Find it interesting how "The three who must pay the price" are all on the path of Destruction, but Jing Yuan and Bailu are Erudition and Abundance respectively.

I love how Ashi has made Luka her HSR standin for her HSR videos like how Yanfei is her Genshin standin lmao

I also think that Jingliu is the one responsible for Blade's desire for revenge, considering his whole mentality of being a weapon comes from her (she was the first person to call him "blade"). It is also the perfect revenge: Jingliu, who had to kill her loved one, curses both Dan Heng and Blade to hunt and kill each other, over and over again

Everyone always forgets to look at this story from the perspective of Jing Yuan. Just imagine how difficult it was from him to see his friends cut each others throats. Also i believe that Lunae used the Fruit of the Arbor to grant Blade immortality and not his bone marrow.

Bailu is a clone of Baiheng that Dan Feng, with Yingxing(now Blade)’s assistance, created in an attempt to revive her after a terrible battle that she sacrificed herself in. The result of their “great sin”(the edited Transmutation Arcanum) was a dragon abomination that reverted into an egg when it was slain, and when that egg hatched, what came out was…. The tiny dragon girl we all know and love.

I love how Jarilo IV is fast and quick with the story, there ain't really much needed characters to flush while as soon as we went to luofu the story went down deep and hard. We have bits of the quintet backstory, Kafka's story, the deep rooted story of the hunt and the abundance eons, and some other stuff.

There’s a text somewhere (sadly can’t remember where) that also describes the public’s outrage at Jingyuan making Danfeng’s sentence lighter so he wouldn’t suffer as much, as the Ten lords were detaining DF unjustly under the guise of ‘educating him’ as a reborn Vidyadhara. He exiled him so he wouldn’t live a life suffering under the preceptors, which is interesting. Really sad and touching to think of how Jingyuan has looked out for all his friends even though they may not remember it

The reason Bailu doesn't dream and age because her connection was disconnected by what Dan Feng did, to make Yingxing immortal. Also a medicinal/alcoholic gourd is a very serpent related item in asia. Since Long, the Aeon of Permanence who created them, doesn't exist anymore, I feel like it's probably impossible to create a new viridhaya. In the quest where we go into the water city, we see some phantoms of the past. Most of them seem to be depicting DFs life. And one of them is an older girl with a little boy. And they talk about how when she hatches hes going to be high elder. She could be Bai Lus former self. And there are more than just one High Elder. So Bai Lu could just have been another Elder previously. Oh and the reason why Blade could have had white hair is because by that time, he could have been older. In the story quest, the phantom that is implied to be Yingxing, is described to be ''middle-aged''. It makes sense as Blades Artefact Sets Shoes tell how Yingxing has travelled the worlds quite a bit. The Blade that exists now is supposed to be him at his prime so the colour could have returned. The choice of casting Miki Shinichirou is also strengthening my theory as he is known to be typecasted as older males.

This aged like fine wine. I am convinced Ashikai is either a time traveller or an insider in Mihoyo.

This makes jingliu sound evil. The fact that she murdered blade over a thousand times because of what happened to Baiheng is unjustified. Based on this interpretation of events, Blade and Dan Heng only tried to save Baiheng after an accident. Unless if Jingliu was mara struck before and she somehow completely lost her mind.

Love to drink wine with my bestie under the moon, platonically

Ngl, the more I hear of the HCQ the more sad I feel for Jing tbh. In return for brings the most stable and least messy member he's rewarded with the knowlage of (potentially) all his closest friends being alive but not in ways that allow for a reestablishment of proper relationships . One half are totally different people and other half insane. It actually impressive how he managed to avoid bring marastruck so far...

