Hysilens's Lore

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Character Introduction

Styxia, the coastal city of intoxication and dreams, where echoes of old songs still drift among the waves.
Helektra, Daughter of the Sea, Chrysos Heir who cleanses the Ocean's Coreflame, dispels the murky undercurrents and orchestrates a banquet of revelry for the heroes beyond the sky.
The show must go on. Even if hope is as fragile as bubbles, the waves will keep surging forward.

Appearance

Hysilens is a young woman with long, straight black hair that extends past her thighs, fading to a plum color at the ends and colored a light blue underneath. She has fringe bangs as well as two locks of hair that reach just past her chest; the left side tucked behind her ear while the right side covers it. Her eyes are a mix of indigo, light blue, and a light lilac color, and she also has white scales on her left cheek. She wears two headpieces: a white shell-like design on her left which ends with a blue dorsal fin and a piece of hot-pink coral, and a bone-like piece on her right. She completes the look with two crossed indigo hairpins on the left side of her bangs, a white ear cuff and pearl earring, and a pearl and seashell necklace that is wrapped in another coral piece, which sits atop a black collar.

Her outfit consists of a short white and blue dress with a pleated skirt, along with a longer black and purple layer on top that is slightly torn. The second layer is open in the front and extends in the back to her ankles, with various accessories including a white and pink shell on her right hip, a fin-like blue bow and coral piece on her left hip, and a shell, bow, and coral piece on the center of her back. She wears sheer, black, flower-patterned bolero sleeves connected to her collar that extend to her wrists, with the left sleeve torn at the bicep area. She also wears a red half-glove on her right hand and a black half-glove on her left, both hands adorned with silver rings.

Hysilens's abdomen is translucent and contains bubbling, light-blue water that exposes her ribcage and spine. She wears sheer, dark brown, thigh-high stockings with the right stocking torn at the thigh, as well as black and purple calf-length boots that have silver, bone-like heels.

Character Stories

Character Details

Styxia, the coastal city of intoxication and dreams, where echoes of old songs still drift among the waves.
Helektra, Daughter of the Sea, Chrysos Heir who cleanses the Ocean's Coreflame, dispels the murky undercurrents and orchestrates a banquet of revelry for the heroes beyond the sky.
The show must go on. Even if hope is as fragile as bubbles, the waves will keep surging forward.

Character Story: Part I

• Unlocked at Character Level 20

When sunlight filtered down through the surface, the sea's breath shimmered with a kaleidoscope of colors. That was the merriest time of day for the sirens.
"♫ Plop ♫" "♫ Pika ♫" "♫ Bo-pom ♫"
The siren princess chased bubbles in delight. Her favorite moment was when one paused on her nose, just before it popped and rippled a burst of color across the water.

Amid coral stretching for miles, the sea sirens sang. The pearls there sparkled like stars, perfect ornaments for a bowstring.
Music flowed from Helektra's fingers like a gentle current, brushing past companions basking in the joy of honey brew.

"♫ Look, on that bright and bustling ship, how happy the humans must be. ♫"
"♫ You long for the one you saved as his voice still echoes in your soul. ♫"
"♫ Noble princess, carefree Helektra, where will you go? To the frigid northern sea, or the boundless world of men? ♫"

The drunken sirens gathered around her, curiosity swaying and curling like seaweed.
"♫ The world above is loud, the pole too cold... ♫"
She brushed a bubble and shook her head with a smile:
"♫ I'll stay where songs still carry... ♫"

But soon, a horn of warning echoed from the deep, cutting the revelry short.
The sirens followed Helektra into the depths, as the Queen of the Ocean addressed her people...

"♫ Dark tides will taint our crystal currents, so we shall summon the sacred waves, draw the filth into the Grand Chalice, until Strife shines back against the black tide... ♫"
"♫ Children of the sea, have you chosen your course? When the black tide recedes, go to Styxia. There, people on the land will raise their glasses in your honor! ♫"

Day after day, Helektra led the sirens through the darkening sea, washing away the corrupted undercurrents.

