#blade and DHIL did some toppling of their own

[ohmeadows]

my favorite detail about honkai star rail at the moment is how the destruction path leans on the tower tarot card (and by extension i think suggests some things about nanook):

so the tower card's associative meaning is of sudden & potentially disruptive change, revelation, and overthrowing (also: the element of fire). it visually evokes a sense of fear and terror, you're staring at a tower being destroyed, at people falling from great heights; it feels like a senseless destruction. but in tarot interpretation it's a destruction that is part of a longer journey: the major arcana tells a story where you go from the fool entering the world through all the archetypes, out of which the tower's destruction leads into the latter end of the major arcana of inspiration, healing, insight, completion.

essentially, yes, nanook is destruction, but now it comes with the implication of being a necessary one. you have to topple the complacent king to enact change. the system under which you have lived is rotten and must be destroyed. change may look scary from afar, especially when you see it as an upheaving split from what you think is a functional present. but change you must. something must be utterly destroyed to usher in a new era.

the foundation is about to crumble. supposed security undermined. life will never be the same again... and is that so bad? the aftermath will bring revelations from the ashes.