Chen Zhu.

Soul encounters Chen Zhu, a Maskwalker, in Pangzhen; he is bound to the town's backstreets through his boyhood friendship with Bai Xue.

Dazhu was how Bai Xue addressed him. Pangzhen was where both grew up, and their closeness drives the Bai Xue quest, in which the player seeks him out along with the female puppet that remains by his side.

After two years of absence he reappears. He fights for the Order as a Maskwalker, and every person he has killed gets written down in a record he calls his ledger of atonement.

Clay jar beneath the locust tree

When they were children, Chen Zhu and Bai Xue put a little clay jar in the ground near the old locust tree by the well in the back streets of Pangzhen, wishing upon it. Her name for him was Dazhu.

Shortly prior to dying, his mother hoped a necklace would let him wed the girl surnamed Bai from the next village over.

Away for two years, then home to Pangzhen

After two years away from town, Chen Zhu returned dressed as a fighter, weighed down by blood and dust from the road. His hand killed Aunt Qin, the bun seller at the town gate, Old Ku the herbalist, and the villagers Fang Li, Deng Guijiang and a farmer who goes unnamed.

Working for the Order as a Maskwalker, he commanded the squad stationed in the creek valley. His written orders told them to retrieve a missing blade and cautioned that Master Huang should not learn of it. Fearing he would kill once more, he wrote down each life he ended and titled those pages his ledger of atonement.

Missing ledger and the necklace

After the ledger vanished, he pleaded with Soul to fetch it from the caves. Holding it again, he laughed, saying that the former Chen Zhu could die along with the past, and announced his imminent rebirth.

At his death he left an old necklace and a little key for a courtyard in the back streets of Pangzhen. The necklace awakens the female puppet beside him, which carries Bai Xue's mind.