Neverness to Everness Character List: Every Esper Ranked for 1.2

Navigating the comprehensive Neverness to Everness character list requires a deep understanding of how individual Esper kits interact with the game’s core combat mechanics.

As we cross the midpoint of Version 1.1 and edge closer to the highly anticipated Version 1.2 patch, managing your limited currency pool becomes a strict exercise in tactical evaluation.

Skipping the wrong banner can set your account progression back significantly, while over-investing in standard pool bait can ruin your optimal team compositions.

Where the Game Stands Right Now

Neverness to Everness is currently in Version 1.1, Phase 2. Lacrimosa’s “Fading Reverie” banner closed on June 24, and Chaos took over the same day with his “Forsaken Path” board. 

That banner runs through July 8, when the entire Version 1.1 update closes out. Version 1.2, subtitled “999 Nights,” goes live the same day, July 8, and brings Shinku in as the headline Phase 1 character. Iroi follows in Phase 2 on July 29.

Status	Character	Element	Arc type	Window
Just ended	Lacrimosa	Chaos	Liquid	June 3 to June 24
Live now	Chaos	Lakshana	Synthesis	June 24 to July 8
Confirmed next	Shinku	Cosmos	Condensate	July 8 to July 29
Confirmed after that	Iroi	Anima	Liquid	July 29 onward

Pity carries across boards in NTE, so any partial progress from Lacrimosa rolled straight into Chaos, and whatever you have stacked on Chaos right now will carry into Shinku. 

Community tracking puts soft pity around 70 pulls and hard pity at 90 for the rate-up S-Rank, with no 50/50 to lose on the way there.

That is one of the more forgiving systems in the genre, but it still rewards planning your Riftcrystal ahead of a banner rather than scrambling mid-window.

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NTE Version 1.1 Characters: Lacrimosa and Chaos

1. Lacrimosa

Lacrimosa is NTE’s first dedicated Chaos element main DPS, and she plays nothing like a standard burst carry. Her loop revolves around stacking a Nightmare debuff on enemies through alternating melee and ranged basic attacks, up to ten stacks, with each one ticking continuous Chaos damage.

Once her third Awakening unlocks, her fifth hit detonates every active stack at once for a real burst window instead of a slow grind. She also copies enemy combat techniques mid-fight, which is the kind of mechanic that sounds gimmicky on paper and then turns out to matter a lot in longer encounters.

Outside of combat she is the most memed character NTE has released. A half black, half white color scheme paired with a tomato obsession that has her hauling vending machines around for ketchup, and yes, she really does dream about a tomato castle. Her signature Arc,

The Last Rose, pushes crit damage off the back of her DoT uptime and extends how long enemies stay in a broken state. Her banner closed on June 24, so unless you already pulled her, she is gone until a rerun.

2. Chaos

Chaos is the second S-Rank of Version 1.1 and the first limited male character NTE has put on a global rate-up banner.

He runs a scythe and gun combo, with a fog hound companion that doubles as a teleport anchor while exploring the open world, which is useful outside of combat and not just flavor.

His kit centers on a Crime Charge and Warrant system: building Crime Charge ramps his personal damage, and applying Warrant marks a target so the whole team deals more damage to it, with community testing putting that amplification somewhere in the 15 to 20 percent range.

He uses the Lakshana element through a Synthesis-type Arc, the same Arc family as Baicang, Fadia, and Adler.

His “Forsaken Path” banner runs through July 8, and his signature Arc, What’s Desired, is the priority weapon pull if you want his damage ceiling rather than just his floor.

If you need a top-tier on-field Lakshana DPS and you have not built one yet, this is the banner the current meta points to.

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NTE Version 1.2: Shinku and Iroi, Confirmed July 8 and July 29

Hotta Studio ran its Version 1.2 Preview Special Program on June 27, confirming both new characters and the patch’s July 8 launch date.

This is the most reliable information available right now, since it comes straight from the developer livestream rather than pre-show leaks.

1. Shinku

Shinku is a Cosmos Esper and a member of the Containment Strike Unit 2 inside the Bureau of Anomaly Control, the same unit Mint belongs to.

She fights as an aggressive melee main DPS with two combat forms, switching from her normal state into a Rampage form called Surging Crimson for her heaviest damage windows. Her signature Arc, Blushing Mirage, releases alongside her banner.

Notably, she introduces Condensate as a new Arc type rather than slotting into one of the five Arc types the existing 18 characters use, so if you have been farming Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma, or Synthesis materials and assumed that covered every future character, Shinku breaks that assumption.

She goes live July 8, the same day Version 1.2 opens and Chaos’s banner closes, so there is no overlap window between the two.

2. Iroi

Iroi is an Anima Esper who first showed up during the Dreamwalk Corridor storyline on Sunward Island, and Hotta Studio gave her a visual update before confirming her for Version 1.2.

She uses the existing Liquid Arc type rather than a new one, and her kit leans entirely into support through two linked mechanics called Regression and Imagination.

When a teammate falls while she is active, they enter Regression instead of dying outright. Her Ultimate then opens one of two dream states depending on how much Imagination she has banked: a healing-focused Dream of the Horned Gate, or a damage-over-time Dream of the Ivory Gate that can revive and partially heal anyone still in Regression when you swap into them.

Her signature Arc, The Wrong Gate, drops with her banner on July 29. Because Cosmos and Anima sit next to each other on the Esper Cycle, Shinku and Iroi are built as a matched pair, with swapping between them triggering the Blossom reaction for extra turret-style damage.

