Introduction[]
Hello there, so it's been a hot minute since I've ever really done an in-depth blog on a series. Since I'm in the mood for Honkai Impact 3rd, I believe it's about time someone made an blog that really covers the general principals of the series. There's tons to mention here, but among the most important things, are The Sea of Quanta, of which is where everything takes place in and also, some characters scale to. Another thing I want to cover are Honkai and The Herrschers, as they are just as important to the series itself. I don't know how long this'll be, but I expect this to be immensely vast in what it contains, but enough talking, let's really get into this, as we have tons to go over here
The Honkai[]
These are the titular enemies of the series and many things have been said regarding their nature. They cited as being embodiments of chaos and also raw, unbridled phenomenonwho's sole intent is to destroy all of humanity. It's said that whenever humanity evolves, so to does The Honkai, implying that they are unable to be truly stopped until all of humanity too is wiped out. For those who read the manga, we also have confirmation that Honkai have existed since The Roman Empireand that they are generally manifested in Honkai Gestalts. In gameplay, we can see they are capable of manifesting themselves virtually everywhere there is Honkai Energy, albeit they can't attack physically without taking form. In summary, Honkai was abstract phenomena and representations of chaos (also implied to he related/reliant on humanity as a whole)
The Herrschers[]
This is another important race/type of entities in Honkai Impact. They are stated to be embodiments of "The Will of Honkai" (aka God) and have the power to end humanity as a whole through breaking physicsand there were a total of 14 different Herrschers. Official sources state that Honkai in essence, are concepts in nature and in the manga, they even lack physicality, with a "core" being the only thing that bounds them to this world. Honkai and The Herrschers essentially exist hand and hand as similar in nature, both possessing the similar goals of being able to destroy all of humanity. What they embody are different aspects of humanity and have extreme control over their aspects in this regard. The strongest of these Herrschers are The Herrscher of Reason, Herrscher of The Void and Herrscher of The End (The last one being responsible for the existence of Honkai Impact 3rd's setting and marking the transition from Gun Girls Z to Honkai Impact 3rd; That's for another time however)
The Sea of Quanta[]
This is the part in which you came here for...The Sea of Quanta is a heavily talked about thing in Honkai Impact 3rd and takes central role as a setting for the later parts of the game. We learn that the structure is a super huge space that contains "bubble universes", with the analogy of other glasses of water being used to explain their existence and among this space, we also know that there are an infinity of possible universes, something hammered in many times within the series. These universes as observed by The 2nd Key and Pioneers, where causality fluctuates drastically
This isn't the only thing we learn about The Sea of Quata either, as it's likened to a higher dimensional realm. The Sea itself serves as a foundation that comprises every choice alongside the 11th Dimensional Space and can't be described by either our 3rd Dimension or 4th Dimensional Space, with this being stated once more that it's mathematically more complex than any dimension we've observed. We also know for a fact that these "membranes" (the term they use for the higher spaces) are true higher dimensions, as they are infinitely above one another and use many scientific ideas to describe The Sea of Quanta's existence
In essence, The Sea of Quanta, is a higher-dimensional realm (encompassing up to 11 dimensions) that contains infinite realities within it's structure and is meant to act as a medium for worlds to exist and formulate from the different possibilities/choices made by humanity. It's very obvious that Honkai Impact is drawing parallels to concepts such as Quantum Sea (which they even mention in the scans) and Manifolds + taking inspiration from classic quantum mechanics.
Conclusions[]
Honkai Impact 3rd isn't anything to sleep on. This is probably the most powerful Gacha to exist, with I believe only Valkyrie Crusade being superior in power (depends on how ya scale it). That being said, this verse is extremely vast, with the cosmology as a whole being 11th Dimensional (well, technically higher if you account for God's Realm being even higher of a space then The Sea of Quanta) and the funny thing is, there are people who scale to this. The more powerful Herrschers scale to the extend of the cosmology and God themselves are even likened to being superior than the entirety of The Sea of Quanta
The Herrschers and Honkai themselves are literal abstracts and are capable of ending humanity if desired. This is pretty impressive when you consider that many characters are capable of killing these beings and upon other things. Either way, they are rather powerful in their own right.
That being said, that's the end of this blog and pretty much covers the fundamentals