Ji

1. #1Nine Solsselective

   Keys: Sols, Nine Sols, Council, Sol

   Formidable rulers of the New Kunlun Island, and members of the Tiandao Council.

   They are: Kuafu, Goumang, Yanlao, Jiequan, Lady Ethereal, Ji, Fuxi, Nuwa, Eigong.

2. #2Solarianconstantselective

   Keys: Solarian, Solarian, Solarians, solarians

   Solarians are a species of bipedal aliens with cat-like features. Many major characters, including Yi and the other Nine Sols, are solarians.

   Solarian anatomy: cat-like bipedal humanoids, their bodies covered in fur; all posess claws, ears (of differing lengths) and fangs, as well as paws and nuzzles; they don't seem to have tails; they also don't have hair, but their fur may look similar to it.

   Solarian history is divided into a number of Eras, which are delineated by significant historical events.

   The Turbulent Era is the earliest era mentioned in the game, and was marked by constant warfare among the various kingdoms of Penglai. It lasted for several millennia; the year 3773 is known to have been near the end of the era. The Turbulent Era saw the popularization of many advanced technologies such as Azure Sand and genetic transmutation, which were often used for military purposes. Eventually, the Jie Kingdom emerged as a major power, attempting to unite all the kingdoms by force under emperor Jietong. The Fangshi Guild, founded and led by Lear, opposed the Jie Kingdom and aimed to bring about world piece. They pioneered technologies such as the Jade System, Root Nodes, and improved farming techniques. Eventually, with military successes and the invention of the Rhizomatic Bomb, the Jie Kingdom was forced to surrender, thus establishing world peace and ending the Turbulent Era.

   The next era was the Origin Era, marked by a surge of Taoism and a distrust of most advanced technologies due to their association with war. This was in part due to Lear's Inaction Declaration, where he announced that the Fangshi Guild would be disbanded and its dangerous military technologies sealed away. The Origin Era lasted 468 years. The Tiandao Council was eventually established as a scientific organization, but operated in secret due to public mistrust of technology. A mistake in the council's immortality research resulted in the creation of Tianhuo, which grew into a catastrophic pandemic, prompting the Council to go public and begin the Eternal Cauldron Project. In the final phase of the project, New Kunlun was launched toward the Pale Blue Planet as an interstellar ark, marking the end of the Origin Era.

   The Foundation Era was the next era and contains the main events of the game. During this time, solarians aboard New Kunlun used cryosleep to slow the effects of Tianhuo while efforts to cure the disease continued. In order to prevent brain-death during cryosleep, the Soulscape virtual dream system was used, requiring the harvest of Apemen brains to provide computing power. The game is set sometime after year 500 of the Foundation Era.

3. #3Penglaiselective

   Keys: Penglai

   Penglai is a habitable planet located about 500 light-years from Earth, and is the homeworld of the solarians. Approximately 90% of its surface is covered in oceans, leaving a number of small continents. Before the events of the game, Penglai was afflicted by a pandemic known as Tianhuo, which caused a severe crisis among solarian society and prompted the Eternal Cauldron Project.

4. #4Fusangselective

   Keys: Fusang

   Fusang is a large plant-like organism originating on Penglai and is the oldest known organism on the planet. It appears as a collection of large black tendrils overlaid with a mobile, white webbed pattern. Throughout history, it has been an important resource and heavily influenced Solarian society. In early solarian history, it provided shelter and nourishment, encouraging early civilizations to flourish. Later on, it was discovered that Fusang converts incoming sunlight into rhizomatic energy, which is harvested and stored to power modern solarian civilization.

5. #5Tianhuoselective

   Keys: Tianhuo

   Tianhuo is a viral pandemic originating on Penglai. It has caused a severe crisis among solarian society, leading to the near extinction of the solarian species and prompting the Tiandao Council to design and implement the Eternal Cauldron Project. At the time of the game, all solarians have been infected with the virus. It is a chronic infection that appears to be universally fatal, though its activity can be suspended by placing the host in cryo-sleep. There is no known cure.

6. #6Councilselective

   Keys: Council, Tiandao Council, Yi, Kuafu, Goumang, Yanlao, Jiequan, Ji, Nuwa, Fuxi, Lady Ethereal, Eigong

   The Tiandao Council was founded by a group of scientists and former nobles who were opposed to Taoism. In its early days, it faced suppression and operated in secrecy, but over time, it developed a centralized structure. Ten wise individuals, known as the Ten Sols, were chosen annually as leaders, guiding the organization with each of their respective tenets.

   Each Sol is responsible and administrates a zone on New Kunlun. And each holds a Sol Seal. A Sol Seal is the greatest symbol of power in the Council and a key to unlock the Council Code. It is a Sol’s proof of authority.

7. #7Goumangselective

   Keys: Goumang, Council, Sol, Sols

   "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and responsible for managing agriculture on New Kunlun." "Goumang's childhood experiences drove her to study agricultural technology. She believes in efficiency and the survival of the fittest. However, underneath that facade of ruthless efficiency lies more complex emotions and motives."

