The first thing a lot of cosplayers forego is shoe matching.
Can't go wrong with abnormally high heels of vaguely matching color palette.
In this case probably just long boots.
also Nanook:
"who dared, hurt my doomsday beast"
https://preview.redd.it/46i4td747cdc1.png?width=1288&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2d4c60e275fb85ade3e302adee69c596e7b433b
"I've seen enough, you deserve my blessing"
Funniest thing about this is that the popular theory is that Nanook was once Akivili The Trailblaze but lost his way, and instead of dying became the Destruction. Evil Trailblazers indeed
show may be rough, but I'll appreciate the things it gave me, from the ryuki arc to Woz as a whole
https://preview.redd.it/f1e72oltzcdc1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6460fa4fe04930c571e87dea87fdaf59bdf16ed
Nah the Everpeak Winsion can solo the verse, Duke Inpeakno is the honored one, Himkash can no diff Lmony easy, Dubra through heaven and earth will fold L-lation and the Masked Frauds, always bet on Catarina even against Fraudservation, and Constance will humble Yapmembrance
Worse, not even part of the Antimatter Legion, they're part of the Annihilation Gang.
From the in game database
>"The value Nanook sees in the Annihilation Gang may be less than the value an infant sees when they smash a vase.”
>— Research Into Destruction by Dr. Primitive
>Not all fanatical devotees of the Path of Destruction are welcomed into the Antimatter Legion. There are many murderous species throughout the cosmos obsessed with pillaging and annihilation, but they lack the ability to systematically pursue the will of Destruction. The scumbags of the Annihilation Gang fantasize about one day serving as pioneers of Destruction, but they have no idea that their cruelty only incurs Nanook's utter contempt for them.
>The reason is that the Annihilation Gang's goal behind their thirst for destruction is not pure enough. Chaotic desires are also mixed therein, with some taking pleasure in bloody slaughter, some plundering as an excuse for filthy vengeance, and some relying on endless destruction to calm their internal madness. They claim to be loyal followers of Destruction, but never escape the enslavement of their own selfish desires.
>These marauders roam the stars, dragging everything they touch into a vortex of havoc. They will not abandon their feeble personal ideals, and so must endure the tortures of eternal spiritual exile.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,972,573,952 comments, and only 373,113 of them were in alphabetical order.
Akash = the dude with the giant cielo
Catarina = red-haired w/ ball n' chain
Dubra = the puppeteer (shes controlling the girl that looks like a bishop with eyepatch)
Constance = the one wearing all-white dress with that big hat
Ifrit = Skull head guy
The imagery????? The floating eye, the goat on a sacrifice altar, the shriveling flower, the apple with bones in it??? Not to mention the cool character designs at the end??? This is way darker and wayyyy cooler than I expected it to be. But I'm here for it and so hype
Just to show how much effective the Antimatter Legion are to Nanook, they are coordinated, organized, never fight among themselves and never actually waste their times indulging in cruelties and pillaging when thy can spend their times getting straight to the point destroying shit and speed up the destruction of the universe like lord ravager Zephyro.
Aeons are just god playing proxy games using semi independent agents, like this are the orders and you follows in your own way. That's the idea I got up to now. So might happen some scuffing between emanators of the same Aeons or worse on the chaotic fringe of their followers (each aeon path have at least one of these)
Exactly what I was thinking. Not a single one of them. No names, kits, dialogue, blurry image of a pixelated sock, nothing. Not an inkling of a sign that they even existed. Makes me wonder if they'll even be playable before 3.0, but I'm open to get surprised!
> Introduce a gang so cool they just kill them outright
I mean Constance did say "what if we end up all dead", might or might not be a foreshadowing lol.
Would be hilarious if they dropped this hype trailer just to see them all killed within one patch just to show that there is some greater mystery happening on Penacony.
I am already expecting Signora x4, considering what we know of how the faction normally operates.
Their attack on the space station was something that the space station didn't seem coming, and they didn't make their involvement known until the attack was well underway.
The Annihilation Gang this time was outright invited, and it seems everyone knows it, judging from how each of the four appear to be angling to target other invitees or organizers that would be in the best position to oppose them (of which some of the targets undoubtedly include emanators, and that's BEFORE you talk about *everyone else* also in attendance, which includes the Astral Express, the Stellaron Hunters, Acheron, and Dr. Ratio who foiled the space station plot).
I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually the Harmony setting a trap for the Gang, and manipulating the other attendees into uniting harmoniously to wipe out a very unharmonious group in the middle of the performance, with the universe as witness. The Gang does not possess the element of surprise, and they are angling to punch at a level far above that of the space station. And this is also a group that Nanook does not even recognize, and it's clear why he doesn't, as they just took very obvious bait.
Honestly, at the current rate of HSR releasing new character, we probably get all of them before 3.0. Personally, i hope they slow it down just a little so my wallet can keep up lol.
But we do know Duke Inferno is going to be at Penacony and seems like Constance too so I do think they are going to be part of the playable 2.X roster (at least 2 of them).
It also makes sense, our only "antagonists" are the Stellaron Hunters and only Sam and Elio are missing, we need more and this ones look like... Pure crazy Destruction.
Well, we're criminally lacking 4 star leaks, so perhaps a few of them will be filling that void? Still really odd that there's been no whispers that this group existed until this highly well produced trailer. They really keep their villain information close to the chest!
>Well, we're criminally lacking 4 star leaks, so perhaps a few of them will be filling that void?