There is a possibility that Baiheng is the bosom friend instead. Because it's said that "In hazy memories of the olden days, he finally made up his mind to gift his bosom friend with his hand-made jade flask, only to realize with a shock that the person he longed for was no longer there." Baiheng is the only one who died before the HCQ broke up, before Jingliu frantically barged into Scalegorge in search of [her], before the Flash pv, before everything went down to shit. Dan Feng "died" after the sentence was dropped onto him by Jing Yuan, who reincarnated into Dan Heng and it seems that connecting the timeline, Dan Heng is the one who got chained up in the Prison because he said "His sins are not mine!" Or sth like this. Also, it's implied that Yingxing died after the disastrous event (possibly reviving Baiheng into Bailu), but we'll have to wait for 1.4 to confirm this. There are two things that keeps me in denial when it comes to "bosom friend ≠ baiheng" and "beloved ≠ baiheng" 1. Honkai team in HI3 doesnt feed the mlm ships as hard as they do wlw ships 2. Baiheng has been hinted to be the "heart" of the HCQ's bond. Reviving someone into an immortal is a sin according to Xianzhou people, they have been at war with Yaoshi and her believers for so long. I think it's very fitting for Jingliu to be extremely distraughted by YX and DF's desire to revive Baiheng and turn her into immortal, not to mention the whole event ended up in creating a monster out of the "beloved". Yingxing was a very shy, insecure and unconfident kid back then, it was Baiheng who encouraged him and one of the reasons why he rose as Luofu's most legendary craftsman. Dan Feng and Jingliu survived the war because of Baiheng's selfless sacrifice, Dan Feng wished for her to survive and live, so it's really hard to imagine that Beloved IS NOT Baiheng at all. I'm not speaking this as a shipper anti, I'm just speaking as someone who has been following Blade's development since his beta, and I find it easier to accept that Baiheng is indeed the Beloved and the Bosom friend, that one person who loved everyone, loved by everyone...and ultimately...turned that love into an envoy of tragedy.

All of this lore dump and i gotta say i feel so bad for jingyuan. Imagine watching the people you grew with just slowly turn on themseleves and being unable to do anything about it. The poor man’s been bearing that much weight for all those years and suddenly he gets a reunion with all of them after all that fiasco. Hopefully he gets a peace of mind soon. But i honestly won’t be surprised if that peace means he’ll pass away.

the Blade and Dan Feng relationship reminds me of being "sworn brothers" which you normally see in eastern literature

In traditional Chinese culture, exchanging cups of wine is a ancient rite that two people have sworn each other loyalty. This does not necessarily mean matrimony, it could mean also becoming sworn brothers.

I think blade’s current hair is dark now because that’s his actual hair color when younger-the mirage echo between danfeng & yingxing actually refers to yingxing as a middle aged man, so he was rather old supposedly at the time of much of this happened. I think after danfeng revived him using some part of himself he just regained his hair color from youth

Honkai lore has always been so interesting! But hopefully Star Rail won’t be as convoluted as 3rd? TT in any case CHEERS TO FUTURE LORE AND THEORIES

I don't know who to be more impressed with: ashi for being such a solid researcher and theorist, or HSR's writers for putting in all the breadcrumbs. Imma go with ashi. Well done. You should get a job at the divination commission! This has to have been written before the jingliu quest, because she mentions baiheng.

I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE (spoilers): You are absolutely correct. Baiheng is the name of the last member of the high cloud quintent, and the new Jingliu companion mission basically confirms that Bailu is Baiheng reincarnated as a vidyadhara. Very cool. Also Blade is immortal due to getting infected by the flesh of an emanator of abundance, and this is likely how Dan Feng revived Baiheng. Little bit of high elder magic, some help from abundance, and BAM. Horrendous monster Jingliu has to kill which reincarnates into Bailu.