   Goumang's appearance somewhat resembles a dark blue Scottish Fold cat, featuring long ears that angle down slightly and hands that resemble feathers. She has a small black nose and wears both eyeliner and eyeshadow. She wears a red and white dress that splits in the front just below the chest, as well as some jewelry, notably having a golden headress and pierced ears, with her earrings featuring a golden ball above and red tassels below. Below the knees, her legs become much thinner and bird-like in appearance, being encased in a silver metal. Her bird-like features are due to genetic modification. Goumang is arrogant and self-righteous, always justifying her decisions with excuses. Her beleaguered past has hardened her heart to prioritize ruthless efficiency, even if it means sacrificing other species during so. She is very racist towards Apemen and deems Solarians to be the higher race, but secretly has soft spot for her two Human soldiers despite mind controlling them. Despite her well intent on ensuring Solarians never having to be starved, her methods are at the expense of other individuals, rendering her amoral regardless of her intention.

   In addition, Goumang is proud of herself as she was acknowledged by Eigong after her constant efforts, and she respects Eigong very much for recognizing her talents. However, Yi is more talented than her and developed his abilities with the support of Eigong, who favors him more. Feeling inferior as a result, Goumang hates Yi to the extent that she is blatantly jealous, hostile, and disrespectful towards him as junior, even though Yi had politely treated her as senior.

   Goumang was born into the Yumin Kingdom, which had very little fertile soil. Due to this, the nation was stricken with poverty and famine. Goumang grew up homeless and was often cold and hungry due to the barren land around her. As she grew, she became heavily invested in agricultural sciences, particularly as genetic modification of crops became more widespread in order to sustain those who lived in the kingdom.

   Many within Yumin also genetically modified themselves, giving them avian traits in order to better traverse their vertical cities. Goumang did the same, which is the origin her avian traits such as her feet and wings. Her immense effort towards making sure that all were fed through the genetic modification of crops garnered her recognition from Eigong, and she was invited to become one of the Sols.

   Goumang continued her research and aggressive genetic modification of plants on New Kunlun, having employed the aid of two young apemen after gaining her position on the Tiandao Council. After these two apemen reached adulthood, she turned them into Jiangshi Soldiers, ensuring that they would always be able to aid her in her tasks.

   After awaking after Yi's resurrection on New Kunlun, Goumang traps an elevator at the entrance to the Greenhouse, set for Yi. After a brief exchange of insults, Goumang commands her soldiers to kill Yi, though all this achieves is knocking the broken elevator down the shaft. From there, she is idle as Yi traverses through the Agricultural Zone, inevitably reaching her. After he does, a conversation about the past ensues, revealing that Goumang is deeply jealous of Yi, blaming him for ruining her plans of being the saviour of solarians. In the end, Goumang is defeated. Her avian legs are destroyed, and instead of being finished off, she is forced into an upright position by Yi using one of the Jiangshi's mind control collars, remaining alive for the rest of the events of the game.

8. #8Projectselective

   Keys: Eternal Cauldron Project, ECP, Project

   The Eternal Cauldron Project is a series of actions implemented by the Tiandao Council in response to the disastrous Tianhuo pandemic. Originally conceived by Yi, the plan is to place all solarians into cryo-sleep to slow down the effects of the disease until a cure can be found.

   The Soulscape virtual reality system was needed in order to prevent brain-death during cryo-sleep, and requires an amount of computing power so vast that it was unattainable even with all the computing resources on Penglai. Instead, the plan involved turning New Kunlun into an interstellar spacecraft and travelling to the Pale Blue Planet to harvest human brains and use them for computing power.

9. #9New Kunlunselective

   Keys: Kunlun, New Kunlun

   It was formed when the entire island of Kunlun on Penglai was lifted off of the planet and converted into an interstellar spacecraft. During the events of the game, it acts as a space station and orbits around the Sun at the center of a large web formed by Fusang, providing a huge amount of energy to power the Eternal Cauldron Project.

   It is divided into a number of different Zones administrated by Sols of the Tiandao Council.

10. #10Kuafuselective

    Keys: Kuafu, Council, Sol, Sols

    Once one of the Ten Sols of the Council and responsible for managing the Power Reservoir. Kuafu is Yi's best friend and sworn brother, also an excellent engineer and a skilled craftsman.

    Kuafu is a large orange cat, wearing a dark green jumpsuit with a floating gold headrest-esque bar around his head. He has small, round eyes and a pudgy, stereotypical cat face. He wears a device on his chest that holds a mockup boba tea bottle, and sits on a floating device that resembles a large pillow. Kuafu is a loyal and friendly person. Although he did not learn martial arts like Yi, because he is afraid of ghosts and rather timid enough to be reluctant to harm others, he supports Yi with his skilled craftsmanship. Dspite his undying loyalty to friends, he often disses Yi's eccentric personality, saying, "To be frank, you don't have particurarly Friendly disposition either." In the middle of the game, when Yi was defeated and imprisoned by Jiequan, and managed to escape and get seriously injured, Kuafu even criticizes Yi by saying, "Is your action really for the cause of the Solarians or to relieve your private vendetta?"

    When Kuafu first met Shuanshuan who Yi had cared, he was very reluctant to interact with Shuanshuan because the boy is apeman, citing ethnic differences, superiority, and prejudice. However, Kuafu gradually gets closer to Shuanshuan. Soon, Kuafu becomes truly caring for Shuanshuan, joining the boy's play, helping develop the boy's sense of self, and worrying about boy's health abnormalities. He even praises Shuanshuan for his talent. When Shuanshan presents Kuafu with a pottery that he had carefully crafted following the culture of Kuafu hometown, Kuafu is tearfully delights and truly appreciates.