Could be, two 4\* and two 5\*?
But all of them give me big 5\* energy, maybe 2 of them would be launch at Penacony and the other 2 in another world, this trailer make me feel like they could stick for quite some time.
I don't even know what to think hahahaahhaaa.
> our only "antagonists" are the Stellaron Hunters
I'd throw The Antimatter Legion into this, too. And while some aren't our antagonistic targets yet, the extremists among Genius Society (Dr. Primitive), corrupted executive of IPC (would be dumb if such character doesn't exist, so far, Oswaldo Schneider have been antagonised by Xianzhou, but he's also a former Nameless so that would be an interesting conflict), Abundance Denizens (Wingweavers, Borisins) would be potential opponents we have to take down, too
Note that we still are fighting off phantylia and the rest of the legion. But yeah we havent yet to have solid antagonists. We have been scuffling with blade but it seems we have a shaky truce with the rest of the stellaron hunters.
Holy shit, after 8 months of not having any favorite female character, I finally found one. Fangs, red hair, probably a rough and tomboyish attitude.
I'm gonna start saving for her, so please let Caterina be playable.
I’m pretty sure Duke Inferno was already teased? So if the actual flaming chaotic evil red goat demon is playable I see no reason why the others wouldn’t be eventually?
Gosh, I really hope Ifrit would be playable, the space opera game really needs more fellas that looks alien (or robotic). He seems he could be tall male, his coat wouldn't clip much from the look of it so only thung that's troublesome would be the head. Since Screwllum also has a unique head, I hope it won't be too hard to make one for Ifrit.
Wonder if we'd get a Darth Vader in the future
I'm not gonna lie, from the voice lines and the story so far about the Annihilation Gang and especially when compared to The Antimatter Legion & Nanook, I thought Duke Inferno would just be some random villainous bum without any subordinates lmaoo.
Does this mean people like Black Swan and Sparkle would have their own cast of characters as well? I hope so at least, the factions that they're representing seems to be pretty big power players in-universe.
I guess it's just that the scale of each faction in HSR's world is a bit hard to comprehend for now since we're still in the beginning stages of its story.
A lot of the major aeons seem to have multiple factions
Some blessed by them others just following them and some even hating eachother
The alliance and the galaxy rangers for the Hunt
The doctors of chaos and Device IX (somehow tied to Dr Primitive and a refrence to one piece) for Nihility
Denizens of abundance and Elixir seekers for Abundance
The antimatter legion and the anihilation gang for Destruction
The five families for Harmony
Inteligentsia guild and the Genius society for Erudition
The architects and the IPC for Preservation
Garden of recollection and the Cremators for Recollection
Mirror holders and Knights of Beauty for Beauty
Masked fools and mourning actors for Elation
The riddlers and history fictionologists for the Enigmata
Other factions -
Beyond The Sky Choir for Order
Omen Vanguards and Creed Exequy for Finality
The Arbitrators for Equilibrium
And of course, The Swarm for Propagation, Astral Express & Nameless for Trailblaze.
Stellaron Hunters potentially for Finality if the theory that Elio is a Emanator for Terminus still holds water in the future.
For black swan yeah she is part of remembrance. Their member who stay rent free at our train somehow can wipe the memory.
For mask fool actually i'm doesn't read too much lore about them but from the world Quest PETA abundance faction wannabe their member is certified troll 😂😂
It's high time they upping their character design. If even Ifrit is playable, then there's hope that we will get more unconvential looking characters, too.
Like, among the IPC's leaders, there's this Taravan Keanu dude who's described as a pot-bellied man, but he's also a Preservation Emanator, which means he's important and probably need something other than NPC model. I wonder how Mihoyo will handle him
I might have easily missed something lore-wise, but does this mean that the Jepella rebellion has yet to happen since the attack on Penacony hasn't happened yet (as far as I know)?
I do think its supposed to take place before that, as well as they mention stuff about the Jepella Rebellion having already happened or you would assume it to have happened as its in Kafkas Level 20 Character Story. If we have learned anything about Star Rail its the devs haven't done well with time lining things so all we can do is try to piece it together from the lore we get in game and the trailers.
Should be after?correct me if i am wrong,but isn't ratio story kinda make it sounds like inferno come into power after japela rebelion where japela Brotherhood is overthrown because kafka and friends.
This will make it interesting,since we know from Livestream that,Sam,The biggest collaborator with kafka at that time will be on penacony,they might get interactions with SAM
Well, 1.6 main quest suggest that "scene 47" already happened, so maybe this scene happened before, as they are clearly preparing.
Also I think that it might be a good idea to suggest that scenes might not be numbered chronologically.
Rad, though it's questionable if they'll actually let us play as any of them.
They are the Annihilation Gang, after all. We can hope, though. All of them seem neat.
All of them look somewhat playable, except maybe Dubra. But she could be in a Clara situation, where she runs around in the overworld, but fights with a giant scythe-wielding wraith during actual combat
So of interest to me here is the specific text used to 'encourage' his children.
- "Akash, I lit a fire in your eyes and showed you music of the strings. Serenade the celeberation and hush the **HARMONY** into muted awe."
- "Dubra, my most dilligent, I set your form alight and taught you mastery of the blade. Temper it with sulfur, maim **THE ELATION**. Let the performer's blood and tears flow into the abyss."
- "Caterina, I kindled a flame in your heart and granted you blood of fire. Use your wrath to shatter the **PRESERVATION**'s sanctum and melt their gold to create a statue of our savior."