This is a very nice video! Really love seeing more people talking about Bailu/Baiheng curious case :D (also that Luka avatar is adorable!) If I might correct you, ‘bosom friend’ is absolutely not about Dan Feng. It refers to another piece of the Passerby’s relic set - Passerby’s Bottle of Plenty. It was available on beta, when sets had 6 pieces instead of 4. It told us how Yingxing made a white flask for his dear friend, who was ‘fond of going sightseeing among the galaxy, and loved making friends and holding feasts’. Most of the Quintet members never left Luofu other than for war, but Baiheng was a Nameless at some point in her life, which pretty much confirms her outgoing and freedom-loving nature. There is also an emphasis on ‘white’ color of the flask - because it ‘perfectly reflected the name of his friend’ (白 or ‘Bai’ means ‘white’ in CN, and Bailu also has the same character in her name, yes). Yingxing was shy and felt bashful like a teen every time he wanted to gift the bottle to his friend. But when he mustered the courage - his friend ‘was already gone’. This piece of set is not in the live game, ‘cause we now have only 4 items for each set, but Hoyo changed the Passerby’s Coat story a bit to refer to it anyway, more subtle this time, but still using the same phrasing from the gone item. Just like Blade’s story 1 refers to another piece from beta - Passerby’s Broken Mirror Armor, which was telling about Jingliu killing Blade over and over again. It’s not like if those pieces of set are not in the game anymore, their lore magically disappeared from existence - it’s still there, just more compiled now. So, yeah, the bottle has nothing to do with Dan Feng, it’s about Baiheng without any doubt. The 'marriage' thing is very funny. 推杯换盅 used on the relic is… how would I call it? It’s grammatically wrong here to the point of making no sense. Even regardless of incorrect usage - even if it DID somehow make sense the way it’s written, with the 换盅 used for Yingxing and Dan Feng, it would literally mean that they are referred to in this situation as parents marrying their children off, like for a peace treaty of some kind?? Which… erm… even with the hugest shipping googles in the world on doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. So it’s basically a silly little typo some people went absolutely crazy over, just seeing the word 'marriage' and ignoring everything else (which is especially funny, given that the game has a load of little details hinting at two other members of the Quintet actually being the closest to each other, but that’s another matter). Without that typo tho what happens in the story is basically Dan Feng and Yingxing toasted for some plan of theirs, setting their mind on realizing it, and right after that everything went to shit with all the destruction and despair. That’s all there is to it. It doesn’t imply any ‘deep familial bond’ here, it’s just two friends making a bad plan together and witnessing the grim aftermath of the said plan. And Yingxing was probably the one asking Dan Feng for help in reviving Baiheng, not the other way around - she was Yingxing’s close friend and Dan Feng on top of holding Baiheng in highest regard as a dear friend as well, was just tired of loosing friends to war and the Abundance by then? So it probably didn’t take much for Yingxing to convince Dan Heng to go. I personally don't believe that it was Dan Feng's doing that turned Blade immortal. De-aging part though? Actually possible. But that perhaps happened some time before the whole Baiheng and Shuhu thing, since there is an echo of Dan Feng who's letting Yingxing to search for some information in Scalegorge Waterscape, because he owed him something. They both sound pretty distant and nonchalant in every language there, so it doubtly happened after they lost Baiheng. So my personal interpretation is that this echo is about Yingxing finding some means to age slower and to make himself younger(not immortal), so he could stay with the Quintet for longer and continue to forge new weapons to battle the Abundance and its denizens. Dan Feng could help him, being indebted to him for something, that's why it actually might have worked - unlike Todd Riordan and his mentor's situation. That's just my little theory but it would explain how Yingxing was actually still around after almost a 100 years. The theory about Shuhu being sealed in the Arbor is an interesting one for sure, I really like it, tho it's a bit unlikely? Since that time Shuhu was defeated it was on board of another ship, not Luofu, where the Arbor is. The Arbor is important, yes, but