Herrscher of the Void

"Raging wind, while your visage fades away where the world lies in pieces at my feet the fire and the storm and the snow and the mist struggle inside, help me gain insight! Hail my proud queen, on and on on and on! That wax and wane showed it's ebb and flow! Selah, selah, are chanting evermore! Hear, oh hear all the voices trapped in thee! See myself in your eyes that's colorless! Visions pass and emotions run through me struggle inside, help me gain insight! Hail my proud queen, on and on, on and on! That wax and wane showed it's ebb and flow! Selah, selah, are chanting evermore! Hear, oh hear all the voices trapped in thee fair moonlight, will you fill my void eyes? HAIL MY PROUD QUEEN ON AND ON! HAIL MY PROUD QUEEN ON AND ON! Selah, selah, are chanting evermore! xHear, oh hear all the voices trapped in thee!"

- Herrscher singing Befall

"Do not waste the Herrscher power and intellect gift I gifted you. Humans are numerous as ants. They multiply like parasites. A few rocks and countries destroyed are not going to kill all of them. Furthermore, humans are deceiful creatures. Now, come to the moon, First Herrscher. If you don't come, I'll deliver 4 meteors to Earth every 72 hours. Don't keep me waiting, I'm low on patience."

- Sirin to the First Herrscher

"Sounds the horn of Armageddon!"

- Sirin beforing bombing the planet

Herrscher of the Void, also known as Queen of the Void, Second Ruler of the New World and formerly known as Sirin is one of the three main antagonists (alongside Otto Apocalypse and Honkai God) of the popular 2018-2019 Chinese iOS/Android game Honkai Impact 3. She serves as the successor of God Kiana, the main antagonist of Guns Girl Z - Mirage Cabin and the creator of Honkai Impact 3 universe. She is introduced as the overarching antagonist in the first 4 Chapters, the main antagonist of Chapter 5-9 and to the prequel manga Honkai Impact 3rd - 2nd Lawman.

Sirin was once an poor orphan girl who used to be one of the test subjects of Schicksal's Babylon Tower's research department, where she was daily tortured with drugs and brutal human experiments. Once she awakened the power of the 2nd Herrscher within her, she immediately went on a rampage and killed all 300 scientists of the facility, including some of other children out of spite and hatred. As the new queen of the Honkai race, she began to hunt down Valkyries and humans alike all across the world, becoming a brutal terrorist with the blood of thousands on her hands until her defeat by the hands of the 2nd Lawman. Later, she made a deal with the Honkai God to gain even more power and used her new powers to destroy multiples continents with debris of the moon, killing a large portion of mankind before starting the 2nd Honkai War. After her first death 18 years ago (2000), she would be later reincarnate in the body of the main heroine in 2018, Kiana Kaslana (K-423), after the latter was fused with parts of her core by Ottoo Apocalypse. Taking over Kiana's body, Herrscher of the Void proceeded to spread destruction and chaos to the entire planet with volcanic activities, causing the near-extinction of mankind before her second defeat by the sacrifice of Murata Himeko.

Sirin is voiced by Sakura Tange in the Japanese version of the game. In her God Kiana's form she is voiced by Shanxin in the Chinese original version and Rie Kugimiya in the Japanese version, whom also voices Agnese Sanctis, Nora and Melona.

Overview
A sociopathic entity who is the second Ruler after Welt Joyce, and dominated the power of the void. She became a ruler and started the Second Impact in 2000, at a Schicksal laboratory and has pulled the whole North Siberia into her void realm. Rumours say that she was inhumanely experimented on and tortured by the tests and therefore awakened the ruler consciousness inside of her and took the girl's mind.

Sirin perished together with S-rank Valkyrja Cecilia Schariac and four other A-rank Valkyries (Squad Snow Wolf) in a series of nuclear explosions caused by a rain of missiles from Schicksal. After Sirin's death, her Ruler core has been divided into four parts, they are called the Domination of Thunder, the Crave of Storm, the Silence of Death and the Contamination of Flame. The four different parts are kept separately by Schicksal and Anti-Entropy. Depressed and shattered by his wife's death, Siegfried lost belief in Schicksal.

