Honkai: Star Rail – Black Swan revealed for update 2.0

Coming in the first patch of 2024

Marco Wutz | Dec 12, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail – Black Swan revealed for update 2.0 /

Black Swan has been revealed as an upcoming Honkai: Star Rail character for update 2.0. This confirms that the inbound version 1.6, which will be detailed in the next Honkai: Star Rail stream, is not just the final patch of 2023, but of 1.X in general. This means Black Swan will be part of the big Penacony update early next year.

Voiced by Arryn Zech, who is best known for her role as Blake Belladonna from RWBY, Black Swan is a 5-Star character following the Path of The Nihility and dealing Wind Damage.

A look at Black Swan, the first playable character from the Garden of Recollection / HoYoverse

Here is what the official announcement has to say about her:

"If I can identify and encapsulate a fragment of memory before it's unveiled to the world, those solitary moments of delight are my most favored and unique memories."

A Memokeeper of the Garden of Recollection. A mysterious and elegant soothsayer. Bears a warm smile and is willing to patiently heed the words of another, and thus uses such means as a pretext to enter "memories" and gain a comprehension over the flow of all information. Feels strongly about collecting unique memories, yet the thoughts that guide her are hard to glean.

Being associated with the Garden of Recollection makes her a colleague of the mysterious woman on the Astral Express, who stands watch near the Forgotten Hall. She should be connected to Fuli as well, who is the Garden of Recollection’s chosen Aeon.

Black Swan is actually a familiar face for fans, since she was prominently featured in the early Myriad Celestia Trailer: Fables About the Stars Part 1, which provided players with an overview of the available Paths in the game. However, she hasn’t made an actual in-game appearance so far.

Version 2.0 of Honkai: Star Rail is expected to launch on February 7, 2024. First, Dr. Ratio, Ruan Mei, and Xueyi will join the game with update 1.6.

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Published Dec 12, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg