Key Characters & Factions
Souls adrift in the depths of the market district. Below are the main characters and their factions, with the tensions and alliances between factions.
Lin Que
Main characterAn apothecary boy at the Baicao pharmacy in Qingqi Bazaar, a low-rung rogue cultivator at the third layer of Qi-Condensation. He has no prodigy's talent—only a pair of eyes that see 'the flaw': one glance and he knows what's wrong with another's technique.
- Title
- Qingqi Bazaar · Baicao Pharmacy Apothecary Boy
- Faction
- 青岐坊市 · 散修
- First appearance
- 第 001 話 觀測者甦醒
- Status
- Alive
Embodiment of observation itself
Main characters · unaffiliated
青岐坊市 · 散修An old rogue cultivator who has worked Qingqi Bazaar for 30 years, nicknamed 'Nine Lives'—he has walked through fire nine times and survived all nine. There's no rule of the bazaar's underbelly he doesn't know.
許家 · 符修The direct-line daughter of the Xu family, a talisman-scribing house come down in the world, and a talisman cultivator herself. The family’s Green Seal-Script Talisman has a flaw in its last stroke, and the market town says she has wrecked the family name — but nothing in her has caved in.
玄照門 · 執法處An enforcement disciple of the Xuanzhao Sect’s outer gate, handling the strange business in the market town that nobody can explain and the authorities cannot keep down. Cold and deeply suspicious, keen and chill as a drawn sword.
玄照門 · 真傳The true-lineage disciple of this generation of the Xuanzhao Sect. Barely past twenty, cool about the eyes, her foundation close to perfect — and yet a hurdle in her cultivation sits pressed against her chest that even she cannot account for.
青岐坊市 · 百草丹鋪The master of the Baicao pharmacy in Qingqi Bazaar, Lin Que's employer. Shrewd, far from foolish—a face of how the bazaar's underbelly squeezes its resources.