The Unhinged Recap of Honkai: Star Rail 

When I heard the "the gaze of Qlipoth" I heard "the gays of Qlipoth" and I was like oh Bronya?

"I'm not straight, the wall will not be straight" my excuse when the posters I hang up are crooked

Perfect thing to watch while waiting for Aventurine to drop

10:47 this is actually wrong and just a common misconception within the community based on something Welt said (“the emanators of remembrance don’t have a physical body”) To elaborate, it’s a square and rectangle situation where every square (emanator of remembrance) is a rectangle (memokeeper) but not every rectangle is a square.

Can you please PLEASE make more of this? I'm having a really hard time finding HSR recaps that are either not overedited with very annoying flashy clips and sound effects or recorded with microphone from a 2008 Nokia. I love your narration, setup simplicity, crispy mic setting, and you speak so well that it's easily digestible for an ESL like me. Please like you're my last hope into deeply understanding more of the lore kdjdgasd

16:20 I don’t think Nous becoming an Aeon is as suspicious as you think. I understand that the idea of a god being made by someone who isn’t a god doesn’t make logical sense, but you have to remember that Aeons achieve godhood by fully exploring a Path, which for Nous is Erudition, aka knowledge. The whole point of supercomputers is to process information faster than humans, so the idea that Nous could fully comprehend the Path of Erudition where THEIR creator could not makes sense.

Imagining an Elden Ring lore wall.... gosh you're going to be so swamped with just Miquella alone

About the Opening Cinematic and "Canon in D" being played. The piece is also associated with Neon Genesis Evangelion, which has been a heavy influence on Honkai Impact 3rd. Which, in turn, is something of Honkai Star Rail's predecessor. Starting the game with that music track is a multi-layered reference.

1:20:54 i'm not so sure about that, since when March 7th tells us her story she mentions another person that was present when she was rescued, but she doesn't remember who they were. That makes me wonder if that person was Void Archives, another past Astral Express member that we don't know anything about, or maybe the Garden of Recollection messenger.

25:35 Kafka wasn't recuited forst as in her character story, Elio tells someone (who I think is Sam) how to recuit Kafka. Kafka then recruited Blade, and Sliver Wolf was recruited last.

I always felt that Ruan Mei's paranoia came from how Genius Society members were quietly being killed off. Probably by Polka. As a result, a lot of the Genius Society members have a bit of paranoia and reclusiveness to themselves. At least the ones still alive. Stephon, super recluse. Never see the guy. Makes it hard for Polka to get to him. Herta, hides her real self and only really interacts with others through puppets. Hard for Polka to get to as well. Ruan Mei. She's like a ghost, because she rarely makes appearances, and when she does, she drugs people into forgetting about it. As a result, no real trail for Polka to follow. Screwllum is harder to figure out why he's alive. Maybe it's because he owns his own planet? Maybe if you kill Screwllum, he just downloads into another body? Not sure, but he's probably somewhat difficult to assassinate as well. I just feel like, as a theory, that the Genius Society members that are still alive, are due to their difficulty in being killed for Polka.

ok ok but like imagine entire honkai impact story. that one would probably be insane. but probably would take a really long time lol.

The random Paimon DRAG 😂😂😂

i was literally searching for a complete honkai star rail recap a few days ago and here you are 😩🙏

👴: look honey sipsipstefen drop a new lore recap video 👵: I’ve waited 75 years for this, absolutely worth it! (In all seriousness i love these types of videos)

25:12 It’s actually the Interastral Peace Corporation, not the Interstellar Peace Corporation. The nerd inside of me is screaming 😭

I love how this expanation flowed, and how effortlessly you guided the viewer to understanding, explaning every new thing that popped up without overwelming me. This was really fun to watch

Bro, this is a ridiculous amount of lore, lmao I will watch all parts fully. Great vid!

