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The player takes the role of a nameless champion, a warrior who fights against humans and demons alike across the battlefields of a demon-infested Three Kingdoms. As in the first game, the hero is defined by deeds rather than by a given name, and Koei Tecmo has confirmed a new playable protagonist for the sequel's brand-new story.

Who He Is

Official material describes him as a young man whose home village was destroyed by Cao Cao's army. He takes up a sword and steps onto the battlefield to avenge it, and that motive drives him through the whole campaign. He is not a strategist or a noble but a fighter, and the studio has said his defining trait is martial skill, set deliberately against the intellect of his companion Pang Tong. The two are described as close friends caught in the same war rather than lord and retainer.

The Phoenix

The champion carries the power of a phoenix, the image that gives Wings of Ember its name. The team's stated rule for designing that power is that it must let him do things an ordinary person could not, such as stamping a demon into the ground or hurling one bodily away. Its mechanics are covered under The Power of the Phoenix, and its place in the wider combat system under Combat.

He does not carry it alone. Team Ninja has said the phoenix dwells in both the champion and Pang Tong, who grew up in the same village, so the two set out on the same road with the same borrowed strength and very different temperaments.

Still Unconfirmed

Several basics about the character are still open. Whether character creation returns has not been stated, the champion has not been given a name or a voice actor, and no official English name has been published for the terms the Japanese and Chinese marketing uses for him, which describe a nameless warrior of the martial world rather than a soldier or a lord. One long-standing question has been answered, though. Asked whether he and the first game's protagonist are the same person, the producer said the two are unconnected, adding only that this champion belongs to the same theme the series takes its name from, so the link between the two games runs through setting and idea rather than through a shared character. The other confirmed figures of the cast, including the warlords who return from the previous game, are listed under Characters.