If you are planning around both banners, that pairing is worth weighing before you decide where to spend first.

Neverness to Everness Upcoming Characters

Everything past Iroi is rumor and beta-file leaks at this point, not anything Hotta Studio has confirmed.

Names that keep surfacing across leak trackers and community datamines include Exe, described as the captain of a squad designated ETD Squad 6, along with Lingko, Nitsa, Elyms, Akane Rin, Black Bird, Alphard, Illica, and Jenson.

None of these have confirmed elements, Arc types, or release windows, so treat any attached kit breakdown as speculation dressed up as a leak.

We are not going to assign them stats or roles here, because that would just be fabricating detail the actual leaks do not support.

One thing that is officially teased rather than leaked: during the same June 27 livestream, Hotta Studio confirmed Version 1.3 will pick the Scarlet Letter storyline back up and focus on Nanally, alongside a new property system and summer event content.

No release date yet, but it is expected shortly after Iroi’s banner closes on August 19.

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All Playable Neverness to Everness Characters by Esper Type and Rarity

Six Esper Types currently field playable characters, plus the upcoming pair.

Pairing characters from adjacent elements on the Esper Cycle is how you unlock the reaction combos NTE’s whole team-building system is built around.

Esper type	Character	Rank	Arc type
Cosmos	Esper Zero	S	Solid
Cosmos	Hotori	S	Solid
Cosmos	Chiz	S	Gas
Cosmos	Edgar	A	Liquid
Cosmos	Shinku (upcoming)	S	Condensate
Incantation	Baicang	S	Synthesis
Incantation	Sakiri	S	Gas
Incantation	Adler	A	Synthesis
Chaos	Lacrimosa	S	Liquid
Chaos	Daffodill	S	Liquid
Psyche	Fadia	S	Synthesis
Psyche	Haniel	A	Solid
Psyche	Aurelia	A	Plasma
Anima	Jiuyuan	S	Solid
Anima	Nanally	S	Plasma
Anima	Mint	A	Liquid
Anima	Iroi (upcoming)	S	Liquid
Lakshana	Hathor	S	Plasma
Lakshana	Chaos	S	Synthesis
Lakshana	Skia	A	Gas

A quick note on roles before you build a team off this alone: Hotori gets described as anything from a buff support to a burst sub-DPS depending on the source, because her kit does both, recording ally skills and unloading them during her time-stop Ultimate.

Hathor’s role label is similarly inconsistent across community trackers, landing on either Buff or DPS depending on who wrote the guide. Treat both as flexible support-leaning damage rather than locking them into one box.

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All Playable NTE Characters by Arc Type and Rarity

Arc compatibility decides which weapons a character can equip, and it is the part of the brief we had to correct against the live game.

The five existing Arc types are Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma, and Synthesis, not Condensate, which several outdated references mix up. Condensate only enters the picture with Shinku in Version 1.2.

Arc type	Character	Rank	Esper type
Solid	Esper Zero	S	Cosmos
Solid	Hotori	S	Cosmos
Solid	Jiuyuan	S	Anima
Solid	Haniel	A	Psyche
Liquid	Lacrimosa	S	Chaos
Liquid	Daffodill	S	Chaos
Liquid	Edgar	A	Cosmos
Liquid	Mint	A	Anima
Liquid	Iroi (upcoming)	S	Anima
Gas	Chiz	S	Cosmos
Gas	Sakiri	S	Incantation
Gas	Skia	A	Lakshana
Plasma	Hathor	S	Lakshana
Plasma	Nanally	S	Anima
Plasma	Aurelia	A	Psyche
Synthesis	Baicang	S	Incantation
Synthesis	Fadia	S	Psyche
Synthesis	Adler	A	Incantation
Synthesis	Chaos	S	Lakshana
Condensate	Shinku (upcoming)	S	Cosmos

Where the NTE’s Meta Currently Sits

Pulling from current community tier consensus rather than our own guesswork, Chaos is sitting at the top of on-field Lakshana DPS right now, mostly because his Warrant amplification makes him useful even on teams that are not built specifically around him.

Lacrimosa holds up as one of the safer long-term investments in the game since her DoT scaling does not fall off the way some burst units do once content gets harder.

On the support side, Sakiri keeps getting called out for doing double duty as both an ATK buffer and a crowd-control tool, which is rare enough in this game’s design that it makes her worth holding onto even outside her own banner window.

Shinku is shaping up as the priority pull for anyone still missing a reliable Cosmos main DPS, while Iroi’s value is the slower-burn kind.

Support units in gacha RPGs tend to age better than burst carries, and a kit built around keeping the team alive while still contributing damage through Imagination is the type of pick that looks better six months out than it does on release day.

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The Neverness to Everness character list is only going to keep expanding, and the gap between Chaos closing and Shinku opening on July 8 is the cleanest split point the game has given players since launch.

If your Annulith and Riftcrystal stash is sitting at zero right now, that is the wrong place to be heading into back-to-back S-Rank banners with no overlap and a brand new Arc type attached to one of them.

The smartest move before July 8 is locking in your resources early instead of relying on whatever daily missions hand you between now and then.

A solid Riftcrystal top-up through Joytify gets you pulling the moment Shinku and Iroi go live, with enough left over to grab their signature Arcs instead of settling for a half-built kit on launch day. Top up now, save the panic-pulling for someone else’s account.