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Soul is blamed for the death of the Order’s Sovereign. Start with him, then meet everyone around him.
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Protagonist
Soul
Lead character of Phantom Blade Zero. As a Shadow Edict of the Order he is blamed for killing its Sovereign, then lives through a blade in the chest only because he carries a venom-fed substitute heart, which gives him sixty-six days.
Main castStory figure and boss
Zuo Shang
Mu Tianmiao brought him up next to Soul, and the two became closest friends and sworn brothers. Today he is the Order's Shadow Sovereign and tracks Soul down over the killing of their old master; the game begins with the clash between them.
Main castMandatory boss
Bai Chilian
Boss closing the Crimson Forest chapter, a twin-sword duelist counted among the four great Maskwalkers, locked in the Mirrorwood by an illusion while she keeps searching for fragments of a broken pipa.
Main castAlly you cannot control
Inanis
A Shadow Edict serving the Order, the Wulin's leading authority on Phantom Arts, and the one who looks after the Gilded Lotus. Soul's weapons come from artisans under her command, Memory Flowers mark out his path, and her illusion cautions him as the finale nears.
Main castBoss and villain
Leng Tu
Heading the Thread-Binding Sect across the eastern Wulin, Leng Tu, the Herald of the Veil, is a servant of the Merciful Lady. Soul runs into the sickness and the wooden villagers around Pangzhen, and both stem from his puppet experiments; the only battle with him is at the game's very end.
Main castCult idol
Meng Hua
The idol behind a cult that is sweeping the Wulin, venerated as the Merciful Lady of the Blossom Veil by those with no one left to turn to, and a boss you must beat on Mount Soulrend.
Main castOptional boss
Mó Yuan
Soul's father and the head of the Bastion of Mó, who spent upward of thirty years away from his son. Donnie Yen plays the role, lending his face, his body movements and the English-language voice.
Main castMajor story figure and boss
Mu Xiaokui
Mu Xiaokui holds the title of Young Mistress of the Order. She is the sole daughter of Mu Tianmiao and grew up alongside Soul. A gifted swordswoman who serves as the last boss of Village of Lu, she faces Soul in battle to extract the explanation he keeps withholding.
Main castMysterious healer
The Flesh Sculptor
A cloaked physician in Phantom Blade Zero who brings Soul back once his lethal duel is over, lets him pick between two artificial hearts, and thereby starts the sixty-six-day countdown behind the plot.
Main castRequired story boss
The Hunt
Sent by the Order to track down Soul, a onetime fellow member, this savage killer wields twin chained sickles. He springs a trap on Soul aboard a racing wagon, then returns to hound him in Weeping Creek Valley.
Main castNon-playable side quest giver
Yu'er
Daughter of the Pangzhen brewer, she sneaks out of the plague-struck town to look for a remedy for her father. Soul runs into her in Weeping Creek Valley, and it is possible to miss her three healer tales.
Main castOptional boss
Bi Feng
Giant Saber Commander and elite blade of Huangxing, encountered in the Mountain of Imprisonment as a skippable boss. Juggernaut is his weapon.
BossesStory boss
Blaze
A Shadow Warden captain in scarlet and gold who wields a pair of chain hammers filled with phosphor. He serves as Pangzhen's first boss and gives up the Fire Meteor Phantom Edge.
BossesOptional boss
Blizzard Blademaster
Enslaved as a puppet sentinel in the Phantom Illusionist Ruins of Meigu Lake, this swordsman dresses in white. Defeating him, an optional boss fight, earns the blade Whiteshadow.
BossesStory boss
Cavalrybane
Armybreaker, a broad blade, is the prize Soul takes from Cavalrybane, an Elite Shadow Warden who controls the streets of Pangzhen.
BossesBoss
Chang Hong
Calm and skilled with the spear, this Order master descends from the heavens on a horse. He is a former friend who fought alongside Soul, and winning against him in Pangzhen yields the Thunder Spear Phantom Edge.
BossesOptional hidden boss
Dusk
An optional secret boss in the Village of Lu, Dusk is a renegade puppeteer clad in a mask of bronze and saffron rites-robes. Killing him gives you the Puppeteer's Bell and the Illusory Pipa Head.
BossesRequired boss
Flame
Grandmaster of the derelict Lion Dance Hall in Pangzhen and a mandatory boss, who performs with a steel lion head that burns. Defeating him earns the Dormant Flaming Mane.
