Phantom Blade Zero Chinese–English names

A reference of every English and Chinese name for Phantom Blade Zero that the sources give so far.

Facts checked 11 Oct 2026game menus, name plates and map names added 14 Oct 2026Page rebuilt 14 Oct 2026

130names so far
41one source states
29our matches
60one language only
On this page 10 sections
  1. How to read the groups
  2. 1. Pairings one source states (41)
  3. 2. Our matches (29, unconfirmed)
  4. 3. Names in one language only (60)
  5. Boss names: where each one comes from
  6. Weapon names: where each one comes from
  7. Character, faction and place names
  8. Terms that changed from the older English localisation
  9. How the pairings will be settled
  10. What is not yet known

The names are in three groups: pairings that one source states, pairings we matched ourselves, and names that exist in one language only.

How to read the groups

Group 1 holds pairings that a single source states: one article that prints both names, or one official text published in English and in Chinese, where the two names sit in the same sentence or the same list slot; or, since 14 October 2026, the game’s own screens in English and Chinese. Group 2 holds pairings we made ourselves. Each row says “likely” or “weak” and gives the basis: same romanisation, literal translation, matching description, or derived from another pairing. No source gives both names for any row in group 2. Group 3 holds names that exist in one language only so far. Where a row covers the earlier games rather than this one, it says so.

The same states appear as seals on the other pages: white characters cut into solid red for group 1, red characters inside a red border for a likely match of ours or a Chinese name only the press reports, and no seal where there is no Chinese name or only a weak candidate. For the earlier games’ cast and factions, see the Rainblood story so far; for this game’s characters, see characters and factions.

1. Pairings one source states (41)

One source gives both names in each row. “Both versions” means the English and the Chinese version of the same official text, read on 11 October 2026. Since 14 October 2026 the group also holds 16 pairings from the game’s own screens: the same item panel or name plate in the English and the Chinese build of the 2025 demo, the English build as recorded by the official channel and the Chinese build in players’ recordings on Bilibili (we cite those and never show their frames). A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

Pairings one source states, with the source that states them
EnglishChineseWhere it appearsLevel and basisSources
Phantom Blade Zero影之刃零This gameOfficial. The Steam store lists the game under both names.Steam store, Chinese version
Soul魂This game: the protagonist. A fan compilation of the earlier games also gives 魔魂.Official. Both versions of the Steam pre-order announcement.Steam announcement, Chinese version, PlayStation Blog, 2023
Mó Yuan魔渊This game: leader of the Bastion of Mó and Soul’s father; a hidden bossOfficial. The same announcement: “Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó” and 暗魔天堡之主“魔渊”.Steam announcement, Chinese version, PlayStation Blog, 2026
Bastion of Mó暗魔天堡This game: the house Mó Yuan leads. A fan wiki gives the older English “Dark Castle of Mo”.Official. The same announcement, both versions.Steam announcement, Chinese version
Phantom World影境This game: the settingOfficial. Both versions of the Steam store text and of the announcement.Steam store, Chinese version, PlayStation Blog, 2023
The Wulin武林This game: the martial world Soul travelsOfficial. The store text pairs “the Wulin and the Discordance” with 表里武林; the part 武林 appears unchanged.Steam store, Chinese version, PlayStation Blog, 2026
Memory Flowers记忆之花This game: blue flowers that raise maximum healthOfficial. First of five terms in the same store sentence, both versions.Steam store, Chinese version, DualShockers
Transcension杀气改造This game: body-altering Sha-Chi modification. A fan wiki gives the older English “Sha-Chi Mod”.Official. Third of five terms in the same store sentence.Steam store, Chinese version, PC Gamer
The Lady of the Veil圣母娘娘This game: named in the store text only; what it refers to is not statedOfficial. Fourth of five terms in the same store sentence.Steam store, Chinese version
Inanis’ Dreamscape虚空梦境This game: named in the store textOfficial. Fifth of five terms in the same store sentence.Steam store, Chinese version
Inanis虚空This game: named in the store text. Earlier games: an illusionist of The Order.Official under ruling R1b. 虚空 appears unchanged in the official pairing Inanis’ Dreamscape / 虚空梦境, as 武林 does in 表里武林.Steam store, Chinese version, fan compilation on Gamersky
Phantom Edges奇诡武装This game: the secondary weaponsOfficial. The same store sentence: “more than 20 unique Phantom Edges” and 二十多门奇诡武装. Chinese press writes 影之武装 (group 2).Steam store, Chinese version
primary weapons主武器This game: the two main weapons you carryOfficial. The same store sentence: “over 30 primary weapons” and 三十余种主武器. The PlayStation Blog says “main weapons”.Steam store, Chinese version
Remnant Dust意识尘埃This game: a currency or resourceStore data. The same line of the pre-order text in the English and Chinese store pages.PlayStation Store, Chinese page
Treasure Basin聚宝盆This game: pre-order accessoryStore data. The same line of the pre-order text, both pages.PlayStation Store, Chinese page
Legacy传承This game: pre-order outfitStore data. The same line of the pre-order text, both pages.PlayStation Store, Chinese page
Wulin Legend武林传说This game: Digital Deluxe outfitStore data. The same slot of the Digital Deluxe contents list, both pages.PlayStation Store, Chinese page
Blood-Steel Form机械魔躯This game: Digital Deluxe outfitStore data. The same slot of the Digital Deluxe contents list, both pages. ifanr prints 机械魔驱.PlayStation Store, Chinese page, ifanr
Standard Edition标准版This game: the base editionStore data. The same edition slot, both pages.PlayStation Store, Chinese page
Digital Deluxe Edition数字豪华版This game: the larger editionStore data. The same edition slot, both pages.PlayStation Store, Chinese page
Rainblood (series)雨血Earlier games: the seriesUnconfirmed (wiki). Chinese Wikipedia prints both names together.zh.wikipedia
Rainblood: Town of Death雨血1：死镇 (also 雨血之死镇)Earlier games: 2010 releaseUnconfirmed (wiki). Chinese Wikipedia prints “Rainblood 1: Town of Death” beside the Chinese title.zh.wikipedia, Fandom
Rainblood 2: City of Flame雨血2：烨城Earlier games: 2011 releaseUnconfirmed (wiki). Chinese Wikipedia prints both names together.zh.wikipedia, Fandom
Rainblood Chronicles: Mirage雨血前传：蜃楼Earlier games: 2013 prequel. Steam lists it as “Rain Blood Chronicles: Mirage”, released 11 November 2013.Unconfirmed (wiki). Chinese Wikipedia pairs the Chinese title with a third English form, “Rainblood Prequel: Castle of Mirage”, and gives the same Steam date.zh.wikipedia, Steam search
Phantom Blade: Executioners影之刃：断罪者Earlier games: 2023 free-to-play side-scroller built on 影之刃3Press-reported. 3DM prints both names together.3DM, English Wikipedia
Sanguine黑伤2025 demo; the default long swordOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.IGN, fan list on Gamersky, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Seamless Death玉双环2025 demo; a pair of throwable ring bladesOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.IGN, PC Gamer, gcores, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Jagged Steel (on the game’s menus; the press also prints “Jagged Blade” and “Jagged Edge”)残钢刃2025 demo; chapter 1 of the final buildOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.The Outerhaven, CGMagazine, IGN, gcores, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Soft Snake Sword灵蛇软剑2025 demo; State of PlayOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.Wccftech, PC Gamer, gcores, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
White Serpent and Crimson Viper白蟒赤练State of Play; a long and a short bladeOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.Wccftech, gcores, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Juggernaut荡寇凶刃2025 demo; a polearm bladeOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch. gcores’s 2024 name 荡寇横刀, won from Commander Cleave, may be an earlier name of the same weapon; no source says so.PC Gamer, gcores, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Bashpole长柄金瓜2025 demo; the weapon of Wan Jun “Coppermaul”Official (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.IGN, fan list on Gamersky, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1HkqYBWEmR)
Night Owl羽弓2025 demo, equipment screen; the August 2026 character menu; a bowOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.Fextralife, fan list on Gamersky, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1HkqYBWEmR)
Sanguine Reach长形黑伤2024 closed-door demo (as 长形黑伤, gcores); 2025 demo; a two-handed polearm form of SanguineOfficial (the game’s own menus). The same item panel names it in the English and the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; see the weapon block. A demo name may change at launch.gcores, official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Sanguine Twin黑伤双刃2025 demo; twin short swords. A fan list labels them 黑伤双刀Official (the game’s own text): the Chinese tutorial of the 2025 demo names 黑伤双刃 for the twin-blade slot whose English menu name is Sanguine Twin; see the weapon block.official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp), fan list on Gamersky
Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars七星剑阵：大师兄2025 demo; Year of the Snake trailerOfficial (the game’s own screens). The fight’s name plate in the English and the Chinese build of the 2025 demo; see the boss block. gcores prints the two parts separately, and 大师兄 is a title, “eldest disciple”.IGN, gcores
Wan Jun “Coppermaul”巨锤客万钧2025 demo; a giant with a warhammer. The Bashpole card calls him “Brute”Official (the game’s own screens). The fight’s name plate in the English and the Chinese build of the 2025 demo; see the boss block.IGN, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Red Wraith红衣女剑客2025 demo; optional bossOfficial (the game’s own screens). The fight’s name plate in the English and the Chinese build of the 2025 demo; see the boss block. Chinese players had described her by the same words, “red-clad swordswoman”.IGN, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Chief Disciple’s Fallen Hope大师兄的绝望剑意2025 demo; the marionette second phaseOfficial (the game’s own screens). The fight’s name plate in the English and the Chinese build of the 2025 demo; see the boss block.IGN, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)
Nightwatch羽弓客2025 demo; the archer who owned the bow Night OwlOfficial (the game’s own menus): the Night Owl card names its owner in both menus; see the block. The Chinese recording’s build date is not confirmed.official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1HkqYBWEmR)
Forge炼邪2025 demo; the maker of Sanguine Twin and Sanguine ReachOfficial (the game’s own menus): the Sanguine Reach panel names the maker in both menus; see the block. The text does not say whether Forge is a person or a workshop.official 2025 demo walkthrough, player’s Chinese recording (BV1228tzSEyp)

