The Complete Story of Swarm Disaster (Honkai: Star Rail Lore) 

I forgot to add that Nanook The Destruction ascended to Aeonhood because it was The Swarm that destroyed his planet. Had the Swarm Disaster not happened, Nanook would not exist.

I loved the part that when even in a Simulated Universe... Aha knows that it's simulated.. damn, he even called us Fake Avikili

Its actually logical for Preservation to interfere with Propagation destroying things. Its also logical for Preservation and Order to work together since both paths arent in conflict but could help each other.

Tbh. The lore in swarm disaster is pretty epic. Qlipoth's hammer was easily the most OP thing in that whole battle.

Since the Aeon of pest control didn't exist yet, the other aeons decided to do a DIY bug raid

Poor Tayzzyronth, a lone survivor that they just want to live on, ended up dead by Qlipoth's hammer...

So the Aeons that we have to watch out for is not Nanook who most people presume as the end game boss of star rail but rather Terminus and Ho oh.

Okay cool little note I want to add on here: 8:38 you say that Tayzzy's death was predetermined at their birth, but how it's worded in the text turns it the other way around. Terminus's whisper says that Tayzzy's birth was predetermined at it's death ("their death predetermined their birth" is how it's written in Sand King 1) which is backwards until you consider that to Terminus, Tayzzy's death came first, their birth second. Just a neat little detail that I noticed. Also, it is heavily, *heavily* implied that Akivili's death has more to do with Fuli and IX than it does HooH. It's also implied that Ena's disappearance was a mutual agreement between Ena and Xipe that one was to be absorbed into the other, although Ena still has full cognitive autonomy within Xipe. Either way, HooH's involvement in all of this is undeniably huge. It almost feels like this whole debacle was a small moment in a larger chess game between Terminus and HooH. This is a very nice interpretation, though. I will 100% be using this as reference for the future in order to stay sane as I do my own investigations into this beast.

HooH = Hoyoverse just balancing if the scales tend to shift from one to another. Got it. Also Preservation path is the one save a lot of worlds and players for building shield is both in game (Swarm disaster) and Lore accurate.

I absolutely love the designs of the Aeons

Aha really helped Xipe absorb Ena just for funsies.

HooH and Terminus both seem like they're a step above even regular Aeons

Now imagine if Lepismat was never conquered, everything would be fine and swarm disaster would have never happened

Also, there's a knock-on event that eventually led to the birth of Nanook: Their home world of Adlivun was devastated by Rupert I'd Mechanical Empire and The Swarm, eventually leading to their Birth and the destruction of Adlivun as Akivilli arrived at the world.

the woman did not lose her child to the swarm, it appears that she literally gave birth to the bug, and an entire hospital was filled with bugs born from normal people.

4:10 a friend of mine pointed out this crazy theory: maybe March is a crystallized person from that time?

i find the thing about Terminus so damn interesting like how they move backwards in time. Wonder if the trailblazer will manage to meet them at some point (damn this is the first time there's a full ass argument in my reply section)

You are truly the Aeon of Helpfulness 😭 Thanks for this!!

(I am just going to note my observations and my understanding, correct me if I am wrong. I use the CN dialogue of the game so some things might be wrong.) 2:57 Something interesting to note: the woman did not "lose" her child to the swarm, but rather, it is HEAVILY implied her child was actually an insect. Ingame texts mention how the rate of childbirths increased dramatically, and that these "newborns" would fly away. Which means The Propagation can affect not just insects, but any organism that is capable of reproduction. 4:00 As the disclaimer at the beginning mentioned, some information obtained from the Simulated Universe should be taken with a grain of salt. Herta expresses doubt at the idea that Fuli was born during the Swarm Disaster due to it "being too logical". But of course, we don't really know the truth. (Just a reminder to everyone) 4:37 This is somewhat misleading. It is mentioned ingame that Ouroboros actually disappeared in the midst of this for unknown reasons. Additionally, Aha is CONFIRMED to be present. According to Aha, they wanted to "help Ena". Aha also invited Akivili to join in (Akivili joined due to Tayzzyronth and the Swarm interrupting the Trailblaze). Ena on the other hand is mentioned to have disappeared too. Ena and the Order was absorbed into Xipe and the Harmony. Aha eventually found Xipe, and invited them to join their fight against Tayzzyronth, to which Xipe agreed. 8:04 If I remember correctly, Nanook was born due to the Swarm. Although Tayzzyronth died, the Propogation (the Path) and the Swarm still exist. The Swarm infested a certain planet which Nanook was from. I am not sure if Nanook has any relation with Yaoshi (correct me if I am wrong).

