The playable cast of Rewinding Cadence is organised around a single repeated shape: a Spirit Speaker (颂灵者) who fights in the field, bound to a contracted spirit (契约使灵) who fights beside them. The official character page splits its roster along exactly that line, with one tab for the Speakers and one for the spirits they are bound to, and it presents the same set of entries under both.
This page is the roster index. It records who has been shown publicly and what has actually been stated about them. It does not assign elements, rarities, roles, or stat lines, because none of those have been published for any character.
The Returner
The player character is the Returner (归还者), and the official character page ships the Returner in two forms, one female and one male. That makes an appearance choice at the start of a run the most likely reading, in line with how the two entries are presented side by side rather than as separate cast members. The Returner is contracted to Chu, the humanoid spirit who grants the rewind power that the whole time-loop system runs on.
Two lines the studio puts on the Returner's own panel set the character's tone: "No matter how many more times I have to start over, I will keep going forward," and "The sights I saw on the journey, the people I met, those sincere feelings and hopes, are the reason I set out again and again." Chu's panel answers with "I'll help you. Let's do it all over again," and "As long as we don't give up, we can definitely change the endings that have already been set."
Named Spirit Speakers
The studio’s own character panel lists nine entries. Two of them are the female and male versions of the Returner, both contracted to the same spirit, so the distinct cast shown publicly is seven Spirit Speakers beyond the protagonist. The panel labels its two columns as Spirit Speaker and contracted spirit, which is the clearest first-party statement so far that the pairing is fixed per character rather than chosen by the player.
Beyond the Returner, the official character page carries seven further Speaker entries. No English localisation has been published for any of them; the only English spellings that exist are the studio's own romanisations, which it uses in the file names of its own character art. Each entry on the panel also carries two short lines spoken by the Speaker and two spoken by the contracted spirit. The Chinese names below are the panel's own, the spirit column is the panel's own pairing, and the readings in the last column are the wiki's paraphrase of the panel lines rather than official English.
Romanisation | Chinese name | Contracted spirit | What official material establishes |
|---|---|---|---|
帕塔 | 金羊毛 | Head of the treasure-hunting Golden Fleece troupe (金羊毛猎团). Her panel lines introduce her as the famous troupe leader and the most professional treasure expert in all of Loren, and invite the player to follow her nose to a find that will shake the Loren market. Got the first dedicated character trailer, released July 8, 2026, and is one of the two opening companion picks. | |
Xiuyite | 修伊特 | 翼狮 | The panel lines describe crowds gathering at the gate of a place called the 众灵院 to call the Speaker’s name whenever the Speaker fails to appear for a day, and end with a toast "to you, my closest friends of this moment, and my eternal enemies." The Chinese name is also confirmed by a studio quiz post of August 2026 that listed 修伊特 among five Spirit Speaker illustrations. |
Xiana | 夏奈 | 墨格拉 | Her lines cast her as an avenger: late justice cannot save the weak, but she can, and she will plead the grievances that cannot otherwise be redressed. Named repeatedly by testers writing about the First Playthrough Test build, which places her in that build. |
Luluya | 露露娅 | 怪诞 | Greets the player as a valued customer with a discount on her 「不可思议」 series of toy sets, then speaks of being pushed to the edge of fate again and again and choosing to embrace true art regardless. A September 2026 studio wallpaper post jokingly calls her the least stress-prone person in Adar. |
Qiuqiu | 秋秋 | 双子真祖 | The panel lines say that sunlight still stings but no longer hurts, and that Qiuqiu is coming to like its warmth, "unlike inside the ice coffin," which frames Qiuqiu as a creature of the night learning to live in daylight at the Returner’s suggestion. |
Enluoer | 恩洛尔 | 影犬 | Introduces himself as the son of the 摄政王 (regent), a position he says grants no privileges, and as a 监察官 (inspector) who walks the city listening to what people say and worry about, because the point of an inspector is to hear more voices and to let more voices be heard. |
Ying | 潆 | 特里忒拉 | Insists on being only a temporary stand-in 渊探 (the wiki reads the title as roughly "abyss scout") until someone more suitable is chosen, and apologises for always making mistakes and causing trouble. |
Anata | 安娜塔 | Not on the site panel | The other opening companion pick, named alongside Pata in the studio’s letter closing the First Playthrough Test and on the August 2026 wallpaper cast list. The story routes describe her as a Royal Academy student. She is not on the site’s character panel, so no panel lines exist; test coverage pairs her with a spirit named 莫伊莱, which the studio has not confirmed. |
Two further names, 希砂 and 隽彤, appeared in a June 2026 festival illustration post from the studio without any role, and a community roster page adds a ninth Speaker, 艾丽卡, with a spirit named 星火. None of the three is on the site panel, and none is treated as roster here until the studio shows them.