Finished watching and the Ratio joke was worth it 😂 honestly really well planned video, I was wondering how you were gonna handle the abysmal amount of info we get in this game and you presented it in a way that is easy to follow and digest! Can't wait for part 2

we thank you for your service 🙏(i've literally been looking for a serious lore recap as someone whose attention span can't handle all the dialogue)

this is the TED talk that we needed and what we deserved

You just made me fall in love with this game all over again

thank you for your hard work sir. i have the chronic habit of getting into a fandom and then teetering on learning the lore and not learning the lore for myriads of reasons so this is a saver lol

55:40 Ruan Mei honestly was one of the more annoying characters in star rail, i hate being jerked around and felt like i’m being taken advantage of and she provided that in spades

As soon as I thought "man I really wish there was a video that could tell me what the hell happens in hsr" I get this video in my recommended 😭

To be exact on the list of crimes you attributed to Kafka, those are actually attributed to the Stellaron Hunters as a whole. For example, the cyber attacks were probably Silver Wolf's doing. If Kafka could perform cyber attacks against Planet Screwllum, they wouldn't need Silver Wolf.

not a fake ad break followed by a merch ad break, followed by a discord ad break all in near succession 😬

I'm legitimately so excited for this. You are really good at explaining the lore in an engaging way. I found a lot of details fell out of my brain when playing through because it was a lot at once. Thank you :3

9:00 - I will add that the Annihilation Gangs don't actually have Nanook's blessing. THEY consider these gangs larpers and posers, effectively.

"Im not straight...the wall is not straight" And thats why I subbed

44:00 my memory isn't the best, but I think I recall Herta mentioning that these aren't AI recreations of the Aeon persay, but instead almost like vessels or something that the Real life Aeons are able to project their mind or prescence into in order to interact with us. That's why she says we still need to try and attract the attention of the Aeons since they need to project themselves into the simulated universe to interact with us while we are pretending to be Akavili. I might be off on some of it, but the topic of Aeons is super interesting to me so the memory stands out.

I can't wait until you get to Penacony cause everything surrounding the Family confuses tf out of me

ive been waiting for this! so excited to watch!

that was so well organized wow really nice video, thanks!!

Wow thank you😭 i miss a lot of lore cus sometimes hsr’s writing is too flowery and dense for me to understand but this was super clear and interesting

This is incredible!!! I never have the time to pay attention to the lore or do all the quests so I've been really looking for a big deep dive on all the lore so I'll definitely be subscribing to see the rest!! :D

To my knowledge, the idea behind the simulated universe is that it’s simulated. They found out how the universe started, then let the simulation run until today, and assuming they did it perfectly, the aeons inside the simulations should be identical to the real ones.

Thank you so much for your service!! This is fantastic! ❤

If I remember correctly, Ruan Mei tells you why she drags you to the meeting, and then kicks you out. She thought Herta might have found out about her secret experiment, and wanted us to back her up. But when she realized meeting wasn't about that, she wanted us to clean up her mess while they were distracted. As for Pamela, there's an earlier quest where we do trade Himeko pics. So yeah, not first time. Also Sserkal is a spider who lived 29 days. Just thought it was cool. As for Ratio, he did reroute the teleport destination of the kidnapped researchers. Ifrit planned to just leave them outside an airlock so they'd die. Ratio instead put them somewhere safe. And Ratio might not consider being mediocre a diss. His core belief is that ignorance is a disease, which we should work to cure. I get the feeling that he likes the mediocre who struggle to better themselves. Part of the reason for the test was that he thought the station was too reverent of the Geniuses. If I remember right, Dan Heng did meet Void Archives. Also, part of reason why Welt joined Astral Express is that his world also had a version of Himeko, who was his student... who died...

your explanation is really easy to listen to and understand, thank you! I can't wait for the next part :>

46:38 i always interpreted the interlude placement as being collected by location rather than strict time though, since lots of quests and on HSS in particular imply you are coming back after being away for indeterminate amount of time. like arlan making you cosmic fried rice i thought he was celebrating seeing you again

5 MINS OF ADMIN AT THE BEGINNING MY HAIR IS TURNING GRAY. Still watched the whole thing. Thanks for the vid

Exactly what I needed, your work is appreciated I’m letting you know ❤

this is exceptionally made and really clear to understand, been looking for a similar video for a long time

I've been playing since day 1 so I forget things and the timeline blurs- THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD REFRESHER!! Can't wait for parts 2 and 3!!

