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| “ | The Strife Titan. They declare war on the pantheon, plunging the world into endless strife. In ballads of bards, their divine blade of retribution could level heavens and earth in a single strike. | „ |
| ~ Lance of Fury, Nikador Loading Screen Flavor Text |
Nikador, the Strife Titan was a major antagonist in the turn based role-playing video game Honkai Star Rail. The Strife Titan, leading the Titankins and the vessel of Strife were one of the adversaries the Trailblazer and Dan Heng faced in Amphoreus as they went into the Eternal City of Okhema.
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According to the mythology circulated among Chrysos Heirs, Nikador was worshipped by the people of Castrum Kremnos because of the Strife Titan's acts of valor, protection, and nobility after the arduous battle against the Titan of the sky, Aquila. Legends said that Nikador's Lance can even raze the powerful and the prosperous city into the ground. As the people of Castrum Kremnos increasingly becomes more bloodthirsty than they used to be and values honor less as individual lives, they preserve Nikador's soul by splitting it into five fragments when Nikador was corrupted by the Black Tide. Also, they wanted to wage war against Okhema with fearful of losing power and guidance of the Strife Titan as an excuse. Eventually, Nikador was fully corrupted by the Black Tide, unable to resisting without any sense of reason, becoming an impending threat to Amphoreus, commanding the Titankin of Strife (Including the vessels of Nikador) storming the City of Okhema as Castrum Kremnos becoming history.
While being reverred by the people of Castrum Kremnos, the people of Okhema condemns the Strife Titan, Nikador as "Savage God", "Mad King", and any other defaming names. 
Associated Myths[]
Nikador & Bepsis[]
Bepsis was born in the temple of Mnestia and blessed by the Chrysalis of Gold, giving her golden hair and eyes. Her beauty is so astounding as she matures that Nikador is attracted to her. Bepsis' father declared that only those won the duel against his three sons win her hand. Then Nikador transformed into a young man. The three sons were defeated by the young man, and they had no choice to bethroth her to the young man named Nikador. The young man arranged for Bepsis to meet at the edge of the highest peak outside the city on the night of the third day. When the night came, Bepsis came to the spot as promised, only to saw a towering giant, thinking her lover was slain and fearing her purity ruined by the giant. She decides to end her life by jumping off the cliff out of sorrow. Unbeknownst to her, and her brothers, the towering giant is Nikador.
Courting Talanton[]
While the origin of the story is impossible to verify, it gains popularity from a play named The Weight of Soil in the holy city of Okhema during Chrysos War. The Scale of Justice, Talanton, reverred by Nikador for power and captivated by Georios for fairness, bade the two suitors seeking out the treasure that best represented their love, and in return, would reciprocate the worth in kind.
The foolish Nikador sought some advice from a death titan, Thanatos and asked about what was equivalent to the love of the law titan. Thanatos responded with death, that takes away all things fairly, would be truly fair. Meanwhile, the composed Georios sought advice from Mnestia and Cerces about how the Earth Titan should respond to Talanton's riddle. Mnestia instigated Georios to give up the coreflame of earth while Cerces persuaded Georios with follow the heart, to seek out Talanton's precious treasure.
And so, Nikador hurled the lance, and presenting Talanton an obliterated city as a gift. Talanton placed the coreflame of law on one side of the scale. If the corpse of the city could balance it out, Nikador would have won Talanton's love. Alas, the scale didn't budge.
Georios placed a handful of wheat offered by the humans on the scale. The seemingly shoddy gift of Georios manages to press the scale down and becoming heavier than Talanton's coreflame on the Scale of Justice, for bearing the humanity's life and history. Talanton eventually forced to decline Georios' pursuit because of Talanton couldn't offer more love than Georios' abundant life of humanity. However, later poets would often jest that the Scale of Justice prohibited the love from one's heart from moving Amphoreus' balance, and that was just an excuse.
Notes[]
Unlike the myths, Bepsis' father, along with the three sons met their deaths in battle against Castrum Kremnos in reality. After her city besieged by Castrum Kremnos, Bepsis refused to be humiliated and chose to take her own life in the end. Nikador's Triumph over Bepsis' father & her brothers symbolizes the victory of Castrum Kremnos' brutal conquest.
The portrayal of Nikador in the play The Weight of Soil as a barbaric yet foolish clearly vilifies the Titan. The educational and political undertones contained within also indirectly portrayed war's influence on Okhema's theaterical creativity. Rather than saying people enjoyed a made-up history or myths about Nikador, one could interpret that they reveled in seeing the failures of the titan in love. In certain sense, it reflects the discrimination and animosity the various cities held to the people of Castrum Kremnos during the Golden War.