Official Game screens: the official 2025 S-Party demo walkthrough and the State of Play on YouTube, with players’ Chinese recordings of the same demo on Bilibili. Official Steam store text and Steam announcement, each in its English and Chinese version. Store data PlayStation Store listing, English and Chinese pages. Press-reported 3DM. Unconfirmed Wikipedia rows: a wiki states the pairing, so the level stays Unconfirmed.

2. Our matches (29, unconfirmed)

We paired these names ourselves. No source gives both names for any row. “Likely” rows are shown as dashed red seals on the other pages; “weak” rows are not shown as seals at all.

Our matches, with the basis of each
EnglishChineseWhere it appearsBasis and noteSources
Drunken Sword醉剑State of PlayLikely. Literal translation. The fan list writes of the drunken sword of a figure it calls 花千笑.Wccftech, fan list on Gamersky
Tiger Cannon虎炮 / 雷当虎炮State of Play; breaks formations at rangeLikely. Literal translation. gcores writes 虎炮; a fan list writes 雷当虎炮.Wccftech, gcores, fan list on Gamersky
Flaming Mane烈焰狮头2025 demo; a flame-spewing lion maskLikely. Matching description.IGN, gcores
Dread Axe巨凶斧Chapter 1 of the final build; unlocked by beating Peng MengLikely. Matching description.CGMagazine, gcores
Reforging Talisman (item)逆炼符Resets a weapon and refunds its materialsLikely. Matching description.Wccftech, Gamersky
Tie Sha癫狂暴徒铁杀2024 demo; the introductory fight. English name as excerpted from GamerBraves in search results.Likely. Same romanisation.GamerBraves, gcores
Commander Cleave横刀队长2024 demo; a mid-boss. English name as excerpted from GamerBraves in search results.Likely. Same position in the same demo.GamerBraves, gcores
Huangxing昆仑叛教者：荒行子2024 demo; the area boss. English name as excerpted from GamerBraves in search results.Likely. Near-identical romanisation.GamerBraves, gcores
Peng Meng, the Axemaster斧老大Chapter 1 of the final buildLikely. Matching description and timing.CGMagazine, Gamersky preview
The Hunt追命Pre-order trailer; a former comrade Soul fightsLikely. Meaning and timing.PlayStation Blog, 2026, Gamersky preview
Zuo Shang (Wikipedia spells “Zuoshang”)左殇This game: Soul’s childhood friend and rivalLikely. Same romanisation. The Chinese is from a fan compilation of the earlier games.DualShockers, English Wikipedia, fan compilation on Gamersky
Mu Xiaokui沐小葵This game: named in the cast notes on English Wikipedia. Earlier games: the patriarch’s daughter.Likely. Same romanisation. The fan compilation prints only 小葵.English Wikipedia, fan compilation on Gamersky
The Order组织This game: Soul’s former organisationLikely. Literal translation.PlayStation Blog, 2023, Gamersky preview
The Discordance里武林This game: hidden counterpart of the Wulin. A fan wiki gives the older English “ParaWulin”.Likely. Our reading of the official pairing “the Wulin and the Discordance” / 表里武林 as the outer and the inner Wulin.Steam store, Chinese version, Fandom
Pangzhen (spelled “Pang Town” on this site before 14 Oct)庞镇This game: the town at the heart of the storyLikely. Same romanisation. The English spelling is official since 14 Oct 2026: the State of Play title card and map read “PANGZHEN”. Before, the spelling came from a fan wiki’s list of trailer titles; Wccftech prints “Pengcheng” and Wikipedia “Pangzhen”; see the block.Fandom, Wccftech, Gamersky preview, State of Play, 4:52
Mu Tianmiao (older English localisation)沐天邈Earlier games only: founder and first leader of The Order. Not named in material for this game.Likely. Same romanisation. English from a fan wiki, Chinese from a fan compilation.Fandom, fan compilation on Gamersky
Xuanyu玄玉Earlier games only: intelligence chief who founds the 酒馆 network and fakes her deathLikely. Same romanisation. English from a fan wiki, Chinese from a fan compilation.Fandom, fan compilation on Gamersky
Phantom Blade 1–3影之刃, 影之刃2, 影之刃3Earlier games only: mobile, China, from 2014Likely. Derived from the paired titles Phantom Blade Zero / 影之刃零 and Phantom Blade: Executioners / 影之刃：断罪者 in group 1. One wiki lists the English titles and another the Chinese ones.English Wikipedia, zh.wikipedia template
Sha-Chi杀气The second meter beside healthLikely. Same romanisation. The official store text has 杀气改造 for Transcension.IGN, gcores
Ghostep (also printed as “Ghoststep”)鬼步The move that follows a correct answer to a Brutal or Killer MoveLikely. Literal translation; the Chinese preview uses 鬼步 for the same moment.IGN, PC Gamer, Gamersky preview
Bells铃铛This game: the checkpoint and fast-travel pointLikely. Literal translation.IGN, Gamersky preview
Phantom Edges影之武装This game: the secondary weapons, as Chinese press writes themLikely. The term gcores and Gamersky use; the official Chinese store text says 奇诡武装 (group 1).gcores, Gamersky preview
Parry精防 / 完美格挡A block at the moment of impactWeak. Chinese fan and press wording for the action, not a game term.IGN, fan explainer on Gamersky, gcores
Brutal Moves蓝光攻击Enemy attacks flashed blueWeak. Chinese fan wording (“blue-light attack”), not a game term.PC Gamer, RPGFan
Killer Moves红光攻击Enemy attacks flashed redWeak. Chinese fan wording (“red-light attack”), not a game term.PC Gamer, The Outerhaven
Allied Justice正道联盟This game: the alliance of Justice Camp in the 2025 demo; a faction the Chinese preview says returnsOur match (14 Oct 2026). The same weapon, Jagged Steel, was “stolen from Allied Justice” in the English menu and taken from 正道 in the Chinese one (different builds); see the block.Gamersky preview, official 2025 demo walkthrough
Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute痴狂暴徒残钢2024 closed-door demo (gcores); chapter 1 of the final build (Game Rant). gcores says he gives the weapon 残钢刃, which builds a bleed gaugeOur match. English name from Game Rant’s preview of 8 Oct 2026; no source gives both names; see the boss block.gcores, Game Rant
Lion Dance Grandmaster舞狮尊主烈焰Trailers; October 2026 previews. RPGFan calls it “the Dancing Lion”, so outlets differOur match by meaning: gcores’s six-hour hands-on names a boss 舞狮尊主烈焰; no source gives both names; see the boss block.The Outerhaven, RPGFan, gcores
The Seven Stars七星剑阵This game: the seven swordsmen of the Chief Disciple fightOur match: the Chinese name plate of that fight reads 七星剑阵：大师兄 where the English reads “Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars”; gcores calls the group 七星剑阵; see the block.gcores, official site

