Vonwacq

Vonwacq is a lush terrestrial planet which is currently uninhabited mentioned several times in Honkai: Star Rail. Its history is referenced in the Planar Ornament set Sprightly Vonwacq. It is currently inaccessible.
==Description==
Vonwacq is a small and crowded planet, almost entirely covered by rainforests and islands, with its exuberant wildlife being its most recognizable feature. Vonwacq's effervescent vitality made the rainforests near its equator grow so large and tall that their shades would cover the sky above and even block out the sun. The lack of sunlight in the undergrowth of the rainforest throughout the year creates a perfect space for fungi and other low-light plants to grow. Intelligent creatures inhabited regions near the tropics. Plants, irrespective of height, would grow naturally here. Fresh fruits and vegetables could be picked at any time and anywhere, which was what the locals mostly fed on.Planar Ornament Set: Sprightly Vonwacq Dried Caterpillar Fungus from Vonwacq is used in some Xianzhou prescriptions.
Teeming with plant life, Wacq Island was the most well-known island on Planet Vonwacq and is sealed within the plane. On the island was a gigantic tree called Thestang, bearing fruits that would give birth to the various kinds of the island's wildlife. The Thestang tree never stopped bearing fruit, not even for a moment. With time, all those yellowish and translucent oval-shaped fruits grew larger and heavier, hanging down from the branches until the stems could no longer bear their weight. When the time came, fruits would fall to the ground with a loud and crisp sound, cracking their thin skin and releasing whatever was held within. The fauna of Vonwacq was all born this way, be it fish, birds, or polar bears, creatures of all kinds shared one common birth mother.
The Thestang meticulously records the changes of the ecosystem over countless life cycles, continuously nurturing the ideal "Devil" using the genes of various life forms as seeds. After the Devil emerges from the round fruit with a stalk as long as a human's forearm, it fights for survival and defeats its "siblings" before it drinks the tree's nectar and grows into shape. After drinking the nectar of the divine tree, the spherical fruit bloats into a "Devil" wearing fiber armor and wielding a wooden spear and a shield made of leaves. All around its footsteps, living creatures in the forest offer their genes as tributes to the Devil for it to taste, learn, and metamorphose, becoming Vonwacq's "Demon Lord".
The indigenous Wacqwacq beings had always maintained a quasi-religious reverence for the animal fruits growing on the Thestang tree. They were a tribal Stone-Age people who were divided into distinctly two tribes. Tingyun claimed that Sandcitrus seeds from the Bitterwater Confederacy that are transplanted into the soils of Vonwacq will grow into sweet oranges. The IPC has a fully-automatic neck-tracking memory-foam pillow, made of natural Vonwacq rubber.Messages: Interastral Peace Appliances
==History==
===Periodic Demon Lord===
Every sixty natural years, the Thestang tree would give birth to a being known as the "Demon King", waging war upon the entire biosphere of Vonwacq. From the moment of its birth, it instinctively knew how to swing its giant ax-like pincers toward others and the cycle went on and on. The people of Vonwacq had long been used to and prepared for such cyclical fates of doom. Whenever a demon king's awakening approached, they would temporarily set aside their disputes and work together, assembling their strongest warriors to set sail for Wacq Island. One sixty years after another sixty years, these seemingly pointless crusades had been launched over and over again for hundreds of years in such narrow landscapes on this small planet. The demon kings were the permanent disaster of Vonwacq, and the caches of civilization were periodically wiped out.
At some point in the past, unknown outsiders visited the planet. At first, the outsiders from the stars were seen as reckless thieves who, upon receiving a "friendly" tribal welcome, began to understand the civilizational dilemma of Vonwacq. Soon after, the outsiders boarded the locals' boats and sailed to Wacq Island, curious about how a demon king would be born from the fruit, joining them in their fight. As the war went on, the outsiders discovered the truth about the Demon King — It was a species of interstellar worm that had once been considered extinct. It was simply unexpected that these creatures would appear in such a form in this corner of the universe. When the brutal expedition was finally over, the surviving few natives left the coastline with news of their victory, while the curious outsiders quietly stayed behind. They pushed aside the drooping branches of the giant tree and sank into the quagmire, almost half-submerged. In the sunken lands of the rainforest, the outsiders found a control cabin. It was then that the secret of Vonwacq was finally revealed — the Thestang tree turned out to be the eco genesis system from a much higher civilization, which could decode and then release innumerable life forms to restore the planet's biosphere.
The demon king that cyclically rampaged the planet turned out to be just one single piece of data in the vast biologic database. The outsiders deleted the data of the demon king and then left Vonwacq, not seeking any credit or gratitude from the locals. The indigenous coalition forces of Vonwacq were all convinced that the demon king would never come again. Then they cheered, toasted, sang, and talked all night about a future without demon kings. However, almost immediately after the two allied tribes bid farewell and returned to their respective homelands, the two tribes began plotting wars for their takeover of the whole of Vonwacq. Without a common threat such as the demon king, their alliance was but a non-binding piece of paper. The small planet was never designed to withstand a conflict between the two tribes. And the short-lived, fragile peace had since shattered out of existence. With humans and Wacqwacq gone from its center stage, Vonwacq had finally reclaimed peace and completed its ecological restoration.
===Crimson Vonwacq===
Presumably in 2155 AE, Genius Society #64 Dr. Primitive conducted the atavistic experiment on Vonwacq. The Galaxy Rangers thwarted his experiment and protected the Thousand-Tree Greenwood on Vonwacq, which is known as the Crimson Vonwacq event.Seat of Divine Foresight, Interactable: File Repository: Ally — RangersParlor Car: IPC Broadcast #4
===Miscellaneous===
The Nameless once visited the planet during Akivili's time. Yanming, one of the Nameless at the time, trod on some twigs sprouting from the sacred Vonwacq forest. The laws of the forest dictated that any broken twig must be repaid in kind -— with two broken ribs. Although he soon healed, he claimed the event was psychologically scarring.NPC: Yanming
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* Parlor Car: IPC Broadcast #4
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