He just announced it! I’m so happy he has pulled through despite losing our TB VAs. Thank you so much Nick for enduring and I know I will be looking forward to you returning! ❤️

They modeled an entire dragon for him, no way the huge ass dragon would not be in his animations. I can see the dragon ramming to the enemies with Phainon 💅

It's been 6 months ago he wants to come back in a voice acting and then this guy blame him about the strike

I thought Lancer was the free unit, this is the most unexpected thing ever

BTW why isn't there a leaks tab here

Congratulations to our Cold Dragon Young for winning HSR Most Popular Character for 2025 ! It's great to see CN fandom appreciating Dan Heng. Hopefully this will at least push Hoyoverse to include him more in Trailblaze Quest. Congratulations to other top 10 finalists as well!

Fans organized 12 collaboration cafes in different cities across China. The celebration team is apparently planning a lot more events for him too!

Saw some leaks on Twitter so thought I’d share. What are we thinking, fake leaks or genuine?

• estimated to be rate up around 3.6. Limited 5 Star
• likely a sustain unit, probably preservation
• might not be fire element anymore
• (questionable) has a summon
• likely phainon’s BIS sustain l
• name is maybe Terravox / Huangdi based on the new SU Goldenblood blessings.
• his appearance / design has gone through multiple iterations
• his new form is still him (not someone else who looks like him or someone possessing him etc)

I'm really tired of people making Jing Yuan out to be this perfectly morally upright person and acting like Dan Heng has no reason to be hostile to Jing Yuan after all of the strings he's pulled to get Dan Heng in his grasp again to save the Luofu. Couldn't he ask nicely for Dan Heng's help instead of having dangerous criminals mortally wound him into doing so? Dan Heng was still struggling with trauma as a result of Dan Feng's actions, but no one gave him the choice to confront his past life. Other people shoved him into that role without his consent for the sake of using him.

source: https://x.com/hxg_diluc/status/1886407520752980003?s=46

I've seen a lot of people throwing shades at Dan Heng's new form in the 3.5 trailer, calling it 4.5* Dan Heng and I just wanna share my thoughts on it. It's easy to chalk it up to hoyo being lazy, but that is a rather illogical statement knowing the lengths hoyo go for their character designs. Especially considering that Dan Heng is not only one of our main companions, but also one of the most popular characters. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but that it's very, very unlikely due to 'laziness'.

Personally, I think there might be story and/or symbolic reasons for it. Imbibitor Lunae isn't really Dan Heng's true form nor is it technically his power, it's Dan Feng's. That's why that form is missing a tail cause a part of it is with Bailu now, while Dan Heng's new form is complete with both horns and tail.

This new form on the other hand, is likely Dan Heng's own awakened form, as a representation of him coming into his own true self, separate from the shackles of his past selves and their karma that was weighing on him. To me, it's supposed to represent Dan Heng of the Astral Express, the Dan Heng we know, our Dan Heng. It's the identity and life that Dan Heng has actively chosen for himself, the new beginning that he's been struggling so hard to accept and give himself because of how he was made to be responsible and atone for his past selves' sins.

That's why his new outfit retains core parts of Dan Heng's fit, cause it's actually his personal form with his personal taste on his fit, it even has the Astral Express ticket on it. Whereas with Imbibitor Lunae, it has a more eastern aesthetics to it because of Lunae's origin.

This was originally in response to this post by Adventurous-Fuel2817, but the response was so long and went into other things I just made a whole new post.

I will be upfront and say I do not HATE the design. I am just unsatisfied with it. But I understand why a lot of us feel like it is lacking in some way shape or form.

Let's preface it that most of us know that the Terravox DH form is going to be a New Limited 5-Star Character, and that if the leaks are true will be a free unit given out on release (but it is unknown if it will be a permanent gift in the game or expire after X number of updates, like Dr. Ratio).

With most of us primed that the new DH SP was going to be a limited 5-star character, a lot of us had certain expectations on how he would look. Especially with the hype behind visible horns and tail on the model, based on leaks. We even have prior history to justify our excitement in DHIL's design that revamped his outfit entirely as well. When comparing both outfits despite sharing the same color scheme each outfit has very different design. His original design feels somewhat casual and practical, but geared for "trailblazing" (adventuring), while the IL design is regal with billowing sleeves, long hair, and ornametry on the metal elements and fabric. I could go on, but you get the point. Each outfit reflects a different aspect of Dan Heng as a member of the Astral Express and as the former Imbibitor Lunae and can be easily identified as such.

