to make a parallel between Christianity and Elysia's story, I just wanted to dig a little deeper and give my perspective.

[@HomuLabs]

Very good points! :D

[@x_Woot_Woot_x]

Coming back to this video to re-remember the Elysian Realm lore that once scratched my brain, can't believe it's been a year. Thank u homu labs for my brainrot

[@N-Ice_]

Come back again

[@daria75200]

Would gladly watch an hour long vid on her inspirations 🤲🏼🤲🏼

[@IAmDAN004]

15:27 My interpretation would be that Kevin did kill Elysia by his own hands, and that's what she needed to be able to "ascend to Honkai" and make her plan work The "dance" of Elysia and Mei that we see is just a "toned down" version of it

[@sajhino]

3:15 "Of course, Ellie isn't an oversized fetus..." Never thought I'd ever hear that sentence to describe Ellie

[@luyao_w]

I recently just discovered your channel and I feel like I hit a gold mine! I started playing Honkai to immerse myself further into the HoYoverse lore because I’m an avid Genshin player. I haven’t really found other people who like to discuss Honkai’s story with this much depth-analyzing connections to the real world, symbolism, metaphors, etc. etc. Honkai’s story is super duper confusing for me at times and I find that, just from watching this video, I gained a great amount of insight on what’s going on. Currently, I’m an endgame player for both Genshin and Honkai and am completely obsessed with understanding the parallels of both universes. This video is awesome! I look forward to your next uploads :)

[@Dominatr15]

Lol I literally just finished Elysium Everlasting and this video comes out, nice

[@azaleaadair9053]

I wonder if she will be the Cryo archon in Genshin. The Cryo archon is the goddess of love

[@1745vaibhavtsatyansh]

Rumour has it cryo archon is Bronya expy

[@1745vaibhavtsatyansh]

Rumour has it cryo archon is Bronya expy

[@emilianorosario1351]

i’m hoping it’s Elysia tbh

[@campctrlmari]

Her existence is an anamoly though. She’d fit as someone who can fit that same trait

[@sakurangelic]

@@campctrlmarii think she would fit as a cryo sovereign ngl

[@va1tiel]

thanks for all your lore videos! as a new ish player, understanding what's going on has been hard at times and is really complicated! the story of the flame chasers is a beautiful tragedy and the more I learn about elysia the more I love her. hope you plan on tackling the current chapter stuff on the moon at some point, it's really melting my brain haha. happy new year!

[@Nivanger]

Amazing video, great stuff Your channel is a gift for a lot of Honkai players which are interested in the complicated lore imo. Also you're becoming big brain from all this Honkai research since you need to have a BA in quantum mechanics in order to understand why kalpas is angry all the time.

[@kiwww8958]

Interesting as always

[@mites7]

Elysia was such an incredible character A true hero

[@cocomendez-qf5sk]

So true

[@ArchAngelKnights]

i thought finality wanted to "embrace" humanity, not eliminate it but maybe you havent gotten to that part yet. Honkai's ultimate goal is to embrace humanity which is why finality resets the timeline to try again and not make the same mistakes.

[@HomuLabs]

I didn't want to elaborate too much on that because I plan to make a whole separate video on it. People took the "embrace" part way too literally when it was meant to be used as an analogy. From humanity's perspective, both "embrace" and destroy are the same things. Honkai is basically a higher form of civilization that evolved into Imaginary beings. Now, because of the conflicting nature between the imaginary, (fiction that is free from any kind of restrain) and humanity, (fiction that is trapped), the Honkai naturally seek to force humanity's evolution into Imaginary , and "embrace" it by absorbing humanity into itself. So, Honkai is basically a mechanism in the Imaginary Tree that forces civilizations to evolve into higher (Imaginary) beings. The term "embrace" is meant to be used as "devour", or "absorb". What "embrace" means from Honkai's perspective is total annihilation from humanity's perspective.

[@WarGodV_]

​@@HomuLabs in other words honkai zombies are what honkai wants humanity to be.

[@IAmDAN004]

@@HomuLabs Basically like Lovecraft cosmic horrors whose actions are harmless from their perspective but horrifying from human perspective

[@billyfarret4989]

Very well done mate

[@jakeail1995]

i would said mhy did an awesome job with Elysia and flamechaser, they really make me go through almost the same exp with Mei. At first, i don't like her, i thought she is just a fan-service char but as the story continue, the more i know her, the more i like her and by the time chapter 31 finished, i was in tear and truly love Elysia. All the other flamechaser was very iconic in their own way and memorable to the end.

[@kek-wing]

The video I was waiting for ... Now, looking forward to your thoughts on the new Herrsher of Finality Kiana

[@RaytheonThunder]

So seeing the video it seems like originally they were planning to give Elysia the full course Jesus got. The whole getting stabbed by Kebin thing representing the crucifixion; before she died/made her final sacrifice. But then they felt that was too dark and changed it to something more lighthearted. Sigh....

