*This is my first comparison here, and I'm making scales between universes. Honkai Impact 3rd is inspired by Evangelion, according to* ***Liu Da Wei****.*  
  
A Divine Key for us in Honkai Impact 3rd are artifacts powered and charged with Honkai to develop very specific utilities and functions to create ***Anti-Honkai weapons, form Battle Suits made of silica, open spaces in the Anti-Field and explore the infinite void of the universe, and in extreme cases deform and alter the cosmic balance or time.***

Honkai Impact presents many unique **Divine Keys**, each one possessing a specific property inspired by a **Herrscher** *(Herrschers, being beings beyond human comprehension, possess infinite power and intelligence)* so humanity began to use ***Reverse Engineering.*** Creating a Divine Key is extremely complicated and too expensive to develop, ***almost always requiring an unlimited Honkai energy source and human technology capable of containing it. Traditionally***, Divine Keys are tools that possess some Herrscher core as a power source *(except for some that are merely artificial Honkai artifacts and not the heart of a living Herrscher).*

The first attempt by humanity to create and develop Divine Keys was in the Previous Era. **Dr. MEI** *(scientific leader of humanity)* was the first to propose reverse **Honkai technology**. She proposed that for humanity to survive and evolve, it would be necessary to learn and master that negative energy and reverse the changes.

***You could say that Divine Keys are instruments of the end of the world or transformation.***

Now in Evangelion the exact same thing happens. Humanity as a whole, through experimentation with the primordial Angels, discovered 2 angelic artifacts, one intact and preserved in the wrong body and the other shattered and disintegrated. These artifacts are called **“Seeds of Life”.**

The first Seed to land on Earth was Adam’s in the era of the dinosaurs. The second Seed was Lilith’s, crashing inside the **Black Moon,** a collision known as the Impact. The impact was too strong for the second Seed of Life and it was disintegrated, leaving Lilith without an artifact to create her own life. ***Due to an unspecified law in the plan of the First Ancestral Race, the two Seeds cannot coexist on the same planet*** *(both seeds combined can distort the universe and cause a universal imbalance, creating parallel worlds and divine aberrations).*

**The first and only Seed of Life that humanity found was in Antarctica.** ***They found a giant spear stuck into a divine humanoid beast.*** Humans began to study the artifact and discovered that it was **semi-organic** with an **unlimited power source**. The Spear was removed for the **Contact Experiment**. The experiment was a catastrophe; they released the spear stuck in Adam’s body, causing him to awaken and trigger the **Second Impact**. After the disaster, Adam fell asleep again because he was injured and returned to his embryonic state for further human experiments.

That red Spear was named: **“The Spear of Longinus.”** In 2014 the spear is used as the ultimate tool against angels; it can reverse life and change nature. ***In the Evangelion series it is desired as the artifact capable of reversing the universe and living beings, the only tool to transcend humanity***. Evangelion presents us with 4 special spears of different origins:

* **Spear of Longinus:** the first Seed of Life. Adam uses it to create the first beastly beings.
* **Spear of Cassius:** an unknown replica of the Spear of Longinus with a different origin. Some think it is a reconstruction of Lilith’s destroyed spear
* **Replica Spear of Longinus:** an artificial metallic-colored human-made replica to be used as a weapon. It has no divine power because it is only a physical replica.
* **Spear of Gaius:** the new **Seed of Life** developed entirely by humanity. **Gaius** is unique for having been built by **Misato Katsuragi** and **Ritsuko Akagi** from the ***AAA Wunder*** using data from the **Additional Impact**. An ***“incarnation of humanity’s will,”*** which makes it totally different from the originals that **Gendo Ikari** explicitly states were sent by ***“beings from another universe.”*** The Spear of Gaius transforms into a miniaturized version in the hands of **Shinji Ikari**. Shinji uses the Spear to initiate a **“new beginning”** or **“Neon Genesis”** and destroy all Evangelions ever created, assuming ***final authority and initiating the universal reset of all things.***

*(Now you can imagine the parallels between several franchises?* ***Obviously this is my theory and comparison, but we already know that Honkai Impact 3rd is completely inspired by Evangelion.*** *The Divine Keys of HI3 are exactly the same as EVA’s but on a smaller scale and with greater variety, although in my opinion the Divine Keys of HI3 are taken from the 14 angel cores of Evangelion; each angel has a different power and can be used as divine weapons or instruments.)*

*You might think: “am I crazy? Did you say plagiarism? No, Honkai Impact is different. What are you talking about? Honkai is not Evangelion.”*

*I will tell you:* [“you know that Liu Da Wei made HI3 while watching Evangelion? Literally HI3 has the same plot if you know how to read between franchises.”](https://youtu.be/hMcIv6IO98A?si=KeSoQsIEKM7ZqQD-)

*(Later on and very carefully I’ll come to explain the relationship between Mars and Earth in Honkai Impact according to Evangelion. You know? That the angels Adam and Lilith come from inside the universe? Adam came from Mars after having terraformed that planet, Lilith came from the void of space and crashed into Earth creating and forming the moon. Do you notice the resemblance with the Honkai cocoon?)*

Divine Keys comparison with Evangelion Adam/Eva Divine Keys | Evangelion Vs Honkai Impact (My first post on this subreddit)