In the current game era (Honkai Impact 3rd) Otto Apocalypse has created K-423 using Sirin's DNA and techniques that cloned Theresa Apocalypse, his niece. However, this makes Sirin alive within K-423 and possesses a considerable amount of power, which is just as Otto secretly planned. Sirin's power doesn't normally show up, but in some special conditions, her power would burst dealing a large scale of destruction. The mysterious sound in Kiana's (K-423) head is actually Sirin's, but she doesn't have a clue. K-423 is the only Herrscher clone that managed to survive the project. Her DNA was spliced with genes of Kiana Kaslana - the daughter of Siegfried Kaslana and Cecilia Schariac - the two most powerful warriors of Schicksal. The clone was prepared as a physical host for the reawakened Herrscher and help Schicksal control her powers.

After 18 years of hard work, the Herrscher of the Void ascened onto the physical world once again to law wake to humanity.

Lore
"Crowned in the name of Honkai, the Queen descends from the sky, the doom of humanity is nigh. Her mortal name is no more, Herrscher of the Void is born!"

Human
Not much is known about her past except she was one of the many victims of Schicksal's Babylon department. In the past, Sirin was naive and innocent, believing that living in the Babylon tower would be a better place to live rather than living as a poor orphan. However, it turns out it was a lie and she was forced to live all days being used as a guinea pig in human experiments.

As a guinea pig, Sirin was defenseless and coward, believing herself to be merely another cattle ready to be discarded. However, she was still able to make friends and enjoy the little time of life she still had. Unlike other children who lost they will to live and hold other people dearly, Sirin had actually love for life and considered all children to be her only family, which is why while other children simply considered the death of guinea pigs to be the most normal thing in the world, Sirin, on the other hand, felt despair and sorrow for losing her family one by one.

These deaths not only her caused her to hold a great hatred towards the scientists of the tower but also developed a power-hungry personality, considering it to be the only thing this world needed to be changed. She stated civilization to be a lie and all humanity to be a facade of human race, considering their goodness to be just a false image of themselves when they are actually heartless to the core. Because of that, she hated to be a human and weak.

Honkai Queen
After she was reincarnated, she lost most of her old personality. She is now a very cold, callous, and dispassionate figure, and is rather aloof, brooding, and indifferent, willing to harm her comrades in addition to her enemies should they get in her way. She refers to anyone she does not find interesting as "trash", and treats them as expendable. Above all, she was cruel, sadistic, narcissist, self-centred, uncaring and misanthropic to an extreme point where she defines herself to be the Armageddon itself. Once facing her enemies, she is impassive, and regal, but her aloof exterior hides a seething anger. She displays scathing contempt and resentment towards mankind, evidenced in her hateful speech towards Valkyries and humans.

As stated by many, Herrscher of the Void demonstrates a strange habit when killing victims she is particularly interested in strangle her victims to death so she can feel their lives fading away with her own hands, something she considers to be one of the greatest pleasure she can feel. Whether she is consciously aware of this habit or not is unknown. She also claims she does not believe in human emotions, which she refers to as the "love" and "heart" reasoning that if her eye cannot see them, they do not exist. These words, and much of Herrscher's overall behavior, reflect the concepts of materialism, which connects to her aspect of Emptiness, as evidenced by her name "Herrscher of the Void", a figure devoid of  all emotions, humanity, compassion, kindness and goodness.

Her cold demeanor allows her to stay completely calm and in control in most situations, and she is not easily surprised or caught off-guard. However, she does not seem to comprehend the trait of fighting against all odds; during her final battle with Himeko, she completely overwhelms the Valkyrie in less than 5 seconds, yet Himeko continues to fight on regardless of this, prompting a visibly frustrated Herrscher to yell about how pointless Himeko continuing to fight after showing a small fraction of her power to attempt to show Himeko "true despair" and destroy her mentally, showing her how hopeless she is in fighting someone who is stronger than her; a Goddess. Herrscher can be very demanding due to her narcissism and egocentric personality as she considers every single being to be her servant or just a plaything for her to psychologically, physically (possibly sexually as well) abuse and torture, and then discards them after they are dead or mentally broken. She is also not above torturing and killing animals, children and infants as well, and is fully capable of committing truly abhorrent and inhumane actions without feeling any shred of remorse or hesitation.

She maintains a cautious and cool demeanor, being always in control of her actions. She also holds herself with decent dignity to keep her image as queen pure from any disgraceful human behavior she had before, making an attempt to destroy her human heart to become a complete monster and superior Goddess to be free from all moral and ethic. Herrscher of the Void was considered by many to be the most evil Herrscher of history as no one ever caused so much damage to the world before.