[@SeraphisQ]

Thanks for addressing the single biggest source of confusion of Honkai story ER arc; Elysia's "seemingly pointless sacrifice". It feels like the game kept on pressing that she wanted to unite the Flamechasers with a common enemy to give them hope, but that made absolutely no sense at all. But if we take her Herrscher power "Authority of Origin" into account, it all makes much more sense. Another banger video from Homu Labs, can't believe that I procrastinated on watching this video for so long. Keep up the great work. So informative, yet concise!

[@Shadow_Dragon55]

I'm not crying.. you are!..

[@proj8563]

Guess that herrscher of origin was passed to Mei then

[@Cata-qp6fi]

11:04 my brain cells playing chapter 33 in the nutshell

[@CaptEosN]

Finally! Someone who shares the same understanding of the story🥳 nice video btw🥰

[@milicajakovljevic6288]

The Herrschers in the previous era were akin to mindless beasts, acting only on the instinct to destroy the humanity. What Elysia essentially did was give the Herrschers of the next generation a human mind and heart, allowing them to stand on the side of the humanity if they wished to do so

[@fenrirlives2226]

Crossing my fingers that she shows up in Star Rail!

[@bshthrasher]

@@Mothiess, yep, after studying the lore of Hoyo games through channels like this one, I think March is the Elysia of Star Rail. Everything points to it, at least for now.

[@snowyfate]

So... We cheer?

[@LinkMountaineer]

Even not knowing much about this game, hearing about Elysia’s role got me into this game and its lore. It’s no surprise she’s a favorite of so many.

[@macvszoe]

10:57 I don't like how they leave these exposition dumps constantly just to add to the honkai wiki. I end up skipping passed them a lot

[@query713]

All Hail Elysia!

[@stuffzluvverz_7665]

They are just sims but we Captains love these guys so much.

[@shellyisaga1309]

i play honkai but i am very guilty for pressing skip button always whenever i play it bc im not the type who can dedicate alot of time reading during playtime. i have limited time for reading stuff bc of being too busy for work. your videos always help me understand things in summary. thank you!

[@Iwcmdpp]

As Russian, I doubt Vladivostok is a small town, haha It has population around 600 000 people. I know, it might be nothing for Chinese guys, but in Russian standards it's quite a lot as Vladivostok also a regional center of the entire Primorsky Krai. Also, maybe it's not the same Vladivostok mentioned in the game, though. It's being an alternative reality.

[@francogrollimachado]

''We don't have a second Elysia'' OOOOOOH BOOOOOOI !! WHERE YOU WRONG KEVIN MY DUDE

[@NubMG]

If ONLY they didn't make the ER story gameplay so long and boring. I would love to explore this new characters. Thanks for the recap, really appreciate this type of video for people like me that skip the whole story

[@hiwa867]

But the case that the herrscher can fight against the honkai(to not destroy the earth), is Kiana really the same case? I mean yes the Other Herrscher sure, but Kiana(K-423)? Because Kiana became never a Herrscher but she was from the beginning a Herrscher. I know the most whould say "it was because of the core From Sirin", but that don't chance the fact that Kiana(K-423) was from beginning a Herrscher. What I want to say is sure this law work on Herrscher like Mei or HoS, but I don't think it work on Kiana. I personally think the reason why Kiana can fight against the Honkai is because she never awaken as a Herrscher. And for all who don't know the moment were HoV came into to the game, Kiana was still not awaken as a Herrscher. Otto just triggered the HoV Persona, but he chould never make her to an Herrscher or hijack her into a "Herrscher" like Prometheus does it. Plus the HoV Persona and K-423 Persona were both Sirin("successor" I whould call it... truh, they both Sirin but Sirin Herself was long dead). That whould mean if the HoV was already from the first start a Herrscher, then K-423 whould also be one frome the start. K-423 said also in the fight against HoV "the core never Rejected me, it was you(HoV) who always Rejected me".

[@vincdraws4742]

Waifu Jesus really being the best there was ,' v ,') Glory to the Flame Chaser o7

[@lazyrabbit7037]

2:32 this just me being delusional, but this also applies very well with Kaeya from Genshin Impact(another Hoyoverse game) as well, knowing that he likes to prank and tease a lot of people. I looked up that his last name "Alberich" mean "ruler of supernatural beings(elves)." Could it be that Kaeya is elf?

[@equilibriumvk1657]

Love elves,no one can tell me otherwise.

[@fjdkfjhdjh]

elysia my beloved

[@averagehi3enjoyer]

People: I love Elysia she must've love us! Elysia: Well yes but not only you 😘 People: huh who else? Elysia: I love him who harbors life 😘 Planet earth: 🗿

[@Syl14_]

honkai's story is so beautiful yet so dilemmatic to figure some times