Phantom Blade Zero · Character
Red
Red is the swordswoman in red at the top of the Dovecote tower in the Mandate Encampment, Chapter 5. Sha-Chi has burned her face into a hollow, but a thread of reason remains: she holds back when she fights Soul, and she seems to be waiting there for someone.
- Where you meetMandate Encampment
- Quests1 in the quest log
- Boss fightFight page
Who is Red?
You meet Red at the top of the Dovecote tower in the Mandate Encampment in Chapter 5. Her swordplay is light and graceful, but Sha-Chi has already burned her face into a twisted hollow. A thread of reason remains in her: she stays on the tower as if waiting for someone important, and she has no intention of giving the fight with Soul her all. Sha-Chi drives her on anyway.
At the dovecote door a dazed Mandate swordswoman talks about her: a woman from an evil sect, the Daughter of the Dark Sect, whom the Mandate let live and who has since undergone Transcension herself. “She came back,” the disciple says, “even after what she became.”
A memory of hers shows her as the Mandate’s prisoner. Her sect kept to itself, she tells the grandmasters, so why wipe it out? Transcension has already spread across the Wulin; their true enemies are those inhuman monsters, and rot within is worse than any threat from without.
Who Red is to the others
3 more ties the story reveals later
The man she loves
The Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars Formation. She came from an evil sect and he from the Mandate, and the Mandate’s leaders used their love as an excuse to persecute her. When you face his formation she comes back to fight beside him: “Nothing can separate us. Not even in death.”
“We love each other. I regret nothing!”
In-game dialogueHer torturer
He accuses her of seducing his prodigy and turning him against his sect, and orders her scalded with boiling water and thrown into a pit.
“You seduced my prodigy and turned him against me... this is sin of the worst kind!”
In-game dialogueRuined her face
She orders Red’s face sliced to ribbons, then laughs: let’s see how she seduces the Mandate’s disciples now.
“Come! Slice that pretty face to ribbons!”
In-game dialogue
Every quest with Red in it
Tales
Daughter of the Dark Sect
The quest starts when you meet Red on top of the Dovecote tower, and asks whether she will appear again. A dazed swordswoman at the dovecote door speaks of a Daughter of the Dark Sect; finding out who that is finishes it.
How this quest turns out
The disciple says the Daughter of the Dark Sect is determined to die together with the Chief Disciple. Red is the woman he loved, and she returns when you face the Seven-Stars Formation.
In the game’s own words
The game’s bestiary note on each form you fight. They are folded shut because some of them give away what happens later.
Red, the Mysterious Swordswoman
A mysterious woman in red who once appeared atop the Dovecote tower. Her swordplay is light and graceful, yet Sha-Chi has already burned her face into a twisted hollow. A thread of reason remains. She stays atop the tower as if waiting for someone important. Thus, when she fought Soul, she had no intention of giving it her all. Driven by Sha-Chi, she could barely control herself.
She came from an evil sect, yet fell in love with the Chief Disciple of a Mandate sect. The Mandate's upper ranks could never tolerate the sect she came from, and their love became an excuse to persecute her. They subjected her to humiliation after humiliation, then hypocritically spared her life.
How absurd. Those same leaders had no desire to stand against inhuman creatures, yet were willing to go to great lengths to deal with a small sect living in seclusion. They proclaimed themselves the righteous path, yet possessed not a fraction of the courage and integrity of the disciples beneath them.
To survive, and to seek revenge, she underwent Transcension. But as she stands atop the tower, looking down upon the ruined Mandate Encampment, does she wonder if it was all for nothing? Or perhaps, when it comes to the love and hatred of her life, she has no regrets.
What happens to Red
The end of the story for this character
When you face the Seven-Stars Formation, Red comes back to fight beside the Chief Disciple. The game never shows her death outright, but in the final battle she appears as a vision with him and his juniors, and thanks Soul for letting the two of them face the end together.
“I shall be waiting for you...”
In-game dialogue
Keep reading
How to beat RedFrequently asked questions
Why is Red’s face a hollow?
Sha-Chi. To survive, and to take revenge, she underwent Transcension, and it burned her face into a twisted hollow.
Where is the Dovecote?
In the Mandate Encampment, Chapter 5. It has its own bell, Dovecote.
Sources for this page 1
- Phantom Blade Zero Official Phantom Blade Zero launch build: the game’s own dialogue, documents, bestiary, quest log and loading screens, read 3 November 2026. Quotes are the game’s English text, unchanged.