BossesNPC
Forge
Blunt and straightforward, this smith keeps a post at Weeping Creek Valley's Outpost. Upgrading arms becomes possible through her, and Sanguine Twin and Sanguine Reach, the replica blades, are her handiwork for Soul.
Allies and NPCsBoss fight
Gu Wanyue
The Wailing Wraith: a thin opera performer dressed in white who sings next to a waterless well in Pangzhen, convinced her lover is coming back.
BossesBoss
Heartpiercer
Elite Shadow Warden stationed at the White Serpent House on Meigu Lake, who battles with a spinning set of short axes. Beating him earns the Sundering Dual Axes.
BossesOptional boss
Hua
Hua, called the Deadly Betrothed, is a puppet bride and an optional boss, met among the spider lily fields beneath the Valley Sha-Chi Tower. Both the Twinned Flesh Lilies and the Scarlet Wraithblade are in her keeping.
BossesRequired boss
Hua Qianxiao
Blue-clad swordsman, drunk, guarding the wide span next to Pangzhen Bridge Overlook in Crimson Forest. Defeating him is compulsory, and the victory yields The Fanatic's Broken Blade.
BossesBoss
Huangxing
Renegade among the three Pillars of Kunlun, who controls the shrine on top of the Mountain of Imprisonment. He is battled there as a skippable boss.
BossesBoss
Iron Fever
Bare-handed Maskwalker from the Iron Fist Sect, Stone Hand Iron Fever stands as a Crimson Forest boss. Iron Fiend counts him as a junior brother-in-arms, and defeating him yields the Iron Gauntlets.
BossesCharacter
Iron Fiend
An Order warrior who fights with gauntlets, protecting and instructing the Young Mistress Mu Xiaokui together with Jade Dancer; he is also Iron Fever's senior brother.
BossesCharacter
Jade Dancer
A stern guardian in the Order who has a Fiend Saw blade strapped to each foot. Together with Iron Fiend she looks after and teaches the Young Mistress Mu Xiaokui, and optional content lets you fight and spar with her.
BossesBoss
Jade-Face
A Maskwalker wearing a jade mask who jeers at Soul during the ascent of the Mountain of Imprisonment, then battles him with two doubles close to The Lady’s Shrine. His defeat yields the ring blades Seamless Death.
BossesMaskwalker, story boss
Jagged Steel
A Transcended Maskwalker found in Weeping Creek Valley who conceals his face with scrap metal. As the first boss of the main story, he leaves behind the bleed sword that carries his name.
BossesBoss fight
Jing Ye
The Outlaw: a raider in spiked armour who commands mounted bandits throughout the eastern Wulin and controls the Outlaw Trap in the Crimson Forest.
BossesQuest-giver NPC
Lan Shaodi
A young man of the Lan family hands out a side tale, Young Master Lan, from a hideout in the Village of Lu; it is about reaching his family's manor in Pangzhen.
Allies and NPCsRepair NPC, then boss
Lei Dang
Pangzhen's repairer of the Flaming Mane, an Envoy of the Order who turns up as the boss closing out Mirage Estate and uses a cannon mounted on his severed arm.
BossesStory NPC
Lu Sanqian
Village of Lu chief and elderly man who makes the climb up the Mountain of Imprisonment by himself, praying to the Merciful Lady for his village and for Cui, his granddaughter.
Allies and NPCsBoss encounter
Master Bi Hai
This Kuye Temple monk lies as a wrecked body next to a stream, deep in the Village of Lu, with a golden bell and three bronze men standing guard. Kill him to obtain the Kuye Temple Prayer Beads.
BossesMain-story boss
Master Bi Yuan
Head of the Tianxuan Sect and a roaming Daoist, fought as a boss on the statue grounds of the Village of Lu. Killing him drops the Tianxuan Bronze Sword.
BossesNon-player character
Moji
Kindliest of the three Pillars of Kunlun and dearest to everyone at the Mandate Encampment, he is kept alive by his disciples, by his blade, and by the vacant grave they tend for him.
Allies and NPCsCharacter
Mu Tianmiao
Creator of the Order and the first Shadow Sovereign; he is Mu Xiaokui's father and the adoptive father of Soul and Zuo Shang.
Allies and NPCsStory NPC, crafting service
Myst
She is an artisan working for Inanis and keeps a concealed tavern in Pangzhen. Weapons and Phantom Edges receive Soul Tempering from her, and she can mend the Illusory Pipa.
Allies and NPCsRecurring NPC
Old Beggar
A wanderer met in a string of five regions that begins at Weeping Creek Valley and ends at Mirage Estate. His hints come in rhyme, and he is the person who gives you the finished Nuo Mask accessory.
