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Overview

Every Anima in Honkai: Nexus Anima is classified along two axes: an Aspect and a Trait. The Aspect functions like a faction or elemental affinity, driving team synergies. The Trait determines the Anima's battlefield role. How it fights, where it positions, and what utility it provides during Auto-Chess Combat.

Aspects

Aspects correspond to the philosophical and scientific principles that once defined the Old World before the Sundering. In the Old World, Aspects existed in paired opposites controlled by Sovereigns. Each Sovereign governed both halves of a pair. Light and Dark, Love and Hate, Life and Death. After the Sundering split them apart, each half became a standalone concept governed by a separate Novarch.

Known Aspect pairs from the Old World

The following Sovereign-controlled pairs have been identified:

• Order and Chaos Victus (1st Sovereign)

• Reality and Illusion Kumyo Kyo (4th Sovereign)

• Life and Death Amstradath (5th Sovereign)

• Change and Stasis Bashirdo (7th Sovereign)

• Light and Dark Armand (8th Sovereign)

• Memory and Oblivion Darsea (10th Sovereign, deceased)

• Strength and Weakness Kafka (11th Sovereign, missing)

• Beauty and Ugliness Vowbinder Crone (12th Sovereign)

• Love and Hate Parayaya (14th Sovereign)

• Courage and Cowardice Masked Hero (20th Sovereign)

• Wisdom and Folly Shen Wang (23rd Sovereign)

• Good and Evil Qing Gang

• Joy and Sorrow Lestrange

• Profit and Loss Big Boss Daddy

• Infinity and Finity Apeiron (28th Sovereign)

This means the total number of individual Aspects after the split is roughly double the number of Sovereigns. With 39 known Sovereigns, there could be up to 78 individual Aspects, though the 16 used as in-game synergy categories represent the ones most relevant to Anima classification.

In-game Aspect synergies

The following Aspects function as synergy categories during combat:

• Satiation, Hate, Light, Memory, Dark, Love, War, Change, Beauty, Peace, Right, Insatiability, Competition, Regret, Weakness, Pride, Strength

When multiple Anima sharing the same Aspect are deployed in battle (including bench units in assistance slots), they activate escalating synergy buffs at the 2/4/6/8 thresholds. A team with 4 War Anima gets a stronger War synergy bonus than one with just 2. This stacking is the main incentive for building focused teams.