Last time I talked about the name for Genshin's version of Monad.
Now where it gets interesting is how Ananke's presence in Genshin would work towards the mythos of the Honkaiverse itself. In Honkai you have 2 primordial entities the Sea of Quanta and the Imaginary Tree. The Sea is pretty much a representation of the concept of entropy. It wants things to return to a base state. When the Imaginary Tree was born inside of it it violated that desire by being a something in the middle of its nothing. So the sea wants to drown this tree and return everything to nothing again and the tree wants to ultimately absorb the sea so it constantly creates more leaves which are actually whole universes. (this is MiHoYo's depiction of the quantum multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics and heat death btw)
How does that relate to Ananke? In Greek mythology they actually have a concept of nothingness and personified it as a god too. Chaos the God of the Void was just like Ananke a god that just existed. It was the first thing to ever exist so it's just like the Sea of Quanta. So out of that you get the first something and that's probably Ananke the Imaginary Tree also what us living things might consider to be a true god since it would be everything. And just like the Sea of Quanta and Imaginary Tree Chaos and Ananke (actually Chaos and the rest of the Greek gods) also oppose each other.
Side note: I mean technically the whole Greek pantheon are indirectly under Ananke's influence so you can see it as their personal rivalry even if no Greek myth actually states it that way.
The rivalry is also where the Honkai comes from. It is a concept humans came up with to explain a thing that causes harm to their world. Otto Apocalypse believed that the Honkai actually comes from the Imaginary Tree itself to test its "leaves" the many universes it houses against the Sea of Quanta. I'd argue that it is just the rivalry itself. Remember the sea wants the tree and all of its branches to return to nothingness and the tree wants to keep creating more universes to one day overwhelm and then absorb the sea. It stands to reason any weak universes will naturally be defeated by the Sea of Quanta and also abandoned by the Imaginary Tree so it can focus on stronger universes and improve its chances of winning. And that would essentially be Honkai or Benghuai in its original Chinese which just means desolation.
But what about the Will of the Honkai I hear you ask. Well I'm glad you brought that u-
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