    In his Soulscape, his life leading up to his time as a Sol is shown. Kuafu was from a craftsman village belonging to the Ying Kingdom. During the Turbulent Era, Ying Kingdom was famous for cultivating and producing many excellent craftsmen, but there were failing in the present because of the uselessness of the craftsman under the development of science and technology. In hopes of revitalizing his homeland, Kuafu joined the Tiandao Council to study with the dream of re-developing his hometown with his skills. There, Kuafu met Yi, and they quickly became best friends because of the same interests.

    After Kuafu learned about the rapid development in the Council, He succeeded in repairing the power storage columns. He soon redesigned them to connect the anciently radiant pagoda to use it as an energy storage turrets. Eigong appreciated his ability and recommended him as a member of the Ten Sols, But he felt burdened by taking on the undeserved position. However, Kuafu was encouraged by Yi, who offered to return their hometown in a blaze of glory once peace had been restored. Accordingly, Kuafu participated in the Eternal Cauldron Project, vowing to achieve their goals together by supporting Yi's back.

    But their oath was not fulfilled. Before New Kunlun's departure from Penglai, Yi found out about Eigong's ugly truth and was chased by the Council while trying to stop it. Kuafu thought there was a misunderstanding between Yi and the Council, and that he was trying to persuade Yi to reinstate Yi's position. However, Eigong brutally murdered Yi to cover up ugly truth - when Kuafu learned of that from surveillance records, he thought his dear best friend had truly died, so he greatly despaired. Later, as the New Kunlun rose to space and tried to esase all of Yi's achievements in Council, Kuafu used his hands to leave only Abacus-Ruyi, the AI assistant which is Yi's alter ego. Afterwards, he no longer got involved with the Council' affairs, suffering from the guilt of sitting on the sidelines and having contributed to Yi's death for 500 years.

11. #11Jiequanselective

    Keys: Jiequan, Council, Sol, Sols

    "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and responsible for overseeing the Transmutation Factory. He is the final heir to the Jie Kingdom and prefers fighting over all other forms of communication." "He lamented the decline of the Jie Clan and made it his lifelong mission to return them to their former glory. His staunch belief in the family precept "Heroes are forged in agony" has led him to develop a morbid obsession with pain, which he likes sharing generously with others."

    Jiequan is a large, muscular lion, with a dark grey mane and long white eyebrows. His eyes are black with red pupils, and he also features red skin. He has two holes on his abdomen, which connect to white pipes that circle around his body. His clothing resembles dark grey sweatpants from the waist down, and green armour from the waist up, that exposes much of his arms and chest, and features large red spikes on the cuffs and shoulders. Jiequan is a brutish, largely hostile individual who values prowess above all else, though he appears to have some respect for the Tiandao Council in general and for Yi in particular. He is incredibly sadistic and vindictive, torturing Yi and others for his own pleasure and using former rivals and enemies as test subjects. The terrible fact is that he simply interprets the Jie Clan's motto, "Endure what others can't, for heroes are forged in agony," in his own way and gives hardships to the weak in good faith. Yi is shown details of Jiequan's life leading up to his time as a Sol after entering his Soulscape. In it, Jiequan is portrayed as having venerated the Turbulent Era, during which the Jie Kingdom was regarded as one of strength, devotion and discipline when soldiers would fight to honor the Jie reputation. At the end of the Turbulent Era, however, the Jie Kingdom fell to the Fangshi guild's uprising, their conflict ending with the suicide of their last king, Jietong, which effectively caused the collapse of the entire kingdom. Thus Jiequan, as the only descendant and heir to the throne, resolved to restore the Jie Kingdom to its former glory.

    But he was not always so strong and courageous. Despite being born with a warrior's lineage, he was considerably weaker than his ancestors and suffered frequent humiliation and derision from his peers who saw him as a weak, cowardly underdog.

    Jiequan would come to prove his persecutors wrong, but not without cost. He grew to become well-versed in the process of genetic modification as known as transmutation, which, among other things, was capable of granting amazing agility and strength to its subjects. He was forbidden from undergoing transmutation, as the strain on the user's body was intense enough to be fatal, but he would ignore this danger. After soaking himself in the fluids used during the transmutation process, he would push genetic modifications to his body to their limit.

    As such, Jiequan developed himself into a supernaturally strong warrior, training and fighting relentlessly, as well as continuously undergoing transmutation to become stronger, even as his empathy disappeared and his pride became insatiable. He would imprison those he fought and inflict horrible tortures, both physical and mental, upon his captives day after day, going so far as to deliberately withhold death from particularly valuable prisoners, such as Kanghui, a noble with regenerative abilities who had angered the Feng Clan and was subsequently incarcerated. Jiequan saw his prisoners as little more than weaklings, pawns, or subjects for experiments. Eventually, he had molded and reformed himself into the ideal warrior that every Jie soldier aspired to be: Powerful and invincible. No one would doubt him ever again.

    As the Eternal Cauldron Project progressed, he hunted and captured many apemen from the Pale Blue Planet with Goumang, combining their body parts with machines and transmuting them into the armored monsters and soldiers that act as guards all across New Kunlun.

    His greatest wish was that once Tianhuo would be cured, he'd revive Jie Kingdom to their heyday.

12. #12Lady Etherealselective

    Keys: Lady Ethereal, Council, Sol, Sols

    "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and responsible for managing the Cortex Center. Lady Ethereal is, for reasons unknown, exhibiting mental anomalies." "As the creator of the Soulscape system, Lady Ethereal knew in advance that the system had major flaws. However, due to pressure from the situation, she was not able to prevent its mass deployment. The death of her colleagues hung heavy around her neck and she eventually lost the ability to distinguish between dreams and reality."