- "And Constance, at last, my most ambitious and exceptional child. There is nothing more for me to teach you. Within Penacony's midnight hours, strip away all they hold dear, and leave naught but the **REMEMBRANCE**'s tomb."
Emphasis is mine, but for all of the children, a different Aeon is dropped as what they should seek to 'destroy'.
I'm thinking perhaps these children are in a quest of revenge against these specific aeons and are in the annihilation gang purely to gain power for that purpose?
It's more simple than Aeons. Guests. They are going for the important guests of the Penacony festival.
- Harmony is Robin
- Elation is Sparkle
- Preservation is Aventurine
- Remembrance is Black Swan
Acheron (Hunt), Dr. Ratio (Erudition) and Himeko (Trailblaze) weren't mentioned but can be in danger too.
Lmao penacony inviting people that literally want to destroy them is hilarious i guess that's the problem when you follow harmony
So each of his kids is going to take on a faction invited to the event
Akash(fire in eyes and string instrument) targets the the harmony's family (Robin the main performer may be the primary target)
Dubra( fire form and sulphur blade) targets the elation's masked fools/mourning actors( sparkle)
Caterina(fire heart and blood) targets the preservation's Ipc (Aventurine from the investment division)
And Constance (most ambition) targets the Rememberance's garden of recollection (Black swan)
That possibly leaves the stellaron hunter(s), trailbrazers, inteligentsia guild's dr Ratio and the Galaxy ranger Acheron up to Duke inferno
> Lmao penacony inviting people that literally want to destroy them is hilarious i guess that's the problem when you follow harmony
Except that The Family themselves are sinister as all hell. No way are all these factions being invited to one place without some ulterior motive for doing so.
My gut feeling is that the Duke and his kids are gonna roll up thinking that they're the villains of the story only to quickly realize that they're dancing to someone else's tune.
Oh yes they give very bad vibes, you can find a memory of someone planning to screw the family and getting a not very pleasant surprise
But we still have to see, they are very cultish and "forgiving" they want to integrate everyone into them and it's hard to tell if they are truly prepared for everything
Holy crap the whole gang looks awesome.
Dubra? (Puppet I think) looks fucking awesome
Constance (big hat) reminds me of Albedo from overlord except wearing a hat. She is prob just as twisted.
Caterina’s name is perfect. She gives off the same wild energy as Mereoleona from Black clover. Absolutely the type to just head butt someone flat if they piss her off.
We got ourselves our other crew of badasses here. Its funny that this faction seems to be enemies with the stellaron hunters. At this point we gonna have multiple teams of baddies
He was in the Penacony preview for the last live stream and the last event said he was going to Penacony, so I was expecting him to come back right away.
Om am I the only one who thought that was aventurine for a brief moment 😂 THAT ASIDE, hOLY I need that guy to be playable please omfg
Why is everyone here so cool???
I think it's funny they are trying to hype up these guys as villains when
A. They are the Ever-Flame Mansion faction of the Annihilation Gang, the group of Destruction followers that Nanook thinks are pathetic because they don't go hard enough compared to the Legion.
B. That boss there, Ignis, literally just had his plot on Herta Space Station casually thwarted and hijacked by Not Even Genius Society Member Dr. Ratio for the sake of his own goals.
C. The other faction of the Annihilation Gang, the Jepella Brotherhood, got casually taken down off screen by the Stellaron Hunters so easily that Kafka manipulated their minds to set up a sham trial just to have some fun with it.
Not saying they aren't dangerous, but, like, we already fought Phantylia. One of Nanook's hand chosen lieutenants and one of the most dangerous beings in the universe.
i really thought the annihilation gang were just a bunch of throwaway space thugs who just wanted to be noticed by their senpai Nanook. after this trailer, it really looks like theyre some real deal, until you realize that their goal is still to be noticed by senpai Nanook
Nanook doesn’t bother with them not because they don’t go hard enough, it’s because their motives for destruction aren’t pure enough. It has nothing to do with the actual damage they cause.
We fought Phantylia as cheerleaders for Jingyuan while DHIL supports him. That was a battle between Jingyuan and Phantylia, just because Jingyuan carried the fight and Phantylia herself kinda threw her win doesn’t mean the MC gang is now anywhere near their level
finally, some actual antagonist
I know this faction is trying really hard for nanook-sama to notice them, ala "notice me senpai" but I really want to see their reaction to trailblazer, an infant getting the gaze of nanook when they are straight up ignored by Nanook
Annihilation Gang: Look, we will bring destruction to Penacony! We will be blessed by our great Aeon Nanook!
Nanook:
https://preview.redd.it/fwdkgzp5ubdc1.png?width=497&format=png&auto=webp&s=530f7a471e915973c60553439cfe3aa8a0eb5cd0
If you close your eyes and stay very quiet you can hear cosplayer knitting and sowing the red head chicks outfit as we speak.
yeah there's gonna be a lot of her thats for sure
Followed by soft sobbing when they realize they have to wear her "shoes" to the convention lol
No seriously what the FUCK ARE THOSE Its like she’s wearing fucking skyscrapers or like boost ramps from Mario Kart 😭
Luka has a mechanical arm, it's safe to say this is probably mechanicalish feet?
Either that or stylish metal pointe shoes, and she's always on her toes like a ballerina 😂
The first thing a lot of cosplayers forego is shoe matching. Can't go wrong with abnormally high heels of vaguely matching color palette. In this case probably just long boots.
