HoYoverse might be getting ready to set Sunday and Tingyun – Fugue, who I affectionately call Fugueyun or Deadyun (IYKYK), loose on Honkai Star Rail, but that hasn’t stopped them from poking fun at the HSR 3.0 characters. First up was The Herta, a 5-star variant of the Herta puppet who was present at the launch with an impressive hat and, surprisingly, the same path and item as her 4-star version: Ice and Erudite. That’s exciting.
More exciting is Aglaea, a 5-star Dressmaster on Amphoreus, HSR 3.0’s newest planet. It’s the first confirmation we have that Amphoreus will be next in line. Oh, and Aglaea walks the path of Remembrance. HoYoverse casually slipped that into Aglaea’s character art like it was no big deal, just a normal thing to reveal on Twitter on a Tuesday night. No official mention, nothing at all. But the Remembrance is definitely yet to come.
The more discerning probably won’t find this information surprising. With so much attention that HoYoverse has started paying to Erudition lately, including teasing 5-star Herta in the previous update, I assumed that Erudition would be the big thing in Amphoreus. However, after a friend reminded me of Black Swan’s role at the beginning of HSR 2.0 and how prominent Fuli and The Remembrance were in those conversations, I realized that HoYoverse was actually preparing for this all along.
How Remembrance will work is anyone’s guess. In Herta’s Simulated Universe and its various iterations, the blessings of Remembrance are tied to the freezing effect and the specific debuffs of freezing. Any Ice-aligned character can inflict frostbite when defeating an enemy, regardless of path. Star Rail’s other paths are defined more broadly by playstyle (support with Harmony, health in Abundance, damage over time, and debuffs with Nihility), which seems oddly specific for a full path, not to mention it’s strange in general for an electric character like Aglaea.
In short, expect something unexpected that will likely shake up the meta, perhaps something to do with the summoned help that some Star Rail leakers have posted about over the past few months.
Honkai Star Rail 3.0 should be available around January 14, 2025. In the meantime, brush up on your Acheron and Aventurine knowledge if you’re planning on doing any mining in the near future, and grab some HSR codes if you need some goodies.