    Lady Ethereal's appearance resembles that of a lynx, with light pink fur, large black tufts off the top of her ears, and appendages resembling hair descending from the bottom of them, also ending in black tufts. She has large, slightly rounded eyes, with butterfly eyeliner and pink eyeshadow. She is seen in multiple outfits, each varying in appearance. Normally she wears a dress with long sleeves that has a plain lavender color above the waist, cutting short at her shoulders. Below the waist, a desaturated blue layer covers a pinstripe pink-ish white material that covers her legs, with the blue layer splitting open in the middle. On top of the blue layer, she has a vaguely floral pattern of green, yellow and white that descends from her hips. Lady Ethereal is a benevolent and altruistic lady, who yearns to contribute to her society. However, after her sanctums worked too well and led to deaths, she is unable to forgive herself and considers herself to be a deceptive monster. She has a black-and-white thinking process, subjugating herself to disturbing thoughts by labeling herself as evil because of her involvement, when the reality is far more complicated. Even after 500 years, her mind has become extremely unstable owing to her chronic self-hatred of being responsible for her participants' demises. After Yi defeats her, Lady Ethereal is finally freed from her anguish, and she regains her kindness as she goes to the afterlife. Lady Ethereal was the designer of the Soulscape system, being the head of the Cortex Center. The system was designed in order to give solarians blissful dreams while they were in cryosleep, helping to avoid brain death due to a lack of brain activity. A month-long testing phase initially proved to be a success, with the Soulscapes functioning well and as intended. However, they functioned far better than anticipated, giving those who participated in the tests such blissful dreams that waking up was akin to waking into a living hell. Realizing that they could not return to the dreams, and just how grim reality was, all of them took their own lives, including Xiaohe, someone very close to Lady Ethereal, who went so far as to attempt to strangle her.

    Despite this horrific failure, Lady Ethereal was forced to allow the system to be deployed en-masse due to the pressure of the situation. With Eigong's assistance and insistence, she kept the testing phase results secret from the rest of the Council and the solarian population, instead insisting that it was entirely functional with minor issues. Between this and the guilt of her colleagues' deaths, she eventually unsuccessfully attempted suicide. In response to this, her brain and spinal cord were separated from her body - presumably by the council after Yi's death - and were kept alive in her vital sanctum within the Cortex Center.

    When Yi first enters the Cortex Center, it looks run-down and empty, as a result of Lady Ethereal's anomalous mental state, though it is unclear how this was able to affect Yi's perception of the area. Yi also experiences a hallucination, again by means unknown. After Jiequan's defeat, Ruyi picks up a signal from the Cortex Center, and Yi gains the ability to enter Lady Ethereal's Soulscape. Inside is a beautiful opalescent world of endless skies and mountains, with Lady Ethereal herself resting at the edge of a hot spring. She does not recognize Yi, nor does she appear to remember the events that took place, and she appears to be speaking to figures Yi is unable to see. Additionally, Yi's Mystic Nymph flies into a flower that wraps around it, preventing its use.

    Traversing through her Soulscape, each loop brings with it more information. First, Yi gains the ability to see the figures Lady Ethereal speaks to. In subsequent loops, Lady Ethereal remembers slightly more information each time, and the figures slowly begin to go insane, blaming Lady Ethereal for various things. Eventually, Lady Ethereal remembers fully what transpired, and demands Yi to attack her several times. After hitting her enough, she transforms into her nightmare form, and the underlying disturbing nature of the Soulscape becomes fully revealed, overtaking its previous pleasant appearance.

    Following Yi's Mystic Nymph, which is released after Lady Ethereal departs, he eventually reaches Lady Ethereal and attempts to reason with her, stating that he does not wish to fight. However, Lady Ethereal is unable to forgive herself for her apparent mistakes, and a fight ensues, in which the background becomes progressively more disturbing with each phase. After Lady Ethereal is defeated, she explains that in the end, while she took comfort in punishing herself, she now realizes that she just wanted her wound to be seen. She says that she has now faced her sins, and that it is time for Yi to do the same. Following this, Yi obtains her Sol Seal, and her life support is cut, finally putting her to rest.

13. #13Jidisabledselective

    Keys: Ji, Council, Sol, Sols

    "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and keeper of the Grotto of Scriptures. Ji is a mysterious immortal being and an ancient resident of Kunlun who seems to have been present throughout all of solarian history." "Ji often observed the world as a bystander, following the rise and ultimate demise of countless great individuals over the centuries. These experiences made him deeply envious of those who ended their lives spectacularly and sparked a yearning in him for his own magnificent curtain call."

    Youthful-looking solarian with short white fur and a lean, androgynous build. He mostly keeps his eyes closed, and opens them very rarely; his eyes are bleak and fully white, and he may potentially be blind. Ji's fingers are tipped with long, jade claws. His ears are lowered and mostly hidden underneath his cloak and hat.

    His wears a yellow garment that exposes some of his sides, as well as his arms, hips and legs, with a loincloth hanging in front and in back. He also wears a large red and and yellow fez-like hat that descends into a cloak behind his back with golden honeycomb patterns at the bottom. On the front of the hat hang two smaller red tassels, each tipped with gold. The band of his hat appears to be made of a thick jade ring, featuring a large, living eye in the front. He wears soft clothed shoes on his feet.

    In his younger form, Ji is noticeably shorter, and has the red cloak wrapped fully around him, concealing his limbs and body.

    Ji is very enigmatic and difficult to read. He appears calm and peaceful, as if nothing could faze him, and always keeps a faint smile on his face.

