HoYoverse has published the official Season 3 teaser, “Before the Wind Rises”, and the video frames New Eridu’s prosperity as being tied to a hidden data source connected to the Celestial Nexus Roscaelifer.
That matters right now because the teaser is the clearest official setup yet for the next story phase, while Version 2.7 “Champions Never Fall to the Past” is still the active live version of the game.
For PC, console, and mobile players, this is the kind of trailer that can save time and stop bad lore takes from spreading.
The useful move is to separate what HoYoverse has actually confirmed from the flood of guesses already moving around social media, especially if you care about story pacing, future reveals, and when to catch up on current content.
What the teaser locks in right away
The official teaser page lists the upload on April 30, 2026, and the video runs for 3 minutes and 38 seconds.
Its opening lines set up New Eridu as a city whose prosperity comes from a hidden stream of data, and that stream is said to come from the Celestial Nexus Roscaelifer.
Later in the same teaser, the narration says that source is not a gift from above or a product of human ingenuity, and instead ties it to suffering.
The video also says Roscaelifer stands on the brink of collapse, which gives Season 3 a clear crisis point instead of a vague mood piece.
Roscaelifer is not just a cool name anymore
Before this teaser, Roscaelifer was easy to treat as a background lore term.
Now it is directly connected to New Eridu’s prosperity, a hidden source of data, and a coming collapse, all inside HoYoverse’s own teaser transcript.
That is the part lore fans should lock onto first.
If HoYoverse keeps building on this thread in future trailers, Roscaelifer looks set to be one of the main pressure points for the next arc.
Sunbringer is the name players will keep circling
The teaser ends with a direct appeal for an answer that only Sunbringer can give.
That closing beat makes Sunbringer feel less like distant lore and more like a figure the story is actively steering toward.
HoYoverse also names Sunbringer in the teaser’s published voice cast, with Erica Lindbeck listed for English and Oohara Sayaka listed for Japanese.
That gives fans one very solid fact to track while waiting for the next official story reveal.
These are the characters the teaser names on the record
The official teaser credits list Norma, Velina, Claret, Roxy, Sigrid, Phoenix, Severian, The Storyteller, Remielle, and Sunbringer.
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That cast list matters because it gives players a clean map of the names HoYoverse wanted attached to this preview.
It also helps filter out bad assumptions.
The teaser names these figures and gives them voice actors, but it does not attach release dates, kits, rarity, or banner timing to them in the upload.
Where Version 2.7 fits into all of this
HoYoverse’s official news post says Version 2.7, “Champions Never Fall to the Past,” launched on March 24, 2026.
That same post says the patch centers on the Hollow Champion Competition hosted by TOPS and introduces Nangong Yu and Cissia, alongside themed activities and Simulated Battle Trial updates.
This timing matters for active players.
Season 3 is being teased while ZZZ is still anchored in a live patch with defined story and event content, so this is a forward-looking story signal, not a standalone cinematic detached from the game calendar.
What is still not confirmed
The two official sources do not give a release date for Season 3.
They also do not confirm a version number for the Season 3 content shown in the teaser.
There is also no official gameplay breakdown for the newly highlighted teaser characters in these posts.
So if you see hard claims about kits, banners, or patch timing right now, treat them as unconfirmed until HoYoverse publishes more.