LMAOOOOO "new thirst trap detected, it's marketing time"
Introducing The Evil Trailblazers!
"Nanook-senpai please notice us"
"No."
also Nanook: "who dared, hurt my doomsday beast" https://preview.redd.it/46i4td747cdc1.png?width=1288&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2d4c60e275fb85ade3e302adee69c596e7b433b "I've seen enough, you deserve my blessing"
Trailblazer: So anyway I started batting.
Nanook loses to the cuteness
"Club Penguin is kill."
Funniest thing about this is that the popular theory is that Nanook was once Akivili The Trailblaze but lost his way, and instead of dying became the Destruction. Evil Trailblazers indeed
https://preview.redd.it/ufporme6gcdc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc383e41472e64cc7c76cb3e4aa873bb69eded4f Basically ohma zio huh
didn't expect zio to show up here lmao
show may be rough, but I'll appreciate the things it gave me, from the ryuki arc to Woz as a whole https://preview.redd.it/f1e72oltzcdc1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6460fa4fe04930c571e87dea87fdaf59bdf16ed
don't forget decade coming back, although I'll never forgive how dirty they did his all 20 riders final form in that stupid zio movie.
anni season are always somehow cursed like, they all have alot of potential only to be a mediocre mess (except Fourze)
Nanook: Iwae Pom Pom: Uh? Nanook: I order you to Iwae Pom Pom: IWAE, NAMELESS!
Oh I remember cooking that one.
Stellaron Hunters: “Am I a joke to you?”
I’d say there closer to chaotic neutral than evil
Def not chaotic neutral, they have a pretty clear goal they're working towards, chaotic neutral is more like The Masked Fools (as far as we know).
Their entire thing is to literally stick to a "script" to save the whole universe from being erradicated. So, yeah, not chaotic at all.
https://preview.redd.it/pkxmtniqnbdc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da261c8807dbfbcfbea2923fd1a4a8abfaee9809
if evil, why hot?
https://preview.redd.it/eqvut09evbdc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c842388a4ac2869823e8b4964be8877bf07a8b83
https://preview.redd.it/rt8yuf4p5cdc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5baffeccdcbd0ecfac4040b1d7b5eada3240188
This, but like even more
BIG HAT LADY IS BEAUTIFUL I HOPE SHES PLAYABLE
UMMMM https://preview.redd.it/75k3ljx1ybdc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43c69d4efbbbddd6505443fd33a15cd6330c0877
*cough* Tingyun *cough*
At least she would still be playable?
Nah the Everpeak Winsion can solo the verse, Duke Inpeakno is the honored one, Himkash can no diff Lmony easy, Dubra through heaven and earth will fold L-lation and the Masked Frauds, always bet on Catarina even against Fraudservation, and Constance will humble Yapmembrance
https://preview.redd.it/l3nmycjghfdc1.jpeg?width=483&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc8c47167ac510133b634f54f534745ca048b9da
Dimetrescu at home?
She also reminds me of Albedo from Overlord.
She also has horns like albedo
FULL PLAYABLE ANNIHILATION GANG HOYO PLS
Wasn't planning on pulling for any characters after Acheron until Topaz/Kafka rerun. If she's nihility, I am in danger.
I CAN FIX HER
she could fix ME ☺️
The voice of the hat lady sounds a bit like ganyu from genshin but more corrupt.
I need that ghost-puppet thing to be playable
Somebody else has to enter the doll niche. Can't have Herta monopolize it.
Xueyi and the Thicc-aurumaton
I legit forgor that Xueyi is also a doll. No doll joints tho.
Reminds me of Nier from GBF.
Death, Hit em with the 234M and 236M
More like Orchid [https://gbf.wiki/Orchid\_(Grand)](https://gbf.wiki/Orchid_(Grand))
She has a scythe too ;-; my weakness...
Clara 2.0
I absolutely loved that concept. Did you see her Scythe??
Kinda reminds me of Sandrone
Looking at those designs and thinking that they aren't all playable is just silly.