    Ji he would often speak of the past, describing how the world was ages ago, remembering his confidants and friends' lives and achievements, with a subtle hit of yearning in his words. Despite this, he dislikes the notion of 'clinging to the past'. Ji thinks that the relics of old are most valuable during a single, fleeting moment of splendor.

    Due to immortality, Ji had lived through countless lifetimes. He is very knowledgeable and wise, but an eternity of existence and loss made him aloof and even apathetic towards the world. He deeply envies those who passed away spectacularly, leaving behind a great legacy, and wishes for his own 'curtain call' to be just as grand. His inability to die has become his greatest curse. He contemplated suicide on rare occasions, but never went through with it.

    Ji can accurately predict the future by hexagram reading, which often made him a useful asset as a seer or a war council. He is the closest being among the solarians (and possibly the entire universe) to being 'omniscient'.

    - Emperor Jietong (deceased): Former Emperor of the Jie Kingdom, Ji served him as the national affairs officer until his death. - Lear (deceased): A former close friend and mentor of Ji who dissolved the Fangshi Guild and retreated to the spirit realm. His legacy is preserved by Ji. - Eigong: Leader of the Tiandao Council, scientist, and experimenter in immortality; sought to use Ji's cells for the Eternal Cauldron Project.

    - During his time in the Fangshi Guild, Ji was the Deputy Captain of the Fangshi Elite Guard. - Ji is a skilled Taoist martial artist, but he rarely takes part in battles nowadays. - Ji is immune to aging, disease (including Tianhuo), and poisoning. His life is bound to continue endlessly unless external forces intervene.

    Also known as the Kunlun Immortal, Ji is an enigmatic figure with a long history. His exact origins are unknown, but he is known to have been alive for many thousands of years, having seen the rise and fall of countless great historical figures. At some point early in his life, perhaps as a child, he was worshipped for his potent abilities of divination, likely among his other supernatural abilities, such as his agelessness.

    Throughout his life, he was part of many different groups, and witnessed several different events. Most notably, he witnessed the last written work and the suicide of Jietong and Lear's inaction declaration and his moving on to the limitless realm. He additionally allowed Eigong to experiment on him in her search for a cure for Tianhuo. He grew jaded to life, being a bystander as all those he cared about moved on without him. Because of this, he grew deeply envious of those who moved on in a burst of splendor, wishing for his own magnificent curtain call.

    Over the course of the game, Ji meets with Yi several times. He first meets Yi at the base of the Daybreak tower in Lake Yaochi Ruins. Yi does not recognize Ji, as he taken the form of a child, though Ji calls Yi a friend. The two speak, with Ji behaving in a rather cryptic way and explaining the history of the tower they stand in. Ji also gives Yi the Ancient Sheet Music, which can be given to Ruyi to be transcribed.

    Ji is next encountered in the left viewing area of the Boundless Repository. In this conversation, he explains that he knows why Yi is there, and what he will do to Yanlao. He simply wanted to come see for himself before it all stopped working. He also explains that he disagrees that saving artifacts will recreate the beauty they once held, for the true beauty they hold can only be experienced in the moment of their creation, much like fireworks.

    Before his battle, Ji is met once more, in Grotto of Scriptures. Here, he explains some of the history of the Grotto, and that while he is capable of divination, he is unable to reveal the intentions behind actions. He also proves that he knows Yi better than he previously let on, causing confusion in Yi. He then invites Yi to participate in his divination, and is shocked by the outcome, remarking that he has only seen such a divergence in a handful of souls. He then invites Yi to his royal hall, which is when Yi realizes his identity.

    Upon reaching Ji's royal hall in the Ancient Stone Pillar, Yi finds him writing on a large stone slab, one of many in the area. Ji explains that this writing began as a hobby, but inevitably led to his method of retaining memories worth keeping. Following this, Ji reveals more of his abilities, such as the ability to fly, and returns to his adult form. He explains his immortality, and tells Yi that he will die by his hand, with a fight ensuing.

    After Ji's defeat, he reveals that he had lied about the result of the divination. His reasoning is that had he told Yi the true outcome, Yi may not have performed his utmost, noting that at least he was able to enjoy the thrill of the unknown. In his last moments, Ji notes some events he has experienced, before his final wish is granted.

14. #14Fuxi and Nuwaselective

    Keys: Fuxi, Nuwa, Fengs, the Fengs, Feng, Council, Sol, Sols

    Fuxi: "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and administrator of the Empyrean District along with his twin sister. Fuxi hails from the Feng Clan, an ancient aristocratic family of the Shang Kingdom." "Though he may seem frivolous, Fuxi was a responsible man and took his duties as the head of the clan seriously. He used his wealth to great effect, placing confidants all across New Kunlun and filling the Warehouse with his personal goods. He tried to breathe new life into the Feng Clan until he succumbed to an early death from the Tianhuo Virus. He could still make noises after taking Eigong's "treatment", but it could hardly be called talking."

    Nuwa: "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and administrator of the Empyrean District along with her twin brother. Nuwa's aristocratic background allows her to live a life of decadent luxury." "Unable to accept the death of her brother, Nuwa used the serum Eigong provided to keep Fuxi's body alive. Like many solarians facing the end, she chose to indulge in entertainment, numbing her emotions and allowing her to ignore reality until the very end."

