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World
- The World of Phantom Blade Zero The Phantom World: a half-invented Wulin built on traditional martial arts and steampunk machinery, ringed by sea, ice, desert and volcano.
- Factions In the Phantom World factions crowd every corner, flaring up and dying down like fireworks.
- Earlier-Game Cast Characters who appear only in the earlier *Rainblood* and *Phantom Blade* games and have not turned up in *Phantom Blade Zero*.
- History The Wulin is a long scroll, carrying not only the small business of bridges and streams but the songs heroes sing as they die.
- Geography The Wulin brims and rolls on, wide beyond any measure.
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Factions
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Setting
- The Bastion of Mó The Bastion of Mó, ruled by a line whose surname is Mó — the largest underworld power in the Wulin, known in short as the House of Mó.
- Gongsun Xiaofeng Wife of Long Wu, one of the nine children of the Long family's last generation — and the finest physician the Long family ever produced
- Long Lie The Long family's fourth son — a martial fanatic from birth
- Long Mingyu The finest master of the Long family's last generation, five times running the representative of the Orthodox Alliance, a master swordsman and a master of the sword aura
- Long Tairan The last clan head of the Long family — shrewd and resourceful, a man of consequence two generations past who crossed swords with Mó Shaocheng, head of the House of Mó, time and again
- Long Wu The favourite son of the Long family's last clan head — the man the whole Wulin expected to lift the house to greater heights, and whom the tides of history swallowed all the same.
- Long Xing The youngest of the nine children of the Long family — the one most people overlook without ever meaning to.
- Long Yijue Eldest daughter among the nine children of the Long family, second in the direct line, and by common consent the finest woman fighter in the Wulin of her day.
- Mo Zhaoyun When the Long family fell she did as her master told her: took the infant heir in her arms and fled Xinglong Manor, to leave the house one last thread of blood.
- Ability Training Ability Training is one of Soul's RPG progression systems: 32 abilities in total, covering most of what he can do in combat.
- Seven Stars Sword Formation The Sword Pavilion's signature art: seven disciples holding the positions of the Big Dipper, and a formation stronger than the seven of them apart.
- Wondrous Arts Wondrous arts are abilities in the Phantom World that go past ordinary martial study, touching on life and death, souls and reshaping.
- The Qilin A retainer Long Wu placed in Baihe Township against a day that might never come, the Qilin spent his life there as an ordinary commoner.
- Transcension The core concept behind the series: reshaping a body's *Sha-Chi* by artificial means to reach power beyond human limits — and paying a price for it.
- The Mirage A hidden organization inside the fog of the southern Wulin: it appears and vanishes like a mirage, and no one knows whether it was ever truly destroyed.
- The Battle of Mirage Fought in The Order's thirtieth year, the campaign that carried its expansion south — and made Soul's and Zuo Shang's names.
- The Marionette the Marionette are mechanism puppets built by Mirage, worked by fine threads and shaped like living people
- The Tianling Massacre One of the most important historical events in the Phantom Blade series, the Tianling Massacre took place in the thirteenth year of The Order
- Wan Qiaoru Wife of Mu Tianmiao, the old Nether Lord of The Order, and mother of the young lord Mu Xiaokui
- Martial Arts martial arts are the foundation of combat for the warriors of the Phantom World, built on traditional wuxia and fused with Sha-Chi, Occult Arts, mechanical arts and other power systems
- Xuanji Son of Xuan Li, the adopted son of Grand Secretary Xuan Mo, and father of Xuanyu and Xuan Yu
- Yecheng Cloud Terrace Massacre In the fortieth year of The Order the Wulin Assembly convened on Cloud Terrace in Yecheng, and most of the Wulin sect leaders were killed — the event that marks the Wulin's third great upheaval.
- The Order The Order is the central power in the story: the whole series is the tale of The Order in one age of the Wulin.
- The Order's Internal War One of the core events of the Phantom Blade series, taking place in the fortieth year of The Order.
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Geography
- Luocheng Mirage's main foothold in the Southern Wulin, deep inside the fog.
- Meigu Lake Phantom Blade Zero
- Nancheng Tianling Peak Open record
- Nancheng Nancheng is a traditional Wulin city in the watery southeast of the Phantom World, threaded with canals, and the home town of Soul and Zuo Shang. Open record
- Pangzhen Township Pangzhen Township region map for Phantom Blade Zero: five connected areas, bell placement, what to pick up, and which side content you can lose by leaving early.
- Valley The opening valley as a lab, not a corridor: route order, the bell rule, seven collection types, and the one side quest you can lose before you notice it.
- Gear City Gear City is the most advanced industrial city in the Phantom World, home to the houses of artificers, foremost among them the Ying clan
- Blood Forest Blood Forest: the one confirmed description, its place on the eight-region roster, the rules every region runs on, and every field still marked unpublished.
- Yecheng The great city at the middle of the Phantom World, where the sects meet, the trade runs, and Cloud Terrace tower stages the Wulin Assembly.
- Game Map Overview Phantom Blade Zero runs as a wide-linear sequence of unbroken maps, each with a pocket of lighter diorama-style exploration and side content filling the gaps.
- Prison Mountain Phantom Blade Zero · a mountain prison region
- The Orthodox Camp Phantom Blade Zero · the camp of the orthodox sects