Anonymous
asked:

May I ask what are Divine keys/God keys? I've heard about them but I don't have the chance to play HI3 to fully learn about them due to storage..

busghost
answered:

Thank you for asking, my old list is out of date and wrong now. Last time I tried this my computer crashed after I finished this multi paragraph answer.

What is a Divine Key? A device, typically a weapon, that is powered by and uses the powers of a Herrscher core. They were made in the Previous Era to fight the Honkai. There are 13+1 so I’ll get to describing them all.

First Divine Key: The Void Archives

Made from the Herrscher of Reason

Users: Otto Apocalypse, in APHO itself

It is an AI and a data storage device. It contains a vast amount of information on weapons and other such things used to fight the Honkai in the Previous Era so that it could be passed onto the Current Era. The wielder can also use the powers of the Herrscher of Reason to a limited degree. Otto uses it to make simulated versions of the other Divine Keys, for example Abyss Flower, Judgment of Shamash, Oath of Judah, and Fenghuang Down.

Second Divine Key: Cosmic Juggernaut

Made from the Herrscher of the Void

Users: Su, Schicksal

The Cosmic Juggernaut is used for looking across the Imaginary Tree into other universes. Su used it for 1500 years in Project Valuka to find a way to defeat the Honkai from other universes, and he claims to have found one. He gives it to Bianka “Durandal” Ataegina when he’s dying and she gives it to Schicksal to use. Otto then uses it to look for a way to revive Kallen. It can also facilitate travel between universes under certain conditions.

Third Divine Key: Key of Sanction/Seven Thunders of Retribution

Made from the Herrscher of Thunder

Users: Natasha “Raven” Cioara

It is a weapon with seven forms. The one we see most often is it’s sniper rifle form but we know that it also can be a slingshot. When Raven lets Mei hold it it takes a new form but we don’t get to see that. It is unique among the Divine Keys in that it appears to have a personality and needs to be kept happy, otherwise it will try to screw over the wielder. Like when it turned into a slingshot when it was mad at Raven.

Fourth Divine Key: Unnamed Satellite

Made from the Herrscher of Wind

Users: MOTH, Schicksal, Anti-Entropy

It’s a satellite that is used to repair the Earth from Honkai Eruptions. It had to clean up the entire Earth after the Herrscher of the End destroyed the Previous Era of civilization. Schicksal used it to clean up the Honkai radiation from the Second Eruption. Murata Ryusuke steals the controls from Schicksal and gives them to Anti-Entropy and then he nearly destroys Texas with it cause he’s a bastard.

Fifth Divine Key

Made from the Herrscher of Ice

Users: N/A

It hasn’t shown up and a dubious source I saw once claimed Schicksal has it but I’ll wait for actual confirmation.

Sixth Divine Key: Abyss Flower

Made from the Herrscher of Death

Users: Elysia, two unknown Flame-Chasers, Su, Elanor Schariac, Reanna Brigantia, Erwin Reanna Schrodinger, Cecilia Schariac, Bianka “Durandal” Ataegina. Some only used one spear.

The Abyss Flower is a lance that can be split into two spears, one black and one white. It has powers related to life and death. When split apart the life powers go to the white spear and the death powers go to the black one. It can heal people, grow plant life, and prevent Honkai Corruption; it can also turn everything it touches into dust.

Nearly everyone who uses it winds up dead though

Seventh Divine Key: Judgement of Shamash/ Might of An-Utu

Made from the Herrscher of Flames

Users: Kevin Kaslana, many unnamed Kaslanas, Siegfried Kaslana

A pair of pistols that combine to form a greatsword. Each pistol contains half of the Core of Flames because the whole thing kills everyone who isn’t a Kaslana with activated MANTIS genes. Siegfried and Kevin are the only two who have used it in its sword form and lived.

busghost

Eighth Divine Key: Fenghuang Down

Made from the Herrscher of Sentience

Users: Fu Hua, Sirin (once)

Has powers over how one perceives reality. It’s basically a Deus Ex Machina for Fu Hua. Need to trick somebody’s body into thinking they’re dead so they’re just a breathing corpse? Send somebody into a dream they can’t escape? Slice out a rapist’s tongue with only a thought? Power up your attack so hard you punch God itself? Fenghuang Down can do it. Otto used it to wipe Theresa’s memories of the Second Eruption when he simulated it with Void Archives. It appears as feathers when it is being used.

Ninth Divine Key: Cosmic Harmony/ Star of Eden

Made from the Herrscher of Earth

Users: Eden, Su, Welt Joyce, Welt Yang, Bronya Zaychik

It’s an orb that controls gravity. Su used it in a pistol form. Welt Joyce uses it to almost kill Otto but then Otto breaks it. Welt Yang uses his Herrscher powers to create a copy of it to fight. When it’s broken, the real Star of Eden was converted into a cannon.

Tenth Divine Keys: Xuanyuan Swords/ Dark Xuanyuan Sword/ Grips of Tai Xuan/ Water’s Edge

Made from the Herrscher of Domination

Users: Fu Hua, so many MOTHs, Ji Xuanyuan, Li Shushang, Cheng Lixue, so many unnamed characters, more I’m probably forgetting.

Xuanyuan Swords were made from the 1,000 cores of the Herrscher of Dominance, so there were 1,000 of them. Many of them broke. They don’t seem to have powers relating to the Herrscher of Dominance.

Eleventh Divine Key: Oath of Judah

Made from the Herrscher of Binding

Users: Kallen Kaslana, Theresa Apocalypse

The Oath of Judah is a cross-shaped container for Honkai sealing spears and chains. Using the powers of the Herrscher of Binding, everything it is used to attack is drained of Honkai energy. In its ultimate form it not only stops Honkai energy from working a wide area but ANY energy. Even bioelectric processes begin to stop.

Twelfth Divine Key: Jizo Mitama

Made from the Herrscher of Corruption

Users: Nobody

Probably not canon? People can’t seem to agree. Got made when Higokumaru calmed down and felt love for the first time in 50,000 years. A katana that doesn’t actually seem to have any powers besides being a sword. Still looks cool.

Thirteenth Divine Key

Made from the Herrscher of ???

Users: 

Nobody has said anything about the 13th Herrscher or the Divine Key made from them.

Fourteenth Divine Key

The Herrscher of the End was never defeated so nothing could be made from her core.

The Key of Blankness/Emptiness

Not made from a Herrscher

Users: Dr.MEI, Murata Himeko

This Divine Key does have a Herrscher core in it. It can have a Herrscher core inserted into it/ held by the wearer and allows a regular human to have Herrscher powers at the cost of damage to their body. Dr. MEI used it with the cores from the Herrschers of Wind, Thunder, and Flames to kill nearly all 1,000 Legion Herrschers herself. When Schicksal discovered it they inserted the Gem of Haste into it and Named it Vermilion Knight: Eclipse.