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A World Defined by Rival Powers

The martial world of Hero's Adventure: Another Tale is shaped by its competing powers. The setting is described as a tangled web of factions, knotted together by old grudges and fresh rivalries that have only grown sharper in the wake of war. As a new dynasty rises from the ashes of the old conflict, these groups jockey for position, and the friction between them gives the jianghu much of its danger and its drama.

This is confirmed as a core part of the game's world. You do not simply pass through a neutral landscape; you move among forces that have their own histories, their own enemies, and their own ambitions. For the broader martial world these factions inhabit, see The Jianghu.

How Factions Touch the Journey

Because the world is built around contesting powers, the choices you make can land on one side of a rivalry or another. The game's premise stresses that every decision shapes not only your own survival but the fate of others and perhaps the destiny of the jianghu itself, and the web of factions is exactly the kind of structure where such choices carry weight. Aligning with, opposing, or simply navigating around these groups is part of how your story takes shape. This connects directly to the branching design covered on the Choices and Consequences page.

What the Studio Has Confirmed About the Old Powers

One thing is settled. Answering player questions in November 2025, the studio said this story sits several decades after the earlier game, that a small number of the powers from that era can still be traced, and that most of them have already vanished into the long river of history. That is a deliberate reset: the team said it approached the spin-off as an entirely new story, on the reasoning that the jianghu needs its inheritance but mostly needs a new journey.

For readers coming from the earlier game, the practical upshot is that a familiar faction list should not be assumed. Some threads survive; most of the map is new ground. See Setting and Story and Relation to the Original Game for how the two eras connect.

Expected Carryover From the Original Game

Here it is important to separate what is confirmed for this title from what players expect based on the studio's earlier work.

In the previous game, Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion, the martial world was populated by more than thirty factions and sects, all vying for power across the jianghu. That breadth of competing schools and powers was one of the original's signature qualities, giving the world a dense political map of allegiances and feuds.

Because Hero's Adventure: Another Tale is described as continuing the spirit of the original and is built around the same tangled web of factions, many players expect a comparable scale of factions and sects to return in some form. However, the studio has not yet confirmed how many factions this title will feature, and no roster has been announced. Treat the larger scale as expected but unconfirmed.

Names Are Not Yet Revealed

No specific factions or sects for Hero's Adventure: Another Tale have been publicly named at this stage. This page does not invent any of them. Rather than list groups that have not been confirmed, it describes only the established shape of the world: a martial society pulled in many directions by competing powers and lingering feuds. As official information names the factions of this game, their entries will be added here, with their goals, rivalries, and how they fit into your journey.

Looking Ahead

Expect this page to grow considerably once the game's factions are revealed. Until then, the confirmed takeaway is straightforward: the jianghu of Hero's Adventure: Another Tale is a contested place, defined by rivalries old and new, and your path through it will mean reckoning with powers that want very different things.

For related topics, see The Jianghu, Choices and Consequences, and Setting and Story.