Skirk Is from Mars

Here’s what Genshin tells you about Skirk’s origin: she’s from an unnamed planet. Her people were peaceful. An alien merchant fleet showed up, decided humans were a threat, and wiped them out. Surtalogi happened to pass by and saved the only survivor. End of story. No planet name. No coordinates. No follow-up.

That’s very Hoyo — give you just enough to feel like you learned something, then lock the real answer behind five years of drip-fed lore.

But we don’t have to wait. The answer is already in a different game.

The Claim

Skirk’s planet is Mars. Not the Mars you’re thinking of — a bubble universe Mars from the Honkai multiverse. And once you see the parallels, it’s hard to unsee them.

The Evidence

Honkai Impact 3rd Part 2 is set on Mars. The inhabitants there look exactly like Earth humans. Skirk looks exactly like an Earth human. Her people had normal human limbs, normal eyes, no exotic features. In a universe full of elves, dragons, and things that used to be oceanids, Skirk is suspiciously ordinary in her biology. That’s the first clue.

Mars in Honkai had a civilization that was destroyed. Skirk’s planet had a civilization that was destroyed. The Honkai multiverse runs on bubble universes — parallel copies of worlds, especially of Earth and Mars. You don’t need Skirk to be from the Mars. She just has to be from a Mars. A bubble version where the collapse came from outside invaders rather than internal Honkai decay. The multiverse framework gives you that for free.

Then there’s the Abyss question. Skirk’s people coexisted with the Abyss. They bore traces of its influence without ever learning to harness it. On Mars, civilizations dealt with Shadows — which are heavily implied to be a different manifestation of the same corruptive force the Honkai universe runs on. Different name, same underlying pattern. Different leaf on the same tree.

And Surtalogi? He travels the “sea of stars” across multiple worlds. In Honkai terms, that’s the Imaginary Tree. He was already visiting other planets and burying their strongest warriors. The Solar System was on his route. Mars was on the map.

The Holes

I’ll be honest. The destruction doesn’t match perfectly. Skirk’s planet was invaded by alien merchants. Mars in HI3 was consumed by internal forces. Skirk’s people were peaceful nature-dwellers; Mars had a more technologically involved civilization. And Hoyo’s CEO has said Genshin’s worldbuilding was constructed from scratch, even while confirming it exists in the broader “Honkai Universe.” The connection is kept deliberately fuzzy.

That’s the gap. I’m not pretending it’s not there.

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Verdict: Skirk is from Mars until someone proves otherwise. The evidence isn’t airtight — but it’s cleaner than anything else the lore community has. Sometimes you have to commit to a read. This is mine.