Glossary

Plain-English definitions of the game’s terms. Chinese terms are the stable anchor while the English localization settles.

Anidex: Your in-game creature index — every Anima you have encountered or bonded, with research tasks per creature. (Our My Collection tracker mirrors it.)
Anima因缘精灵: The collectible creatures the game is named after. Lore-wise they are fragments of the world's severed bonds, reborn as creatures after the Sundering.
Animaster因缘师: A playable human character who bonds with Anima. You bring three into a battle; one leads.
Apex Club: A feature seen but locked in the 2025 beta, tied to the story and a currency sink. Details unknown.
Aspect元理: A creature's 'element' (Light, Dark, War, Love, Memory, Satiation…). Stacking matching Aspects on your board unlocks team buffs at set breakpoints.
Aspect Gems: The premium store currency seen in the closed beta (which had a store, not a live gacha). A 5★ Anima cost 800 of them.
Bond Encounter: Catching a wild Anima in the open world — fight it, then bond with it (Pokémon-style). Mainly how lower-rarity Anima are obtained.
Committee for a Joyful Iia幸福伊亚委员会: Iya's municipal governing body, which keeps order in the town.
Evolution: An Anima changing form and stats, tied to duplicates and a deepening bond. Only one full chain is confirmed so far (Inkifoal → Inkicorn → Atragacus).
Iya / Iia伊亚: The seaside border town in the Reality Plane where the game begins.
Kardia: The active leader of your three characters in a battle. The Kardia grants the team an exclusive effect (a Law / Exclusive Principle) and can be moved and controlled during the fight. (Some sources use Kardia for any playable character — to confirm at the beta.)
Law法则: The exclusive team-wide buff your active leader Animaster provides.
Lusciell: A region/realm in the setting; its common currency is Sciellings. Exact scope unconfirmed.
Nexus (bond)因缘: The web of bonds that once connected all things, especially pairs of opposing Aspects (Love & Hate, Light & Dark…).
Nexus Association因缘会: A public-welfare body in Iya whose Bond Hall acts as a shelter for Anima — the story's entry point.
Nexus Hextech: In-battle augments: at set rounds you pick 1 of 3 effects that last the match, and some can fake a synergy. ('Nexus Hextech' is a community name; official name unconfirmed.)
Novarch僭主: A New-World ruler after the Sundering, each holding a single Aspect and one of the 81 Planes — so there are 81 Novarchs. Some are former Sovereigns.
Omnileech: A combat keyword — heals the attacker for a share of the damage they deal (life-steal across damage types). Granted by the Explorer trait at high stacks.
Phoenixbreaker破凰僭主: A named sub-group of Novarchs (includes Blade and Parayaya). Exact role unconfirmed.
Plane位面: A higher-dimensional world. The setting is a multiverse of 81 Planes, each with its own ruler.
Plane of Illusion: The Illusion side of the Reality/Illusion Aspect pair — where the protagonist was confined for ~200 years before the story begins.
Protagonist (the Traveler): Your customizable main character — male or female. The 2025 beta says you carry the Aspect of Change (which lets you reshape your appearance) and you allocate Strength / Charisma / Intelligence that unlock dialogue choices. Not a gacha character.
Reality Plane现实位面: The Plane where the game begins — home to the town of Iya, and the seat of the Novarch of Reality.
Sciellings: The common (soft) currency, spent in Lusciell. Seen in 2025-beta quest rewards alongside Aspect Gems.
Sovereign真王: An Old-World ruler who governed a pair of opposing Aspects and held them in balance (roughly 39 existed).
Synergy & breakpoint: A team buff that switches on once you have enough Anima sharing an Aspect or Trait. The required counts (e.g. 2 / 4 / 6 / 8) are its breakpoints.
Talisman护符: An equipment effect an Animaster grants to your Anima. All three of your characters contribute Talismans.
The Amphitheater: The competition arena tied to Sir Champion, the Novarch of Competition, where Animasters fight bond duels.
The Sundering崩坏 (Honkai): The cataclysm ~200 years ago that tore the Nexus apart, scattered bond-fragments into Anima, and split the world into 81 Planes. It is the franchise's shared 'Honkai' catastrophe.
Trait特性: A creature's combat role (Striker, Blaster, Protector, Cherubim…). A second, separate synergy axis from Aspects.
True Nexus Syndicate: A powerful organization with a landmark HQ in Iya. Olympia is the acting director of its Iia branch.
World-Ender毁世之人: A recurring antagonist woven through many Sovereigns' backstories, tied to the Sundering.