"♫ Don't give up, my friends, not until we've drowned ourselves in triumph. ♫"
"♫ Don't forget, my friends, we'll swim toward the distant place. ♫"
"♫ Onward, my friends, vibrant hope is stirring the air. ♫"

And day after day, Helektra sang. As a Titankin, she knew guarding these waters was the fate written into her very soul...

Helektra dove into the abyss, her song fading until it became the lone light left in the dark ocean.

Character Story: Part II

• Unlocked at Character Level 40

The once-lush coral reef had become a graveyard of lifeless stone.

The first time she drove her blade into the Black Tide Creature, her hands trembled ever so slightly.
The hundredth time she faced a corrupted former friend, her dull strings could slice through flesh without hesitation.
The thousandth, the ten thousandth... Pearls from her instrument scattered over the sea, and the deep water had turned to blood...

In the silent ruins of that forgotten palace, only Helektra remained at her solitary feast.

"♫ The people on the land will throw feasts that never end, to honor our sacrifice... ♫"
The mournful song echoed through the sea as the Titan of Strife took up the fight against black tide. And for the first time, Helektra rose from the dark waters with joy in her heart.

She adorned her face with pearls. Her tail split into legs. The seafoam on her body became a gown. The crashing tide no longer roared over her head, but whimpered beneath her feet.
Seabirds cried overhead in chilling tones. The waves stilled for a moment, then rolled away again.
As if the dream had popped like a bubble and never truly existed.
She bore each step toward the Promised Land of Styxia with searing pain, like walking on knives...

The land reeked of pungent air as corpses piled high. Conflict and fire ravaged every corner... But the feast promised by the gods was nowhere to be found.

"I... Hy...si..."
Her voice rasped in the polluted air.
She had tried to learn the language of humans, but their noisy, jagged words made it impossible to sing as she once did. So, she slowly chose silence over speech.
"A blade that would never rust," "A melody of cruelty"... What accompanied her day after day were the twangs that pierced flesh, and the cries of lives bleeding out...

They said the swordmaster from the sea could play like no other, yet she stayed distant and mute, never revealing what lay in her heart.
She had seen many hands reach out to her. Some sought to erase her, others offered help. They had lit one flame after another, only to let each flicker out.

"Hysilens, where are you headed?"

She couldn't answer.
Her old instrument had long become two blades, with only sharp requiems now echoing from the strings.
She had once wished someone might understand the longing within her song, but came to realize that the human world was no different from the lonely deep sea.
Everyone was just another lost fish, blindly swimming toward the light.

Character Story: Part III

• Unlocked at Character Level 60

"Hysilens, follow me. I will grant you everything you seek."
The voice, loud and clear despite the small frame it came from, left a deep impression. But doubt lingered in her heart:
"And when... will her light go out?"

But this flame burned like sunlight piercing the deep sea, brighter and steadier with every passing moment.
She watched the blue blaze fight battle after battle, always emerging victorious. She saw waves rise like wildfire, saw the Gladius roar through wind and sea, swallowing every storm of carnage like a whale shark.
She heard the thundering heartbeat, the pounding drums of war, the footsteps like falling rain, the sorrow swelling like a tide. The pure, song-like voice of the heart flowed through the blood of the Chrysos Heir, stirring the long-sealed strings in her mind.

The feast Imperator had promised was drawing near. Young weaver whispered to the children at their side, wondering aloud if the cold, distant Gladius would grace them with her presence.
Amidst the crowd's exclamations, the weaver rose on her tiptoes, holding her breath to capture the moment in full.
Her gown, gilded and flowing, brushed the tiles like sunlight glinting on waves.
And under candlelight and silver lanterns, people saw again the shimmer of the sea.

"She answered my wish and sang to us of the sea bays the world had long forgotten."
When the monarch finished speaking, the orchestra lit up. Light and shadows danced before her eyes, rippling like waves.
Music rose with the bubbles in their cups, and in the swell of the crowd, she found her voice was no longer echoing in vain.

