Myriad Celestia Trailer: "Cloud Knights’ Martial Doctrine, on Swords"
"Unequalled by all that have come before, peerless in present, singular in its creation, capable of parting the clouds above, and chasming the earth beneath.' ...This is the sword I desire."
"Does a sword such as this truly exist in the world?"
A sword, 3 feet and 7 inches in length, that weighs nothing.
It is not forged from any ordinary iron, but condensed from a shaft of sharp ice. It glows with a dim light, as if it is a strand of moonlight held in the wielder's hand.
English Voice:
Jingliu — AmaLee
Yanqing — Amber May
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The joke isn't funny anymore you guys /j
Betrayal, I now realize, is thinking I had healed from the first Myriad Celestia Trailer (Fables About the Stars Part 1)-
I cannot BELIEVE that's supposed to be the first of a series with numerous parts, btw
-only for them to drop another video for TGA OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE where Black Swan is narrating. Saying:
"Perhaps, on one of these pages, I'll appear in your story too?"
AND THEN SEE THEM DRIP MARKET THE CHARACTER 4 DAYS LATER LIKE I'M NOT ALREADY SUFFERING A SAPPHIC-INDUCED HEART ATTACK FROM RUAN MEI AND ACHERON.
You guys, I don't know if you understand. I thought she was gonna be Star Rail’s mfing DAINSLEIF. THIS IS ASTRONOMICAL (pun fully intended) FUCKING NEWS.
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One thing that fascinates me about the connected Hoyoverse titles (honkai impact 3rd, genshin impact, and honkai: star rail) is the idea of frameworks. Each game has different worldbuilding—the honkai in hi3, celestia, archons and gods, and the abyss in genshin, and finally the aeons, paths, and stellarons in star rail. But since they’re all within the same universe, isn’t it possible that they may contain the same things but with different names? What if the abyss is the honkai? What if celestia is the honkai, opposed to the progress of human civilization as they are? And what if the honkai, in turn, is a manifestation of a stellaron?
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Myriad Celestia Trailer — "Transcendent Ruan Tunes, Blushing Mei Blooms" | Honkai: Star Rail
Myriad Celestia Trailer — "Transcendent Ruan Tunes, Blushing Mei Blooms" | Honkai: Star Rail
Steam from boiling waters percolates upon brows, as a light flame roasts to a backdrop of embroidered pillows and strands of luscious hair.
In an oven does a letter crackle burn, its substance rich in mass, poor in emotion.
With brushes come strokes, branches, and emerald waters.
With a swipe of a finger she runs the pearled powder of fine jade, the shine of snow clinking,
As the luster of old chapters fall to ash and shade.
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HC: AVENTURINE ; BEGINNINGS OF A STONEHEART.
Alright, buckle up. This is a post I've been meaning to make for the last several days; alluded to here and here.
"I came from the wastelands of Sigonia. For just sixty red copper coins, people paid to brand me, put me in chains, place me in the gallows, and bury me in the golden sands... But the sun could not kill me, and the quicksand sent me back to the embrace of the Guild and IPC. Bear in mind, my victory wasn't just a stroke of luck — I've never been defeated."
As much as I deeply adore Aventurine's little monologue just prior to his boss fight, that part in particular has stuck out to me because truly, even with his ridiculous level of luck, it baffles me that he was fully hung and buried and yet somehow still lived to tell the tale. Then, while I was rewatching his scenes yet again (don't ask how many times I've done so), I got to his trial scene, and Jade's phrasing here struck a chord with me:
"Kakavasha... A good name, but unfortunately destined to be buried in the dirt. You though, you deserve to live, to create even more wealth for us."
At the point in time of his trial, the IPC had taken him prisoner because he orchestrated a massive case of fraud to get their attention. He did his homework; he knew there was at least one department that would likely take him in, but he had to prove his capabilities first. And so he did, fooling multiple departments and the Intelligensia Guild too, incurring massive losses across the board. As usual for him, it was an extremely high-stakes gamble—would they simply arrest and jail or kill him for his crimes, or would a certain someone high enough up the chain of command see value in him beyond the losses he caused?
As his luck would have it, he made just enough noise in the Strategic Investment Department's direction that specifically Diamond took custody of him while he was a prisoner.
What followed was his trial before Jade, and although it wasn't explicitly stated, it would be awfully odd for there to be a trial, yet no sentence other than freedom and a new identity after all the crimes he'd committed at that point. He'd already made the news at the time of his capture. The IPC couldn't just casually let him off the hook and merely reward him for pulling the wool over their eyes. Multiple departments were bereft of resources and demanding reparations, the scholars of the Guild made to look like utter fools—he had to pay, and no doubt many of them wanted him to pay in blood.
And so he did.
The sentence was passed down, and thus the stage was oh so carefully set soon after. Another announcement was made over the IPC's Broadcasting Network, and within days, he was sent directly to the gallows, a show of an execution for all who wished to see. To the untrained eye, it was a textbook spectacle of death; a prisoner led to the gallows, a loop of rope placed around his neck with the sun high in the sky, and the trapdoor beneath his feet opened soon after.
Except although his neck ached and he strained to breathe, he did not die. The drop lacked the proper force to kill him, and his feet just barely came to rest on the edge of a board sticking out at the right height to allow him shallow breaths. In this way, he remained there for an uncertain amount of time, clinging to life by a thread—minutes, hours? To this day, he can't say.
Eventually, he was pronounced dead and cut down, his body falling convincingly limp with ease after the struggle to keep himself alive. It was at this point that he wavered in and out of consciousness, and he owed it to his uncanny luck that when his body was tossed into a grave, a shield of glimmering gold manifested to create a pocket of air around him and prevent the sand which filled his grave from crushing him.
When he next opened his eyes in an IPC infirmary with Jade proudly watching nearby, as far as most of the universe knew, "Kakavasha" was dead and buried. Only elites within the Corporation would ever know otherwise.
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