Unconfirmed Every row here is our own match. The sources linked in each row give one name each, not both. GamerBraves could not be opened directly; its three boss names are as excerpted in search results.

3. Names in one language only (60)

These have a name in one language and no paired name in the other. A Chinese name here is not yet matched to an English name, and an English name here has no Chinese name in the sources we read.

Names in one language only, with the level of the source that gives them
NameLanguageWhere it appearsNoteSources
Man-CutterEnglish only2025 demo; “an enormous halberd” with a charged smashOfficial: on the game’s own equipment screen (2025 demo, 4:24). Possibly the same weapon as the Dread Axe under an earlier name; that is our guess. No Chinese name.IGN, official 2025 demo walkthrough
The Flesh SculptorEnglish onlyThe sorcerer or healer who gives Soul a new heartPress-reported. No source gives a Chinese name.RPGFan, CGMagazine
Against The FlowEnglish onlyTitle of a section of chapter 1Press-reported, one outlet. No Chinese name.CGMagazine
Steel And SteamEnglish onlyTitle of a section of chapter 1Press-reported, one outlet. No Chinese name.CGMagazine
WayfarerEnglish onlyDifficulty name; for players who want the storyOfficial. No Chinese name found.PlayStation Blog, 2026
PathbreakerEnglish onlyDifficulty nameOfficial: on the in-game difficulty menu. No Chinese name found.State of Play difficulty menu, 11:10; GamingBolt
HellwalkerEnglish onlyDifficulty name; adaptive enemy AIOfficial. No Chinese name found.PlayStation Blog, 2026
Sixty-Six DaysEnglish onlyDifficulty mode; press also writes “66 Days”Official. No Chinese name found.PlayStation Blog, 2026
Perfect DodgeEnglish onlyA dodge at the last moment against a Killer MovePress-reported. No Chinese name.The Outerhaven
Bleed Gauge, Blood LossEnglish onlyBleed build-up on one weapon, as printed in one previewPress-reported. A full “Bleed Gauge” triggers “Blood Loss”. The August 2026 menu text of Jagged Steel says “Bleed” and “Blood Loss Gauge” (best reading of out-of-focus text); the 2025 demo said Bleeding and Hemorrhage.The Outerhaven
Wills / Hands / InstrumentsEnglish onlyEarlier games: older English words for The Order’s ranks 冥使, 人使 and 鬼差Unconfirmed (fan wiki, as read 10 October 2026). Which rank each word maps to is our guess.Fandom
Nether EnvoyEnglish onlyEarlier games: older English for Zuo Shang’s rankUnconfirmed (fan wiki, as read 10 October 2026). The Chinese rank it maps to is our guess.Fandom
黑伤 as Soul’s titleChinese onlyEarlier games: Soul’s later title, after his weaponUnconfirmed (fan compilation). “Black Scar” is our gloss, not a name a source gives. The weapon Sanguine is 黑伤 on the game’s own menus (group 1).fan compilation on Gamersky
Fan label: 精英双钩Chinese onlyA later trailer; twin hooks carried by Pangzhen elitesUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Fan label: 军用棹刀Chinese onlyA later trailer; a two-handed bladeUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Fan label: 石蒜大刀Chinese onlyA later trailer; a two-handed bladeUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Phantom Edge: 墨血无痕Chinese only2024 closed-door demo; January 2025 demo. A one-handed sword.Press-reported. According to gcores in January 2025, the only Phantom Edge shown up to then that recharges by itself.gcores
Fan label: 高压水炮Chinese onlyLater trailers; a Phantom EdgeUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Fan label: 火铳Chinese onlyLater trailers; a Phantom EdgeUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Fan label: 三叉戟Chinese onlyLater trailers; a Phantom EdgeUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Fan label: 血滴子Chinese onlyLater trailers; a Phantom EdgeUnconfirmed. One fan cataloguer’s label, not a confirmed game name.fan list on Gamersky
Fan labels: 力量, 远程, 武学, 奇术Chinese onlyFour Phantom Edge categories, by icon: axe, bow, twin sickles, bellUnconfirmed. From one fan list. Power, ranged, martial and arcane are our glosses.fan list on Gamersky
Boss: 玉面郎君Chinese only2024 closed-door demo; a three-person bossPress-reported. gcores says he gives the weapon 玉双环, now the official Chinese name of Seamless Death (group 1). English: no name; the bosses page calls him an unnamed three-person bounty.gcores
Faction: 蛇屋Chinese onlyA faction the Chinese preview says returnsPress-reported. Earlier games: The Order’s research houses, per a fan compilation.Gamersky preview
Faction: 十一人阁Chinese onlyA faction the Chinese preview says returnsPress-reported. No English name yet.Gamersky preview
Soundtrack themes: 雁字归川, 辰虫木楼, 跋扈万里Chinese onlyThemes from the earlier games that the Chinese preview says returnPress-reported. No English titles given.Gamersky preview
Earlier games: 万巧茹Chinese onlyWife of the patriarch, a general’s daughterUnconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 钢铁女皇Chinese onlyThe greatsword of 万巧茹Unconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 魔剑Chinese onlySoul’s elder brother, who fell from a cliff with the family swordUnconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 血涡Chinese onlyThe family sword of the Bastion’s lordUnconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 魔天Chinese onlyThe last lord of the Bastion, imprisoned beneath 烨城. Gamersky reports that this game renames him 魔渊, Mó Yuan.Press-reported. No English name in the older localisation.Gamersky
Earlier games: 龙家Chinese onlyThe great “righteous” house, broken by The OrderUnconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 赤蛇屋, 紫蛇屋Chinese onlyThe Order’s research housesUnconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 冥使, 人使, 鬼差Chinese onlyThe Order’s ranks: envoys, agents, and re-engineered corpses used as toolsUnconfirmed (fan compilation). The older English words are in the row above; their mapping is our guess.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 金玉阁Chinese onlyA house in 南城 whose former master was InanisUnconfirmed (fan compilation). No English name found.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 酒馆Chinese onlyThe intelligence network founded by XuanyuUnconfirmed (fan compilation). “Tavern” is our gloss, not a name a source gives.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: 怪面之乱Chinese onlyAn uprising of masked fighters, tied to the cabal 十一人阁Unconfirmed (fan compilation). “Masked uprising” is our gloss.fan compilation on Gamersky
Earlier games: placesChinese only烨城, 南城, 天云台, 生死桥, 械城, 白城, 月堡, 落城, 黑林, 荒城, 狱山, 马庄, 京城, 天岭Unconfirmed (fan compilation). 14 names; none has an official English name yet.fan compilation on Gamersky
Outlaw’s WarbladeEnglish onlyA two-handed weapon in the August 2026 character menuOfficial (on screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 8:20
ArmybreakerEnglish onlyA two-handed polearm in the August 2026 character menuOfficial (on screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 8:21
The Fanatic’s Broken BladeEnglish onlyA one-handed sword in the August 2026 character menu; its text is about drinkingOfficial (on screen for about 0.2 s). No Chinese name.State of Play, 8:24
Flying DaggersEnglish onlyA long-ranged Phantom Edge in the August 2026 character menuOfficial (on screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 8:25
Heartrend PipaEnglish onlyAn Artifice Phantom Edge in the August 2026 character menuOfficial (on screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 8:26
Iron GauntletsEnglish onlyA Martial Skill Phantom Edge in the August 2026 character menuOfficial (on screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 8:26
Ink CutEnglish onlyA Phantom Edge in the 2025 demo’s equipment menu; extra damage against HuangxingOfficial (on screen). No Chinese name; not paired with 墨血无痕.2025 demo, 4:23
Jade DancerEnglish only2024 demo; a bossOfficial (name plate). No Chinese name.gameplay trailer, 1:24
Zhuobi, the GatekeeperEnglish onlyState of Play; a shielded bossOfficial (name plate). No Chinese name.State of Play, 9:22
Blizzard BlademasterEnglish onlyState of Play; a boss on a snowfieldOfficial (name plate). No Chinese name.State of Play, 12:08
The Lion Dance Grandmaster’s Final DanceEnglish onlyState of Play; a bossOfficial (name plate). No Chinese name.State of Play, 15:25
AlkaidEnglish only2025 demo; holds the key to the camp’s training groundOfficial (dialogue subtitle). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 1:38
Sister WenEnglish only2025 demo; a Baishan Sect member in a healer’s journalOfficial (document on screen). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 13:21
Xie HuichunEnglish only2025 demo; a legendary healer in a journalOfficial (document on screen). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 13:21
Nameless SurvivorEnglish only2025 demo; a dying man at the camp fence; the Year of the Snake trailer card is signed “A Nameless Survivor”Official (speaker label). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 10:18
Yu’erEnglish onlyThis game: a girl who escaped from PangzhenPress-reported, one outlet. No Chinese name; Gamersky’s unnamed girl from Pangzhen may or may not be her.Console Creatures
Baishan SectEnglish only2025 demo; Sister Wen’s sectOfficial (document and subtitle). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 13:21
Mandate EncampmentEnglish onlyOne of the eight mapsOfficial (map screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 7:09
Mountain of ImprisonmentEnglish onlyOne of the eight mapsOfficial (map screen). No Chinese name.State of Play, 7:12
Perfect Vessel Estate, MarketplaceEnglish onlyPlaces on the Pangzhen mapOfficial (map cursor labels). No Chinese names.State of Play, 7:03
Justice Camp (map: Righteous Camp)English only2025 demo; the Allied Justice campOfficial (quest and map labels; that they are one place is our reading). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 11:50
Lu’s VillageEnglish only2025 demo; named once in a subtitleOfficial (subtitle). No Chinese name.2025 demo, 9:58

