Key Characters & Factions
Those who have yet to be rewritten on the descent into the tomb. Below are the main characters and their factions, with the tensions and alliances between factions.
Shen Zhaoye
Main characterHeir of a fallen fenjin tomb-seeking lineage. He trusts only terrain, airflows, rock strata, magnetic declination, and the engineering logic of tombs—not gods. Until, to clear a debt, he takes a job he shouldn't and walks into a nameless imperial tomb.
- Title
- Heir of a Fenjin Lineage
- Faction
- 分金世家
- First appearance
- 第 001 話 觀測者甦醒
- Status
- Alive
Embodiment of observation itself
Main characters · unaffiliated
盜墓圈An old hand who has worked the tomb-raiding circle most of his life, Shen Zhaoye's partner. Black markets, smuggling routes, local powers—he knows them cold; cowardly, slippery, foul-mouthed, but his judgment in a pinch is sharper than anyone's.
關中 · 守山嚮導A local mountain guide whose family has watched these peaks for three generations, missing a knuckle on his left ring finger. Which paths can be walked and which let no one return—he knows better than any map.