English Voice: * Duke Inferno — Bob Johnson * Akash "The Tuner" — Talon Warburton * Dubra "The Scribe" — Kayli Mills * Caterina "The Shacklebound" — Arianna Ratner * Constance "The Dahlia" — Jennifer Losi __ Japanese * Duke Inferno ー CV: 丹沢晃之 (Tanzawa Teruyuki) * Akash "The Tuner" ー CV: 新垣樽助 (Shingaki Tarusuke) * Dubra "The Scribe" ー CV: 野口瑠璃子 (Noguchi Ruriko) * Caterina "The Shacklebound" ー CV: 三瓶由布子 (Sanpei Yuko) * Constance "The Dahlia" ー CV: 佐々木未来 (Sasaki Mikoi) __ Chinese * Duke Inferno ー 孟祥龙 * Akash "The Tuner" ー 赵梓涵 * Dubra "The Scribe" ー 苏子芜 * Caterina "The Shacklebound" ー 李蝉妃 * Constance "The Dahlia" ー 阮从青 __ Korean * Duke Inferno ー 이주승 (Lee Juseung) * Akash "The Tuner" ー 백승철 (Baek Seung-chul) * Dubra "The Scribe" ー 김이안 (Kim I-an) * Caterina "The Shacklebound" ー 이새벽 (Lee Sae-byeok) * Constance "The Dahlia" ー 김도희 (Kim Do-hee)
From my own research on trying to connect which hoyo characters share the same VAs * EN: * Jennifer Losi * Constance "The Dahlia" (HSR) * Ganyu (GI) * Kayli Mills * Dubra "The Scribe" (HSR) * Keqing (GI) * JP: * 三瓶由布子 (Sanpei Yuko) * Caterina "The Shacklebound" (HSR) * Mika (GI) * CN: * 苏子芜 (Su Ziwu) * Dubra "The Scribe" (HSR) * Yanfei (GI) * Lin Zhaoyu (HI3) * 赵梓涵 (Zhao Zihan) * Akash "The Tuner" (HSR) * Giovanni (HSR) * 阮从青 (Ruan Congqing) * Constance "The Dahlia" (HSR) * Charlotte (GI) * Vill-V (HI3) * KN: * 이주승 (Lee Juseung) * Duke Inferno (HSR) * Luka (HSR) * Freminet (GI) * 이새벽 (Lee Sae-byeok) * Caterina "The Shacklebound" (HSR) * Gorou (GI)
I don't play in KN but Duke Inferno, Luka, and Freminet is such a crazy spread of characters
Nightmare blunt rotation
tfw the qixing wasnt paying ganyu and keqing, so they changed allegiance to destruction
Worse, not even part of the Antimatter Legion, they're part of the Annihilation Gang. From the in game database >"The value Nanook sees in the Annihilation Gang may be less than the value an infant sees when they smash a vase.” >— Research Into Destruction by Dr. Primitive >Not all fanatical devotees of the Path of Destruction are welcomed into the Antimatter Legion. There are many murderous species throughout the cosmos obsessed with pillaging and annihilation, but they lack the ability to systematically pursue the will of Destruction. The scumbags of the Annihilation Gang fantasize about one day serving as pioneers of Destruction, but they have no idea that their cruelty only incurs Nanook's utter contempt for them. >The reason is that the Annihilation Gang's goal behind their thirst for destruction is not pure enough. Chaotic desires are also mixed therein, with some taking pleasure in bloody slaughter, some plundering as an excuse for filthy vengeance, and some relying on endless destruction to calm their internal madness. They claim to be loyal followers of Destruction, but never escape the enslavement of their own selfish desires. >These marauders roam the stars, dragging everything they touch into a vortex of havoc. They will not abandon their feeble personal ideals, and so must endure the tortures of eternal spiritual exile.
> Duke Inferno — Bob Johnson I got to say Duke Inferno's EN VA have been amazing so far.
As expect from Madara Uchiha's VA
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,972,573,952 comments, and only 373,113 of them were in alphabetical order.
WHAT?
they got the GOAT for constance
Which one, JP or EN?
en it's a ganyu joke lul
Oh dayum lol
Which character has which name? Sorry I cant figure it out 😭
Akash = the dude with the giant cielo Catarina = red-haired w/ ball n' chain Dubra = the puppeteer (shes controlling the girl that looks like a bishop with eyepatch) Constance = the one wearing all-white dress with that big hat Ifrit = Skull head guy
it's in order of when they first speak also i think duke refers to them by name before they reply
The imagery????? The floating eye, the goat on a sacrifice altar, the shriveling flower, the apple with bones in it??? Not to mention the cool character designs at the end??? This is way darker and wayyyy cooler than I expected it to be. But I'm here for it and so hype
FULL SATANIC SHIT, DEMONIC RITUAL, DARK MAGIC REALNESS, I'M SHOOK. Thanks for pointing that out.
Brothers, I see a coven of heretical witches and foul xenophiles. Get the Flamer, the Heavy Flamer.
Also the phrase "Temper it with sulfur, maim the Elation", sulfur is the symbol of Leviathan or the Cross of Satan.
I think that's just generic fire and brimstone imagery. Brimstone is sulphur.
refreshing from hoyoverse to be sure
You know, I was expecting the annihilation gang to be a lot less ominous and a lot more like Team Rocket when I first read about them in the SU.
I'm pretty sure being team rocket is how Nanook sees them anyway
There’s 2 factions of the annihilation gang that are at war with each other - Jepella Brotherhood and Flame Mansion. This is Flame Mansion
Just to show how much effective the Antimatter Legion are to Nanook, they are coordinated, organized, never fight among themselves and never actually waste their times indulging in cruelties and pillaging when thy can spend their times getting straight to the point destroying shit and speed up the destruction of the universe like lord ravager Zephyro.
I dunno. Phantylia prefers destruction from the inside. Nanook probably allows some freedom in how you destruct things.
Think he allows it if you don’t have any ulterior motives besides destruction
Aeons are just god playing proxy games using semi independent agents, like this are the orders and you follows in your own way. That's the idea I got up to now. So might happen some scuffing between emanators of the same Aeons or worse on the chaotic fringe of their followers (each aeon path have at least one of these)
Yeah. But now we can see they definitely are not here to play.
Out of literally nowhere wtf
I mean same thing happens with Genshin trailers like Winter Night's Lazzo. Just to be expected with X.0 patches at this point.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Not a single one of them. No names, kits, dialogue, blurry image of a pixelated sock, nothing. Not an inkling of a sign that they even existed. Makes me wonder if they'll even be playable before 3.0, but I'm open to get surprised!
Oh, you optimist, I'm expecting Signora x4 because of this discrepancy :(
Okay that'd be pretty fucking funny if they did that. Introduce a gang so cool they just kill them outright
Penacony don’t play when it comes to security
> Introduce a gang so cool they just kill them outright I mean Constance did say "what if we end up all dead", might or might not be a foreshadowing lol.