Official PlayStation Blog for the difficulty names. Press-reported IGN, GamingBolt, RPGFan, CGMagazine, The Outerhaven, gcores and the Gamersky preview. Unconfirmed Fan compilations, fan lists and fan wikis.

Boss names: where each one comes from (17)

Every boss on the bosses page, with the evidence for its English and Chinese name: the name plates seen in official video, who printed the name first, and how we matched the Chinese name where no source gives both. A seal with white characters cut into red means an official text, or the game’s own screens in English and Chinese, give both names; red characters in a red border mean a Chinese name no official source has confirmed. Names seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

Commander Cleave

English name
Official nameplate, 2024 trailer 1:10.55
Chinese name
Our translationposition match, gcores

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. Matched by position: gcores lists a small boss between the first named fight and the final boss of the same demo. No source gives both names.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Unconfirmed GamerBraves, as excerpted in search results; the article itself could not be opened. Chinese candidate from gcores.

Huangxing

English name
Official nameplate, State of Play 11:23
Chinese name
Our translationromanisation match, gcores

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. Near-identical romanisation of . gcores names the demo’s final boss 昆仑叛教者：荒行子 and reports that he had a second phase in the demo’s hardest mode. No source gives both names.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Unconfirmed GamerBraves, as excerpted in search results; the article itself could not be opened. Chinese candidate from gcores.

Tie Sha

English name
Official nameplate, 2024 trailer 0:52
Chinese name
Our translationromanisation match, gcores

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. Same romanisation as 癫狂暴徒铁杀, the first named fight in gcores’s account of the same demo. No source gives both names.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Unconfirmed GamerBraves, as excerpted in search results; the article itself could not be opened. Chinese candidate from gcores.

Jade Dancer

English name
Official nameplate, 2024 trailer 1:24.02
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The English name is on screen in official video. No source gives a Chinese name.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Official name plates in two official 2024 trailers.

Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute

English name
Reported nameGame Rant preview, 8 Oct 2026
Chinese name
Reported namegcores, 2024 demo

No official frame with this name on screen yet

English name, 14 Oct 2026. Game Rant’s preview of 8 Oct 2026 names a boss “Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute”, a soldier with a gigantic serrated sword whose own bleed weapon the writer was awarded. We match it to by meaning: the two parts of the Chinese name mean roughly “frenzied brute” and “jagged steel”, and gcores says that boss drops a weapon that builds a bleed gauge. The pairing is ours; no source gives both names.

Status of this information. gcores names this boss only in Chinese. Game Rant’s preview of 8 Oct 2026 prints the English name “Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute”; the pairing of the two is ours. No source gives both names.

Sources Press-reported gcores (Chinese name, drop); Game Rant (English name)

Unnamed in Englisha three-person bounty

English name
Unknownno English name yet
Chinese name
Reported namegcores, 2024 demo

No official frame with this name on screen yet

Status of this information. Known only by the Chinese name in the sources we read. No English name has been published.