this summary was like a movie ngl

absolutely love the aeons. they are an embodiment of certain aspect of being, no wonder preservation is strong AF. a being is to preserve, gave birth the preserve the gene, eat to preserve the life, teach other people to preserve the knowledge etc.

finally i can understand the whole story of the swarm disaster thx for the wonderful video CWBH 😎

I'm really thankful for lore videos like these. They truly help me with my reading comprehension skill issue 🥺

The way swarm eventually took over civilizations and that telling insects apart from non-insects became harder lowkey reminds me of Chimera ands fro HxH

Aha is literally aeon of menace 🤣

Absolutely love order and voracity’s design, can’t wait to see what the other aeons look like

so even the Aeons can control each other. the biggest string holder in this case is HooH. so i wonder if they'll eliminate / add something to ensure the trailblaze has an equal

I wonder if Stellaron Hunters decision were influenced by HooH. It could be possible as a way to balance everything.

As always, Thank You for the video !! I'm looking forwards for more HSR's lore related video 😁

love your videos, please keep up the good work!!! i hope to see more HSR lore videos covering all the niche topics in the future :3

AS AN AEON LOVER I AM EATING AND CONSUMING ALL THIS LORE LIKE MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT HOLY HELL THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS COMPILATION I AM GOING TO SOB INTO A PUDDLE RN PLS AND THANKS

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." *-Ellen Ripley,* *'ALIENS'.* I believe that summarizes the audience's opinion on hostile space insects.

i have this mental image of hooh as a massive jumbled mess of arms in a solitary corner of the universe, tipping millions of scales, both great and small. the mass of arms? its just this universe's variant of joachim, who desperately tried to keep everything from becoming a mess SO much, that his physical body just evolved to suit this monumental task.

Reading the disclaimers on the existence of Mythus kinda spooked me. Kinda gives some leeway for Hyv to screw with us on whether some events on Star Rail history were real or not.

Thanks so much for doing this! Just completely finished Swarm Disaster finally, and was looking for a more concise explanation of the lore. Really appreciate you putting this together! Seriously hoping Hoyo does more stuff like Swarm Disaster. It was amazing, and i loved every bit of it. Would be cool if we got similar Simulated Universe stuff on Harmony's ascent and take over of Order. Or maybe Long's eventual death. Maybe even a SU on Beauty's dissapearance? So many cool little lore moments could be expanded on, like they did with the Swarm Disaster. And i hope to see more lore blurbs from you! Subscribed

Thanks for the great video. I really love all the lore and worldbuilding the HSR team have built.

pretty good content for HSR lore the lore really have similarities on some characters lore (Age of Chaos) on GGZ or would I say "Hoyoverse Lore" even though no one recognized GGZ is just happen I recognize it when watching this pretty good tbh, even finality really scary when knowing that this aeon know the end of universe really make me theorize it might be renmant of Zeus it can also move backward in time so no wonder if is really zeus or might be kiana in honkai impact. well Im not here to fight im just interested in deep lore and can talk to me about it anyway nice video I like it

Man, even 1 year later since this came out, it's still cool. Honestly "The Swarm Disaster" looks cool as a name for a movie.

And this ladies in gentlemen, is why Preservation path in Swarm is so good. It's canonically meant to be good. (tooootally not me just being biased towards preservation aka Qlipoth just cause this path's units help me cheese the most)

Aha is such a menace, i wonder who's gonna put down this troll of an Aeon.

If I have to follow an Aeon. I would definitely follow Ena or Fuli. Which one will last, I will follow both of them. The Aeon and their followers are mysterious, there's no place to come or stay. Yet everyone seems to be fine with both. I also love their abstract not-so-abstract design.

Qlipoth was a major character in the story as he helped Ena (The Order) and possessed the ability to preserve and safeguard valuable resources.