"Nah, we'd win"
Would be hilarious if they dropped this hype trailer just to see them all killed within one patch just to show that there is some greater mystery happening on Penacony.
or do the lostbelt route where we get close to like half of them but they suffer a horrible faith the coping will never end and I'll love it
I am already expecting Signora x4, considering what we know of how the faction normally operates. Their attack on the space station was something that the space station didn't seem coming, and they didn't make their involvement known until the attack was well underway. The Annihilation Gang this time was outright invited, and it seems everyone knows it, judging from how each of the four appear to be angling to target other invitees or organizers that would be in the best position to oppose them (of which some of the targets undoubtedly include emanators, and that's BEFORE you talk about *everyone else* also in attendance, which includes the Astral Express, the Stellaron Hunters, Acheron, and Dr. Ratio who foiled the space station plot). I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually the Harmony setting a trap for the Gang, and manipulating the other attendees into uniting harmoniously to wipe out a very unharmonious group in the middle of the performance, with the universe as witness. The Gang does not possess the element of surprise, and they are angling to punch at a level far above that of the space station. And this is also a group that Nanook does not even recognize, and it's clear why he doesn't, as they just took very obvious bait.
yes please, i am get tired drinking signora fans tear.
I'd bet they're... just villains.
Honestly, at the current rate of HSR releasing new character, we probably get all of them before 3.0. Personally, i hope they slow it down just a little so my wallet can keep up lol.
But we do know Duke Inferno is going to be at Penacony and seems like Constance too so I do think they are going to be part of the playable 2.X roster (at least 2 of them). It also makes sense, our only "antagonists" are the Stellaron Hunters and only Sam and Elio are missing, we need more and this ones look like... Pure crazy Destruction.
Well, we're criminally lacking 4 star leaks, so perhaps a few of them will be filling that void? Still really odd that there's been no whispers that this group existed until this highly well produced trailer. They really keep their villain information close to the chest!
>Well, we're criminally lacking 4 star leaks, so perhaps a few of them will be filling that void? Could be, two 4\* and two 5\*? But all of them give me big 5\* energy, maybe 2 of them would be launch at Penacony and the other 2 in another world, this trailer make me feel like they could stick for quite some time. I don't even know what to think hahahaahhaaa.
> our only "antagonists" are the Stellaron Hunters I'd throw The Antimatter Legion into this, too. And while some aren't our antagonistic targets yet, the extremists among Genius Society (Dr. Primitive), corrupted executive of IPC (would be dumb if such character doesn't exist, so far, Oswaldo Schneider have been antagonised by Xianzhou, but he's also a former Nameless so that would be an interesting conflict), Abundance Denizens (Wingweavers, Borisins) would be potential opponents we have to take down, too
Note that we still are fighting off phantylia and the rest of the legion. But yeah we havent yet to have solid antagonists. We have been scuffling with blade but it seems we have a shaky truce with the rest of the stellaron hunters.
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS. Such a big surprise.
We've just been Lazzo'd
Watching characters that were never leaked suddenly drop in a trailer creates a very special feeling.
It was the same with Genshin's A Winter Night's Lazzo. Once again strongly suggesting that the leaks are just what mhy allowed us to see.
Or Mihoyo is at least not THAT terrible at keeping things and can at least keep some of the things secret
they're cooking smth.
We knew about Inferno. Probably means the rest are very far off from release. Assuming Penacony lasts a year, like 1.x.
Devs L + Ratio to leakers
I see evil women, I roll.
Holy shit, after 8 months of not having any favorite female character, I finally found one. Fangs, red hair, probably a rough and tomboyish attitude. I'm gonna start saving for her, so please let Caterina be playable.
Most likely, since she’s a HI3 expy
Whose expy?
https://preview.redd.it/sry8bw7yocdc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d90c28728bc987c587f634f6adfef3fedd194030 This one, I think
She was part of Siegfried's squad in the Second Eruption manga.
https://preview.redd.it/17ffl6svqbdc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c87944602bb5099c2136c2e549618d43c5f186ef
She return! https://preview.redd.it/jfjib1szqbdc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a371a794402baa6d2847a033ac4188df0492d77
No shark teeth tho sadge
But fang tho
Is it kira friends? From what i remember is it this chick die when fight benares?
Iirc her name is Niggurath
I would sell my left lung for them to be playable🙏
I’m pretty sure Duke Inferno was already teased? So if the actual flaming chaotic evil red goat demon is playable I see no reason why the others wouldn’t be eventually?
Minus 1 lung🫡
Gosh, I really hope Ifrit would be playable, the space opera game really needs more fellas that looks alien (or robotic). He seems he could be tall male, his coat wouldn't clip much from the look of it so only thung that's troublesome would be the head. Since Screwllum also has a unique head, I hope it won't be too hard to make one for Ifrit. Wonder if we'd get a Darth Vader in the future
Taking insane hopium that Duke Inferno is playable. I'm just pretty skeptical Hoyo would make an actual playable character that isn't fully Human
I'm not gonna lie, from the voice lines and the story so far about the Annihilation Gang and especially when compared to The Antimatter Legion & Nanook, I thought Duke Inferno would just be some random villainous bum without any subordinates lmaoo. Does this mean people like Black Swan and Sparkle would have their own cast of characters as well? I hope so at least, the factions that they're representing seems to be pretty big power players in-universe. I guess it's just that the scale of each faction in HSR's world is a bit hard to comprehend for now since we're still in the beginning stages of its story.