Sources Press-reported gcores

Wan Jun “Coppermaul”

English name
Official nameplate, 2025 demo 7:31
Chinese name
Official nameplate 巨锤客万钧, Chinese demo, player recording 24:15

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The in-game name plate of this fight reads “Wan Jun "Coppermaul"” in the English build (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 7:31) and 巨锤客万钧 in the Chinese build of the same 2025 demo (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 24:15). The same game text in the game’s English and Chinese interface counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. Names seen in a demo may change in the launch build. IGN’s 2025 preview printed the English name first and is the source for what this entry says about the fight.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Press-reported IGN

Red Wraith

English name
Official nameplate, 2025 demo 15:35
Chinese name
Official nameplate 红衣女剑客, Chinese demo, player recording 36:55

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. Chinese players describe her as 红衣女剑客, “red-clad swordswoman”. The Chinese demo uses the same words as her name. The in-game name plate of this fight reads “Red Wraith” in the English build (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 15:35) and 红衣女剑客 in the Chinese build of the same 2025 demo (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 36:55). The same game text in the game’s English and Chinese interface counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. Names seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Press-reported IGN

Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars

English name
Official nameplate, Snake trailer 0:42
Chinese name
Official nameplate 七星剑阵：大师兄, Chinese demo, player recording 44:05

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The in-game name plate of this fight reads “Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars” in the English build (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 17:08) and 七星剑阵：大师兄 in the Chinese build of the same 2025 demo (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 44:05). The same game text in the game’s English and Chinese interface counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. Names seen in a demo may change in the launch build. Supporting press: gcores describes the trailer fight as the 七星剑阵, seven disciples whose core is the 大师兄 (“eldest disciple”, a title).

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Press-reported IGN. The formation described in Chinese by gcores.

Chief Disciple’s Fallen Hope

English name
Official nameplate, Snake trailer 3:16
Chinese name
Official nameplate 大师兄的绝望剑意, Chinese demo, player recording 47:45

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The in-game name plate of this fight reads “Chief Disciple’s Fallen Hope” in the English build (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 18:51) and 大师兄的绝望剑意 in the Chinese build of the same 2025 demo (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 47:45). The same game text in the game’s English and Chinese interface counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. Names seen in a demo may change in the launch build. IGN’s 2025 preview printed the English name first and is the source for what this entry says about the fight.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Press-reported IGN

Lion Dance Grandmaster

English name
Official nameplate, State of Play 13:39
Chinese name
Reported namegcores hands-on, our match by meaning

Name plates in official video

  • Name plate on screen: “Flame, the Mask-Bound Lion Dance Grandmaster”. Frame from the official State of Play gameplay deep dive, PlayStation on YouTube, blh1v1dGJ2s, 13:39 · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME

Status of this information. The Outerhaven prints “Lion Dance Grandmaster” and RPGFan “the Dancing Lion”, so the English name differs between outlets. gcores’s six-hour hands-on (October 2026) names a boss , fought from a late-game save; we match it to this name plate by meaning (the first four characters mean roughly “lion-dance grandmaster”, the last two “flame”). No source gives both names.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Press-reported The Outerhaven, RPGFan. Chinese name from gcores.

The Hunt

English name
Official nameplate, pre-order trailer 3:01
Chinese name
Our translationmeaning + timing match, Gamersky

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. Matched by meaning and timing: a Chinese preview of chapter 1 names a boss , who attacks in long strings. No source gives both names.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Official PlayStation Blog, 11 August 2026. Chinese candidate from the Gamersky preview.

Mó Yuan

English name
Official nameSteam, PlayStation Blog
Chinese name
Official nameSteam announcement, Chinese

Name plates in official video

  • Title card on screen: “DONNIE YEN · Creative Consultant · Facial & Motion Capture Actor for Mó Yuan”. Frame from the official pre-order trailer, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, hXyPbvj7A7w, 10:39 · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME

Status of this information. Both names are official. The English and Chinese versions of the same Steam announcement name him “Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó” and 暗魔天堡之主“魔渊”.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Official Steam announcement, its Chinese version, PlayStation Blog, 11 August 2026

Zhuobi, the Gatekeeper

English name
Official nameplate, State of Play 9:22.08
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The English name is on screen in official video. No source gives a Chinese name.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Official name plate in the State of Play gameplay deep dive.

Blizzard Blademaster

English name
Official nameplate, State of Play 12:08.08
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The English name is on screen in official video. No source gives a Chinese name.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Official name plate in the State of Play gameplay deep dive.

The Lion Dance Grandmaster’s Final Dance

English name
Official nameplate, State of Play 15:25.08
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Name plates in official video

Status of this information. The English name is on screen in official video. No source gives a Chinese name.

Sources for what the entry says about the fight Official name plate in the State of Play gameplay deep dive.

Peng Meng, the Axemaster

English name
Reported nameCGMagazine preview
Chinese name
Our translationdescription match, Gamersky

No official frame with this name on screen yet

Status of this information. Matched by description and timing: a Chinese preview of chapter 1 describes a boss called , slow and lethal with a giant axe. No source gives both names.

Sources Press-reported CGMagazine. Chinese candidate from the Gamersky preview.

Weapon names: where each one comes from (22)

Every weapon on the weapons page, with the evidence for its English and Chinese name: where the name is on screen, which source printed it first, and how a Chinese name was matched.

Ten Chinese weapon names are official since 14 Oct 2026: the 2025 demo was recorded in English by the official channel and in Chinese by players, and the same item panels carry both names. The recordings are cited in each block; the two Chinese ones are third-party, so we cite them and never show their frames.

Sanguine

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Sanguine” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 0:58.9), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 黑伤 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 3:15; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese panel of the same demo: 魂的武器。通体血红，材质成谜，似刀似剑，兼刀剑之能。 (“Soul’s weapon. Blood red throughout, of unknown material, like both a sabre and a sword”; our translation.) Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 3:15.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above).

Before 14 Oct. Matched by description: a fan list on Gamersky puts 黑伤 first among the demo’s one-handed swords, and a fan compilation of the earlier games gives 黑伤 as the name of Soul’s own weapon.

Sources for the name Press-reported IGN. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct from a fan list on Gamersky.

Sanguine Twin

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Sanguine Twin” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 1:02.7), and the Chinese tutorial of the same demo asks you to switch to 黑伤双刃, the twin-blade form of 黑伤; that matches the Sanguine Twin slot of the English menu (a match by slot: the tutorial prompt is not the item panel itself) (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 0:55; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese tutorial prompt: 换成黑伤双刃并用两种任意连招击中敌人！ Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 0:55. A fan list on Gamersky labels the weapon 黑伤双刀; the game’s own tutorial writes 黑伤双刃. Gamereactor prints “Sanguine dual dagger”, Console Creatures “Sanguine Twins”.

Listed before 14 Oct as a Chinese-only name. Chinese name or fan label: 黑伤双刀. Where it is listed: The playable demos, per a fan list. What we know: Fan label for a paired weapon. Not a confirmed game name. Source and level: Unconfirmed Fan list on Gamersky

Sanguine Reach

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Sanguine Reach” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 0:59.3), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 长形黑伤 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 9:25; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese panel: 炼邪仿制的长刃黑伤，较黑伤更为修长，需要双手握持。 (“A long-bladed Sanguine replicated by Forge, longer than Sanguine, held in both hands”; our translation). gcores’s 2024 list of the closed-door demo’s main weapons: 5把主武器： 默认武器、长形黑伤、荡寇横刀、残钢刃、玉双环 gcores, 2024 demo.

