[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":265},["ShallowReactive",2],{"story":3},{"page":4,"premise":9,"choices":14,"characters":18,"factions":161,"credits":246},{"path":5,"h1":6,"title":7,"description":8},"\u002Fstory\u002F","Phantom Blade Zero Story","Phantom Blade Zero Story Explained: Soul's 66 Days","Phantom Blade Zero story: Soul's 66 days to live, the 12 characters he meets and the 10 factions of the Phantom World, as S-GAME has shown them.",[10,11,12,13],"For years Soul served as the Order's most feared blade. Set up for his leader's murder and turned on by the people he fought beside, he faces his childhood blood brother in a final duel and ends it with a blade through his heart.","The Flesh Sculptor, a mysterious healer, revives him, and the price is fixed from the start: 66 days, not one more. One of the voices following his return puts it coldly: \"It seems the Flesh Sculptor's tainted heart has restored his strength.\"","Those days play out in the Phantom World, a setting S-GAME calls kungfu punk, in which kung fu shares the world with steam machinery and modified bodies. Fighters from all over the Wulin have converged on the town of Pangzhen, and it has become \"a deadly trap of rival factions, hidden malice, and deadly schemes\".","Creative director Soulframe Liang reads Soul's search for his heart on two levels. One is the wounded heart itself, and whether 66 days are enough to find a cure. The deeper one is about choice: Soul spent years as the Order's weapon, never deciding whom to kill or spare, and with the time he has left he wants his decisions to be his own.",[15,16,17],"Side quests can steer the main story, though the game keeps no honor score; S-GAME said so to players on its official Discord in April 2026.","Soulframe Liang compares helping strangers to the butterfly effect, since in doing so \"you might actually influence your own main quest, and your own story of love and vengeance.\"","S-GAME promises that choices \"fracture your trajectory and reshape your fate\", and has said the story has eight endings.",[19,33,46,57,65,73,86,95,106,120,137,148],{"slug":20,"name":21,"summary":22,"body":23,"sources":25,"picture":32,"bossLink":-1},"soul","Soul","The hero: framed, betrayed, stabbed through the heart and brought back with 66 days left",[24],"Soul is the hero: once the Order's most feared blade, now framed, betrayed and living on borrowed time. S-GAME's creative director traces him back to the trailer shown at The Game Awards 2025: \"a great hero rescues a baby from a fire\", and that baby \"grows up to become the new hero, which is our protagonist\".",[26,29],{"label":27,"date":28},"Enter the Wulin: Gameplay & Story Deep Dive","2026-08",{"label":30,"date":31},"What exactly is Wuxia?","2026-04","people\u002Fsoul",{"slug":34,"name":35,"summary":36,"body":37,"sources":39,"picture":45,"bossLink":-1},"mo-yuan","Mó Yuan","Leader of the Bastion of Mó, played by Donnie Yen",[38],"Mó Yuan leads the Bastion of Mó. He is the man cradling an infant in S-GAME's trailers, and Donnie Yen, the game's creative consultant since 2023, gave him his face and his movement through motion capture.",[40,42],{"label":41,"date":28},"Official site, pre-orders",{"label":43,"date":28,"at":44},"Pre-Order Trailer","10:39","people\u002Fmo-yuan",{"slug":47,"name":48,"summary":49,"body":50,"sources":52,"picture":56,"bossLink":-1},"zuo-shang","Zuo Shang","Leads the Order, which no longer keeps its own rules",[51],"Zuo Shang is the leader of the Order now. In the pre-order trailer a voice warns that \"Zuo Shang's order no longer upholds its rules. Nor does he care about the people of the Wulin.\"",[53,55],{"label":27,"date":28,"at":54},"3:25",{"label":43,"date":28},"people\u002Fzuo-shang",{"slug":58,"name":59,"summary":60,"body":61,"sources":63,"picture":64,"bossLink":-1},"flesh-sculptor","The Flesh Sculptor","The healer who brought Soul back, leaving him exactly 66 days",[62],"The Flesh Sculptor is the mysterious healer who restores Soul's life after the duel, at the price of a fatal condition: 66 days and no more.",[26],"people\u002Fflesh-sculptor",{"slug":66,"name":67,"summary":68,"body":69,"sources":71,"picture":72,"bossLink":-1},"lady-of-the-veil","The Merciful Lady of the Veil","Named in the pre-order trailer among those who no longer care for ordinary people",[70],"The Merciful Lady of the Veil is named in the pre-order trailer, in a line about who still looks after ordinary people: \"The Mandate's leaders don't care about ordinary people. The Merciful Lady of the Veil doesn't care either.