Yu'er.

Raised on the herbal knowledge of her physician mother, Yu'er is the brewer's daughter from Pangzhen, and she departs a town in crisis by herself to seek a remedy for her father.

Early in the game, beside a waterfall in Weeping Creek Valley, Soul spots her crouching in fear, clutching a prescription and counting on a rare flower to make her scheme work. Her request stretches far beyond what it seems: the flower sits in the first region, yet her father is in the fourth.

He meets her once more at the Outpost, where she tends the injured, and after that at the Thieves' Camp in the Crimson Forest, where she does likewise for men concealed among the trees. Every stop yields another tale along with a handy medicine accessory, though progressing the main story too soon ruins two of those tales permanently.

She is a common villager who nonetheless keeps walking into danger wherever a patient waits. For the cost to her, see Part in the Plot, which holds big spoilers.

Herb Basket on the Hills of Pangzhen

The town's physician was her mother. Almost from the time she could walk, Yu'er tagged along behind her on the slopes with a basket for herbs; it began as play, and over the years it gave her enough knowledge to read a pharmacopoeia. Down in the back streets of Pangzhen, her father works as a brewer. Before the game starts her mother has already died, leaving behind a jade pendant that her father describes as the family's only valuable possession.

A Stolen Apothecary Prescription

Her father later traces the illness back two years, to when cases appeared singly or in pairs. A week or so before he recounts events, the whole town was affected. Residents drank from the town wells and never woke, himself included. Yu'er stole a prescription out of the apothecary, learned about a flesh-and-blood flower able to heal him, and set out alone to find it. Hence her presence in Weeping Creek Valley when Soul turns up.

Concealed by the Waterfall

Beside the water in Weeping Creek Valley, Soul comes across her. She tells him her name and what her father does for a living, mentions an odd illness in Pangzhen, and begs him to rescue her father. What she has read leads her to believe that the Flesh Lily can restore a person's mind to the body, and so her father will recover.

Healers Are Scarce at the Outpost

Peng Meng's death is followed by her arrival at the Outpost next to Forge. Patients there outnumber healers, as the physician travelling with the party has turned into something else. Her mother's method lets her make an ointment for gashes and ripped flesh, and she sends Soul out to fetch three missing herbs. Soul also collects the Twin Flesh Lilies at the arena of the Hua fight, and as a keepsake she hands him the second bloom.

Treating the Thieves' Camp

Her next stop is the Thieves' Camp in the Crimson Forest. Using the same medicine she makes pills for injured thieves stranded among the trees, and a thief called Wang says that more of his comrades are still concealed out there. Soul asks Wang to note down their positions and delivers the medicine himself. He additionally cautions Yu'er about the danger of the place and vows to return for her after Pangzhen has been found. Zhen the Slippery Eel, one of the men, takes her pill and soon recovers his senses.

A Body No Longer Her Own

Arriving at the Village of Lu, Soul finds she has left the camp. Old Man Gen informs him that she has fled from the puppets and that the outpost and the camp are in trouble. She had been hiding, until she was pulled into the thieves' tunnel.

Their next encounter, in Pangzhen, finds her body out of her own control. Leng Tu inhabits it as a stand-in and talks through her to trick Soul, and the Flesh Lily offered to her father is false. Straight ahead after the fight with Blaze at South Gate Bridge lies the Crimson Flesh Lily, said to be the flower she let fall. Most flesh lilies are white, but this one is red and has a stench of rot and blood.

Throughout, her mind stays within that body, retaining every word that reaches her, and bides its time.

Upon being woken by Soul with the genuine flower, her father first wants to know if his daughter lives. In his sleep, he says, he saw her come to bid farewell. He begs Soul to rescue the town and avenge her, then gives over the pendant, regretting that he never fastened it on her while she was still able to wear it.

A Single Message at Perfect Vessel Pond

Three Memory Flowers of hers are scattered on the way through Mirage Estate, every one close to a spot where Leng Tu talks to Soul. They are Struggle, beside the Estate Rear Gate; The Radiant Heart Experiment, up on the Training Grounds' top floor; and The Perfect Vessel, next to Willow Pavilion.

Deep in the estate, in the cutscene after the battle against Lei Dang at Perfect Vessel Pond, Soul sees her again. Her remaining breath suffices for just one message, which tells him that Leng Tu is heading for Soulrend Cliff. After that, Soul's path continues to Mount Soulrend.

Quiet Voice, Firm Resolve

Boldness is not Yu'er's trait. She speaks her first words softly and tends to hide, and she claims she stayed out of sight the entire journey so the monsters would never notice her. Yet her decision is firm. Gathering herbs, lighting a fire, naming wild greens and finding the way are all things she knows she can do, and she ignores warnings to keep back, refusing to be yet another person sheltering behind someone else.