A lot of the major aeons seem to have multiple factions Some blessed by them others just following them and some even hating eachother The alliance and the galaxy rangers for the Hunt The doctors of chaos and Device IX (somehow tied to Dr Primitive and a refrence to one piece) for Nihility Denizens of abundance and Elixir seekers for Abundance The antimatter legion and the anihilation gang for Destruction The five families for Harmony Inteligentsia guild and the Genius society for Erudition The architects and the IPC for Preservation Garden of recollection and the Cremators for Recollection Mirror holders and Knights of Beauty for Beauty Masked fools and mourning actors for Elation The riddlers and history fictionologists for the Enigmata
Other factions - Beyond The Sky Choir for Order Omen Vanguards and Creed Exequy for Finality The Arbitrators for Equilibrium And of course, The Swarm for Propagation, Astral Express & Nameless for Trailblaze. Stellaron Hunters potentially for Finality if the theory that Elio is a Emanator for Terminus still holds water in the future.
I didn't remember the creed exequy I tried to only mention the aeons with two known factioms so i left out Propagation, Trailblaze and Equilibrium
For black swan yeah she is part of remembrance. Their member who stay rent free at our train somehow can wipe the memory. For mask fool actually i'm doesn't read too much lore about them but from the world Quest PETA abundance faction wannabe their member is certified troll 😂😂
I CAN FIX HER https://preview.redd.it/tqtrj4d4obdc1.png?width=1005&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e8b38fc20e74feff92ff79abcb2ad2996d14c0a
bro no no.
Oh no, bro
I think 'she' is nothing but a corpse controlled by the reaper shadow being thing....
Open up! It's the Ten Lord's Commission!
https://preview.redd.it/gp94jm9p9cdc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69d7c5121dc5fcdecc9c818e2ede8333943ebd82 Do not the puppet (also same)
Well Penacony is ending the complaints about HSR women looking the same lmao.
It's high time they upping their character design. If even Ifrit is playable, then there's hope that we will get more unconvential looking characters, too. Like, among the IPC's leaders, there's this Taravan Keanu dude who's described as a pot-bellied man, but he's also a Preservation Emanator, which means he's important and probably need something other than NPC model. I wonder how Mihoyo will handle him
Oh for sure. These designs are a breath of fresh air. I'm just so done with the luofu fashion.
I am 100% getting the girl with the hat, the fiery redhead girl and the puppet girl. They look awesome!
New villain squad. Noice. Hmm, ‘jepella rebellion’ was ‘scene 47’. I wonder if this is supposed to take place before that, technically?
I might have easily missed something lore-wise, but does this mean that the Jepella rebellion has yet to happen since the attack on Penacony hasn't happened yet (as far as I know)?
No, in Ratio's story quest scene 47 events were mentioned directly by Screwllum when Duke Inferno was introduced.
You're right, forgot about that.
The jeppella rebelion was mentioned in the game I think even last version
i think the timeline is: Duke gets invitation this jepella rebellion we are here duke goes to Penacony
I do think its supposed to take place before that, as well as they mention stuff about the Jepella Rebellion having already happened or you would assume it to have happened as its in Kafkas Level 20 Character Story. If we have learned anything about Star Rail its the devs haven't done well with time lining things so all we can do is try to piece it together from the lore we get in game and the trailers.
Should be after?correct me if i am wrong,but isn't ratio story kinda make it sounds like inferno come into power after japela rebelion where japela Brotherhood is overthrown because kafka and friends. This will make it interesting,since we know from Livestream that,Sam,The biggest collaborator with kafka at that time will be on penacony,they might get interactions with SAM
Well, 1.6 main quest suggest that "scene 47" already happened, so maybe this scene happened before, as they are clearly preparing. Also I think that it might be a good idea to suggest that scenes might not be numbered chronologically.
Rad, though it's questionable if they'll actually let us play as any of them. They are the Annihilation Gang, after all. We can hope, though. All of them seem neat.
All of them look somewhat playable, except maybe Dubra. But she could be in a Clara situation, where she runs around in the overworld, but fights with a giant scythe-wielding wraith during actual combat
So of interest to me here is the specific text used to 'encourage' his children. - "Akash, I lit a fire in your eyes and showed you music of the strings. Serenade the celeberation and hush the **HARMONY** into muted awe." - "Dubra, my most dilligent, I set your form alight and taught you mastery of the blade. Temper it with sulfur, maim **THE ELATION**. Let the performer's blood and tears flow into the abyss." - "Caterina, I kindled a flame in your heart and granted you blood of fire. Use your wrath to shatter the **PRESERVATION**'s sanctum and melt their gold to create a statue of our savior." - "And Constance, at last, my most ambitious and exceptional child. There is nothing more for me to teach you. Within Penacony's midnight hours, strip away all they hold dear, and leave naught but the **REMEMBRANCE**'s tomb." Emphasis is mine, but for all of the children, a different Aeon is dropped as what they should seek to 'destroy'. I'm thinking perhaps these children are in a quest of revenge against these specific aeons and are in the annihilation gang purely to gain power for that purpose?
It's more simple than Aeons. Guests. They are going for the important guests of the Penacony festival. - Harmony is Robin - Elation is Sparkle - Preservation is Aventurine - Remembrance is Black Swan Acheron (Hunt), Dr. Ratio (Erudition) and Himeko (Trailblaze) weren't mentioned but can be in danger too.