Hooh is like plothole correct-er for hoyoverse. so in the near future if the story doesnt make sense its because of HooH

Man HSR lore is insanely underrated. I feel like most people just skip these parts in the simulated universe and don't try to look into it.

HooH and Terminus are interesting. these two names are new to me.

At first I thought this whole thing was basically *the Aeon War,* but then I realize it's more like Star Rail *Khaenri'ah*

Aeon of finality... just remind me to Herrscher of Finality buat Aeon is much more dangerous because the power scale is different

Wow, and I usually skip the texts in simulated universe... this was awesome, amazing editing and story telling! Keep it up :))

Would be nice to have that kind of video for Gold and Gears

There is a reason even the ever sleeping Xipe woke up to witness the trailblazer.

Now that you mention it. Could it be that The Aeon that Elio amd The Stellaron Hunters worship is Terminus Throughout the quest, we constantly see what title does Elio hold when mentioning him. "Destiny's Slave" And Terminus defy the flow of time which mean they already witnessed the future. And Elio has this 'script' for every Stellaron Hunters to follow. According to Kafka during Xianzhou quest, it revealed that by following the script, we can achieve the best outcome for the future

doesnt that mean Elio follow the finallity path? as they know what happend in the future?

The Swarm gamemode by itself was so mentally exhausting, even if fun and satisfying to do, that I gave up trying to keep up with the story after like my 20th runs... So here I am for a proper recap

Gotta admit the design for Ena The Order is sick.

The butterfly effect goes crazy in this story. Wonder if that's intended thematically lol

Ena's design is top tier

WoW aeon of equilibrium is a b*tch… i would love to see the aeon of trailblaze and beauty but i dont want to lose another aeon present… except for the propagation, this bugs are scary as hell! I wish for more stories about aeons like this ❤

0:40 why is this so hard to understand???

Nah Herta doesnt need Screwllum,or ruan mei,or Stephen,She need Cateithbluehat

Can you cover narcissenkruez world quest lore? Much appreciated. 😊

the first track gives me nostalgia for some reason whenever i went to the underworld

the early seconds of the story immediately felt like helldivers 2, a planet home to bugs and a interstellar group deciding to conquer it to establish civilization

I think elio is aware of terminus's involvement and that is why he is finding stellaron so he can stop him from manipulating the entire universe or he has witnessed terminus's action before and wants to put an end too it and has tried alot of time and is why referred by "destiny's slave"

That was amazing!!!! Thanks a lot i wanted to know the lore behind the swarm but im too impatient lol

Benevolent & Malevolent Aeons: Benevolent Aeons: Long the Permanence Qlipoth the Preservation Xipe the Harmony Ena the Order Idrila the Beauty Akivili the Trailblaze Fuli the Rememberance Lan the Hunt Nous the Erudition Mythus the Enigmata Malevolent Aeons: Nanook the Destruction Tayzzyronth the Propagation Yaoshi the Abundance Oroboros the Voracity Terminus the Finality Hooh the Equilibrium Aha the Elation IX the Nihility

That part about Fuli makes me think it could point to what March is

thank you for this! (as someone who can't finish world 3 and above)

The lore is so damn good

Hmm I would love to see how powerful these Aeons really are. Especially Ouroboros and Terminus.

Already love the aeon lores since the initial release of this game and now I truly can’t wait for them to give something like Swarm Disaster again but this time, it is about other aeon instead!

Came back to Genshin after a 1.5 yr necessary break, binge watching your lore videos as reference to satiate the huge void of lore craving I have had over the period of the break 😅😅😅

Thanks for the enlightenment i was so confused in there

HSR has some awesome lore

I think Harmony is the Counterpart for Destruction And of course Hunt for Abundance Idk Harmony gives that eerie feeling where they seem good but REALLY REALLY suspicious. I Feel like Nanook Existed because Harmony got Stronger after Ena was absorbed

I thought of o bit different role for Ouroboros the Voracity from what i understood in swarm disaster in SU. I think that ouroboros is the great future disaster, old enemy of qlipoth in dusk wars and now lives but on the other side of the barrier. The greatest sin of tayzzironth was breaking this barrier. That would explain Herta surprise to see them in fuli meeting, their war and terror of tayzzironth for ouroboros, fuli's creation from prayers of devoured worlds to be remembered. (Like in the entry - only fuli remember them). And we don't get a new aeon from every destroyed world. Qlipoth's wish to help contrary to his indifference for nanook and emperor Rupert and his possible agreement with Ena to stop the Voracity and as a consequence - weakness of the order exploited by newly ascended aeon of harmony. PS: please correct me, if I'm wrong.

