A Beginner's Guide to Honkai Star Rail's Lore

DISCLAIMER: The content of this video is based on the information from CBT3. On release, there may be some minor changes regarding some things mentioned in the video.

Honkai: Star Rail is the most recent title made by HoYoverse, and also the third game released in the Honkai series. The game serves as an expansion on the Honkai Universe, and unlike the previous titles that focus more on a single setting, Star Rail focuses on a small cast traveling to different worlds and exploring the Universe.

The Honkai Universe is a connected space-time structure between the HoYoverse games. For now, the only games confirmed by the developers to be part of it are GGZ, Honkai Impact 3rd, Genshin Impact, and Honkai: Star Rail.

This video aims to give players that are both new to the Honkai series or are already Honkai veterans, a basic understanding of the game's lore and initial setting. We talk about the Honkai Universe and how all the HoYoverse games are connected and lay down the foundation for some of the most essential concepts in the game, such as: Aeons, Paths, Factions, Stellarons, etc. I hope to lay a solid foundation for anybody who just started, or is planning to start the game soon and allow them to grasp the fundamentals of Honkai Star Rail's lore right of the gate.

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ㅇ Music used in the video:
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:50 The Honkai Universe
4:22 Aeons. Paths. Factions
11:04 The Astral Express
13:27 Stellarons

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[HomuLabs]

DISCLAIMER: The content of this video is based on the information from CBT3. On release, there may be some minor changes regarding some things mentioned in video.

Are you new to the Honkai series?

[PrincessStabbityPLS]

I follow the Path of the Trashbin. The light at the bottom of the bin is calling to me, and even though I know, in the back of my mind, that any trash that is glowing probably isn't safe to dive into, I am powerless to resist its allure ._.

[maxgodard]

Every time I read more and more about Honkai and Genshin lore, I'm more convinced that the writers basically locked themselves up with every book from Carl Jung and Aleister Crowley, every book on Gnosticism and similar religions, every book on Quantum Mechanics and a huge stash of the green thing. And they came out a year later basically knowing the true nature of reality and decided the best way to spread the information was through gacha games. Absolute genius madmen, they are.

[unclefudge]

i've never felt so attacked yet so informed in my entire life, thanks Homu Labs

[AFarCryAway]

I'm brand new to Honkai and I looked into the lore, and was blown away by how expansive and cool it was despite appearances. I'm happy you're covering it and I wish more channels did!

[noox]

A guide from both Homu Labs and Ashikai!? Hell yeah, the Honkaiverse is all coming together!

[proj]

Bold of you to assume that I haven’t already sold my soul to hoyoverse because I play Genshin, Honkai, Tears of Themis and now Honkai: Star Rail

[OPardalzin]

"Preparing to sell your soul to Hoyoverse"
I've done it a long time ago, since I started playing Genshin a few weeks after launch haha.
Now I play: Genshin, HI3, will play HSR and ZZZ. I've also played some of TOT but didn't get very far.

[marammegasa]

Proud to be in the faction of the great Aeon of honkai theories known as Homu-sensei 😎

[tetrahedron]

I just started my Honkai Star Rail journey a few days ago. I can't tell you how much I'm loving all the juicy lore and world building this game has to offer. Everything is interlinked in so many ways it almost feels overwhelming. Honkai Star Rail is my first Honkai game so these videos really help a lot to get a better grasp of the universe. I was surprised to hear Welt mention the Honkai in his voice dialogue in Star Rail as I knew that Welt was an important hero in the Honkaiverse - so I had to find some answers in this channel.

[topthch]

Thanks for information Homu lab, this actually helpful for those who don't know these kind of information that much.

[lumaness-]

by far after like 5 years of honkai lore you are my favorite yt'er for "lore" you ae insane with the lore and I feel blessed by your knowledge. Thank you for your time effort and all the reading and fact checking. Amazing work and I cant wait to see you hit 100k and then 200k and so on. Really amazing and I hope other see your amazingly structured videos and appreciate the effort, memes etc. Just want to express my gratitude and work you do hopefully you receive this much praise as I know its time consuming. safe travels trailblazers.

[heromedley]

i really like the implication of our MC eventually becoming akivili themself at some point in the future by continuing the path of the trailblazer

[foxey]

in one of the rooms where Herta stores her curios, there's a tower stacked with cards, a reference to Vyn from ToT!! very cool easter egg!

[eulacuteuwu]

thanks for putting subtitles! i have hearing problems and it really helps out alot! great video btw :)

[KanekiNeuro]

Wow this actually was a great comprehensive video about all the lore questions I had. Thank you very much!

[allhana]

That intro XD love it
Im excited to see what this game adds to the Honkaiverse! Honkai Impact 3rd has been my favorite game for a while now, looking forward to this game and more Homu labs videos! Wether it’s HI3 or HSR

[IAmDAN]

I find it interesting abt how Genshin (fantasy) and HSR (science fiction) portray their "gods"

Archons in Genshin aren't "omnipotent" or "incomprehensible" beings, they have flaws, feelings and close-to-human traits, their thought process might be different from mortals but that's only bc of their age and experiences, not their nature

Aeons in HSR meanwhile are incomprehensible (or barely comprehensible) beings who tend to be disconnected from mortals, even those who form "factions" under their name; their only interest is in those who follow their "path"

Archons also have a semblance of "order" between them while there's nothing that unites Aeons together, except by "groupings" by mortals which the Aeons may not even be aware of

[ryn]

Take a shot every time Homu saya "ahA" /j

[Mixtrelle]

I hope earth is one of the stops for the astral express' trailblazing journey. the emanator of Terminus would be happy to meet Himeko