Allies and NPCsQuest-giver NPC
Old Man Gen
An aged carriage driver of Pangzhen who drives Soul in the opening chapters, and later stays in the Village of Lu with a favour to ask about his home and, after that, a Phantom Edge.
Allies and NPCsOptional boss
One-Eyed Archer
Optional expert archer on the island to the east of Meigu Lake and one of the three Blackwater Crew leaders. The One-Eyed Bow is the prize for beating him.
BossesMaskwalker boss
Peng Meng
The Axemaster is the Four Axes' oldest member and a Maskwalker boss standing on Weeping Creek Valley's main path. Dropping him earns you the Dread Axe and pushes the Four Fierce Axes quest ahead.
BossesMerchant and quest-giver NPC
Quick Hand Zhang
A roaming seller of uncommon treasures whom Soul releases from a suspended cage in the Crimson Forest. He stocks materials and runs a treasure hunt through five regions, paying out a reward at every one of his hideouts.
Allies and NPCsBoss you can skip
Red
A swordswoman dressed in red who stands at the summit of the Dovecote tower in the Mandate Encampment, with a face scorched hollow by Sha-Chi. Her fight, which is not mandatory, ties into the Daughter of the Dark Sect tale.
BossesOptional boss
Seven-Star Chief Disciple
The Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars Formation, a swordsman at the head of a seven-man sword array, is an extra boss to be fought inside the Mandate Encampment. He turns into the Sword of Despair for his second form.
BossesStory boss
Soulclaimer
Soulclaimer, an Elite Shadow Warden, watches over the docks of Pangzhen wielding twin Parting Hooks, which Soul wins by beating him.
BossesQuest NPC
Spectral Blade
Soul runs into this Shadow Warden swordsman in Weeping Creek Valley, and he hands out the side tale A Severed Mindseal, which spans four regions.
Allies and NPCsAlly
The Chord
A pipa virtuoso connected to Inanis and to a shattered instrument that the player has to restore; her tale is carried by the Whence the Weeping and Illusory Pipa quests.
Allies and NPCsRequired boss
The Crusher and the Saw
Giant's Lair on Mount Soulrend hosts this boss made of two parts: a brute who wields a hammer and the featureless creature perched on his neck. Mandatory battle, with the Bonesaw as the prize.
BossesBoss
The Gold-Masked One
Clad in black robes and a golden mask, this master fights Soul in five duels, one before every Lóng Pillar. They train the player in combat and award equipment, and the Perfect Ending requires all five.
BossesStory NPC and antagonist
The High Elder
Leader of the forbidden illusionists occupying Soulrend Mountain, called the Venerable by those who follow him. His aim is to open the Rift on behalf of the Merciful Lady.
Allies and NPCsRecurring character
Uncle Zhong
Uncle Zhong is a repeat character seen in Pangzhen and on Mount Soulrend, and his lines refer to the retreat of Shadow Sovereign Mu and to the Golden Mask.
Allies and NPCsBoss
Wan Jun
Wan Jun, the Coppermaul, is the Mandate Encampment's gatekeeper and wields a hammer. Defeat him to obtain the Bashpole Phantom Edge.
BossesOptional boss
Wu Lengshuang
Senior disciple of the Baishan Sect, encountered at the Confinement in the Mandate Encampment wearing a cracked mask and wielding a flexible sword. She is an optional boss there.
BossesMandatory boss
Wu Xuan
Barring passage through Pangzhen's western backstreets is the Fallen General, Wu Xuan, a boss who carries a club and a shield. When he falls he yields the Wolfjaw Phantom Edge.
BossesBoss fight
Xie Qiudong
A healer in a mask who controls the backstreets of Pangzhen and lives off the Sha-Chi of the Transcended. Soul battles him at the foot of a well.
BossesOptional boss
Yan Qiansui
The Zither Maiden, a Maskwalker performing in front of a ruined songhouse by Meigu Lake. Defeating her during the Allure of Vanity quest yields the Illusory Pipa Strings, which are required to mend the Illusory Pipa.
BossesNon-player character
Yan'er
Across Meigu Lake lie six Memory Flowers that keep her recollections. Grabbing any one triggers a side tale titled Allure of Vanity.
Allies and NPCsOptional boss
You Loong
This water-based warrior commands the Blackwater Crew and has to be defeated twice, initially in Pangzhen and later, enraged, on a Meigu Lake island. A Phantom Edge is granted by each win.
