From the second the mysterious swordswoman Acheron was revealed in Honkai: Star Rail, followers had an inkling that there was extra to her than developer HoYoverse was letting on. The discharge of model 2.0 in February confirmed they have been appropriate, exhibiting her to be a semi-amnesiac who barely is aware of herself. However with the discharge of model 2.2, Acheron has given followers some extra info to work with within the type of her true title—Raiden Mei. For followers of HoYoverse’s different video games, it’s a doozy of a reveal.
To be extra correct, Acheron reveals that her full title is Raiden Bosenmori Mei. With regards to HoYoverse’s video games, that’s a fairly loaded title. Honkai Impression third, Genshin Impression, and Honkai: Star Rail now all have characters which can be some model of one another and who bear the title Raiden. Genshin’s model, Raiden Ei, is the Electro Archon whose visible and preventing types all pay homage to Honkai Impression third’s Raiden Mei. HI3’s model of the character is of essentially the most curiosity to followers of Honkai: Star Rail.
This isn’t the primary time a personality in Honkai: Star Rail has alluded to HI3. Welt Yang, one of many residents of the Astral Categorical, bears the identical title and look as a personality from HI3. In reality, they’re truly the identical character, with Star Rail revealing that Welt has one way or the other crossed into the sport’s universe after leaving HI3. Along with different multiverse constructing in Star Rail, Welt’s existence establishes that characters can cross over between video games in some kind.
That’s one of many causes followers have been already theorizing about Acheron upon her reveal, as her visible model riffs on each Genshin Impression and HI3’s Raidens. Nevertheless it wasn’t till gamers encountered her in recreation that they began to suspect she may be HI3’s Raiden Mei. Dialogue between the Trailblazer and Acheron alluded closely to the occasions of HI3. These theories have been confirmed with Acheron revealing her true title. However issues aren’t as simple as they may initially appear.
To make issues extra sophisticated, whereas Acheron is Raiden Mei, she isn’t the Raiden Mei from HI3. But there are a whole lot of similarities. Whereas Star Rail has established there are totally different universes, which embody different HoYoverse video games, there are additionally alternate timelines to those universes. Acheron is an alternate model of HI3’s Raiden Mei, or not less than that’s how I perceive it. Even earlier than the reveal of her true title, Acheron has a dialog with Welt through which she says she isn’t who he thought she was—implying she isn’t the Raiden Mei he is aware of. However the dialog between the 2 nonetheless alludes to occasions from HI3, with Acheron revealing they happen in barely other ways than in Welt’s timeline.
Along with the affirmation that Acheron is a few model of HI3’s Mei, a climactic cutscene reveals her reaching out to catch the Trailblazer as they each fall via the air. It references an iconic shot from HI3 through which Mei equally caught protagonist Kiana. Mei and Kiana’s relationship is likely one of the central items of HI3, and Acheron alludes to her model of Kiana being useless or lacking in a roundabout way. That lacking a part of her life appears to be a significant component in her uniquely pessimistic view of the world in Star Rail.
Regardless of the fact could also be, Acheron, or somewhat Radien Bosenmori Mei, has main implications for the place the story of Star Rail could possibly be going. Whereas she’s not the primary alternate universe character (once more, Welt exists), her story and identification are getting middle stage within the narrative. Star Rail has been a pleasant sci-fi RPG to date, however as the sport ventures deeper into its intricate multiversal world, who is aware of what could possibly be in retailer?
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