Honkai: Star Rail: The Journey of Embers

The universe is vast and boundless. After learning just how immense the cosmos is, most living beings choose to turn away. They drift with the current and live unremarkable lives, surrendering their brief existence to numbness and oblivion, until they spend their final days in endless emptiness. But there are always a very few souls who insist on creating meaning for themselves in a barren wasteland of meaninglessness. They are watched by an ancient, silent Aeon: Talos, the Aeon who presides over the Path of Nihility. It lays down no commandments and offers no guidance. It does only one thing: it lets every life that dares to face itself become its own answer in the fire of choice. And so some weave webs in the shadow of the Empire, making betrayal their bargaining chip to fulfill their truest desires; some raise their flags amid endless war, not for the glory of victory, but to prove they chose to fight; some plunder recklessly among the stars, making the act of plunder itself a mark of their existence; and some preach atop the ruins, spreading the truths of Nihility. This is what Nihility wants: no finish line, no judgment of right or wrong, no salvation, no fated path. It only hopes that every soul will be true to itself and live out its own meaning in a meaningless universe. (A new book in a new style. Honkai: Star Rail fans are welcome to come discuss it. I’ll do my best to stay true to the game. Please point out anything that doesn’t make sense. If something seems unreasonable, just assume this is a parallel universe erased by Erudition.)