\"",[55],"people\u002Flady-of-the-veil",{"slug":74,"name":75,"summary":76,"body":77,"sources":79,"picture":-1,"bossLink":-1},"alkaid","Alkaid","Leader of the Seven Stars, who holds the key to the training ground",[78],"Alkaid leads the Seven Stars. At Justice Camp a swordsman grumbles that \"The gate's locked, and Alkaid has the key\", and the Nameless Survivor points Soul to the seven swordsmen \"beyond the pigeon loft and the skywalk along the cliff\": \"They call him 'Alkaid.'\" The 2025 demo ends on picking up Alkaid's Echo Blossom.",[80,84],{"label":81,"date":82,"at":83},"2025 S-Party demo","2025-07","1:39",{"label":81,"date":82,"at":85},"10:42",{"slug":87,"name":88,"summary":89,"body":90,"sources":92,"picture":94,"bossLink":-1},"forge","Forge","An artisan and weaponsmith, maker of Sanguine Twin and Sanguine Reach",[91],"In the pre-order trailer Forge appears as an artisan in a lady's service. The 2025 demo's equipment cards credit Forge with two weapons modeled on Soul's Sanguine: the short swords Sanguine Twin and the polearm Sanguine Reach.",[55,93],{"label":81,"date":82},"people\u002Fforge",{"slug":96,"name":97,"summary":98,"body":99,"boss":96,"sources":101,"picture":102,"bossLink":103},"huangxing","Huangxing","One of the Pillars of Kunlun, and the commander behind Justice Camp",[100],"Huangxing is one of the three Pillars of Kunlun and the commander whose order sends Allied Justice to Perfect Transcension. Soul fights him as Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade.",[93,26],"people\u002Fhuangxing",{"name":104,"href":105},"Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade","\u002Fbosses\u002Fhuangxing\u002F",{"slug":107,"name":108,"summary":109,"body":110,"sources":112,"picture":119,"bossLink":-1},"nameless-survivor","The Nameless Survivor","A poisoned man at Justice Camp who points Soul to the Seven Stars",[111],"The Nameless Survivor is a man at Justice Camp who poisoned himself rather than face Perfect Transcension: \"death will claim me long before I transform into one of those things.\" He tells Soul the way to the training ground and warns him about the Seven Stars, \"dark and hollow, just like their faces\".",[113,117],{"label":114,"date":115,"at":116},"Year of the Snake Gameplay Trailer","2025-01","0:05",{"label":81,"date":82,"at":118},"10:15","people\u002Fnameless-survivor",{"slug":121,"name":122,"summary":123,"body":124,"boss":121,"sources":126,"picture":133,"bossLink":134},"hua-qianxiao","Hua Qianxiao","A drunk former Mandate sect leader whose blade Soul once broke",[125],"Hua Qianxiao is the Sword Fanatic, a swordsman who once led a sect of the Mandate and now fights drunk. He has not forgotten that it was Soul who broke his blade.",[127,130],{"label":128,"date":129},"Release Date Announcement Trailer, The Game Awards 2025","2025-12",{"label":131,"date":132},"October 2026 preview build","2026-10","people\u002Fhua-qianxiao",{"name":135,"href":136},"Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic","\u002Fbosses\u002Fhua-qianxiao\u002F",{"slug":138,"name":139,"summary":140,"body":141,"boss":138,"sources":143,"picture":144,"bossLink":145},"peng-meng","Peng Meng","An axe-swinging giant sworn against the Mandate",[142],"Peng Meng is the Axemaster, a giant with a great axe and a hatred of the Mandate.",[127,130],"people\u002Fpeng-meng",{"name":146,"href":147},"Peng Meng, the Axemaster","\u002Fbosses\u002Fpeng-meng\u002F",{"slug":149,"name":150,"summary":151,"body":152,"sources":155,"picture":160,"bossLink":-1},"friendly-shadow-warden","The Friendly Shadow Warden","A Shadow Warden freed from the Order's Mindseal by a Primal Stone",[153,154],"At the top of the Valley Sha-Chi Tower in Weeping Creek Valley, a Watchful Shadow Warden greets Soul as a fellow deserter: \"Master Soul's a traitor... and so am I.\" He broke free of the Mindseal, \"how the Order controls us\", after he accidentally swallowed a Primal Stone.","In the side quest A Severed Mindseal, Soul brings him another Primal Stone. He takes it gladly: \"My mind feels clearer again! Master Soul, I can't thank you enough!\"",[156,158],{"label":131,"date":132,"at":157},"4:48",{"label":131,"date":132,"at":159},"9:46","people\u002Ffriendly-shadow-warden",[162,169,178,187,200,207,214,221,228,236],{"slug":163,"name":164,"summary":165,"body":166,"sources":168,"picture":-1},"the-order","The Order","The power Soul once served as a blade; Zuo Shang leads it now",[167],"The Order made Soul its blade: in the creative director's words he was \"a pawn used by the 'Order' to wage war\". Zuo Shang leads it now, and it no longer keeps its own rules. Its Shadow Wardens answer to it through the Mindseal, and Soul still heals with its standard-issue medicine, Healing Dew.",[29,55,93],{"slug":170,"name":171,"summary":172,"body":173,"sources":175,"picture":-1},"shadow-wardens","The Shadow Wardens","Agents of the Order, each held by a Mindseal",[174],"Shadow Wardens serve the Order under a Mindseal: \"The Mindseal is how the Order controls us. There's no ordinary way to undo it.