BossesOptional boss
Yubi
Numbered 21, this Swordfighter Puppet is the lone sword user of the Four Great Puppets. It is an optional boss met where the Mandate Encampment ends.
BossesPuppet, optional boss
Yucong
Possessing three faces, this puppet (No. 34, made of Chaos) stands watch over an icy part of Crimson Forest called the Mirrorwood. As the skippable last boss of Triple Threat, a questline, it yields a Freezing Chaos sword when beaten.
BossesRequired boss
Yuding
Puppet No. 12, the Crescent Blade Puppet, who rules the practice arena of Mirage Estate. Late in the game you must beat her, and doing so hands you her own weapon, the Crescent Blade.
BossesVessel-class puppet, story boss
Yuzan
Puppet No. 3, the Musician Puppet Yuzan, wields a pipa, watches over the Puppet Testing Grounds under Village of Lu, and ranks among the Four Great Puppets.
BossesStory boss
Zhuo Bi
Sluggish gatekeeper in heavy armor, hiding behind a tower shield bearing a beast's face, who blocks the entrance to the Village of Lu. Beating him on the main route rewards you with the Bastion Phantom Edge.
BossesOptional boss
Acolyte Guhe
Poison-wielding Acolyte of Meigu Lake. Optionally, you can duel him via a scarecrow standing on the east side of the Meigu Village East Dock island, and the prize is Guhe's Venom Mask.
BossesOptional boss fight
Acolyte Hansui
An optional Maskwalker acolyte who joins the Puppet Scavenger's battle in the Scavenger Pens of Crimson Manor. She leaves Hansui's Frost Mask, the final one of the four Acolyte masks.
BossesOptional boss
Acolyte Lei Ting
Pangzhen holds a scarecrow where you can optionally duel this Maskwalker acolyte, who leaves Leiting's Thunder Mask upon losing. She belongs to a group of four acolytes.
BossesOptional boss fight
Acolyte Yanru
This Maskwalker acolyte awaits at a scarecrow, as a side fight, in the Village of Lu. Winning gets you Yanru's Blazing Mask, the first mask among the four Acolyte ones.
BossesNPC
Bai Xue
An old necklace is at the centre of the optional tale of Bai Xue, a Pangzhen backstreet girl; it becomes available in the Mountain of Imprisonment after Ledger of Atonement.
Allies and NPCsNon-playable character
Captain Qing Long
Named captain whose dialogue concerns the masters who perished at Soulrend Cliff.
Allies and NPCsNPC captain
Captain Twin-Scar
Named captain wishing to retrieve the body of a master lost in the disaster at Soulrend Cliff.
Allies and NPCsMaskwalker
Chen Zhu
Pangzhen native and Maskwalker who was raised next to Bai Xue, then came back to the town after being gone for two years and now works for the Order.
Allies and NPCsNPC and quest contact
Child of Insight
This Pangzhen intermediary takes in whatever proof and personal items you collect during two side tales, Four Fierce Axes and Xue, Admirer of Heroes, and in return hands you the prizes.
Allies and NPCsOptional boss
Corpse-Eating Xue
Voluntary Maskwalker bout in the Mandate Encampment, fought down the slope from the Mass Grave bell. Whoever beats Xue sets the tale Xue, Admirer of Heroes in motion.
BossesNon-playable character
Cui
The grandchild of the Village of Lu's chief; Soul meets her as a puppet in the testing ground, and she pleads with him to take her crimson ribbon to the old man.
Allies and NPCsCharacter
Daoist Bi Di
Daoist Bi Di belongs to the Tianxuan Sect and can be found seated beside the water inside Myst's Tavern, Pangzhen. Under his direction Soul tempers the Tianxuan Bronze Sword.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Firefly
A Phantom Artist encountered in the Village of Lu, who teams up with Senior Brother Dusk to find a way into the Heart of the Lake.
Allies and NPCsBoss
Grief-Stricken Jin
Anyone playing the side tale called A Brother Once More ends it against this opponent, who stands near Meigu Lake at the Village of Lu Shallows Dock; Embroidered Shoes are left lying there after he is killed.
BossesOptional boss
Iron Butcher
An axe-carrying masked Maskwalker who protects Iron Butcher's Camp in the Mountain of Imprisonment. Jagged Steel can be Soul Tempered using his mask.
BossesNPC artisan
Jewel
Youngest of a trio of sisters, and an impatient jeweler who works for Inanis. She buffs up trinkets that people have lost, and she can say who is able to mend the Illusory Pipa.