it's not the only source of the immortality curse - other ships have their own things, so I doubt they dragged Shuhu all the way from the Yuque. The Arbor was also sealed by Yubie at the time of Shuhu Upheaval period, which happened even before the attack on the Yuque and which made it nigh impossible to seal anyone there. Most likely, as according to Jing Yuan, the Emanators are really hard to kill, Shuhu just came back after some time and went after the Luofu. And that's when The Thing happened. The Quintet fought Shuhu, Yingxing was cursed by the Abundance, Baiheng died, everything went to shit very quickly. I think Dan Feng used some forbidden Vidyadhara technique to revive Baiheng and accidentally turned her into a real dragon who went mad and wreaked havoc in Scalegorge Waterscape and sadly had to be put down by Jingliu, who was crying and asking the dragon for forgiveness. There is a story on one of the items in-game about a Vidyadhara healer trying to make his foxian lover immortal via some medicine - she turned into an abomination and forgot him entirely. Also there is some information regarding foxian biology and them being… built different from both short- and long-life species?.. So it could be that foxian biology was incompatible with whatever Dan Feng did, that’s why it went so horribly wrong. What was left of that Baiheng dragon was buried there and then, after some time reborn into a Vidy egg. Did Yingxing and Dan Feng knew of this incarnation of Baiheng? Probably no. Tbh I don't think even Jingliu knew back then, cause, if I'm not mistaken, her own falling-from-grace happened some time after this whole dragon mess. That's why she went all out on Yingxing/Blade - cause Dan Feng was detained, Jing Yuan wasn't to blame and probably was trying to negotiate with the preceptors and the Ten-Lords Commission for Dan Feng's life at the time, so Yingxing was the only one she could unleash her rage on for loosing Baiheng (for good, as she probably thought at the time). The echo of her in Scalegorge suggests that she went there to see Bailu some time after Dan Feng's death, and she didn't sound very sane there. Probably this, in the moment of great desperation, was the point when she succumbed to mara entirely and left the Luofu. So I suppose both Jingliu and Jing Yuan found out about Bailu much later - hence echo of Jing Yuan visiting the Waterscape and him basically watching over her quietly, because once she was a friend and now she is literally all that's left of his dearest people (two left and forgot a great deal/went mad, the third one is a completely different innocent person with a bunch of memories he doesn't see as his own). As for the Sedition part, I really think it has something to do with the Arbor. There is an egg in the Waterscape that tells us about a Vidyadhara who's duty was watching over the Arbor and checking on its condition, and in their memory it's said, that that day the Arbor came to life again. It's a very interesting bit, that might imply that either Shuhu or Dan Feng reawakened the Arbor at some point - but for what purpose? It must be some big reason, if it was Dan Feng, 'cause it was implied that the Sedition held great importance for all the Vidyadhara - so it couldn't be just awakening the tree to resurrect someone - otherwise the Vidyadhara guards wouldn't have any reason to protect Dan Feng (and they did so very fiercely). Personally I think that Dan Feng wanted to destroy the Arbor once and for all, so the Abundance had no more reason to attack the Luofu and so they could live their lives peacefully without sacrificing thousands of friends and allies to the neverending war. Sounds a bit too extreme for sure, but according to other eggs and notes, Dan Feng was somehow heavily manipulated by both the Preceptors and other High Elders - so it's not really that impossible if he was in a bad place mentally at the time? Also I can see some of the Vidyadhara actually supporting Dan Feng in that case, a chance to put an end to the war and also regain their own agency and homeland sure doesn't sound too bad, even with some possible catastrofic consequences following. I don't necessarily think that Hoyo will go that way, but it's an interesting thought to entertain nonetheless. I apologize for the huge wall of text and also for any possible typos or awkward wording, since English is not my first language. I just love this state of the unknown in my favorite titles when everything is new and open to interpretation and theory-crafting. Thank you so much for the video, it inspired a lot of thoughts, and have a nice day!