Listed before 14 Oct as a Chinese-only name. Chinese name or fan label: 长形黑伤. Where it is listed: The 2024 closed-door demo. What we know: One of five main weapons in that demo, listed apart from the default weapon. A fan list on Gamersky has 黑伤长刃, possibly the same weapon. Source and level: Press-reported gcores

Soft Snake Sword

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Soft Snake Sword” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 1:00.3), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 灵蛇软剑 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 43:15; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese panel of the same demo ends with a line the English panel does not show: 敌人无法完全格挡软剑的攻击。 (“Enemies cannot fully block the soft sword’s attacks”; our translation.) Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 43:15. gcores (January 2025) names it, with White Serpent & Crimson Viper, as one of “two new main weapons” of that demo: 试玩版重点展示两把全新主武器「 灵蛇软剑 」与「 白蟒赤练 」 gcores.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above).

Before 14 Oct. Matched by meaning: 灵蛇软剑 reads “spirit-snake soft sword”. gcores names it as one of two new main weapons in the January 2025 Year of the Snake demo, and a fan list on Gamersky has it too.

Sources for the name Press-reported Wccftech, PC Gamer. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct from gcores and a fan list on Gamersky.

Seamless Death

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Seamless Death” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 1:04), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 玉双环 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 9:30.5; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese panel adds: 当敌人残血时，可进行远距离处决。 (“When the enemy is near death, it can be executed from a distance”; our translation.) Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 9:30. Its 2024 source: 再比如击败3人Boss「玉面郎君」后获得的武器「玉双环」，可以打出远程的圆环攻击 gcores, 2024 demo.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above).

Before 14 Oct. Matched by description: gcores says 玉双环 throws ring attacks at range.

Sources for the name Press-reported IGN, PC Gamer. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct from gcores.

White Serpent & Crimson Viper

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “White Serpent & Crimson Viper” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 0:57.5), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 白蟒赤练 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 3:16.4; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese panel: 当敌人残血时，可进行远距离处决。 and [L2]：消耗1[图标] 发动一套双蛇配合的精妙连斩。 Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 3:16. On screen in English: “WHITE SERPENT & CRIMSON VIPER”; gcores once writes 白莽赤练.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above).

Before 14 Oct. Matched by meaning: gcores describes 白蟒赤练 as a long sword, 白蟒, in one hand and a short blade, 赤练, in the other, shown in the January 2025 Year of the Snake demo. A fan list writes it 白蟒赤炼.

Sources for the name Press-reported Wccftech. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct from gcores.

Jagged Steel

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Jagged Steel” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 0:58.0), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 残钢刃 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 9:27.1; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese panel: 痴愚狂妄的暴徒爱不释手的大刃。这自正道处劫 [continues beyond the panel] (“the great blade a foolish, frenzied brute will not put down; seized from the righteous…”; our translation). Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 9:27. The English panel of the August 2026 build says “stolen from Allied Justice”: see Allied Justice.

Also printed as. “Jagged Blade” in CGMagazine and “Jagged Edge” in IGN’s 2025 preview. The game’s own menus, in the 2025 demo and the August 2026 build, print “Jagged Steel”.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above). The August 2026 menu labels Jagged Steel “One-Handed” (State of Play, 8:23), which is where a fan list on Gamersky files the Chinese name too; so the English and the Chinese name belong to one one-handed bleed weapon. IGN’s “enormous greatsword” is a writer’s description.

Before 14 Oct. Weak match: gcores describes a weapon 残钢刃 that builds a bleed gauge and is won from the boss 痴狂暴徒残钢; a fan list on Gamersky files 残钢刃 among one-handed blades, while IGN calls the English weapon an enormous greatsword.

Sources for the name Press-reported The Outerhaven, CGMagazine, IGN. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct (then a weak match) from gcores and a fan list on Gamersky.

Juggernaut

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Juggernaut” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 0:59.7), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 荡寇凶刃 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 9:29.7; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build. This replaces 荡寇横刀, the Chinese name we showed before: gcores’s report on the 2024 closed-door demo names a weapon 荡寇横刀, won from the boss Commander Cleave, whose blade turns red after three perfect parries; it may be the 2024 name of the same weapon, which no source states.

The Chinese panel: 完美格挡时获得一层红色刀气，叠满后刀身变红，按[三角]可施展强力斩击。 Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 9:29.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above).

Before 14 Oct. Matched by description: gcores says the blade of 荡寇横刀 turns red after three perfect parries. A fan list on Gamersky has a 荡寇凶刃, possibly the same weapon.

Sources for the name Press-reported PC Gamer. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct from gcores.

Outlaw’s Warblade

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Full best reading of the cut line: “If no HP is restored within X seconds, or if damage is taken, any remaining [text continues, unreadable]”. “X seconds” is printed as such, a placeholder in this build.

Armybreaker

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

The Fanatic’s Broken Blade

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

On screen for about 0.2 s (State of Play 8:24.65–8:24.85), between Jagged Steel and Night Owl; the description panel is out of focus in every frame, so its text is our best reading. Not on any press list we read.

Drunken Sword

English name
Reported nameprinted by the press
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Status of this information. Matched by meaning: 醉剑 reads “drunken sword”, from the same fan list. No source gives both names.

Sources for the name Press-reported Wccftech, DualShockers. Chinese candidate from a fan list on Gamersky.

Bashpole

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Bashpole” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 9:15.9), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 长柄金瓜 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1HkqYBWEmR, 28:15; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 16 Dec 2025; build date not confirmed). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese card: 巨锤客万钧的长柄重锤，锤状如瓜，亮若小阳。 (“the long-handled hammer of the hammer-wielder Wan Jun, its head like a melon, bright as a little sun”; our translation) beside the English “Bright as a tiny sun and hitting like a loaded wagon, Brute’s signature weapon”. Bilibili BV1HkqYBWEmR, 28:15. So “Brute” is Wan Jun’s epithet; see Wan Jun “Coppermaul”.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above).

Before 14 Oct. Matched by description: a fan list on Gamersky files 长柄金瓜 among the power-type Phantom Edges of the demo, beside the heavy axe.

Sources for the name Press-reported IGN. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct from a fan list on Gamersky.

Tiger Cannon

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Name on screen in official video

Status of this information. Matched by meaning: 虎炮 reads “tiger cannon”. gcores lists 虎炮 among the Phantom Edges of the 2024 demos, used for charged shots at range; a fan list on Gamersky writes 雷当虎炮. No source gives both names.

Sources for the name Press-reported Wccftech. Chinese candidate from gcores and a fan list on Gamersky.

Flaming Mane

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Name on screen in official video

Status of this information. Matched by description: 烈焰狮头 reads “blazing lion head”. gcores lists it among the Phantom Edges of the 2024 closed-door demo, and a fan list on Gamersky has it too. No source gives both names.

Sources for the name Press-reported IGN. Chinese candidate from gcores and a fan list on Gamersky.

Man-Cutter

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Name on screen in official video

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. No Chinese name is recorded. It may be the same weapon as the Dread Axe under an earlier name; that is our guess, not a source’s. Lead: in the 2025 demo the only axe-like Phantom Edge in the English menu is Man-Cutter, and the Chinese tutorial of the same demo asks you to switch to 巨凶斧 and charge it twice (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 1:15). CGMagazine (October 2026) calls Peng Meng’s axe the Dread Axe. We keep the three apart until the launch build settles it.