Allies and NPCsNon-playable character
Ju
A young martial artist whom the player meets on a Crimson Forest bridge, standing with Lanlan. In her view, her group has to attempt a particular method or else they cannot protect themselves.
Allies and NPCsOptional boss
Kui Yanyan
A mourning woman wielding a spiked club, who assaults whoever passes on the Mountain of Imprisonment's paths. Beating her at Shrine Outer Gate gives you the Missing Lift Crank.
BossesNPC, tale giver
Lanlan
Lanlan stands upon the Crimson Forest's big wooden bridge, handing out the side tale Secrets of the Baishan Sect, which can never be begun once Bai Chilian dies.
Allies and NPCsNPC and quest giver
Liu Yi
Imprisoned in a cliff cage on the Mountain of Imprisonment, this follower of Moji pleads with Soul, during the side tale Hero's Lament, to return the sword his master lost.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Lu Jieyuan
Captain of the guard in the Village of Lu and father of Cui; he and his wife both enlisted with the Mandate, and Soul comes across him close to the Mirage Estate.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Lu Laowu
Lu Laowu, aged and childless with no wife, lives in the Village of Lu and is scared stiff of becoming one of the terrible things he mentions.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Monk Huijue of Kuye Temple
Huijue belongs to Kuye Temple. Weeping Creek Valley is where he is encountered, hunting for Bi Hai, the master he lost, and he plays a role in the side quest Leave None Alive.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Patron Gao
Mirage Estate patron in Pangzhen, too sick to come to the New Year feast, with three Memory Flowers spread around the estate.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Pei, Wailing Scholar
Scholar encountered in the Village of Lu, tormented by a woman appearing in his dreams nightly and shocked by writing he thinks is hers, though she has gone.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Qianqian
A figure in the Mandate Encampment who gathers tales of her master, and whose Memory Flower is obtainable in that camp.
Allies and NPCsBoss
Qiu Feng
An assassin stationed at the Mourning Hall of Mirage Estate, who wears piled-up crimson masks and swings the dual-bladed Crimson Boneblade. He is a boss on the main route.
BossesNon-playable character
Sect Leader He
He Guang, known as Sect Leader He, runs the Shenji School and can be found in the Village of Lu. His talk concerns an odd sleeping sickness that makes puppets of people.
Allies and NPCsCharacter
Senior Mo
Senior Mo is the Lion Dance Hall's deputy leader in Pangzhen. Grandmaster Flame dances the front of the lion, and Mo dances its tail behind.
Allies and NPCsNon-player figure
Shopkeeper Niu
Working from Myst's Tavern in Pangzhen, Shopkeeper Niu is an NPC who keeps Huang Manor Key safe. Meigu Lake is where he eventually sends Soul during A Brother Once More.
Allies and NPCsNon-playable character
Silk Sect Leader Si Wuya
In Mirage Estate you meet this leader of the Silk Sect, whose words refer to a long-held grudge and to carrying out the plan of Leng Tu.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Storyteller
A talking character found in Mirage Estate; his 32 voiced lines recount the Silk Sect and the Viper.
Allies and NPCsNPC
The Viper of Seven Venom
Character encountered in Mirage Estate, famed for the pair of poisons Silence Poison and Still Poison, and given 18 voiced lines.
Allies and NPCsMoji's disciple
Wei Sanchuan
Follower of Moji at the Mandate Encampment who held the extra key for its outer gate and headed to Pangzhen to honour a vow.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Xie Xiaorong
Pharmacy healer in Pangzhen and student of the healer Xie Huichun; a medicine left by his master has preserved his mind through Transcension.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Xuan Li
Working for the Order as its Grand Scholar, he looks into the Blight and the entity that early peoples named Lóng; no Xuan clan member besides him is left.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Ye Han
Ye Han, nicknamed Tianshan Twin Swords, is a named NPC. Six of his lines are voiced, and he uses them to judge a hulking brute and its smaller, spiteful companion.
Allies and NPCsNPC
Yu Ling
Beloved of Zhou Pingzi and a woman from Pangzhen, where she is encountered. A letter is the centre of her brief story.
Allies and NPCsDisciple of Moji
Zhao Di
Disciple of Moji at the Mandate Encampment, who looked for his missing master and put his name to a declaration directed at Huangxing.
Allies and NPCsOptional boss
Zhu Yuan
An optional fight against a fiery swordmaster at the lowest level of the Pangzhen Sha-Chi Tower. His defeat awards Scorching Flames, a Soul Tempering material meant for Sanguine Reach.
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