There is a light cone (before the tutorial mission starts) which tells us that stelleron hunters came to her to recruit her

This was the perfect level of detail, excited for more!

Thank you so much for this! Looking forward to next videos

this is the best video i’ve ever seen, i thought i knew damn near everything about star rail as i played almost every day since launch, but nope! thanks for educating me❤

Props to whoever edited this video, made it so much funnier 😭

Been looking forward to this !!!

"I'm not straight, the wall will not be straight" love that! 😂

I'm always on board for Ruan Mei slander 🤗 Also thanks for recap. It's been a year already and with amount of lore HSR gives us it's easy to lose track on some things.

OMG I love your vibes, just started the video but I'm sure this will be a wild ride

Thank you for posting this! :D

absolutely love your delivery and references! i've been looking for lore recap videos everywhere, and I'm so happy to come across yours! 🥰 can't wait to watch the rest of the Star Rail series. i would also love to see lore recaps for Honkai Impact 3rd (i know it's a lot, but there's hardly any videos that i've seen that go as in-depth as yours do!)

Super exciting video!

Ok but if we're going to include Pluto as a planet, where's the justice for Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and all the other dwarf planets? There are 18 planets. There.

To comment for clarity we do know through dialogue the extent of Elios power and it is emanator to aeon level, let's review. > "Elio always tells the exact future" - Kafka Now it's important to really understand the implications of this sentence, as kafka said Elio 'Always' tells 'the' 'exact' future. So we know Elio's predictions are never wrong and are very specific down to the exact time and we know from how it's worded he doesn't see A future he can see THE future. (while not entirely accurate with a later note it's still important) > "In the end you cannot defy the script" - Sam Well from this we know that once a future is set in motion according to the script, well... You cannot defy aka deviate from it as fate or destiny won't allow it this is also likely why Elio refers to himself as "destiny's slave" > "In the end you will come face to face with the Aeon Nanook, and in most futures that is where destiny ends..." - Kafka Ok so first off "in 'most' futures" very important now we know Elio doesn't see A future or THE future, no no no no no Elio sees ALL futures possible meaning the future path Elio chose the one we're on in the cannon story is one where destiny doesn't 'end' at Nanook. From these lines alone we can tell that Elio and the Trailblazer are the only ones able to set a course to defy 'destiny', hmm? oh yeah you're wondering why I said the trailblazer too I see well though I wont mention every instance of which it's referenced I will say one where in the beginning if you say you don't like your future Elio foresaw then kafka mentions the reply is 'unexpected'; Little strange don't you think? A man so meticulous in his script he will note the time of events down to the second would leave out a mention of the response, well he didn't because he didn't foresee it happening because as another who can defy 'destiny' Elio can't predict all futures of the Trailblazer. Anyway let's get back on track here so Elio can see (excluding some specifically with the Trailblazer) ALL futures even how certain decisions will change those futures and out of the (contextually) millions of possibilities only one led to destiny not ending in the moment of the Trailblazer's inevitable face off against Nanook. One future where the only one that can doom it or make it happen with certainty is the Trailblazer aka you the player.