Sources for the name Press-reported IGN, 2025 demo

Dread Axe

English name
Reported nameprinted by the press
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

gcores (January 2025): 巨凶斧 是重型武器，攻速慢，伤害高，可蓄力。 gcores. The Chinese tutorial of the 2025 demo: 换成巨凶斧蓄力两次击中敌人！ Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 1:15. See Man-Cutter above for why the two stay apart.

Status of this information. Matched by description: gcores describes 巨凶斧 as a heavy, slow Phantom Edge that can be charged, shown in the January 2025 Year of the Snake demo. No source gives both names.

Sources for the name Press-reported CGMagazine. Chinese candidate from gcores.

Night Owl

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Name on screen in official video

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Night Owl” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 3:28.1), and the same panel in the Chinese menu names it 羽弓 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1HkqYBWEmR, 5:20; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 16 Dec 2025; build date not confirmed). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The Chinese card: 羽弓客所用的弓箭。柘木弓身，铜制箭镞，尾栽枭羽 (“the bow of the feather-bow archer; a mulberry-wood bow, bronze arrowheads, owl-feather fletching”; our translation) beside the English “Nightwatch’s trusted teak longbow, paired with arrows fletched with owl pinions”. Bilibili BV1HkqYBWEmR, 5:20. Before 14 Oct the English name came from a fan wiki: Fextralife.

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Official: the game’s own menus in English and Chinese give both names (see above). The English name is on the game’s own screens: the 2025 demo’s equipment screen (3:28) and the August 2026 character menu (8:24). The Chinese recording is published December 2025 and its build date is not confirmed, but its cards match the 2025 demo in layout and text.

Before 14 Oct. The English name was then known to us only from fan wikis (Fextralife); a fan list on Gamersky has a bow called 羽弓 in the demos.

Sources for the name Unconfirmed Fextralife, a fan wiki. Chinese candidate before 14 Oct (then a weak match) from a fan list on Gamersky.

Flying Daggers

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

The panel’s last paragraph, left out of the entry: “Long Range Shot: Once obtained, NIGHT OWL can shoot specific hanging objects from mid to long range. It does not need to be equipped.” It repeats the Night Owl text word for word, apparently placeholder text in this build.

Heartrend Pipa

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Iron Gauntlets

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Ink Cut

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Character, faction and place names: where each one comes from (32)

Every character, faction and place on the characters page, with the evidence for its English and Chinese name: where the name is on screen, which source printed it first, and how a Chinese name was matched.

Soul

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Name on screen in official video

Status of this information. Both names are official. The English and Chinese versions of the Steam pre-order announcement name him Soul and 魂.

Sources Official PlayStation Blog, 2023, Steam announcement, its Chinese version

Zuo Shang

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Name on screen in official video

The title card spells “ZUOSHANG” as one word (State of Play, 3:28); the subtitle two seconds earlier writes “Zuo Shang”. Console Creatures calls him “Zion Shang”, leader of “the Order’s Shadow Sovereign”, which conflicts with every other source; recorded here, not used on the entry.

Status of this information. Same romanisation as 左殇, Soul’s sworn brother in a fan compilation of the earlier games. No source gives both names. Wikipedia spells the English name “Zuoshang”.

Sources Press-reported DualShockers; also English Wikipedia, a wiki. Chinese candidate from a fan compilation on Gamersky.

Mó Yuan

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Name on screen in official video

  • Title card on screen: “DONNIE YEN · Creative Consultant · Facial & Motion Capture Actor for Mó Yuan”. Frame from the official pre-order trailer, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, hXyPbvj7A7w, 10:39 · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME

Wccftech prints “Mo Yen”; not used.

Status of this information. Both names are official. The English and Chinese versions of the same Steam announcement name him “Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó” and 暗魔天堡之主“魔渊”.

Sources Official Steam announcement, its Chinese version, PlayStation Blog, 11 August 2026

The Flesh Sculptor

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Status of this information. No Chinese name appears in the sources we read.

Sources Press-reported RPGFan, CGMagazine

The patriarch of The Order

English name
Unknownnot published
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

A gcores page (218346) that names him is flagged by gcores as a user submission with AI-generated text, so it is not used.

Status of this information. No source for this game names him. The earlier games call him 沐天邈, according to a fan compilation, and an older English localisation used “Mu Tianmiao”, according to a fan wiki. This game has renamed at least one figure from the earlier games, so that name is a weak candidate and is not shown as a seal.

Not named in material for this game.

Sources Official PlayStation Blog, 2023, for his role. Earlier-games names from a fan compilation on Gamersky and a fan wiki, as read on 10 October 2026.

Mu Xiaokui

English name
Unconfirmeda wiki only
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

A Bilibili creator identifies a red-haired woman in a trailer as her and guesses she is a key figure; nothing on screen names her. Creator analysis, BV1gqmzB7EzQ, 7:49.

Status of this information. Same romanisation as 沐小葵. A fan compilation of the earlier games says the patriarch 沐天邈 named his daughter 小葵. No source gives both names.

Sources Unconfirmed English Wikipedia, a wiki, read 11 October 2026. Chinese candidate from a fan compilation on Gamersky.

The Lady of the Veil

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Both names are official. The English and Chinese versions of the same store sentence list five terms in the same order; the fourth is “the Lady of the Veil” in English and 圣母娘娘 in Chinese. The 2025 demo’s English subtitle spells it “the Lady Behind the Veil” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, 9:58).

Sources Official Steam store, its Chinese version, read 11 October 2026

Inanis

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

In the earlier games, a fan compilation describes an illusionist of The Order called 虚空.

Status of this information. Solid under ruling R1b: the official store text pairs “Inanis’ Dreamscape” with 虚空梦境, and 虚空 appears unchanged in it, as 武林 does in 表里武林. No source gives the two names on their own.

Sources Official Steam store, for the English name. Chinese name from the store’s Chinese version and a fan compilation on Gamersky.

Yu’er

English name
Reported nameprinted by the press
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Gamersky: 从庞镇出来给父亲找药的苦命女孩 (“the luckless girl who came out of Pangzhen looking for medicine for her father”; our translation). Not named there; not stated to be Yu’er.

Nightwatch

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Nightwatch” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 3:28.1), and the same item text in the Chinese menu names it 羽弓客 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1HkqYBWEmR, 5:20; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 16 Dec 2025; build date not confirmed). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

Forge

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namethe game’s own menus in English and Chinese

Chinese name, 14 Oct 2026. The English menu of the 2025 S-Party demo names it “Forge” (2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 0:59.3), and the same item text in the Chinese menu names it 炼邪 (a player’s recording on Bilibili, BV1228tzSEyp, 9:25; offline demo, Chinese menu, published 26 Jul 2025). The game’s own text in English and Chinese counts as one official source on this site, so the Chinese name is marked official. A name seen in a demo may change in the launch build.

The same panel in the Chinese menu says 炼邪仿制的长刃黑伤 (“a long-bladed Sanguine replicated by 炼邪”; our translation), where the English says “Created by Forge and modeled after the original Sanguine”. The text does not say whether Forge is a person or a workshop.

Alkaid

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Male (“his deal”). Not identified on screen with a name plate.