Her nature far exceeded that of any common evildoer, even Otto at one point stated that she "went beyond normal evil" in the extent of her crimes after she started the Armageddon 18 years later, killing billions and bringing humanity to the brink of extinction. Indeed, Herrscher speedily developed into a power-obsessed megalomaniac of the worst kind and the worst of any known Herrscher in her quest for revenge for everything humand did to her.

She was unable and unwilling to express remorse or empathy for the countless crimes she had committed. This was a stark contrast to Grindelwald, who proved to display genuine remorse for her crimes and even before her fall, pity for those abused for their power and even if only a little, care for her followers, all which Herrscher of the Void completely lacked.

At the same time, due to her excessive evil and brutality, others would deny she was still alive for a sense of self-comfort, until evidence was given to their very eyes. During her lifetime including much of her childhood (mostly after her escape from Babylon tower), she was shown to be highly ruthless, cruel, merciless, and sadistic, showing as little mercy to her followers as she did her enemies and even exposing her victims to intense despair and fear by killing their friends and families before finishing them off in the most cruel ways possible. She felt no desire or need for human companionship or friendship, for her power was the only thing that existed while the concept of good and evil was just a fantasy.

Her thought of everything in terms of power (which she equated to domination through energy). She was somewhat willfully ignorant of people or matters which she considered to have no value of her presence. She was also arrogant to the point that a few words would break her enemies, including using some of her powers would immediately destroy her enemies in a matter of seconds. Once her enemies proved to be alive, she would lose her cool and would start making death threats with anger.

Herrscher of the Void saw mankind as insects, even stating killing one of them (a child) would be like stepping on an ant and even if she killed 30 millions or 100 millions, it would mean nothing as they reproduce like virus. For her the only way to satisfy herself would be killing all human race of the planet and then reviving billions once again to torment and torture just so she can kill them again for her sick and twisted sadism.

Herrscher did not believe in anyone but herself, nor did she value her fellow Honkai servants except to the extent that they were useful to her. She often described her followers as 'friends' because they are not humans, but in no way treated them like an ordinary person does their friends or family. As such, she was not above killing the children she once trusted and whom were her friends during her days as a guinea pig of the Babylon tower, showing that she lost completely every human quality she once had.

Original Concept (Guns GirlZ)
Herrscher of the Void is based in the main antagonist of the previous game, Guns GirlZ, God Kiana.

The supplementary comic centered around the Divine Keys shows that there used to be a much more advanced human civilization 50,000+ years ago that had dealt with numerous Honkai threats, including Herrschers (Gun GirlZ world). Back then, humans - thanks to the previous world version of Mei, who's a renowned scientist - had many technological breakthroughs such as the creation of the special alloy "Soul Steel" and the weapons derived from it, the study of the Herrscher Cores and their use in creating the Divine Keys, as well as the "Fusion Warriors" project, which created powerful Super Soldiers.

Despite their best efforts, however, they eventually faced extinction by the hand of the final Herrscher, but not before Mei Fling a Light into the Future in form of Stigmata which contained the fruits of her researches and projects and were implanted into select humans who are then put into cryostasis and her child.

However, before God Kiana could rewrite the world, Mei managed to seal a large portion of God Kiana's power inside of the moon. Thousand years later, Sirin would visit this God's fragment and become the strongest Herrscher alive. While they are different entities, much of God Kiana's energy exists inside of Kiana thanks to the power of Herrscher's energy of Sirin that is sealed inside of her.