If Terminus power is somehow akin to Kiana Finality authority, universe is done, the aeon can reset the universe or end.

interesting i am not hsr player but i do know about aeons and i find them really interesting like lovecraftian creatures who can be good or bad gods i found aeon of finality intresting as it technically knows everythng that is happening and moves from future to past..aeon aha is just their for entertainment when propagation got killed..idk but how can xipe aeon absorb aeon of order?? doesn't that effect like the order of universe if she does that?? can somebody tell why did xipe absorbed order?? also i like their designs they are cool and if you compare them to genshin's archons and herscherrs in honkai they are more creepy as even their entrance is like summoning an ancient being and to me they just want to absorb each other if their path crossed??

Thank you! I enjoy watching your vids 👍

nah my laugh burst after read name aeon of equilibrium, what a goofy name 😭

Man, these reminds me of Lord of the Mysteries

What I gather from this is that HooH and Terminus are the two scariest ones, seemingly being the highest tier of power of them all. It’s also likely Terminus is immune to HooH’s balancing, judging their existence, however that’s purely speculation on my part.

Finally, the video about Swarm disaster lore so I don't read it in-game text

Yes!! Was waiting for this thanks cat

Ah I haven't collect all chapter yet because I'm stuck at difficulty 3 😭 I'll come back to this aftet I'm done (will probably take ages lol)

Tazzy be like the villan from thor : love and thunder 😢😢

Well Terminus is the most interesting Aeon, but is just not because of only for Honkai Star Rails, because the main villain of Honkai Impact 3rd is the Cocoon of Finality which power it seems that exceeds an Aeon. Currently Kiana manage to surpassed Finality by becaming the Herrscher of Finality and fused with the Cocoon of Finality. If that the case then currently Kiana is an Aeon. So far the only character that have that answer os Welt since he is the only one who is from Earth.

Elio probably can decipher Terminus' Whispers, that's Elio has plans to atleast change the path but it wouldnt change the outcome

Question tho, did aha get rid of akivili?

Love that you have these lore videos but man some voice over on these would change the game, hell I'd even take the standard text to speech voice 😅

Bro. This is spoilers for the March 7th Total Recall quest, so leave if you haven’t done it yet. When you said the Aeon of Finality exists backwards in time, I thought of the March 7th quest, where she tries to remember who she was back in time. Would that mean, then, that the Aeon of Finality may have something to do with March 7th? If Terminus really is living going backwards in time while we move forward, would that mean the only place we could find the Aeon is if we delve into the past somehow, through memories or some other form of time travel? The Garden of Recollection was warning March not to go further, and I believe it’s because if you went too far back, you’d encounter Terminus, and that’s an Aeon you DO NOT want to meet.

Order being consumed by harmony is very scary

WTF Its my first time hearing HooH. I shouldnt skip flavour text on SU.

Getting a signal from an alien planet? One survivor? Sounds like that horror movie called Aliens.

Finding about this now I'm really set on not trusting Acheron (as much as I like her) specially if she is an eminator of finality

Aeon of finality is literally Tenet but ascended to Aeonhood

5:40 Wait, in HI3 we learned we can't get out of a star system because of a huge amount of Imaginary power blocking our way. Is it because Qlipoth made a barrier around us?

Tazzy: Yeah let's breed until we become nuisance to everything that would be fun

the mythus disclaimer alert,,,,iktr mythus my bbg muddling history even in lore vids

Could IX(Nihility) and Aha(Elation) be capable of change the fate Terminus have seen? Their concepts are the most unpredictable among eons, but they still are at mercy of the time (... Right?). Or could it be that HooH (equilibrium) and it's concept of balance could be connected in one way or another to Terminus, in a way that Aha and IX are being kept in check?

Very intuitive, wonder how long it took you to make this😅