great video! Really enjoyed it and helped me tie some loose ends I wasn't certain about, can't wait for Jarilo-VI storyline! It's my personal favorite, I love your delivery so I can't wait to see your take on it :] but oh lord will I NEED a recap from Xianzhou Loufu storyline cause that destroyed my brain in some parts I think 😵

one of my personal canon storylines is us the main character being a past version of Ellio, so Ellio knows whats gonna happen cause they ware there while it happend as the trailblazer, so a self fulfilling prophecy in some sense and thats why he can write a script for what happens, tho people have found evidence against that theory, but that does not mean i want it any less xD also seen posts that march in her former life before she was locked in ice could be the aeon of remembrance Fuli as they dissapeared, which would make sense with march memory loss and her taking pictures to remember stuff and being ice type, as the remembrance path in the simulated universe is also focused on ice, have also seen similar theories for march being Idrila the aeon of beauty for the same reasons as she dissapeared aswell, and they turn it around a bit, so instead of her taking pictures to remember, she takes them because she finds herself beautiful, notice how 9/10 times she takes selfies and always describes herself as "cure" and such, I just find all of this really interesting

Love these types of videos!

The very 1st patch Pamela is introed in a side quest where we first trade her pics of Himeko for gossip

Great video, tysm for the recap, I kinda forgot about what happened at the Space Station arc, so this was very helpful! My fav characters are Kafka and Aventurine

Just wanna say, Jade already showed up in one of Aventurine's flashbacks during the Penacony story

[ 52:45 ] in HI3 Part 2 we actually see something similar being used by Coralie and Helia, where they have a device to automatically translate between languages so they can communicate with the Dreemseeker (MC), Senadia etc.

THE SISTER SLANDER LMAO

I needed this SO MUCH

Living for the Bella > Jacob < Alice reference 😂

thanks it's really helpful

This is the content I watched your channel for

I'd like to say I liked the lore recap, but what I really liked was the story about your sister and your disappointment. Liked, subscribed and waiting for part 2. Greetings form Brasil!

You most definitely cooked with this one, absolutely love the summary of the story!

I feel like there is an exam coming.

I've been looking for a video like this that recaps the game because I kind of rush through the story. I look forward to the other parts on the series

YAAAAAAAAAAAAS ITS OUT! excited to see how fun this is

Yo! Thank you for explaining it to me and Reading a entire stack of information that I will never do

AMAZING VIDEO, I got to say THank you, thank you for this video

thank you for your hard work sir! Im listening to this as I farm for Aventurine

Really appreciate these vids, and the effort it takes to do it. It would be a very daunting task to start and plan for those of us adhd folks. Cheers!

commenting so i can boost this!! u spent so much time n effort for this omgg

lol the milky way has waaaaaaaaaay more than 9 planets. I think you might be confused.

Ok fine. You've convinced me. Subscribed 👍

your lore recaps are peak !!!

You ate this!!! Nice to watch while I was baking a cake 🫶🏽✨

as a huge lore nerd; i LOVE this. i can't wait for the next few parts. i will be watching (and possibly rewatching) when the next few come out!

GIVE PLUTO THE LOVE IT DESERVES YAAASS !!!!!

I need part 2 ❤

1:25 it’s not even a galaxy it’s an entire universe, galaxies are wiped out to showcase the strength of characters (for example Zephyro was revealed to have destroyed an entire galaxy by an IPC broadcast). Its scope is absolutely stupid.

Call me crazy but I thought it was a pretty mid/slightly above mid story until penacony and it’s shenanigans popped up

This is amazing!

thank you for this presentation, I'm very excited to finally get my degree in Honkai Star Rail

mike's mic you will always be famous

THANK U FOR THIS

Keep up with the good work!

Gonna love this series, the only lore i know is High Cloud Quintet lore

It's wild to me that ppl don't like the star rail lore but maybe im more invested because I played honkai impact 3rd on release LOL

finally 🙏i know we got the timeline ingame but having it placed out like this makes it so much easier to keep track of

LOVE THIS! 🤩❤

This was so helpful since I literally cannot understand the writing of HSR!!! 😭 I was also wondering where Welt’s animator background came in?