The information here comes from a post made by the official account on Hoyolab on 30 April 2025.

Anaxagoras the blasphemer, the Chrysos Heir who challenges the Coreflame of Reason.

“All of these results originate from a question I have long pursued: what are we, truly?” \\“And if I have indeed become an empty shell, then let the flame of truth blaze all the fiercer through it.”

▉ Vol.05 Character Demised Scholar: Anaxagoras

Producer: Anaxagoras
Photography: Photographer (Chimera)
Stylist: Anaxagoras

Here stands Anaxagoras the blasphemer, the Chrysos Heir who challenges the Coreflame of Reason. He chose infamy, defied prophecy, and drove doubt into the Sacred Tree of wisdom. Today's interview takes place in the Grove of Epiphany, steeped in wisdom. There, Professor Anaxagoras stands alone, lost in thought… Come, let's take a closer look.

“My name is Anaxagoras, one of the Seven Sages of the Grove of Epiphany and the founder of the Nousporists. If you seek knowledge, ask.”

Q1: Thank you, Professor Anaxa. May I ask…
First off, do not call me Anaxa!

Q2: I'm sorry. It's said your research faced fierce opposition. Could you explain the focus of the Nousporists?
The mediocre buzz like flies. They didn't just accuse us, they tried to seize and burn everything. Our early manuscripts, our Nousporists' work, would've been ashes if not for a few saved copies.

But then again, it is rare indeed to find someone who can put aside their blind devotion to the Titans and the prophecy and willingly seek to understand the research direction of the Nousporists, and that alone deserves commendation. Our school's studies focus primarily on the transformation and ascension between beings and essences, such as the relationship between humans and gods: how the soul of each is formed, and what elements constitute it; and if, in essence, the soul bears no fundamental difference between the two, does it mean that we might refine the soul itself and move toward higher dimensions, even crossing the very threshold of divinity — what I have shared here is but a fraction of our work, and when the time comes that you truly wish to explore it further, you may seek me out again.

Q3: You just mentioned soul refinement… it sounds almost impossible. Could you speak about any results you've achieved?
Of course. All of these results originate from a question I have long pursued: what are we, truly?

I once carved a songbird that miraculously flapped its wings and took to the sky, though it circled five times at low altitude before falling… I also sacrificed my left eye in an attempt to wrest a loved one back from death, but in the end, I did not succeed.

But even so, I remain grateful for that failure and see it as a blessing granted by someone I once held dear. Through that hollow fragment of nothingness, I began to seek the core of this question and caught sight of even more possibilities in the realm of soul refinement. I refined golden blood, dissected creation itself, and continuously dismantled and reconstructed the arrays that shape the soul, until at last I discovered one singular, irreplaceable answer…

And if I have indeed become an empty shell, then let the flame of truth blaze all the fiercer through it.

Vol. 752 (Excerpt)
Special thanks to Miss Hyacine for her generous contribution of archival materials.