\" A Primal Stone, the stone that powers the Transcension Towers, can break the seal.",[176],{"label":131,"date":132,"at":177},"5:38",{"slug":179,"name":180,"summary":181,"body":182,"sources":184,"picture":186},"seven-stars","The Seven Stars","Alkaid's seven swordsmen, famed for their sword formation",[183],"The Seven Stars are seven swordsmen led by Alkaid, famed for their sword formation: \"Together, they have slain countless evildoers. But now... Now they're dark and hollow, just like their faces.\" In the 2025 demo Soul collects the Echo Petals they leave behind, 6 in all.",[185,93],{"label":114,"date":115},"factions\u002Fseven-stars",{"slug":188,"name":189,"summary":190,"body":191,"sources":194,"picture":199},"allied-justice","Allied Justice","At war with the Masks; its members are ordered into Perfect Transcension",[192,193],"Allied Justice is at war with the Masks. At Justice Camp a notice signed by Huangxing reads: \"All members of Allied Justice are to report to the training ground for Perfect Transcension augmentation.\" Whoever refuses faces a trial for treason, and the sentence is a public beheading.","What it does to them, in the Nameless Survivor's words: \"It takes away your heart, leaving only a husk.\"",[195,197],{"label":81,"date":82,"at":196},"11:56",{"label":81,"date":82,"at":198},"11:19","factions\u002Fallied-justice",{"slug":201,"name":202,"summary":203,"body":204,"sources":206,"picture":-1},"pillars-of-kunlun","The Pillars of Kunlun","Yuyin, Huangxing and Moji, \"the de facto pillars of Allied Justice\"",[205],"The Pillars of Kunlun are three masters of the Kunlun Sect: Yuyin, \"staunch and very much respected\", Huangxing, \"reticent and often feared\", and Moji, the most modest and gentle of them and \"widely loved\". With the Masks wreaking havoc, the three are sent to Pangzhen and its surroundings to unite the local sects.",[93],{"slug":208,"name":209,"summary":210,"body":211,"sources":213,"picture":-1},"the-masks","The Masks","Allied Justice's enemy, said to be wreaking havoc everywhere",[212],"The Masks are the enemy in Allied Justice's war. Huangxing's notice demands every ounce of strength \"to win this war against the Masks\", and a document describes them \"wreaking havoc everywhere\".",[93],{"slug":215,"name":216,"summary":217,"body":218,"sources":220,"picture":-1},"the-mandate","The Mandate","A faction whose leaders, the pre-order trailer says, don't care about ordinary people",[219],"The pre-order trailer says it plainly: \"The Mandate's leaders don't care about ordinary people.\" Hua Qianxiao once led one of its sects, Peng Meng swears to \"slaughter every last Mandate rat\", and the Mandate Encampment has a map of its own.",[55,130,26],{"slug":222,"name":223,"summary":224,"body":225,"sources":227,"picture":-1},"bastion-of-mo","The Bastion of Mó","The faction led by Mó Yuan",[226],"The Bastion of Mó is led by Mó Yuan, the character Donnie Yen plays.",[40],{"slug":229,"name":230,"summary":231,"body":232,"sources":234,"picture":-1},"the-eleven","The Eleven","Builders of the Transcension Towers",[233],"The Eleven built the Transcension Towers long ago, by the account of a Shadow Warden at the top of one in Weeping Creek Valley: \"This Transcension Tower was built long ago by the Eleven.\"",[235],{"label":131,"date":132,"at":157},{"slug":237,"name":238,"summary":239,"body":240,"sources":242,"picture":245},"cult-of-the-veil","The cult of the Lady Behind the Veil","A cult whose idols are spreading beyond Lu's Village",[241],"Idols of the Lady Behind the Veil turn up at Justice Camp, a sign that \"the cult's influence is spreading beyond Lu's Village\".",[243],{"label":81,"date":82,"at":244},"9:58","factions\u002Fcult-of-the-veil",[247,250,253,256,259,262],{"role":248,"name":249},"Developer","S-GAME",{"role":251,"name":252},"Creative director","Soulframe Liang",{"role":254,"name":255},"Combat director","Yang Liu",{"role":257,"name":258},"Cutscene animation director","Yang Tingmu",{"role":260,"name":261},"Creative consultant","Donnie Yen",{"role":263,"name":264},"Engine","Unreal Engine 5",1792684117329]