Huge thanks for combining all the Quintet crumbs in a single vid 🙏

I remember reading the Bailu x Baiheng conspiracy theory. I hope we actually get the older Bai Heng character since she was part of the Nameless as well.

To further explain Ashikai's comment at 04:50 about the oddity in the Chinese version of the flavour text. Chinese: 腕甲的主人也曾与自己 (推杯换盅) // 望向冷月 // 彼此无言沉默 Rough translation: The owner of the bracer once (exchanged cup) with me // gazed upon the cold moon // both of us, silent and quiet. In Chinese, the idiom 推杯换盅 (read tui1 bei1 huan4 zhong1) doesn't exist. Instead, it's supposed to be "推杯换盏 (zhan3)". 盏 and 盅 both refers to the same thing, a small cup. Kind of like martini glass, margarita glasses, both can be generally referred to as "a small cup". For context, the idiom "推杯换盏" is use to describe an action in a very specific scenario. A scenario where it's banquet or a gathering, and nearing the end of the banquet, people push cups into each other's hand to exchange toast. It's a happy kind of event, with close friends and family, nothing to do with romance. However, this is where the oddity strikes. "换盅" is a custom most Chinese couple goes through on the day of marriage, in one form or another, where both side of the family meet up and the couple will do a toast to their parents and family with a cup of beverage. Could be tea, could be wine, depends. Hence, this "typo" stood out to the Chinese speaking crowd. It really doesn't make sense. Unless we see this as Hoyoverse flexing on their Chinese vocabulary, found a better way to describe the image in their head down to the detail of the cup they are holding since the word "盅" seems like a more generic term. So for that line, the literal translation can be interpreted as the following: The owner of the bracer, who once I've exchange toast with, now gazed at the moonlight in silence, together. With the following line that goes: In the end, we went on a separate path, turned our beloved into monsters, and pushed everyone into an abyss of hatred and remorse.

Ok, had to come back to this video after doing the IL quest because it seems like you called it. So in addition to everything said in this video we have: Bailu feeling like she was close to Dan Heng in her previous life, either as a FRIEND or a pupil. Confirmation that Dan Feng was researching a way to allow the Vidyadhara to reproduce. That the solution he found to the reproduction problem was using other races, in an undisclosed way, to increase the number of Vidyadharas. And most important, that Bailu is a proof of concept for his research, meaning that either Dang Feng created Bailu from nothing or he made a non-Vidyadhara into Bailou.

[ Edit] Ashikai I take the L on this one you were cooking. (old) I do think this is an interesting theory but I feel that Dan Fung making Blade immortal is much more likely than Bailu. I feel with Bailu we're missing some pieces of the puzzle here.

Perfect timing given the special program. It's looking like Dan Heng's story quest is going to explore this idea given it's going to do the one thing I wanted since the 1.2 reveal: Having Dan Heng and Bailu interact

This theory actually makes a lot of sense, amazing theories as always Ashikai 👏

I've been thinking about the Quintet lore a lot lately so thank you so much for this video 🫶

Yay! So excited for more HSR content from you! Thank you for all your hard work

Dan Heng IL's companion quest confirms the Baiheng/Baliu connection.

just started watching and already gonna thank you for this very needed video you’re the best!!

Bon appetit! Thanks Ashikai for more lore crumbs to satiate my lore hunger!

Perfect timing for 1.3 updates to wreck us with more LORE about this group! The Matrix of Prescience Vidyadhara Huixing talks about rebirth in an optional dialogue: "Without consuming a special potion, there's no way we can remember our lovers from our past lifetimes. Otherwise, one needs to carry something like a token during their hatching rebirth." Funny how Blade is carrying a jade flask on him meant for Dan Feng and he's got the most vivid of memories left for the man in him while the others have faded more.

YOUR CONTENT IS AMAZING, Just got into star rail and your description and explanation of the lore is so easy to understand and fun to watch. Keep up the great content❤

Omg I love you thank you for not abandoning HSR lore I has hoping so much for a video of themmmm

the high cloud quintet is literally the reason I am in this fandom I need more of them

BLESS YOUR SOUL FOR MAKING THIS I'M EXCITED FOR MORE LORE ON THESE 5

Fascinating. These videos make the characters and the world so much more compelling. Thank you for pouring through background dialogue for us lazy pleebs!