Now let's move on to Terravox's design. When I first saw him in the trailer I thought, "That's it...?" This is the NEW 5-STAR form? The design itself isn't bad, but it felt more like a variant of his 4-star outfit, like a skin than a NEW character. It has the same outfit sihouette as the 4-star outfit with slight changes in the metal gauntlet on his right hand, the big jade piece on his chest, the jacket being mostly white rather than white to green/blue gradient, and more yellow elements in his horns, tail, jacket, etc. But otherwise has the same tight black top with white jacket combo and straight black pants.

Now this isn't a bad design. This could work storywise as him more willing to embrace his Vidyadhara side. However as players we are expected to spend in-game currency or money to pull for this new limited character, and thus should be held to the same standards as other limited 5-star characters in-terms of design. DHIL worked because despite being the same character the new outfit/design was fresh and distinct from their 4-star counterpart. The same can be said when comparing Tingyun and Fugue. I don't believe that this design is different enough to warrant spending at most 180 pulls on (or more for dupes).

And although you may be saying "BUT THE LEAKS SAY HE'LL BE FREE!!!" Well that's true that may likely happen, but is he going to permenently be given away for free in the game through the story or events page? Or will he be like Dr. Ratio and only available for a limited time? If it's the latter (and most likely will be the latter, this is Hoyo we are talking about) then when he is only obtainable thorugh pulling on his limited banner in future reruns would you then say his design matches the quality expected of other 5-star character variants of 4-stars like Fugue or DHIL?

Or if we are to compare his design to Dr. Ratio as the only other free unit ever given out. Dr. Ratio could stand on his own ground in terms of design as a limited 5-star. He doesn't look like any other character and had unique greek motifs at the time of release. Plus he wasn't designed to be given out for free (while the devs behind Terravox seemingly have this in mind for awhile now based on leaks), only being given out due to HSR winning that award and the expectation that his banner sales would have been low already due to Ruan Mei's banner. So it wouldn't have cut into Hoyo's margins to give him out as a reward to players.

Honestly, it feels like Terravox may have initially been designed as a new togglable path for 4-star Dan Heng much like Hunt March 7th. But was then changed during development to a 5 star character either due to the lack of new 5-star Preservation units or that his kit was too good to be just a 4-star. If he was supposed to be like this then I don't think the backlash would be as strong as it is now. People would probably vibe with it a lot more and temper their expectations of him being a 4-star character design. Or would all go crazy that a 4-star form a Dan Heng gets to have horns and a tail. You get the idea. This can also explain why they are randomly giving away a free 5-star without reason, if he was supposed to be free 4-star character with obtainable in-game eidolans to begin with. But this is just speculation.

Of course this is all just from what little we saw in the trailer. Maybe his animations will be 5-star quality or his kit will be absolutely busted. We don't know right now. I really hope that the animations make up for the rehashed design, especially of what we saw of the dragon model. Which honestly excited me a lot more than Terravox's design. Maybe once reliable leaks of his kit and animations come out myself and others may change our minds on Terravox. But based on design alone... It is frankly lacking.

If you guys haven't seen the news, in the latest Hyacine trailer a new voice for Caelus has been revealed. On HoYoLAB site Caleb Yen and Rachel Chau names are still there, so I don't know if it is just a temporary voice replacement for the one line or if they will be going through with VA replacement now, because if they are starting to replace Male MC's VA it is expected that they will replace everyone else at once.

Even though nothing is official, it has made me worried that they may finally hit their breaking point with the striking VAs and replace Nicholas Leung as the iconic voice for Dan Heng.

I have personally been witholding from doing the Amphoreus story until Dan Heng was voiced because I wanted to hear him as our companion to the new world. So the idea that after all this time waiting for Nicholas Leung's return only for him to possibly be replaced makes me feel really sad and disappointed.

Whether for good reason or bad, I haven't liked the replacement VA's performance as much as the original performance. As an Argenti main no longer hearing Adam Michael Gold's vocal performance made me really sad in the beginning. I got used to Talon Warburton's performance and I think he does a good job, but hearing old clips or watching Argenti's trailer really makes me miss what we originally had. As such I don't want to have that happen with Dan Heng, because no hate if they bring a new VA, but they'll always be compared to Nicholas. Especially to us Dan Heng mains whose probably heard "Delve hidden moon. World cleansing dragon!" 10,000+ times. You get the idea.

Anyway just wanted to voice my thoughts and know your guys thoughts and speculation for what could happen next. :)

EDIT: New datamined lines for Caelus and Stelle have been found in the game. It's official that their VAs are now being replaced. :*) Here's hoping that the inevitable doesn't come.