    The Fengs are light grey oriental shorthair cats, their ears pinned directly up in intricate dark blue, gold and dark green headpieces. They both wear eyeliner red and blue eyeshadow, and have slitted black pupils with narrow eyes. Fuxi wears beige robes with large decorative white and gold hood, and red, dark blue and dark green decorative garments around his shoulders and around his neck. Nuwa shares similar clothing, with a slight design changes. Fuxi sports an incredibly large, stocky build, while Nuwa sports a small, thin build. Additionally, Nuwa seems to have been made to wear very small wooden shoes from her childhood, never letting her feet grow, and they have atrophied into not even being able to support her weight, so she cannot walk by herself. During his lifetime, Fuxi seemed to be a frivolous who was only immersed in Penglai Peking opera with his younger sister, but he was a responsible man who took his duties as the head of the clan seriously. He used his wealth to great effect, placing confidants all across New Kunlun and filling the Warehouse with his personal goods. He loved his younger twin sister dearly as well. After being reanimated, much of his sentience is gone, but he still loves Nuwa regardless.

    Being the younger twin, Nuwa is very spoiled due to her aristocratic background and Fuxi's mollycoddling. She in fact has an unhealthy codependency on Fuxi, relying on him for most of her decision making. Unable to accept Fuxi's passing, Nuwa has grown extremely delusional to the point of numbing herself with endless partying, and even when Fuxi is no longer salvageable she still believes he can be saved, which leads to her painful death as she dies with him.

    Yi is shown details of the Fengs' life leading up to their time as a Sol after entering both their Soulscapes. Twin siblings Fuxi and Nuwa were born into the Feng Clan, an aristocratic family with 1,000 years of history in the Shang Kingdom. They had been very close with each other since birth, sharing a love for dramas and performances, and also worked as a pair of peking opera actors in Penglai. Although their mother expressed criticism and disapproval by calling their penchants low-classed, Fuxi didn't mind and cared enough to call Nuwa a "prima donna". So Nuwa grew to love Fuxi, looking at him as a companion beyond family.

    As the outbreak of the Tianhuo virus killed many Solarians, Fuxi and Nuwa succeeded their late mother as the Feng Clan's owners, funded the Eternal Cauldron Project pushed by the Council to save many Solarians - because it didn't matter how much clan wealth they had, their species would die out. For this reason, they became Sols of the Council.

    However, before New Kunlun's departure from Penglai, Fuxi was infected with Tianhuo, which put him on the verge of early death. When Nuwa couldn't accept her brother's death, Eigong broke precedent and suggested to Nuwa, who wanted to cure her brother at all costs, that she would give Fuxi a prototype shot of the vaccine she had developed. Despite Nuwa giving all sorts of shots to cure the reanimated Fuxi, there was no progress and he eventually died. But Fuxi's mutated body was able to rely on Nuwa's hulusi (Chinese calabash flute) performance to operate similarly to an ordinary person. Due to this, Nuwa completely denied Fuxi's death and believed that her older brother had been healed. Nuwa then began holding a big banquet every 10 years to be with Fuxi forever, to wallow herself in reckless partying endlessly before she was overtaken with the virus as well.

    Present The twin siblings are responsible for managing the Empyrean District, which is home to the surviving Solarians. When Yi inspects the Empyrean District, the water purification facilities that are to provide drinking water for the inhabitants do not function properly, only sending contaminated water, and the inhabitants and guards are not seen at all. Instead, the inhabitants have all become violent, mindless Mutants. Ruyi and Kuafu's investigation reveal, shockingly, that the mutants were all inhabitants of the district, but it is impossible to guess why this happened due to the district having tight security.

    Yi, searching the Empyrean District, soon meets Fuxi inside the Living Center. However, Fuxi does not pay attention to Yi, only to watch a holographic video of the Penglai Opera he performed with Nuwa. Also, he just quietly leaves the room without stopping Yi from accessing his Soulscape and taking his Sol Seal. Sensing this anomaly caused by Yi, Nuwa contacts Yi and warns him that stealing Sol Seal is a felony that can lead to death under the law, but soon she urges Yi to leave and stop bothering her and her brother instead of condoning Yi's actions. Even though Yi confronts Nuwa about the Empyrean District's deteriorating condition, Nuwa dismisses his concerns, believing that it's just a riot of people who haven't adapted to their Soulscapes, and the Dusk Guardians will take care of the situation.

    However, Yi doubts that he could not fully see Fuxi's broken wishes inside Fuxi's Soulscape. In addition, Yi also needs Nuwa's Sol Seal, so Yi searches the Enlightenment Sanctum while avoiding the mutants and finally meets Nuwa, who has a private banquet with all VIPs in the VIP reception room. Yi criticizes Nuwa, who has been ignoring the apocalypse outside, likening her to an ostrich with its head stuck in a pile of sand. In response, Nuwa sarcastically criticizes the blind spot of the Eternal Cauldron Project, saying that there are also a number of people who have misfitted or died in Soulscape. Still, she has no intention of stopping her own reckless behavior, saying it doesn't matter if she and her brother can enjoy an eternal banquet where unceasing music is play.

    Tired of persuasion, Yi suggests that he will no longer be involved in their depravity as Nuwa wishes, as long as she acquiesce her Sol Seal. Nuwa tries to allow the acquiescence, so as not to be disturbed. But she then refuses to acquiesce her Sol Seal to Yi after interpreting her brother's grunts as refusal. Then, Nuwa prepares Yi by holding a martial arts performance featuring Fuxi for the VIP audience's response, declaring that she will play music for him, and initiates a battle with Yi through Fuxi.