Caring for the Person Before Her

Practicality drives what she does. Nobody else remains who understands how to treat injuries, so she takes charge of the Outpost's wounded, and she offers the same care to a band of thieves. Even minor decisions show it: she deliberately added a calming herb to her life-saving pill.

Another of her Memory Flowers expresses the same determination, advising against crying in front of others, since tears reveal helplessness and cloud whatever final hopes she still has.

Time Limits for The Healer's Legacy

The Healer's Legacy, a Bronze trophy, is granted for finishing the tales Flesh Lily, Apprentice Healer and A Healer's Mercy. Each step is limited by how far the story has advanced, so a tale that fails forces a reload or a fresh playthrough.

Beating Jing Ye first makes Apprentice Healer fail, and beating Bai Chilian first makes A Healer's Mercy fail. For Flesh Lily, you must give Yu'er the flowers ahead of Bai Chilian, and the follow-up in Pangzhen must be done before the story proceeds to the Training Grounds.

Apprentice Healer: Finding the Three Herbs

Choosing the dialogue option about collecting herbs at the Outpost earns a recipe from her, and three herbs then appear as markers on your map. Blood-Stopper Vine grows in the water beneath the bridge by The Axemaster's Holding Cell. Congealeaf and Blemish Goldweed lie down in the valley under the Sha-Chi Tower; reaching them first calls for beating The Hunt and picking up the Sha-Chi Tower Base Camp Gate Key. Congealeaf is past Long Pillar Overlook, whereas Blemish Goldweed grows by the river at Weeping Creek Lóng Pillar. Your reward is Medicine Case, which boosts the health that medicine restores by 20%.

A Healer's Mercy: The Four Thieves

Outlaw Trap is where you find the first pair of thieves, one hidden in its small cave, the other in the bigger cave below. The cellar at Cliffside Lodge leads on to the third thief, and the Thieves' Camp Dungeon Key is also collected from the underground passage in that spot. At the Thieves' Camp proper, the dungeon door conceals the fourth. When every patient has been treated, speak to Yu'er, since she hands out the Calming Gourd rather than the last thief. This item allows recovery from Guard Break, and using medicine then costs less Sha-Chi.

Flesh Lily: Rousing Her Father

Beneath the Valley Sha-Chi Tower, in the Flesh Lily Fields beside the pavilion of the Hua fight, grow the Twin Flesh Lilies; take them to Yu'er at the Outpost. Later, after you beat Chang Hong at Ancestral Shrine Square in Pangzhen, walk into the building ahead, speak with the old man and give him the plain Flesh Lily. He rewards you with the Blessed Jade Pendant, which triggers a random effect each time medicine is used. The Crimson Flesh Lily you collect after Blaze is the wrong one for him.

Life-Saving Pill by Yu'er

A warmly glowing vermilion pill that she made herself. Bleeding stops fast, wounds close, the meridians warm and strength returns. A faint scent comes from the soothing herb she decided to put in.

Jade Pendant from Her Mother

Her mother left only this single piece of jewellery, which her father holds and Yu'er has never worn. Soul gets it once he rouses the brewer.

Her starting point is Weeping Creek Valley, beside the bell called First Meeting with Yu'er. After Peng Meng dies she is waiting near the Outpost bell next to Forge, and later she is found at the Thieves' Camp, by its bell, deep in the Crimson Forest. In Pangzhen, the house her family lives in, Yu’er’s House, faces the spot at Ancestral Shrine Square where Chang Hong is fought.

Stepping Out of Hiding Toward the Injured

Where Yu'er chooses to stand shows how far she has changed. At first she hides behind cover, thinking of a single patient and holding a stolen prescription. When she reaches the Thieves' Camp, she is turning her mother's technique into pills and caring for strangers who make a living by theft. What started as saving her father has grown into helping anyone in need.

Her later fortunes are laid out in Part in the Plot.

Yu'er's listed lines

“Yes. My name's Yu'er. My father's the town's brewer.”

Giving her name.

“It says the Flesh Lily can return a person's mind to their body.”

Describing what her reading says about the cure.

“Then my father will get better!”

What she hopes the flower will do.

“There's no one left who knows how to treat wounds.”

Why she takes on the healer's role.

“I stayed hidden the whole way here, and made sure those monsters never saw me...”

How she made it through.

• A weapon rack holding the Sanguine Twin is a short way past the place in Weeping Creek Valley where she waits.
• The original Chinese text of her pill's description explicitly states that the calming herb was added deliberately.