Named Spirits
Spirits are covered in depth on spirit companions. The names below are the ones that have surfaced in official material so far.
Spirit | Chinese name | Contracted to | What is confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|
初 | The Returner | The humanoid spirit contracted to the Returner. The only spirit with a published biography and the only one with a dedicated article. | |
Golden Fleece | 金羊毛 | Stated outright on the panel. Its lines pray that gold serve its owner and that everything under heaven be claimed, and answer a question about its horns with the statement that, by any definition of material, they are pure gold. The studio’s world introduction describes it as a goat that symbolises treasure hunting. | |
翼狮 (the name reads as "winged lion") | 翼狮 | Xiuyite | Speaks of an age of change that never ends and of the flames of desire and ambition that never go out, dismisses worry as a weakling’s excuse, then breaks off to ask where its fluffy ball has gone. |
墨格拉 (Mogela in pinyin; no official English) | 墨格拉 | Xiana | Two lines, both about retribution: no pardon without a blooded blade, and atonement paid in blood. |
Guaidan | 怪诞 | Luluya | The panel notes that it rarely speaks and usually just laughs eerily, and gives it one line about liking a story with an ominous opening, an absurd middle and a strange ending. |
Twin Progenitors | 双子真祖 | Qiuqiu | The one contracted spirit whose lines are written as two speakers. 克莱尔德 names itself lord of the long night and witness of history; 卡塔琳娜 speaks of a lady called 艾斯黛拉 as the most beautiful and noble being that once existed. |
影犬 (the name reads as "shadow hound") | 影犬 | Enluoer | Says no shackle can hold it and that scars and pain are nothing to fear; those who give up their fangs and stop fighting end up as someone else’s meal. |
特里忒拉 (Telitela in pinyin; no official English) | 特里忒拉 | Ying | Mirrors its Speaker’s self-doubt: it can do nothing, and asks not to be expected of because it will only disappoint. |
莫伊莱 | 莫伊莱 | Anata (test coverage only) | Named in coverage of the First Playthrough Test as Anata’s spirit. Not on the site panel and not confirmed by the studio. |
The Opening Companion Choice
A run does not begin with the full roster. The studio’s letter closing the First Playthrough Test asks testers directly whether they picked Anata (安娜塔) or Pata (帕塔) at the start, which confirms both names as the two opening options rather than leaving Anata as the only documented pick. See story-and-premise for how the two routes diverge from that choice.
What Has Not Been Published
For every character other than the Returner and Chu, the following are all unpublished as of September 2026, re-checked against the official site panel, the studio’s news channel and its community posts:
Elements, damage types, or any affinity system tied to a character.
Rarity tiers, and whether a rarity system exists at all. Community sources use incompatible tier vocabularies, which is itself a sign that nothing official has landed.
Stat lines, skill lists, and the skill-card loadouts each character can run.
Acquisition routes. Whether characters arrive through a gacha pull, a story unlock, a milestone reward, or some mix has not been stated. During the First Playthrough Test, characters were granted with their full ability sets on acquisition, but that was a test build with no monetisation running.
Voice cast, in any of the three supported voice languages.
This wiki creates a per-character page once published material can fill one without guessing. Pata cleared that bar with a dedicated trailer, a stated role and the panel lines, so she has her own page. The other six Speakers each have two panel lines and a confirmed spirit and nothing else, so they stay on this index until a trailer, a codex entry or a test build supplies more.
Character Reveal Timeline
Date | Reveal |
|---|---|
June 2025 | The Returner and Chu introduced in the announcement trailer and the eight-minute gameplay showcase. |
July 2025 | An unannounced character in Chinese-style dress was first shown offline through a cosplay performance at the studio’s convention booth, ahead of any online reveal. |
April 2026 | The fifth wave of the studio’s official emoji pack named its four characters as the Returner, Chu, Pata and Anata. |
April to May 2026 | The First Playthrough Test build put a playable roster in testers’ hands for the first time. |
July 8, 2026 | Pata became the first character to get a dedicated character trailer. |
August 2, 2026 | The official cast list for the summer wallpaper set named nine characters and spirits together, the widest single naming to date. |
August 7, 2026 | A studio quiz post confirmed 修伊特 as an official Chinese name by listing him among five Spirit Speaker illustrations; the answers were published after the quiz closed on September 7. |
September 2026 | Lock-screen wallpaper editions built around Qiuqiu and Luluya; no new character trailer, codex entry or roster reveal. |
Related
See the Returner for the player character, Chu for the contracted spirit at the centre of the premise, Pata for the first supporting character with a page of her own, spirit companions for how the pairing works in play, and combat for the tag-team structure the roster feeds into.