Jarilo-VI is the first planet players of Honkai: Star Rail get to visit, with the previous location being Herta’s space station, which doesn’t quite fit in with the definition of a planet. The planet is covered in ice because of a phenomenon known as the Eternal Freeze which is supposedly caused by the Stellaron that has been on the planet for several hundred years, long enough for the Eternal Freeze to persist even without its presence once it is taken care of. However, it becomes less “Eternal” as a result and is theorised to slowly end eventually without the Stellaron powering it. How slowly, however, is unknown.
Jarilo-VI, the first planed players of Honkai
Because of the Eternal Freeze, most life on the planet has died due to being unable to live in such conditions, with only some animals and humans managing to continue living. The humans that are still around now live in a city called Belabog, the last city on Jarilo-VI—however, they seem to have forgotten about their world’s name sometime after the Stellaron’s appearance, which also cut off their connection with other worlds, and gradually, almost all humans forgot about the existence of other worlds and having to actually deal with visitors from outside their world.
Belabog is separated into two parts, with one part being underground and the other being above-ground. A large number of the underground citizens of Belabog provide the part of Belabog that is above ground, also known as the Overworld, with Geomarrow, an ore used in heaters to help keep the city of Belabog warm.
Belabog is also where players become deeply acquainted with trash cans. Very deeply acquainted with trash cans.
Incredibly deeply acquainted.
Underground Belabog has its dumpsters, but it just doesn’t quite hit in the same way as the trash cans do.
So once players make their way to the city, it doesn’t take too long for an obsession with the trash cans to begin once they find out they can interact with them. The dialogue writers did an incredible job writing all the dialogue we players get for interacting with different trash cans; And, along the way, we even get a trash can profile picture in the game if we keep at it. A personal favourite of the writer of this article. Hence why many of us will probably remember Jarilo-VI more as the world of trash cans rather than the Eternal Freeze.
Trash Can pfp
As the last city on Jarilo-VI, Belabog has many titles. The few that we know are: the land blessed by Qlipoth, the last bastion of mankind against the Eternal Freeze.
Belabog is governed by the Architects, with its ruler and protector being the Supreme Guardian. The Architects choose who the next Supreme Guardian will be by scouring through children in the Overworld and Underworld to find a child they deem to have the potential to grow into one. Then they train that child until he or she can eventually take up the role of the next Supreme Guardian.
The Overworld and Underworld are connected by a giant support beam, which is supposed to be how people move up and down from the different parts of Belabog—even if that doesn’t seem to be how a character called Sampo Koski manages to traverse between the different levels of Belabog—but has been shut down for the most part for many years by the time we, the players, step foot on Jarilo-VI, due to the orders of the Supreme Guardian Cocolia.
Cocolia
Because of this, the Underworld becomes starved for resources over time and has difficulty with maintaining order as, with Cocolia’s orders, the Silvermane Guards—peacekeepers in charge of security in Belabog and fighters who are on the front line against monsters that come closer and closer to Belabog because of the Stellaron—stop having any presence in the Underworld. As a result, the organisation named Wildfire is created in the Underworld to try and make up for the absence of the Silvermane Guards; unfortunately, there is only so much this new organisation can do.
People in the Underworld are also forcibly kept there by a robot named Svarog who, in his mission to keep humans alive and ‘well’, calculates that the humans that would live the longest or would live at all, would be the ones in the Underworld. Svarog despises conflict between humans as a result of it going against its goal and, thus, holds a dislike for Wildfire due to the peacekeeping organisation having gotten into many fights with vagrants. Svarog ‘lives’ near the pillar connecting the Overworld and Underworld so that it can prevent any Underworlders from trying to go to the Overworld. Despite basing most of its choices on its calculations, as a robot would, Svarog does appear to have some semblance of emotions, as is shown by its care for a human named Clara, and by Svarog sometimes valuing her opinions more than its calculations, when making a decision.
Svarog and Clara
And to end this article on a good note:
One of the many incredible trashcans of Belabog.