    Throughout the battle, Nuwa assists Fuxi back up with her hulusi performance. Whenever Fuxi is on the verge of being pushed back by Yi, Nuwa plays the hulusi to raise him, and calling out snake illusions or tracing sound wave and tracing energy sword to disturb Yi. Nevertheless, in the end, Fuxi is defeated by Yi, completely halting his biological activity. At that moment, his mutated right arm decomposes and is separated from his body and also peeling off the mask that Nuwa has covered, revealing his terribly decayed face.

    Nuwa plays the hulusi to get Fuxi up again, but he does not respond. She can't accept that and screams in fear, and Trying to salvage at her brother immediately, but she falls off her floating cushion. When Yi is surprised by Fuxi's devastation and asks when he died, Nuwa ignores Yi's question, saying that she has to keep playing hulusi to save Fuxi. She tearfully crawls to the already mutated Fuxi, and tries comforting him. Unfortunately, Fuxi's mutated body sprouts out spikes that impale Nuwa, who soon succumbs to her death.

    Their corpses bloom spiny mutant fungal flowers. Later, when Yi gives them a reprieve with his talisman, which surely wipes out the mutants, Nuwa's infected corpse becomes fungal bloom of the Twin Tao Fruits while holding Fuxi's head.

15. #15Eigongselective

    Keys: Eigong, Council, Sol, Sols

    "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and its de-facto leader. Eigong is a scientist who sought immortality for the Solarians. However her research leads to the awakening of the Tianhuo virus." "Despite numerous centuries in attempting to cure the Solarians, she fails and instead mutates the virus. The mutation results in a hive mind connection to all infected and an accursed form of immortality. She ultimately gives up and begins to believe the mutation is the next step of Solarian evolution."

    Eigong is a tall grey sphynx cat, with horizontal ears, narrow eyes and a slender stature. She is one of the visibly older characters. On her forehead is a dark green circular device with a hemisphere garnet implanted in it, connected to a cut of Fusang roots on the back of her head. Her outfit consists of a suit-like dark grey robe, loose-fitting beige pants, gold padding and tight dark green cuffs with golden accents. Additionally, she has a small grey 'hairpiece' in the roots on her head, which also act as the hilt of her red-bladed sword. Eigong is a genius scientist who strives to benefit the public, but deep down is obsessive with her goal of achieving immortality. Despite her vast knowledge, she is incredibly deceptive and selfish, deceiving Yi during his time as her pupil, and also ensuring Nuwa's loyalty for the council under the pretense of giving Fuxi a cure. Her arrogant selfishness is also the catalyst of driving her species to extinction. Ruthless and remorseless, Eigong firmly believes that one must forsake others - such as Humans - to accomplish their objectives even in her dying breath, refusing to acknowledge any of her faults of befalling everyone within her kin. Origin Era, Pre-Tianhuo creation Prior to the game's events during Origin Era, Eigong was a researcher working on what she called "the immortality project". Although she called it a “personal dream of [hers]”, it is unknown if this project stemmed from Eigong herself, as it was part of the former Council’s expectations and under the sponsorship of the Feng clan, both of which pressured her to to fully devote herself to it.

    On Year 434 of Origin Era, she started the first record of her research by studying the cells of the Primordial Roots to access immortality. 10 years into the project (Year 444), she discovered a similarity between Fusang’s regeneration cells and Solarian cells, thus started studying gene editing processes. This led her to accidentally synthesize Tianhuo, whose name was officialized in Year 446.

    Origin Era, Post-Tianhuo creation The virus quickly spreaded over Penglai in the span of a few years (Year 450), leading Eigong to shift her goal from researching immortality to researching a cure, even if several of her logs show that she never moved on from her first project.

    It is during this period that the Tiandao Council, formerly a secretive organization, was able to rise to the top and gain public support by offering the hopes of a cure.

    At that time, Eigong already had renown as a researcher specialized in Azure Sand, albeit considered too radical to be recognized by the academics.

    On year 452, Eigong met Yi following the Mystic Nymph incident, as the latter was anticipating her visit through Xia Kingdom. Eigong took notice of Fusang helping his regeneration, and assisted his recovery using her rhyzomatic stabilizer. While it is implied she designed it herself, it is never specified how that device precisely works. Beyond its use, Eigong was surprised by Yi’s recovery rate and took the symbiosis he displayed with Fusang into consideration for her research (be it for a Tianhuo cure or for immortality).

    Yi became her student within the 5 years following this event. Goumang was also under Eigong’s mentorship during this period of time, although it is unknown when she precisely joined her.

    During Year 457, Eigong experimented on isolating the Tianhuo gene from Solarian embryos, leading to the birth of domestic cats, which she took as another failure. Yi came up with the Eternal Cauldron Project this same year as a mean to buy time. In light of her recent failures, Eigong agreed to prioritize this project to be able to create a cure before a complete wipe-out.

    On day 12/23 of Year 468, at the “Eve of the launch” (therefore at the Eve of Foundation Era), Eigong finds out about Ji’s immortality and experiments on his cells, be it for a cure or for immortality at Yi’s discretion.

    Yi is implied to have found out the truth about Eigong creating Tianhuo around the time of New Kunlun’s launch and faced Eigong about it, leading to his death by her hand and getting taken away by Fusang down the Apeman Harvest pen. Whether or not New Kunlun had already taken off at this moment is never explicitly specified, though Heng's line about the fact he never came back for a last check-up would imply that this event occurred prior to launch.

