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11 Overview
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33 The player character in Lord of Mysteries is an original Beyonder created by the player at character creation. They are not Klein Moretti: Klein appears as an NPC and through Mr. Fool visions, but the player is a separate Beyonder who shares the world with him.
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55 This page is the central reference for what the player's Beyonder is, what the player can and cannot change about them, and how the player character fits into the campaign's narrative.
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77 Origin
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99 The player character begins the campaign as a fresh Sequence 9 Beyonder in Tingen. Their background, name, gender presentation, voice, body type, and starting Pathway are all customisable at character creation.
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1111 The player's Beyonder is a Chinese transmigrator who crosses into the setting's Western mysticism circle and begins their extraordinary path under the protection of their fellow-countryman, Mr. Fool (Klein Moretti). This origin is the game's framing for the player character, and it sits underneath the customisable name, gender presentation, voice, body type, and starting Pathway.
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13+SPARK NEXA has been direct about what that origin buys the player: the character is positioned as the Fool's chosen and as the Tarot Club's collective favourite, which the studio describes as the strongest set of connections in Loen. The design intent is an opening hand that is deliberately privileged rather than a from-nothing climb.
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15+Two of those connections are spelled out. Mr. Fool meets the player inside the opening death-loop nightmare, hands over a Fool card, and grafts abilities the player has not earned yet, which is why a Sequence 9 character can already use Spirit Vision and divination (see Fool Grafting). Separately, Audrey Hall underwrites the early potion costs that would otherwise take an ordinary Beyonder a year or more to cover, a shortcut routed through her companion Susie.
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1317 Player vs Klein Moretti
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1519 The most important framing for the player character: they are not Klein. The campaign retraces the early arcs of the source material from the player's perspective. Events Klein causes in the source material are events the player witnesses, helps with, or attempts to investigate from the outside. This produces several distinctive results:
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1721 The player meets Klein as a colleague-NPC during the introductory Tingen arc. Klein is a fellow Nighthawk under Dunn Smith in this period, and he and the player operate on adjacent investigations.
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1923 The player sees Klein's Mr. Fool persona through 'Mr. Fool visions' that surface during major story beats.
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2125 The player can name their character 'Klein Moretti' if they choose; doing so triggers a special introductory cutscene that hand-waves the coincidence. The player remains their own original Beyonder and Klein remains his own NPC.
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2327 Mr. Fool's grafting connects the player to Klein's higher-Sequence powers in a peer-mentor relationship: Klein grants borrowed abilities to the player at the introductory tutorial, framing the player as a junior figure whose Beyonder journey runs alongside Klein's canonical one.
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2529 Customisation
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2731 Character Creation covers face, body, voice, and starting Pathway. Re-customisation is available through:
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2933 A free re-customisation token granted at the end of the introductory campaign.
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3135 Subsequent re-customisations sold through the cosmetic shop for a moderate fee.
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3337 A separate Pathway-change token treated as a much rarer purchase reserved for live-game progression.
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3539 Sequence and Sanity
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3741 The player character has two separate progression tracks:
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3943 Sequence: progression along the chosen Pathway from Sequence 9 (entry) toward Sequence 0 (god-tier). Advancement is gated by potions, Acting Method performance, and Sequence-specific rituals. The Crimson Test caps progression at Sequence 7.
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4145 Sanity Level: a separate meter that governs the maximum sanity pool, the safe daily-use sanity budget, and gear-tier eligibility. Sanity Level scales independently from Sequence progression.
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4347 Faction Allegiance
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4549 The player character can develop reputation with multiple factions: the Nighthawks (the introductory campaign's primary faction), the Mandated Punishers, the Machinery Hivemind, the MI9, the Red Gloves (gated behind Backlund), and various secret societies.
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4751 Faction reputation is not exclusive: aligning strongly with one faction does not lock the player out of others, though political tensions may produce moderate reputation hits with rival factions when a contentious choice is made. Endgame Faction Warfare requires the player to choose a faction allegiance for territorial-control purposes.
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4953 Death and Revival
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5155 Player character death in combat is recoverable. The character revives at the nearest safe-house with a small sanity tax and a temporary debuff. Ordinary combat death is recoverable, but Sanity loss is governed by a separate and far harsher rule. If a character's Sanity collapses to zero through repeated corruption, the studio has stated the character is removed for good and the account is wiped. Routine combat death and total Sanity collapse are two different failure states (see [[sanity-system|Sanity System]]).
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5357 Permanent corruption (the Beyonder Monster transformation under specific story-locked failure conditions) is a deeper failure state that requires a high-cost story-locked ritual to reverse. See Beyonder Monsters for the corruption mechanic.