Archivum Honkai: Star Rail

No. 2: Reignbow Arbiter

No. 2: Reignbow Arbiter
Director: Xiao Tong
Screenwriter: Yu Chun

I urge you to forget about life and death. Let us fight now to turn the tide. I would like to teach you to be ever victorious, brave, and enduring.

About four thousand to five thousand years ago, the Xianzhou experienced the chaotic Three Sufferings Era. From a wider perspective, the collapse of social order on each Xianzhou ship is an insignificant bit of history. Instead, the bloody battle of life and death was the tone of that era. Reignbow Arbiter was not Reignbow Arbiter at that time, but a mortal hero. Reignbow Arbiter led the Xianzhou people during the magnificent confrontation with the Denizens of Abundance, which ultimately destroyed the giant tree "Muldrasil" of the Wingweavers at the cost of self-burning, but saving the Xianzhou Alliance. Reignbow Arbiter is an epic immersia based on this legend.

To this day, there are still a group of fundamentalists who think that Reignbow Arbiter is an immersia that blasphemes Reignbow Arbiter. This is because it allows the experiencer to enter the perspective of Reignbow Arbiter to experience the epic final battle as Reignbow Arbiter, and even experience the process of Reignbow Arbiter's rise to the godhood after death, which can be said to be disrespectful.

But in reality, only by experiencing this powerful epic from such a perspective can the experiencer truly appreciate how much blood Reignbow Arbiter and the brave people of Xianzhou shed to achieve the current peace for the Xianzhou to rest and recuperate.

But even putting aside the vexatiousness of these fundamentalists, Reignbow Arbiter remains a controversial masterpiece. The biggest controversy is that when Yu Chun wrote the script, the historical facts were modified based on personal preference, which is considered unacceptable to many experiencers.

For example, Yu Chun downplayed the existence of the Heliobi leader, the "Flint Emperor" in the entire immersia. Yu Chun even summed up the arrow of Reignbow Arbiter that destroyed the Ambrosial Arbor as "an advanced awakening of an Aeon's power in a mortal body," which is an obvious violation of historical facts. At present, historians generally believe that the arrow at that time borrowed the power of the Flint Emperor, but Yu Chun personally dislikes heliobi and revised that part of the story.

However, flaws cannot detract from the beauty. Controversial masterpieces are still masterpieces. But in my personal view, I still hope that you can read some more reliable historical materials (such as Ode to Reignbow Path) before experiencing Reignbow Arbiter to avoid being misled by this immersia's dramatized version of events.