Foes

A masked master met beyond the Lóng Pillar, in a place of fire and darkness; he spars with Soul without meaning to win, and leaves him the name "Bastion of Mó."

The most bloodthirsty of the killers sent after traitors, swinging across sheer cliffs on a pair of chained sickles.

A hammer-swinging brute and the faceless thing riding his neck — a pair chained to each other.

Cavalrybane holds the streets, Soulclaimer the docks, Heartpiercer the White Serpent House — three elite Shadow Wardens, one achievement.

Killers who turned their own trade on themselves: doll masks, years of drugs, and bodies no taller than a child's.

The people of Lujia Village, moved into wooden bodies one by one, still keeping to the roles they held in life and killing the way those roles suggest.

A hulking hammer wielder guarding the Mandate Encampment, his body covered in scars left by Transcension.

Six kinds of puppet built by the Herald — cannon, spike, umbrella, severed head, halberd and shield — most of them carrying a living mind inside.

Bi Taotao's first disciple, holding a soft sword behind a cracked mask in the Confinement.

A girl in a Big-Head Doll headpiece, half smiling and half weeping, who stops travelers with a band of puppets she calls friends.

A healer who rules the backstreets of Pangzhen behind a mask set with copper coins, living off the Sha-Chi of the Transcended.

A woman gnawing corpses in a barren graveyard, swinging a rake with no technique at all, yet able to summon shadows of herself.