Sister Wen

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Soul’s next lines (13:40) speak of “that floating healer” feeding off Baishan disciples, and the optional Red Wraith appears later in the demo; nothing states either is Sister Wen.

Xie Huichun

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Nameless Survivor

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

The Year of the Snake trailer’s opening card is signed “A Nameless Survivor” (0:04); the 2025 demo’s speaker label reads “Nameless Survivor” (10:18). That they are the same man is not stated.

Brute

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

“Brute” also appears in Game Rant’s boss name “Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute”, whose Chinese name also contains the word for brute; the Bashpole card ties this “Brute” to Wan Jun only.

The Order

English name
Official nameon an official screen
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Name on screen in official video

Status of this information. Matched by meaning: the Chinese preview lists 组织 (“the organisation”) first among the returning factions. No source gives both names.

Sources Official PlayStation Blog, 2023, for the English name. Chinese candidate from the Gamersky preview.

Bastion of Mó

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Status of this information. Both names are official. The English and Chinese versions of the same Steam announcement give “Leader of the Bastion of Mó” and 暗魔天堡之主. A fan wiki says older English material used “Dark Castle of Mo”.

Sources Official Steam announcement, its Chinese version

Allied Justice

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Status of this information, 14 Oct 2026. Our match, 14 Oct 2026: the same weapon, Jagged Steel, was “stolen from Allied Justice” in the English menu of the August 2026 build (best reading of out-of-focus text) and “seized from 正道” in the Chinese menu of the 2025 demo; the 2025 demo’s English text also names Allied Justice as the alliance of Justice Camp. Different builds, so the pairing is ours. Before, it was known only by the Chinese name in the sources we read.

Sources Press-reported Gamersky preview

The Seven Stars

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Our match: the Chinese name plate of the Chief Disciple fight in the 2025 demo reads 七星剑阵：大师兄 where the English plate reads “Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars”, and gcores calls the group 七星剑阵: 玩家面对的是一队由7名昔日正道弟子所组成的“七星剑阵” gcores. No source gives the group’s two names together.

Baishan Sect

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Unnamed in Englisha house of the Order that makes its medicine

English name
Unknownnot published
Chinese name
Reported nameprinted by the Chinese press

The Chinese potion cards of the 2025 demo: “组织”行动标配的葫芦瓶，装着蛇屋秘药，可治愈伤势。 and 原为“组织”蛇屋制作 Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 43:16–43:18. The English potion panels are not shown in the 2025 demo walkthrough, so no English name is known.

Status of this information. Known only by the Chinese name in the sources we read.

No English name published yet.

Sources Press-reported Gamersky preview

Unnamed in Englisha returning faction

English name
Unknownnot published
Chinese name
Reported nameprinted by the Chinese press

Status of this information. Known only by the Chinese name in the sources we read.

No English name published yet.

Sources Press-reported Gamersky preview

Phantom World

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Name status. Official, both names: the English and Chinese versions of the store text and of the Steam announcement.

The Wulin

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Name status. Official, both names: the store text pairs “the Wulin and the Discordance” with 表里武林.

The Discordance

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Name status. English term official. The Chinese is likely, our match: we read 表里武林 as the outer and the inner Wulin. Unconfirmed.

As listed before 14 Oct. The hidden counterpart of the Wulin. A fan wiki says older English material used “ParaWulin”. Chinese: likely 里武林.

Pangzhen

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Our translationour match; basis below

Name status, 14 Oct 2026. English spelling official since 14 Oct 2026: the State of Play title card reads “PANGZHEN” (4:52), and so does its map screen (7:03). Before, “Pang Town” was the spelling we used, from a fan wiki’s list of trailer titles; Wccftech prints “Pengcheng” and Wikipedia “Pangzhen”. The Chinese name is Press-reported. The pairing is our match.

Mandate Encampment

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

One of the three map names on screen in the State of Play (7:09); the narration says the game has eight hand-painted ink-wash maps joined into one world (7:03–7:25).

Mountain of Imprisonment

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

One of the three map names on screen in the State of Play (7:12).

Justice Camp

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Two English names in the same video: the map label “Righteous Camp” (3:06) and the quest “Justice Camp — Reach the deeper part of Justice Camp” (11:50). That they are one place is our reading.

Lu’s Village

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Unknownno Chinese name yet

Inanis’ Dreamscape

English name
Official namein official text or video
Chinese name
Official namean official text gives both names

Name status. Official, both names: the fifth of five terms in the same store sentence.

Terms that changed from the older English localisation

A fan wiki records three older English terms from the earlier games that this game replaces. The table gives each old term and the new one.

Old English term and new English term
Old English termNew English termChineseLevel of the new term
Sha-Chi ModTranscension杀气改造Official, both names
ParaWulinthe Discordancelikely 里武林English term official; the Chinese is our likely match
Dark Castle of MoBastion of Mó暗魔天堡Official, both names

Official Steam store and the Steam announcement for the new terms. Unconfirmed The older English terms come from a fan wiki, as read on 10 October 2026, and have not been checked against the earlier games themselves.

Two other older English names have no new term. “Wills”, “Hands” and “Instruments” are older words for The Order’s ranks. “Mu Tianmiao” is the older English for the patriarch of The Order, and this game does not name him in the material we read.

Some names differ only in spelling between outlets. “Ghostep” and “Ghoststep”, “Jagged Steel”, “Jagged Blade” and “Jagged Edge”, and “Pang Town”, “Pangzhen” and “Pengcheng” are variants of the same name, not changes in the game’s terms. They are listed in the rows above. Since 14 October 2026 the game’s own screens settle two of them: the menus print “Jagged Steel” and the State of Play title card “PANGZHEN”.

How the pairings will be settled

Every row in group 2 is waiting for the game’s own text. The plan is to switch the game between English and Chinese and check each name in both languages. When the game confirms a row, it moves to group 1; when the game contradicts one, the row is corrected and the change is noted. On 14 October 2026, sixteen rows moved to group 1 on the 2025 demo’s own screens; they will be checked again in the launch build.

Release is set for 29 October 2026, which is 28 October in the US. We give no date for any update beyond that. Official Steam announcement of the move to 29 October 2026. Official PlayStation Blog, 17 August 2026, for the US date.

What is not yet known

  • English names for 花千笑, 玉面郎君, 蛇屋, 十一人阁 and 龙家, and five of the eight mapsStill open. Three map names are on screen in English (Pangzhen, Mandate Encampment, Mountain of Imprisonment), none yet in Chinese. 痴狂暴徒残钢 now has a press-reported English name and 正道联盟 our match, Allied Justice.
  • Chinese names for the Flesh Sculptor, the four difficulty modes, and the other names known only in English (group 3)None in the sources we read. Wan Jun “Coppermaul” and Red Wraith have official Chinese names from the demo’s name plates (group 1).
  • In-game spelling of Ghostep or GhoststepTo be checked in the game’s English text at launch. Jagged Steel and Pangzhen are now spelled on the game’s own screens.
  • Whether the 29 pairings in group 2 holdEach is our match. The game’s two language versions will settle them.
  • Whether the demo names in group 1 surviveThe 16 pairings from the 2025 demo’s screens may still change in the launch build.
  • The Chinese names for the chapter 1 sectionsAgainst The Flow and Steel And Steam have no Chinese name in the sources we read.
Characters and factionsEvery named character, faction and place so far, with its source and name status. The Rainblood story so farThe earlier Rainblood games, their cast, and how Phantom Blade Zero connects.