This really sheds some light on things! Great vid, as always!

I've been waiting for this video from you! You make the best lore videos ^^

Danfeng’s sedition could very well just be more dirt and blame thrown onto him from spite and cover up the shady stuff some of the high elders were in on with the Sanctus Medicus. We know at least some Vidyadhara were extremely loyal to Danfeng and his personal guards probably had put up a fight to defend him, providing evidence for a nonexistent sedition. On the other hand, I do feel like Blade or Jingliu’s “spite” or “revenge” is more of storytelling smoke grenade and the mara amplifying emotions. I am certainly not saying they don’t harbor at least some feelings for what Danfeng did but I’d bet its more of “three of them has to tone for their sins” situation than anything. Blade wishes for his death, Danheng is ambivalent about his past reincarnation and Jingliu’s motives are still very much uncertain. Jingliu does feel a lot like the Fuhua arc in Hi3rd, certainly with somewhat similar motifs. It’ll be very interesting to see how MHY cooks this :>. Putting all these theories aside...I really just want to appreciate how well written a character Jingyuan has been up till this point. He shares somewhat similar treatment to Zhongli but with some little different motifs. Blade’s voice line about Jingyuan says that he “always understood the price but never did anything”. This really doesn’t do him enough justice of the responsibilities he took up as a cloudknight. Jingyuan’s motif had been central in his animated short “as clouds that covers the heavens will the knights protect the Xianzhou”. In the end, Blade, Danfeng, and Jingliu all choose themselves or at least personal matters, even Jingliu, a sworn cloudknight. In some sense, all five of them are still around, but all but Jingyuan had moved on or are simply not themselves anymore. To think that the best memories Jingyuan had were all of the first decades or so of his life with the quintet, it just becomes so much more depressing watching him converse with Danheng and Blade…and potentially Jingliu in the future… On a side note, in true MHY writer fashion, Jingyuan’s entire kit and the names are full of reference to classical texts and poetry, and it is ever so more depressing (that makes me like him more) to dig them up. His name itself is a reference, meaning “first sunlight”, which coincides with the name of his ultimate “lightbringer”. The name of his animated short “flash” is a reference to the title of Jingliu in her quintet days “transcendent flash”, signaling him inheriting the sworn oath of a cloudknight. The name of his weapon is a reference to a poem of a famous poet that carried the motif of lamenting the passage of lifetime and longing for a leisure life, a nod to how Jingyuan had originally wanted to become a galaxy ranger.

I've missed your Honkai Star Rail videos! Thank you for this Ashikai

Very interesting to know how close Dan Heng and blade used to be. The overall information I have gathered from them reminds me of a tragic love story that usually is seen in Danmei stories. Lovers to enemies, a tragic tale.

this was so helpful!! It would've taken me forever to find all this information and it was so well thought out and explained!

Exchanging wine cups in chinese culture is to show brotherhood and to become sworn brothers.

Holy, Ashikai, one video after another. Your productivity is unthinkable

Great video and eye for detail. While I skimmed a few of the letters and eggs, I just don't have the focus to stick with it, so really appreciate your time to do so and share the findings in such a well presented video. I look forward to more as the game continues. EDIT: I just realised it was your release video on 1.0 that made me download the game and give it a try.

Not only did I find this entertaining, I found it absolutely fascinating. At this point your videos have become a staple with my partaking in Genshin and Star Rail. Can’t be without ‘em. And I mean if you’re here I don’t have to read all those notes and books despite the fact that I still pick them up whenever I see them… heh. Habit.

dang cant believe it's almost been a year since we learned about the cloud quintet, really hope u one make another hsr vid cuz u did mention acheron in the arlecchino vid 🙏

Woooow! Thank you so much for the video! I didn’t catch all of this! It was very interesting to know! Thank you!

This video has been buzzing around my brain since the Ichor of Two Dragons short came out. Great work

There is a text somewhere in the came (can't remeber where) where it mentions that Dan Feng didn't go through a full rebirth. Instead he went through a molting rebirth, mearly de aging him.