History[]
The Rise & Fall of Castrum Kremnos[]
According to Ptolemy in his historical work named Kings of Kermnos, Nikador, the Strife Titan forged the arsenal of hundred warriors and weapons in a long-arduous battle against Aquila, the Sky Titan during Era Bellica. While the people of Amphoreus were tremble in fear, Nikador was awestruck of the warlike tribe's valor, in which their leader was Gorgo, and they're known for the most renowned feat of killing the Great Lion of Tretos. After a long-arduous battle against the Great Lion of Tretos, Gorgo's tribe made a decision to build a fortress to seek the Strife Titan's recognition. To appease the Strife Titan further, Gorgo's tribe brought the well-preserved head of the Great Lion of Tretos. Nikador eventually acknowledged Gorgo's tribe and Gorgo was crowned as the first ruler and the founding father as the construction mobile citadel, known as Castrum Kremnos was finished.
From the moment as the years passed, the people of Castrum Kremnos values life & honor less than power and glory before Nikador was corrupted by the Black Tide. At some time, King Agrysius wanted to end the savage traditions of waging reasonless bloodshed by competitive sports to appease Nikador. However, the citizens of Castrum Kremnos were outraged, they blind the king and then banishing him, branding him as a coward. In accordance with a military education tablet An Introduction to Military Strategy (Foreword), the people of Castrum Kremnos witnessed the rise of dangerous misconception that they sought to conquer nations out of twisted sense of honor in the name of Nikador. Obviously, it was never meant for the people of Kremnos to die in senseless deaths in a pursuit of pointless glory, but the corrupt officials seemingly ignore the warnings in their desire for war. Fearful of losing guidance of The Strife Titan, the corrupt officials of Castrum Kremnos planned to wage war to Okhema and split Nikador's soul into 5 fragments. This led to a downfall of the once mighty Castrum Kremnos as Nikador becomes fully corrupted without sapience by the Black Tide, with no will to resist. The remaining of Nikador's Furiae Titankins were sculpted as a weapon to mindlessly wage war to Okhema as The Astral Express Crew embarks journey to Amphoreus.
War in Okhema[]
| “ | Nikador... Has your divine body truly been hollowed out by the hands of madness? Have you completely forsaken your dignity as a warrior? | „ |
| ~ Mydeimos, after Nikador was corrupted by the Black Tide. and waging war to Okhema. |
When the Trailblazer & Dan Heng began their journey to Amphoreus and crash-landed on Janusopolis, they have encountered some Furiae Titankins before meeting with Phainon and Tribbie. As they arrived to Okhema, they began to repel the invasion of the Furiae Titankins, Nikador's Legions. It ultimately culminates with them fighting one of Nikador's vessels and Aglaea thwarted the vessel's assault in Okhema, after which the forces retreated upon defeat. Later on, The Trailblazer, Phainon, and Mydei went to the ruins of Castrum Kremnos to fight Nikador, but because the soul of Nikador was separated into five fragments including Nikador's sense of Reason, the vessel is proven to be unkillable, and they soon discover that one of Nikador's vessel intends to attack Okhema and destroy Kephale's body. This forcing Mydei hold the line to fight Nikador by himself until a solution can be found.
The Trailblazer and Castorice later head into the past timeline of Castrum Kremnos during the final stages of Chrysos Wars, where they met a silent gladiator named Gnaeus. During their journey in the past Castrum Kremnos, they restored Nikador's sense of Courage, Honor, Tenacity, and Sacrifice through Soul-Forging Ceremony, and the silent gladiator Gnaeus was revealed to be Nikador's fragment of Reason. He returned into an original form, and restoring Nikador's divinity in the present time, and asked the group to grant a "death" befitting of a warrior. At the same time, the vessel of Nikador attempts to hurl the lance towards Kephale, the Worldbearing Titan, but Aglaea and Tribbie manages to block the attack with careful planning. After spending too much energy, Nikador dissipates away, leaving behind the Coreflame of Strife, which Phainon picked up for partaking the trial of Strife. Castorice later spoke to the remnants of Nikador to see if it had seen Thanatos in order to reclaim what's stolen from her, but it didn't.
Aftermath: The Trial of Strife[]
Powers & Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Titan Physiology
- Titankin Vessels
- Light Manipulation
- Imaginary Manipulation
- Golden Ichor
- Lance Proficiency
Abilities[]
Savage God, Mad King, Incarnation of Strive[]
- Titankin War Armor
The Giver, Master of Legions, Lance of Fury[]
- The Vanquished Behold Woe
- Conquer or Be Conquered
Trivia[]
- Nikador may be derived from Ancient Greek word "νικάτωρ" / "nikátōr", which means "Conqueror".
External Links[]
- Nikador on Honkai Star Rail wiki.
- Savage God, Mad King, Incarnation of Strife on Honkai Star Rail wiki.
- The Giver, Master of Legions, Lance of Fury on Honkai Star Rail wiki.
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