The duel between Labienus and Seneca struck like crisp drumbeats. Verginia's hidden meanings pulsed through her verses.
Tribios laughed, and the music gained a playful countermelody. Aglaea leapt into motion, her dance steps weaving the perfect harmony...

"After this battle is won, Dux Gladiorum, is there anything you desire?"
Even the composed monarch seemed slightly tipsy.
She took a sip of honey brew, whispering to the monarch, her laughter dancing in the corner of the banquet.
How bright it was here. How lovely it sounded.
The world spun on, with the clink of glasses, the soft rattle of ice.
The long-silent siren sang again, her voice spilling like the honey brew...

"♫ The candlelight burns so bright at this feast.
A brand-new sea.
It sways between the clinking of our cups... ♫"

Character Story: Part IV

• Unlocked at Character Level 80

She had once believed the Flame-Chase was the eternal celebration she had always searched for.
But as the journey wore on and more was lost, even that shining light shattered like seafoam.

She had been the Imperator's sharpest blade, her sword always flowing with blood.
But when the Imperator's molten gold blood dripped onto her fingertips, she suddenly felt herself sinking again back into that lonely, silent sea.
"Heh, why... did I snuff out the very flame I swam toward with my own hand..."
For a thousand painful years, she had fled from those dazzling bubbles of memory, but now those long-burst fragments clung to her like swaying seaweed, impossible to shake loose.

"Click."
A chess piece lands on the board. Despite her perfect composure, the sovereign's crown of flames reveals what she won't, dancing between serenity and fierce intensity.
"I never learned how to play."
"Then I'll teach you."
She picks up a piece with unpracticed fingers. Just another battleground, she thinks to herself.

"Click."
Suddenly, vibrant blue flames warm the air around her like hot springs. She moves chess pieces without much thought and asks:
"If they're bound to disappear from the board, why bother moving forward at all?"

"Click."
The sovereign takes a sip of honey brew, stretches her arms with satisfaction, and sighs with pleasure:
"Isn't the journey forward fulfilling enough on its own?"
...

After a millennium of waiting, she forged new paths for the Flame-Chase, though she knew they wouldn't be the final destination.
"What a fish truly needs is simply a sea to call home..."
As a fragment of her memories unfolds, she walks toward clear ocean waters.

♫ Pop ♫, ♫ Fizz ♫, ♫ Splash ♫... Bubbles of every color mirror bygone years, forming and bursting, bursting and forming.
"The ocean's dearest, do you have a wish?"
"Hysilens, where are you headed?"
"Dux Gladiorum, what do you seek?"
...
Homeland, revelry, the Flame-Chase... each once brilliant in her life, yet all quickly fizzing out like transient foam... Only a sigh lingers across the sky.
From the beginning till the end, this was all she had, in both the mortal realm and ocean depths, nothing but the fleeting traces of bubbles.

"But still... how beautiful they are..."

"♫...♫"
"♫...♫"
"♫...♫"

The dawn of Amphoreus approaches.
Before the final bubble bursts, she smiles, as if she has already sung everything her heart had to express beyond words.

Light Cones

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Missions and Events

Trailblaze Missions

• As Tomorrow Became Yesterday
  • Hero, Return to Dawn in Mortality
  • Pages, Ripples That Engrave Memories
  • Silver Chariot, Part With That Humanity's Epic
  • Fallen Petals, Leave Fading Traces of Fragrance (cutscene)
• Back to Earth in Evernight
  • Night, Coming Before Dawn Breaks
  • Great Tomb, Hide the Secrets of Incarnations (memory)
  • Earth, Bear the Suffering of All (memory)
  • Gods, Sound the Anthem of Creation
• Before Their Deaths
  • Sun, Repel Stars and Pale Moon
  • Nectar, Saturate the Hollow Treecore
  • Sea, Bury the Wine-Dark Dreams
  • Captives, Behold the Expanse Beyond Light
• For the Sun is Set to Die
  • Hero, Ignite That Primal Sun