So coming back here after the Jingliu Companion quest and wow, aside from a few things, this theory was pretty much spot on.

Aww damn i really wanted more of these but i guess the hsr lore videos were unique 😭😭 i really hope you get back to the game one day!! It gets so, so good and totally wild :( you’re so good st explaining things and theorizing with a lot of passion we really need someone like you in the community

That was wild and interesting, so much that I feel compelled to read it myself I hope Moon drinker's companion quest will give us some more lore about Dang Feng and High Cloud Quintet! Also, I can't wait to read the moon-drunk's history whenever I get him

I never thought about how Blades "of fife people three must pay a price" was actually not raelly his quote. Interesting perspective!

amazing video ! good work !

I had already learned a lot about the High Cloud Quintet from seeing other people piece these bits together, but I never even thought about Baiheng reincarnating into Bailu! It would even seemingly follow the naming conventions of the High Elder's reincarnations like Dan Feng to Dan Heng. Excellent video all around, keep up the good work!

“sparred together, drank together, _wore a matching set of custom bracers_ “ i- that escalated quickly

@Ashikai Wow, as of 1.5 you got everything correctly, that's so amazing! I hope you make more hsr content, the lore is beautiful, but it's hard to connect the many different sources, while your voice and narration are great and easily understandable even to not native english speakers. I'm so glad I discovered your channel, keep cooking this high quality content!

Thank you! Finally someone to explain more and put all those pieces together, I cant wait for the upcoming patches

Your videos are always good! I liked them even though I'm not really a fan of genshin and now thats about a game I actually play its even better. Keep up the good work.

THANK YOU for finally explaining the High Cloud Quintet lore we have so far. I've heard bits and pieces of this story and it always sounded so fascinating, but it has annoyed me that the only way to find out more about it is to go rooting through obscure relic descriptions and in-game books, which I just have no time to sit down and read through

i'd been wondering why dan heng's bibilunae form didn't have a permanent dragon tail while bailu does, assumed it was some design choice but if bailu was a foxian, and foxians have tails, maybe that feature just... stuck around?

Great video! This theory is awesome, feels like your on the money with this one

Jingliu’s companion quest basically confirmed it; if only you waited a few months..

So uh, fun fact about your Bailu theory. We now know the name of the Foxian because it's in the credits of the recent Dan Heng/Feng. She's called "Baiheng." You nailed it that bit. Spoilers ahead for the IL Companion Quest - - - - - - IL Dan confirms that Bailu explicitly gets her healing powers from Dan Feng, and they bring up Dan Feng creating a "draconic abomination" that's quite explicitly stated to have been created from a race other than a vidyadhara, and it's implied that the abomination became Bailu. So you're sounding more and more correct.

OMG you made it make sense!! So much sense! Tysm for that!!!

This is so awesome I hope you continue to make honkai starrail vid again❤

The thumbnail changed... sneakyyyy

So crazy that I watched this today and Honkai: Star Rail gave me an ad before this video started FOR JINGLIU'S CHARACTER!! It was a beautiful ad and so ominous and cryptic BUT THIS VIDEO IS MAKING IT ALL MAKE SENSE! Thank youuuuu

Wow,so strong intro! Absolutely loved it❤

Absolute banger video, I love binge watching lore videos regardless if its Genshin or Star Rail, wouldn't mind seeing more Star Rail Lore videos tho 👀

New quest basically confirmed that bailu is baifeng

Amazing video as usual! Totally didn’t shed a tear or two or whatever… yeah

You were right about both Bailu and Phantylia! This is why your channel is the best when it comes to HSR and Genshin lore!

