Every Sovereign and Novarch in Honkai: Nexus Anima

Honkai: Nexus Anima names 18 Sovereigns, the Old World rulers of paired Aspects, and about 20 of the 81 Novarchs who rule its Planes today. Six of them hold both titles, Victus and Parayaya among them. This page lists every one the game names.

The lore primer explains why the two orders exist and how they tie into your own past. This page is the reference roster: who each ruler is, which number and Aspect they hold, which Plane they rule where the game says so, and what happened to them after the Sundering. Tap through to an Eidos page wherever one exists.

Everything here comes from the closed-beta build, and names and titles can change before release. Where we infer something rather than read it directly, we say so. Late-story twists, including the main character’s real name, are left out.

Key takeaways

• Sovereigns ruled pairs, Novarchs rule one. “Those who govern a pair of Aspects are Sovereigns, while those who govern a single Aspect are Novarchs.”
• The game names 18 Sovereigns. Six took a Novarch seat, seven vanished, one died before the Sundering, two are still around without a seat, and two appear only late in the story.
• There are 81 Novarchs, one per Plane, and the game names about 20 of them so far.
• The old pairs split. Beauty and Ugliness, for example, now belong to two different Novarchs.
• Four rulers are playable today: Bai Mei, Hungrille, Blade and Parayaya, all on the Eidos database.

Sovereigns and Novarchs: the difference

Sovereigns were “the owners of the Old World’s Aspects, the administrators of the laws.” The Aspects existed in pairs, such as Light and Dark or Life and Death, and each Sovereign mastered both halves. The game calls them “the rulers of the Old World’s Aspects, who once were Kings.”

The Sundering, 214 years before the story, severed those pairs. Each half “became an independent existence,” and the world broke into 81 Planes. Novarchs are “the owners of the New World’s Aspects, and each holds dominion over one of the 81 Planes.” They are “81 willful rulers, answering to none,” and not every one of them bothers to govern.

The numbers in titles like “the 34th Novarch” are part of each ruler’s name in the game. Sovereign and Novarch numbers are separate sequences, so Parayaya is both the 14th Sovereign and the 29th Novarch.

Every Sovereign named in the game

These are all 18 Sovereigns the game names, in order of number where it gives one.

No.	Sovereign	Paired Aspects	After the Sundering
1st	Victus	Order and Chaos	Novarch of Order
4th	Nonimir	Reality and Illusion	Vanished
5th	Amstradath	Life and Death	Still rules the Planes of Life and Death
7th	Bashirdo	Change and Stasis	Vanished
8th	Armand	Light and Dark	Novarch of Dark
10th	Darsea	Memory and Oblivion	Said to have died before the Sundering
11th	Kafka (our inference)	Strength and Weakness	Vanished
12th	Troth le Fay	Beauty and Ugliness	Vanished
14th	Parayaya	Love and Hate	29th Novarch of Hate
20th	Lucian Valentine	Courage and Cowardice	Novarch of Courage
28th	Apeiron	Infinity and Finity	Reappeared after the Sundering
n/a	Sir Champion	Competition and Cooperation	34th Novarch of Competition
n/a	Big Boss Daddy	Profit and Loss	18th Novarch of Profit
n/a	Qing Gang	Good and Evil	Vanished
n/a	Lestrange	Joy and Sorrow	Vanished
n/a	Malheur	Fortune and Misfortune	Never seen again
n/a	Degomodon	War and Peace	Late-story role, left out here
n/a	Damach	Satiation and Insatiability	Late-story role, left out here

Kafka’s number is our inference. Blade’s profile says he searches for “the missing 11th Sovereign,” and the story says the Sovereign he seeks is Kafka.

Sovereigns who became Novarchs

Six Sovereigns kept one half of their old pair. Victus, the first Sovereign, “established the Principles of the New World,” including the rule that nearly all disputes are settled by Nexus Battles. His Plane, Order, is known as the Court of Dragons.

Armand seized the moment of the Sundering, as Victus did. Parayaya kept Hate and lost Love. Sir Champion hosts the Grand Championship. Lucian Valentine was the Masked Hero, “a superhero in an armored mask,” and now acts openly under his real name. The game even lists a run of “Unmasked Hero” book titles.

