Imaginary Tree

Imaginary Tree

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Imaginary Tree
Names
Chinese	虚数之树, Xūshù Zhī Shù
Japanese	虚数の樹, Kyosū no Ki
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Age	Countless Millenia
Species	Creator

The Imaginary Tree is an important place of Honkai Impact 3rd. It is the origin of life itself, as all universes and bubble worlds are born there.

Summary

The Imaginary Tree emerged from "an endless Sea of unfathomable depths and boundaries." Since the Imaginary Tree and Sea Of Quanta are alone in the universe, they have an unending rivalry. The Sea Of Quanta swells while the Imaginary Tree extends its roots. The Sea Of Quanta wants to flood the Tree. Meanwhile, the Imaginary Tree wants to absorb the Sea.

The Tree has drank from the Sea, endured an asamkhya (innumerable amount of time), and grown a nayuta (numerical unit of one hundred billion or ten million) of branches and leaves. During this seemingly endless time, a branch grew a new bud. This was the birth of human civilization. Time flows in the trunk of the Imaginary Tree and branches out into an infinity of worlds. Every branch is a form of civilization, while every bud is their past and present etched onto the dimension of time. Each twig is a world line and each leaf is a bubble universe.

The Honkai

Growth is countered by a force- a selective and corrective system in the Imaginary Tree's rivalry against the Sea Of Quanta. It's a natural system based upon the Imaginary mechanics. It breeds, nurtures, tests, and removes. This is what humanity describes as the Honkai. Essentially, the Honkai is inescapable. But humanity must press on because the Imaginary Tree must grow and those who fail will become wilted shadows in the Sea Of Quanta.

Trivia

• The Imaginary Tree is most likely based on Yggdrasil, the World Tree of Norse Mythology. Although Yggdrasil only has nine worlds rather than an infinite amount.
• It's hinted that if someone were to go to the Imaginary Tree, they would die permanently.