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Yanqing is a 5-star playable character in Honkai Star Rail and some players noticed similarities between him and Ma Yanqing from Honkai Impact 3rd. You may have noticed that there are characters that have similarities between characters from both games but they are completely unrelated and Star Rail takes place in an alternate timeline. However, Welt and possibly the Void Archives are the same entities across both games even though the other characters are not. If you want to know more about Yanqing from Honkai Impact 3rd and Ma Yanging (Ma Feima) we have a summary of their backstories below.
Ma Yanqing (Honkai Impact 3rd) vs Yanqing (Honkai Star Rail)
Honkai Impact 3rd’s Ma Feima is the sixth disciple of Fu Hua, his original name was Ma Yanqing, the only male in the seven swords. He has a crazy attitude, usually does whatever he wants, he does things rather unusually and has become famous in the past 20 years.
He loves Su Mei (Second Disciple) and would do anything she asks, but he is married to Lin Zhaoyu. He is often not at home with Zhaoyu and goes around picking fights with opponents he thinks may be worthy.
Honkai Star Rail’s Yanqing is the youngest lieutenant in the history of the Cloud Knights. Retainer to General Jing Yuan. Collector of antique swords from the Artisanship Commission, with all these auspicious titles and street gossip swirling around this one wunderkind, it's hardly believable that he is still a child.
It's recorded in the military annals of the Cloud Knights how Jing Yuan came to discover the young boy, stood his ground against public opinion, and incorporated him into the armed forces. However, in the family lineage column, Yanqing's lineage was relegated to the category of “unknown”.
Yanqing became an unrivaled fighter aboard the Xianzhou Luofu as his skills grew more and more advanced. Jing Yuan gradually began thinking about ways to restrain Yanqing's edge, to take him down a peg without curbing his confidence.
It is likely that we will explore Yanqing’s story in detail in future patches when we explore the Xianzhou Luofu’s storyline. He is also yet to get his companion quest which will help us know more about the character.
That is all you need to know about Yanqing from Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai Star Rail. For more content, check out our Silver Wolf build. If you are new to the game and wondering which characters are worth rerolling for, check out our Honkai Star Rail reroll guide.