Power and Abilities

 * Tumblr_pm6tvq5JY41s1j03oo1_540.gifgibility - Herrscher of the Void has the ability to walk through solid objects, such as walls.
 * Soul Absorption - By stealing a person's soul Herrscher gains dominance over their souls and very forms, including reviving them as her servants as seen when she revived Aphora, Agata and Bella to serve her.
 * Extrasensory - Herrscher has senses that are not only sharper than a mortal's, affording her abilities such as perfect accuracy, but she has abilities that they completely lack. In particular she possesses a 'third-eye' which allows her to see things from far, far distances.
 * Weather Control - The ability to control the weather to an unknown limit.
 * Hypnosis - She has the ability to control minds, doing so on exclusively with humans. The afflicted human will enter a euphoric and stupor-like states. They will be pliant to all of Herrscher's designs, doing and speaking as she wills.
 * Flight - She is capable of flight by controlling gravity.
 * Energy Blast - She can use her own energy and create powerful blasts and waves of energy in the format of bows and arrows.
 * Position Shift - She fires a energy blast that causes her and her opponent to switch positions.
 * 71173846_p0_master1200.jpgy Absorption - She consumes life and strength by sucking the energy of Honkais, including from reactors and other technology that utilize such monstruous energy.
 * Magic Vanish - She warps off the battlefield for a few seconds before reappearing.
 * Energy Sense - She can sense Honkai energy naturally and uses this ability to identify fighters who possess powerful energy.
 * Telepathy - The Queen had demonstrated the power to use telepathy and whisper into receptive minds.
 * Dimensional Manipulation - She has shown the ability to manipulate the dimensional forces of the Universe, creating portals between dimensions of different realities.
 * Illusion-Casting - One of her powers was her ability to create illusions.  These illusions include creating an showing her victim illusions of painful past events. They are extremely realistic to the point of physically tangible to her victims. However, sufficiently trained people can resist or outright negate the effects.
 * Superhuman Physicality - She has manifested superhuman strength, speed, endurance, and senses. No parameters or upper limits were established regarding these capabilities.
 * Teleportation - She uses this often for quick appearances or escapes, and to appear before those she has business with. She can teleport to everywhere, as she is everywhere not nowhere at the same time once she entered in a planet.
 * 10b087edebb4f3e430f2c41c5934512926a5535cr1-656-368_hq.gifinesis - She can use telekinetic powers and can move all types of objects with her mind, from little rocks to buildings. She can even move the moon and meteorites from outer space, making it one of her most dangerous abilities.
 * Unlock - Allows her to open up holes in space that can be used to teleport herself, summon forth meteorites, and redirect incoming attacks.
 * Immobilization Magic - Allows her to freeze time for all except those she specifically chooses to remain mobile. After casting this power, the surrounding area and all those affected by the spell appear inverted in color, whilst those unaffected remain as they are.
 * Void Unleashed - Tears open the space-time fabric to unleash a barrage of raw energy.
 * Void Throne - Power-boost her allies; team gains 40% Crit DMG and 15% Crit Rate in-game.
 * Passive Skill - Can move rapidly during attack. Can perform 2 consecutive evasions. Small buff to Interrupt and Ignore Interrupt.
 * Phase Shuttle - Shuttle through the space-time fabric to evade enemy attacks.

Trivia

 * Herrscher of the Void is often called "God Kiana" (as she's based on God Kiana of Guns Girl Z) and "Salty Tuna" because she's only available through Expansion Supply and she's very powerful.
 * Compared with the data in the record, the rebirth of the Ruler appears to be more silent and cold, but it is only because she has not been able to adapt to the new body after she has experienced a long sleep. Sirin's soul has not changed, when she completely controls the dominance of this body, she will once again become the crazy, arrogant Void Ruler.
 * Kiana Kaslana, Herrscher of the Void's new vessel, has been shown to have noticeable homosexual tendencies. She blatantly shows affection for her fellow Valkyrie, Mei and when her father, Siegfried Kaslana's, lecherous behavior is described by Theresa, she mentions being "jealous" presumably because she also would enjoy similar activities. It's unknown if Herrscher of the Void is attached to some of these traces. At one point, she can be heard saying she is "interest in only girls", which may be a dark counterpart of Kiana's love for girls. While Kiana has homosexual traces for girls, Herrscher of the Void may be saying she has only interest in torturing and killing girls. It's debated if it's in a sexual way or a simply a gender preference.
 * The KR and Global version of the game lacks the "touch the valkyrie on the home screen" feature, which, among other things, makes the achievement of raising their affection level difficult. The original CN server also loses it after a patch. While the SEA and JP servers still have it, a patch makes touching their chest or groin area not increase the affection level (even if they still react). Also, starting with the release of Herrscher of the Void, any newly released Valkyries will not come with the ability to touch their body.
 * Herrscher of the Void is the only antagonist of Honkai Impact 3 to have near-success in almost all of her goals, including the near-extinction of mankind.
 * Herrscher of the "Void" is played with "devoid of all emotions and compassion". Because of that, she represents emptiness in people's hearts or a similar term of nothingness.