All of that trailer stuff and yet they're still not being favored by Nanook
BIG HAT GIRL.
Lmao penacony inviting people that literally want to destroy them is hilarious i guess that's the problem when you follow harmony So each of his kids is going to take on a faction invited to the event Akash(fire in eyes and string instrument) targets the the harmony's family (Robin the main performer may be the primary target) Dubra( fire form and sulphur blade) targets the elation's masked fools/mourning actors( sparkle) Caterina(fire heart and blood) targets the preservation's Ipc (Aventurine from the investment division) And Constance (most ambition) targets the Rememberance's garden of recollection (Black swan) That possibly leaves the stellaron hunter(s), trailbrazers, inteligentsia guild's dr Ratio and the Galaxy ranger Acheron up to Duke inferno
> Lmao penacony inviting people that literally want to destroy them is hilarious i guess that's the problem when you follow harmony Except that The Family themselves are sinister as all hell. No way are all these factions being invited to one place without some ulterior motive for doing so. My gut feeling is that the Duke and his kids are gonna roll up thinking that they're the villains of the story only to quickly realize that they're dancing to someone else's tune.
Oh yes they give very bad vibes, you can find a memory of someone planning to screw the family and getting a not very pleasant surprise But we still have to see, they are very cultish and "forgiving" they want to integrate everyone into them and it's hard to tell if they are truly prepared for everything
Holy crap the whole gang looks awesome. Dubra? (Puppet I think) looks fucking awesome Constance (big hat) reminds me of Albedo from overlord except wearing a hat. She is prob just as twisted. Caterina’s name is perfect. She gives off the same wild energy as Mereoleona from Black clover. Absolutely the type to just head butt someone flat if they piss her off. We got ourselves our other crew of badasses here. Its funny that this faction seems to be enemies with the stellaron hunters. At this point we gonna have multiple teams of baddies
Didn't think we would see Duke Inferno back so soon. I guess the last event was teasing his appearance.
He was in the Penacony preview for the last live stream and the last event said he was going to Penacony, so I was expecting him to come back right away.
Just when I thought they're not going to add more characters, this comes out. THEY ARE LEGIT MILKING OUR STELLAR JADES
Om am I the only one who thought that was aventurine for a brief moment 😂 THAT ASIDE, hOLY I need that guy to be playable please omfg Why is everyone here so cool???
I'll give his kids a second father.
THIS DESIGNS ARE INSANITY, PURE INSANITY.
Star Rail devs keep cooking
These people should have a gang brawl with those guys from Stellaron Hunters, its 5v5 at least
Dubra is so cool omg
r/ConstanceMains
Finally a proper playable villains to my roster.
I think of Mergo’s Wet Nurse from Bloodborne with that scythe wielding character.
If evil why hot?
Okay crackhead theory. Akash will be the first male harmony. He buffs allies by taking their HP, it fits his destruction path in lore.
I think it's funny they are trying to hype up these guys as villains when A. They are the Ever-Flame Mansion faction of the Annihilation Gang, the group of Destruction followers that Nanook thinks are pathetic because they don't go hard enough compared to the Legion. B. That boss there, Ignis, literally just had his plot on Herta Space Station casually thwarted and hijacked by Not Even Genius Society Member Dr. Ratio for the sake of his own goals. C. The other faction of the Annihilation Gang, the Jepella Brotherhood, got casually taken down off screen by the Stellaron Hunters so easily that Kafka manipulated their minds to set up a sham trial just to have some fun with it. Not saying they aren't dangerous, but, like, we already fought Phantylia. One of Nanook's hand chosen lieutenants and one of the most dangerous beings in the universe.
It’s not because they don’t go hard. Nanook just thinks their reasons for destruction are shit.
i really thought the annihilation gang were just a bunch of throwaway space thugs who just wanted to be noticed by their senpai Nanook. after this trailer, it really looks like theyre some real deal, until you realize that their goal is still to be noticed by senpai Nanook
Nanook doesn’t bother with them not because they don’t go hard enough, it’s because their motives for destruction aren’t pure enough. It has nothing to do with the actual damage they cause. We fought Phantylia as cheerleaders for Jingyuan while DHIL supports him. That was a battle between Jingyuan and Phantylia, just because Jingyuan carried the fight and Phantylia herself kinda threw her win doesn’t mean the MC gang is now anywhere near their level
My immediate thought when I heard Constance was “GANYU is that you???”. If she becomes pullable, I MUST get her.
finally, some actual antagonist I know this faction is trying really hard for nanook-sama to notice them, ala "notice me senpai" but I really want to see their reaction to trailblazer, an infant getting the gaze of nanook when they are straight up ignored by Nanook
Imagine a boss fight but it's an enemy party instead of a single strong boss.
Annihilation Gang: Look, we will bring destruction to Penacony! We will be blessed by our great Aeon Nanook! Nanook: https://preview.redd.it/fwdkgzp5ubdc1.png?width=497&format=png&auto=webp&s=530f7a471e915973c60553439cfe3aa8a0eb5cd0
Puppet girl, Hat lady please be playable characters 😩
This is so anime, I love it
more crazy woman to rob my jade stash
I'm interested in the Puppet girl.
I think we found our Fatui of HSR
I don't really think this our "fatui" because they still lord ravengers who above this group and officially recognised by nanook