The Order
The Order is the powerful, secretive organization at the heart of Phantom Blade Zero's plot. It trains and dispatches elite assassins to carry out objectives that no public power can openly pursue, and Soul was one of its most accomplished operatives until a single night reframed his entire life around it.
Role in the Story
The Order's Patriarch, Mu Tianmiao is murdered, and Soul is publicly framed for the killing. Hunted by his former colleagues and gravely wounded, he is given a temporary 66-day cure by a mystic healer and forced to investigate the only institution he ever fully belonged to. The Order is therefore both his past and his immediate future: every assassin sent after him is a former peer, every safehouse a former workplace, and every clue a piece of his own history.
Confirmed Members and Affiliates
Public trailers, the public demos, and pre-release media have introduced several figures connected to The Order or its conflicts. Specific roles, allegiances, and ranks are being kept deliberately ambiguous before launch.
Figure | Role |
|---|---|
The Patriarch of The Order, whose murder triggers the plot. | |
The Patriarch's daughter, raised inside the institution. | |
A high-ranking commander encountered as a boss. | |
Senior disciple tied to the Seven Star Sword Formation level. | |
Masked assassin sent against Soul. | |
A returning figure from S-GAME's earlier work who reappears in Soul's path. | |
A figure encountered during the main story. |
Inside vs Outside
The Order is not a monolith. Trailers and dev interviews repeatedly hint at internal politics: factions within the institution that might benefit from the Patriarch's death, ambitious commanders, and disciples whose loyalties bend under pressure. The conspiracy that framed Soul is presented as something that originates inside the organisation rather than from a rival power.
Themes
As an antagonist, The Order is closer in tone to a noir crime hierarchy than to a cackling evil cabal. The director has compared the underground hierarchy of the story to John Wick's continental network of assassins: a closed world with its own rules, debts, and rituals, where loyalty is a transaction and a single betrayal redraws every alliance.
What Investigating the Order Looks Like
Hunting the conspiracy unfolds through a mix of main-line confrontations and side investigations. The branching structure means the answers Soul finds, and the people he chooses to confront, can change which figures inside The Order he ends up facing in the final confrontation.