HSR 4.5 LORE EXPLAINED NIHILUX AND AHA (DIVERGENT UNIVERSE)

HSR 4.5 LORE EXPLAINED NIHILUX AND AHA (DIVERGENT UNIVERSE) Is Aha dead? - Nihilux is Aha, but not the OG one, just their reflection - OG Aha went through aeonic death after getting corrupted by voracity and giving away their aeonhood to Nihilux - now they're in slumber Three aeons went to hunt down the voracity. Aha got wounded and corrupted. Train knight - Akivili Moon knight - Aha Beeswax knight - Qlipoth Asat Pramad THEY will slide towards an even more terrifying extreme: not to stop elation, but to drag all things into an eternal, meaningless, and unreasonable farce of chaos. And that will cease to be comedy, and become a universe-wide contamination. Divergent Universe "With the aid of the Train Knight and the Beeswax Knight, the Moon Knight finally severed the last head of the great serpent, but the Moon, dealt heavy damage by the monster, withdrew from all contact with the world and sank into the oceans of the sky." Divergent Universe "Legend has it that after being bitten by the great serpent, the Moon Knight slowly descended into madness. Miracles would grace those who bathed in its light, yet some were burned alive before ever breaking free from their cocoons." - After getting wounded, Aha hid from the world - A human found Aha when no one else could - Aha was overjoyed to know that someone cares about them, in the general Aha was a type of person that loved company. Aha embraced humans destiny and decided to find a leader for the troupe. The 'frog' didn't want their gift. Asat Pramad Once, Elation was a dutiful and committed god. THEY scattered the seeds of chance, carving sharp turns of fate across the universe. THEY even made a reward of THEIR own face, bestowing it upon those who passed THEIR trials, and delighted in goading other gods to join the hunt for the most terrifying, supreme beings... Divergent Universe "Who knows? After swimming for nine days and nine nights, it finally found the moon. There lay the crying of children, and the echo of laughter that were bound to be born after all weeping." Divergent Universe "The moon in the water was overjoyed for being found at last, but the frog refused its gift. What the frog wanted was not an offering, but a promise." Divergent Universe "Unlike monkeys who are perfectly happy on their own, the separated frogs need a leader." Divergent Universe "I sought to prove it's wrong, to find a hero who could bring the moon to its phase of rebirth, and to snuff out the devil's cradle before it could grow up." Divergent Universe "Yet I have crossed vast seas of stars, and seen only sneering grins and sobbing tears erupt like a stench from the ruins, rotting moonlight and nebulae dissolving, blooming into the crimson fire of death." Divergent Universe "Then one day, by some twist of fate, I caught my own reflection in the water, and it all clicked. The devil had been here all along." Nihilux' birth ^ They didn't have to look far, their shadow, here called devil (Nihilux) was their choice. - Nihilux became the troupe master - a person who told stories about elation and made people believe that Aha is with them - After Nihilux came back to visit Aha, their state was even worse, to the point they tried to kill her Divergent Universe "I know you, Troupe Master,' the Knight drew his sword and swung it at me as a gesture of welcome. Only to have it slice through a paper-folded curtain." Divergent Universe "It raised a glass to me. The venomous fangs that once bit the Knight had been ground to powder, fermented with moonlight into a fine brew. 'I will kill you, just as I killed that serpent.'" - Aha invited Nihilux to play 3 games with them, THEY lost with her, Nihilux received moonlight - the authority over elation - Nihilux and Aha are the two sides of the same coin Divergent Universe "But as the host of countless games, you cannot refuse my challenge." Divergent Universe "Preposterous! You are nothing but my reflection in the water. Your strength, like you, will shatter at the slightest touch." Divergent Universe It doesn't matter. Just as light and shadow coexist, every coin has two sides. "The Moon Knight laughed so hard he nearly lost his breath, and granted me three games." Divergent Universe "I have a goblet, if the moon can fill it to the brim, I shall offer up the past; have a serpent's head, if a call can rouse it from slumber, I shall offer up the present." Divergent Universe "The Knight poured moonlight into the goblet, but it slipped through the glass in an instant; he shouted the great serpent's name in fury, yet the remains lay drunk on the moonlight that dripped away." Divergent Universe "It swung its treasured blade at the bud, yet the flower swallowed the serpent bone's drunken dream and bloomed once more." You The Knight lost. - Nihilux won with Aha, took over their aeonhood and let them rest - Before Aha went into slumber, they asked her to make a lie so perfect no one would know the truth - that the real Aha is alive to recreate the phantasmoon games and stop the voracity Divergent Universe "After hearing countless stories, the Moon Knight finally fell into a deep slumber, like the immortal serpent, burying its madness within dreams. Before closing its eyes, it made one last request of me..." Divergent Universe "Tell me another story. An ancient fable where the characters blur the line between reality and fiction, and the narrator is not to be trusted." 'The grandest act of the play' Nihilux Shhh, that's exactly how it should be. Because the grandest act of the play is only just beginning. - Mourning actors don't treat Nihilux as their own, they still worship old Aha, so yeah, they hate the current Aha but mourn the previous one Nihilux I am the master of phantasia, the one who mourns, the murderer of all 'certainty, and the false sovereign of all theatrics. Divergent Universe "So, that's why we're here," the first Actor said, barely concealing a smile. "To recreate the original Phantasmoon Games." Divergent Universe Eight Actors beneath the moon, each telling their own legend. Together, they forge a greater story. Divergent Universe When the serpent stirs once more and madness claims all creation, eight Actors gathered beneath the moon will save the Kingdom of Stars in the far future together. That kind of story.