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Daphne
August 6, 2026 at 09:23 PM
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Daphne (达芙涅) is a boss in Rewinding Cadence and the first boss the public was ever allowed to fight. She anchored the game's first playable build, shown at the studio's summer 2025 convention booth, where a dedicated Daphne combat dungeon was the whole of the build's combat content.
The 2025 convention build shipped as a self-contained package with two halves: a dialogue slice built around the Fate Dice, and a combat dungeon ending in Daphne. Players took the protagonist and a bonded spirit into the dungeon and fought her as a pair, which is the studio's standard framing for its combat: a human and a spirit fighting together rather than a lead character with a follower.
The studio pitched the fight as approachable on the surface and deep underneath, easy enough for a first-time player to finish in a convention queue while still giving action-game players something to optimise. In practice the crowd optimised it hard. The booth ran a timed Daphne speedrun challenge in a fixed daily window, and completing the challenge earned a merchandise prize, which turned the dungeon into the busiest part of the floor.
Daphne was also the booth's centrepiece as a physical object. A sculpture of her several metres tall stood over the floor, textured from base to crown, and was used as the booth's photo landmark with its own scheduled interaction window each day. The studio leaned on the contrast deliberately: players who had just been beaten by her in the dungeon walked out to find her looking down at the hall.
Her prominence at that show is the clearest signal available about her place in the game. A studio does not build its first public installation around a minor encounter. Nothing published states where she sits in the story or what she is, though.
Detail | Status |
|---|---|
Name | 达芙涅 in Chinese material. English coverage has rendered it both Daphne and Daphni; no official English localisation has been published. |
Role | Boss of a dedicated combat dungeon in the first public playable build. |
First playable | Summer 2025, at the studio's convention booth. |
Fight structure | Fought by a player character and a bonded spirit together. |
Difficulty framing | Positioned by the studio as newcomer-friendly with depth for action-game players. |
Story placement | Not published. |
Attack patterns | Not published in any detail. Boss encounters in later builds have shown ground-targeted area attacks and boss-side spirit summons, but those observations were not made on Daphne specifically. |
Whether Daphne is a story boss, a challenge-mode boss, or both. Later demo builds have included repeatable challenge dungeons that reset on a timer, which would be a natural home for her.
Whether the convention dungeon reflects how the fight will ship, or was a purpose-built showcase cut.
Whether she is connected to the Erosion or stands apart from it.
Whether the region she was fought in corresponds to any named location, including Loren.
See combat for the systems the fight is built on, public demos and events for the show the dungeon debuted at, and spirit companions for the partner half of the duo that fights her.