Big Boss Daddy was “a name known to all in the Old World,” holding “both the hallowed halls of high society and the shadowed arteries of the underworld” in his palm. One character says he “never leaves behind anything that can be used against him.”

Sovereigns who vanished or died

Zero lists Qing Gang, Nonimir, Kafka and Lestrange among the Sovereigns who simply vanished, and adds that “it is far easier to count those still among us.” Bashirdo, who blessed the World-Ender with the Aspect of Change, went missing too.

Troth le Fay was “a kind-hearted yet hideous witch” who once helped your past self. Malheur “was never seen again,” and whether he became the Novarch of Misfortune “remains nothing more than a rumor.” Darsea is rumored to have been killed before the Sundering. Obliviosis, the memory-loss disease in Iia, appeared after her death.

Still around without a seat

Amstradath still rules the Planes of Life and Death, which “have not produced Novarchs,” and his own status as a Novarch is unclear. Apeiron was rumored dead but reappeared after the Sundering, and the relic you carry bears their name.

Every Novarch named in the game

There are 81 Novarchs, and the game names these. Planes are listed only where the game ties one to a ruler; the world guide covers the Planes themselves.

No.	Novarch	Aspect	Plane or note
8th	Bai Mei	Reality	The Material Lip, on a rotating term
14th	Amorphiron	Change	Phoenixbreaker, also appears as Amorphira
15th	Roslin	Stasis	Lives symbiotically with a great tree
16th	Prabhas	Light	The Sunfire Monk; first closed beta only
17th	Armand	Dark	Former 8th Sovereign
18th	Big Boss Daddy	Profit	Former Sovereign of Profit and Loss
22nd	Blade	Strength	The Peak; Phoenixbreaker
24th	Nephralim	Beauty	“The sum of all Beauty in this world”
29th	Parayaya	Hate	Phoenixbreaker; former 14th Sovereign
34th	Sir Champion	Competition	The Amphitheater
68th	Hungrille	Satiation	The Plane of Satiation
n/a	Victus	Order	The Court of Dragons
n/a	Lucian Valentine	Courage	Former Masked Hero
n/a	Ashavard	Illusion	Named, rarely seen
n/a	The Hag	Ugliness	Called the kindest soul by one traveler
n/a	Fleming	Prosperity	Runs the Fleming Collective
n/a	Mnemosynon	Memory	In Sahaloka; title not stated outright
n/a	Chirburchurble	Cacophony	Named among Novarchs a traveler has met
n/a	Malheur (rumored)	Misfortune	Unconfirmed

Two numbers come from our own Eidos data rather than the current game text: Armand’s 17th and Prabhas’s 16th, both recorded in the first closed beta. Roslin’s 15th is our match: the game describes the 15th Novarch as “a woman imbued with the Aspect of Stasis,” and names Roslin as the Novarch of Stasis.

Novarchs you meet in the story

Bai Mei rules the Material Lip, where the story begins, on a rotating term with one year left.

Bai Mei is the Novarch of the Plane of Reality, where the story begins. Because of “the unique rotation system of the Plane of Reality, only one year remains in her term.” Hungrille is the 68th Novarch, “ruler of the Plane of Satiation.”

The three Phoenixbreakers, Parayaya, Blade and Amorphiron, hunt you through the first chapters. Fleming, Novarch of Prosperity, has a foothold in Iia through Fleming Tower and the Fleming Collective, which guards the name of Lou F. Y closely.

Novarchs known only by reputation

Nephralim of Beauty is described as “the sum of all Beauty in this world,” someone for whom “gender holds no significance.” A traveler named Argenti has devoted his life to following them. The same traveler has met the Hag of Ugliness, and says her beauty “is not inferior to that of Nephralim.”

Roslin, the Novarch of Stasis, is a name “known across the Planes,” but “few have ever laid eyes upon her.” Mnemosynon of Memory lives in Sahaloka and is said to be able to recall lost memories, so one character suggests him as a cure for obliviosis. He is also one of the many who, the game says, hate you.