Adventure Missions

• Amphoreus Annals
  • Where Stone and Wind Stood Still

Events

• The Chrysos Maze Grand Restaurant
  • The Chrysos Maze Grand Restaurant
    • Chef's Arena
    • Crops and Magical Alchemy (message only)
    • The Grandest Feast

Character Mentions

Readables

• A Note from Hysilens
• Chalice of Plenty's Sigh
• Imperator's Order: The "Cleaning" List
• Pilgrim's Notes
• Pollux's Underworld Postcard
• The First Flame-Chase Journey (Fragment)
• The Imperator War Chronicles — Ten Legendary Campaigns
• To Know Something Through Sweets: A Study of Honey Brew and Personality
• Whispers from the Deep

Light Cones

• Why Does the Ocean Sing

Relics

• Deliverer's Boots of Pioneering
• Eternal Verses of Amphoreus
• Last West Wind of Amphoreus

Equations

• Wave-Chasing Siren
• Wounds of Plenty

HoYoLAB Articles

• Ever So Lovely, Ever So Dangerous
• I Am the Blazing Sun, Destined to Rise
• Manuscript of Era Nova I: "For the Sun is Set to Die"
• Manuscript of Era Nova II: "Before Their Deaths"
• Manuscript of Era Nova III: "Back to Earth in Evernight"
• Scroll of Recollection｜Warbling Shores
• Scroll of ∞｜The Ending and Exotale
• She Knows the Flavor of the Ocean
• Short in Height, Tall in Might

Trivia

• The top right of Hysilens's official introduction artwork reads "May the next feast be eternal." in Amphoreus Script.
• Hysilens, led by Cerydra, was a major figure in the army that stopped the allied forces of Loukas, Icaria, and Corinth from overtaking Okhema. Upon the pair's victory, Hysilens continued to support under Cerydra's rule, leading to the end of the Chrysos War and the start of the first Flame-Chase Journey.
• Hysilens was acquainted with fellow Chrysos Heirs Aglaea, Tribbie, and Cipher.
• Hysilens was known for her musical skills and singing.
• Hysilens's violin is made of seashells, and also serves as her weapon.
• Hysilens has the following aliases:
  • Wave-Strumming Knight (title in As I've Written, Amphoreus' Saga of Heroes)
  • Dux Gladiorum
  • Knight Commander
    • Knight Commander of Okhema
    • In Chinese, the title is 骑士统领 Qíshì Tǒnglǐng, "magister equitum", complementing the recurring theme of Cerydra referencing Julius Caesar, as the magister equitum is the deputy of the Roman dictator.
  • Daughter of the Sea
  • General of the Flame-Chase Army
  • Imperator's Blade
  • Fifth Overlord (by The Five Gourmet Overlords)
    • Boss (by The Five Gourmet Overlords)
• According to Evernight, Hysilens's Myers–Briggs personality type is ISFP.

HoYoverse Shared VAs

• Hysilens shares the same Chinese voice actor, Fumeng Ruowei (浮梦若薇), with:
  • Cecilia Schariac and Misteln Schariac in Honkai Impact 3rd
  • Yumemizuki Mizuki in Genshin Impact
• Hysilens shares the same Japanese voice actor, Iwami Manaka (石見 舞菜香), with:
  • Amber in Genshin Impact
  • Piper Wheel in Zenless Zone Zero

Etymology

• Hysilens may be derived from the Ancient Greek deity Silenus.
  • Hysilens may also be derived from the Ancient Greek words ὕσμᾰ húsmă, "to rain" and ἶλιγξ îlinx, "whirlpool, dizziness".
• Helektra may be derived from the Ancient Greek character Electra, also spelt as Elektra.
• ApoRia432 may derive from the Ancient Greek word ἀπορία aporíā, meaning "impasse" or "puzzlement."
  • Additionally, an aporia is a conundrum or state of puzzlement in philosophy.