I think you're onto something with the bailu thing, the new imbibitor lunae mission sheds some light into that, I really hope to see an 1.3 video soon!

its very sus the fact that in jingliu's quest she went to meet her old friends.. and she went to see bailu. whats even weirder is jingliu asked baily to check up on her, like if bailu was just some random person there is nooo way in hell jingliu wouldve done that unless bailu was someone special and recalling this theory of yours, im fully convinced now

On Jingliu character card, we see her "pouring one out". For someone who's deceased. I'm also finding leaks about jinglius phone case having a fox (dont know if its true tho). This lore is killing me, I need to know more of their relationship. Saving everything for jingliu now 😂

I hope you continue HSR lore especially since I think answers to what you were talking about here were clarified since 1.2. Great listen, glad you continued from Genshin vids!

YAY i was so excited for my edit on this to go out :3

I did not expect that heliobi comment, great video!

This was a nicely put together and detailed theory, and that note about Phantylia potentially being a Heliobi is a great one. Though at 12:50, this operation to seal the Arbor likely had nothing to do with the Dan Feng and the time of the Quintet. It was sealed by Yubie, a High Elder incarnation before Dan Feng's time. I don't know if this was to seal Shuhu either, since the files only stated that it was to seal the Arbor itself because it was still kinda alive after being struck by Lan, growing slowly.

This was super entertaining, thank you!!

god never have i been so early for a video, the things i do for dan heng and ashi

I love your lore videos and can't wait for more HSR content Also, your comment about Phantylia being a heliobe can be built upon by one of her trump card attacks that literally crushes you under a star. Which in your last video about the mara struck, you mentioned ths creation of stars to be one of the abilities of the heliobe.

holy shit this is such a whirlwind... im so glad you made this video thank you :) makes me want to cry for the quintet

i dont have any additions to this theory but jing yuan's story is so profoundly sad to me... im rlly impressed by the morality and ethical questions hoyoverse is bringing up in star rail?? i went into this game having never interacted with any other hoyoverse IP before and was expecting kind of childish or surface level lore but i am so pleasantly surprised!! these videos have been very helpful in sifting through the overwhelming information in the game lol tysm!!!

It's possible the reason Jing Yuan visits Beilu is because she can postpone the effects of being strickened with mara.. maybe that's why he visits her every year. To avoid the tragic cycle he, Jing Liu and Yanging seem to share. And the reason he brings her gifts and tells her stories is because he fills responsible for her isolation. It's possible the unknown Foxian is a character we have yet to meet. Interesting however, that Dan Heng and Beilu have yet to share a scene together.. but im confident that some of this mess will get cleared up in Jing Liu's story quest in some way.

This was fun to listen to! Ive been craving hsr lore lately since im deep into the game

That was great. Subbed and shared 👍

Dude you should make more lore videos these are awesome af

Ashikai making her HSR "avatar" Asta would be more fitting IMO

You have absolutely no idea how happy I'm that you also play Honkai Star Rail, otherwise all of those theories, god dammit. I can't, You are so right with this line of 5 people 3 must pay a price. It never fit Blade and I always had a problem with this line, but it fits JIngliu, also in Blade story there is this line, oh god. And we already saw in a stream that Bailu will show up in Dan companion quest in 1.3! God, I can't wait

Honestly, the new DH-IL story quest all but confirmed BaiHeng became BaiLu and that's why Dan Feng was exiled. Ashikai strikes again.

Well, if nothing else, at least we know that "the Foxian" was indeed Baiheng thanks to the Ichor of Two Dragons animation.

it's a shame you stopped making these. i recently came back because i got interested in HSR again and wanted to recap all the lore and improve my overall understanding about the universe and terminologies of HSR :') i just finished watched 2 of these and i'm quite sad this is the last one. they helped me a lot.

New story bailu says maybe Dan Feng was her friend in a previous life. The Foxian theory is very alive

I can’t believe I never caught the correlation between Bailu and Baiheng. And I played through the now-out quests about the Quintet and Bailu. Way to bury the story Hoyoverse, holy cannoli. That’s actually such a cool story beat, thank you for explaining this. I just wish the game explained it more directly