The Phoenixbreaker Novarchs

The Phoenixbreakers are the Novarchs sworn to find the Reconstructor of Realms, meaning you. Three are named, and each has a different reason.

Novarch	Reason, in the game’s words
Parayaya	“Seeking the World-Ender who so ruthlessly betrayed her”
Blade	“Seeking revenge on the Reconstructor of Realms”
Amorphiron	“His motives are unclear”

Blade was “once a guard for the Sovereign, Kafka,” and his symbol is the red spider lily. Amorphiron is the odd one out: he does not seem hostile, and offers to help. The characters guide covers how they fit into the opening.

Novarchs fight through Anima like everyone else. Frame from the official “Evolution Battle” story cinematic.

Who was the strongest Sovereign?

The game answers with Old World gossip rather than a ranking. Zero says people “quite enjoyed discussing this very topic,” and that the popular picks were Victus of Order and Chaos and Amstradath of Life and Death.

For raw individual strength, the answer shifts: “Victus and Qing Gang of Good and Evil were considered the most powerful. Some proposed Sir Champion of Competition and Cooperation and the Masked Hero of Courage and Cowardice as well.”

The story backs up Victus’s reputation. His profile says that before the Sundering he defeated the World-Ender seven times, killing them twice. Your journal records that you died at his hand and came back only through your Pact of Rebirth with Amstradath. Sir Champion’s reputation rests on a different record: locals say he has not lost in two centuries.

Where the old Aspects went

The Sundering split each Sovereign’s pair, and the halves did not always land with the same person. Matching the two lists shows where each pair went. Blank halves are ones the game has not assigned to a named Novarch yet.

Old pair	Sovereign	Halves today
Order and Chaos	Victus	Order: Victus. Chaos: not named
Reality and Illusion	Nonimir	Reality: Bai Mei. Illusion: Ashavard
Change and Stasis	Bashirdo	Change: Amorphiron. Stasis: Roslin
Beauty and Ugliness	Troth le Fay	Beauty: Nephralim. Ugliness: the Hag
Love and Hate	Parayaya	Hate: Parayaya. Love: not named
Light and Dark	Armand	Dark: Armand. Light: Prabhas
Strength and Weakness	Kafka	Strength: Blade. Weakness: not named
Competition and Cooperation	Sir Champion	Competition: Sir Champion
Courage and Cowardice	Lucian	Courage: Lucian Valentine
Profit and Loss	Big Boss Daddy	Profit: Big Boss Daddy
Memory and Oblivion	Darsea	Memory: Mnemosynon
Fortune and Misfortune	Malheur	Misfortune: rumored to be Malheur
Satiation and Insatiability	Damach	Satiation: Hungrille
Life and Death	Amstradath	No Novarchs; Amstradath still rules both Planes

Three pairs passed entirely to newcomers: Nonimir’s, Bashirdo’s and Troth le Fay’s. That is our reading of the table, not a line from the game. In all three cases the Sovereign vanished and both halves found new owners.

Two Novarch Aspects have no Old World pair the game names yet: Prosperity and Cacophony. They may be halves of pairs that simply have not come up, so treat the gap as unknown rather than meaningful.

Which Sovereigns and Novarchs can you play?

Four rulers are fieldable as Eidos in the current test build: Bai Mei, Hungrille, Blade and Parayaya. Their kits and companion Anima are on their pages, and the tier list ranks them for battle.

Five more were playable only in the first closed beta: Sir Champion, Armand, Prabhas, Nonimir (as Kumyo Kyo) and Parayaya’s Sovereign form. Amstradath, Apeiron and Amorphiron appear in the story only. To build around one, start with the team builder.

Bottom line

The game names 18 Sovereigns and about 20 of its 81 Novarchs. The Sovereigns ruled the Old World in pairs; the Novarchs rule one Aspect and one Plane each. Six rulers bridge both eras, and most of the rest either vanished or are known only by name.

If you are new to the setting, read the lore primer for the why, then come back here for the who. If you want the tournament that brings you face to face with one of them, the Grand Championship guide covers Sir Champion’s Amphitheater.