Honkai: Star Rail Imbibitor Lunae announced – Dan Heng’s 5-Star form

Dan Heng’s mysterious past finally revealed

Marco Wutz | Jul 4, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail Imbibitor Lunae announced – Dan Heng’s 5-Star form /

Turns out that March 7th was spot on when she teased Dan Heng about having a mysterious past – in fact, the Honkai: Star Rail character even has a totally different persona up his sleeve. HoYoverse officially revealed Imbibitor Lunae as an upcoming character for update 1.3. This 5-Star character deals Imaginary Damage and follows the Path of The Destruction, adding another source of this damage type to the game.

The character’s official description reads:

“Imbibitor Lunae: High Elder of the Luofu, bearer of the Azure Dragon's legacy, bringing forth clouds and rain, and entrusted with the duty of guarding the Ambrosial Arbor. Revered with the title of ‘Imbibitor Lunae.’ – History of the Xianzhou: The Five Dragons' Exodus”

The name Imbibitor Lunae consists of two latin words: Imbibitor derives from the verb imbibere, which can mean to drink, to assimilate, or to conceive an idea, while lunae is the genitive of luna, the moon. Both the moon and water are prominently featured in the artwork accompanying the announcement of Dan Heng’s 5-Star form.

You can expect Imbibitor Lunae to become playable during version 1.3 of Honkai: Star Rail, but his appearance in the story might come even earlier, because the narrative arc on the Xianzhou Luofu continues in the upcoming update 1.2, which will also bring Blade, Kafka, and Luka into the game as playable characters.

As for who’ll join the fray together with Imbibitor Lunae, it seems like Fu Xuan, who we already met in the story, is a frontrunner. We also know that Yukong will be featured as a free character in version 1.2.

A livestream for the 1.2 version has been revealed to take place during the coming weekend.

Published Jul 4, 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