Nuwa

Overview

Nuwa is the leading goddess of the divine pantheon in Honor of Kings: World. According to the game's lore, the gods were originally humans who escaped the destruction of their home planet using an advanced technology known as the Ark. They used the "Heart of the Universe" as the Ark's core and traveled across several light-years to land on Primaera, an energy-rich but unexplored world. Through harnessing the spiritual essence underground, channeled by the Twelve Wonders they built, particularly the Sun Tower these former humans transcended their mortality and became gods. The leading god named herself Nuwa.

Mythological basis

The game's Nuwa is based on the Chinese mythological goddess of the same name. In traditional Chinese mythology, Nuwa is credited with creating humanity from yellow clay and repairing the broken heavens using stones of five colors. She is one of the most ancient and revered figures in Chinese cultural mythology, often depicted as a serpent-bodied goddess of immense wisdom and compassion.

Honor of Kings: World adapts these mythological elements through a science-fiction lens. The "creation of humanity" becomes the seeding of new human life on Primaera after the gods arrived from their destroyed home world. The mythology gains a layer of cosmic migration. These are not primordial beings but evolved humans who became something more. The game describes Nuwa as "a superbeing who possesses the power to cultivate new worlds."

Nuwa's creation

Nuwa created new humans on Primaera and oversaw the building of the Twelve Wonders. A network of monumental structures designed to regulate the fundamental forces that sustain the mortal world. The Sun Tower, the first and most important Wonder, was designed to transport energy buried beneath Primaera from underground to its peak, sustaining the gods' residence: Celestia.

The War of Gods

The defining cataclysm of Primaera's history is the War of Gods. A civil war among the divine beings. The gods competed for the right to speak and rule, and the conflict ended with the defeat and death of Diqun. Most gods were killed or wounded in the war. Nuwa herself was dying by its end.

With her last strength, Nuwa sealed the core of the Ark (the Heart of the Universe) and placed the key within the Twelve Wonders, "hoping that someone who could correctly control the power would appear in the future." This act was both a protection and a promise: it prevented the Ark's catastrophic misuse while preserving the possibility that a worthy successor might one day reclaim its power.

Nuwa's final missions

Before the sealing, Nuwa entrusted two sages, Fuzi and Ziya (Jiang Ziya) with the duties of guarding humanity and guiding its path. Over time, the two developed differing views on how the human race should progress, causing them to part ways. When Jiang Ziya became paranoid and tyrannical, Nuwa gave Yang Jian a top-secret mission to kill him. "Nuwa, whose strength was declining by the day, was uncertain of her victory over the paranoid and tyrannical Jiang Ziya. The only one she could trust now was Yang Jian."

Yang Jian as successor

Yang Jian has a third eye hidden within his forehead. Invisible from outside but its power can always be felt. This is why Nuwa chose him as her successor and bestowed upon him the role of protector of the mortal world. Yang Jian carries the goddess's will forward through mortal action rather than divine intervention.

Connection to the Flowborn

The Flowborn (individuals who can naturally channel Flow energy to replicate the abilities of legendary heroes) are considered by scholars to be a consequence of Nuwa's sealing. When the Ark's core was sealed, the Flow energy it had been distributing became less regulated, and some mortals developed an innate ability to absorb and shape this energy. The player character is one such Flowborn, and their extraordinary connection to the Primordial Flow may be directly linked to Nuwa's act. Perhaps even intentionally designed by the dying goddess as a failsafe.

Nuwa's legacy