    Foundation Era, New Kunlun’s launch On Year 2 following the launch, Eigong created her first prototype for a cure and started a clinical study procedure over Dusk Guardians along with Fuxi. Her remark about the serum not being finalized as she proposed it to Nuwa does not attest whether Fuxi was tested on before, simultaneously to or after the rest of the Dusk Guardians.

    35 years into the study (Year 37), Eigong observed signs of Tianhuo growths suppression in patients, though a small proportion of them also displayed physical mutations and loss of sanity. She dubs them as “mutants” (as of Year 125) and further studies their behavior and development thorough the few following centuries on New Kunlun. She notices their ability to consume the Primordial Root, making them functionally immortal, along with the existence of a collective consciousness between them (as of Year 259).

    On Year 351, Eigong eventually concluded the clinical study to her serum, showing a 90% rate of failure to cure Tianhuo (as opposed to the apparent early signs of recovery), the remaining 10% patients who did recover being exclusively mutants. In short, the 350-ish years long study was a failure.

    For the 150 years following (up to Year 500, when the game takes place), all subsequent Eigong record datas are either undated or corrupted. Eigong’s successive failures led her to go back and forth about her ability to ever find a solution, to the point of singularly questioning the point of researching immortality in the first place. Through her struggles, she eventually turned to arbitrary conclusions and started believing that the mutation was a trial of fate, and Solarian’s next stage of evolution, displaying once more her never-ending obsession with Immortality research.

    Foundation Era, present game events Around 500 years after launch, Eigong is noticingly missing in action following Yi’s awakening on New Kunlun, as pointed out by Jiequan when she didn’t show up at Council meeting despite the uproar caused by her pupil.

    Following her newfound belief, Eigong’s was aiming to spread the mutated Tianhuo through the Fusang core of New Kunlun, whose access required all of the Sols' Seals. As Yi was conveniently collecting them, she set out to hold an ambush for him inside of her own Soulscape, which turned out to be a success. After taking control of his neurologic system and retrieving all of the Seals, Eigong ultimately left Yi trapped in her soulscape and headed for the Root Core of the ship, in order to infect it whole.

    The unloading process won't be fast enough to be complete before Yi eventually breaks out from her soulscape. The loading amount and Eigong's reaction may vary depending on the ending.

16. #16Yiselective

    Keys: Yi, Council, Sol, Sols

    A Fangshi and a Tao Alchemist. Yi's quest is to slay the nine members of the Tiandao Council.

    Yi is a Fangshi who has a cat-like appearance. He has cream-colored fur, a round head, pointed ears and two fur tufts on each side of his face, along with a small, triangular nose. He has big, almond-shaped eyes with large, black pupils and no visible irises, no mouth or eyebrows and human-like hands, the fingers of which are tipped with claws instead of nails. Yi dons an outfit that consists of a black suits, black shoes wrapped in white bandage, and a long, oversized yellow coat bearing his symbol. Yi has a smaller stature compared to other characters, and a green ring-shaped device on his body that stabilizes the heart. These features are related to the accident that almost cost him his life when he was younger.

    When younger, he dressed in traditional Chinese clothing and wore a blue-grey kimono. The fur tufts on his face were noticeably smaller as well.

    As a child, Yi had always been prideful. He also had a fascination on studying science, and was very stubborn about pursuing this goal even against the wishes of his parents. He loves his younger sister Heng dearly, but is usually too stoic to express his affection for her. His stubbornness and impulsiveness is also the reason why he cut contact with Heng, a decision that he deeply regrets.

    After being awakened from slumber 500 years later, Yi initially still retains a strong sense of pride, but now it brings out an additional petty and vengeful streak in him too. These are what, in part, drove him to seek vengeance on the council of Sols for having deceived him. Yi's pride and desire for revenge also drive him to kill the other Sols in cruel ways at times, such as when he tortured a still-living Goumang with her Jiangshi collar technology. However, after spending more time with Shuanshuan and the other humans, he starts to open up and comes to see that there are more valuable things in life than just revenge.

    At some point during his journey of eliminating the council of Sols, Yi goes from being a cold and somewhat heartless Fangshi, who only cares about getting his revenge, to a hero who embraces his softer side and learns the value of companionship, love and compromise. He especially grows very fond of Shuanshuan, who he treats much like a younger brother. He also becomes more tolerant of errors and comes to terms with the fact that not everything can go the way he plans, such as when Eigong asked him "Are you not afraid?" and Yi replied "I am. But I have also learned to accept failure." In the end, he makes the courageous sacrifice of forsaking himself to ensure a brighter future for the humans.

    Despite his flaws, Yi does have a degree of justice. He hates the rich and the powerful, and is disgusted with many of the Sols.

    Past Yi was born in the Xia Kingdom to two unnamed parents, and later had his younger sister Heng. In his youth, Yi had always been a science-driven person, focusing on his dream to benefit the other Solarians with his scientific knowledge, while still being close with his younger sister Heng. However, one day during an experiment with the Mystic Nymph, Yi died when he had to protect Heng from the botched experiment's explosion. He was then revived for the first time due to Heng's connection with the Primordial Roots, which caught Eigong's attention and she took him as his pupil to keep an eye on him, due to him now bieng connected to the Fusang Tree.

    After becoming her pupil, Yi spent most of his time on researches, including the Eternal Cauldron Project - which was to put Solarians into slumber so they could be able to slow down the population's rate of being infected by Tianhuo. During this time, he also met his best friend Kuafu. But As both Yi and Heng grew up, their philosophies began to differ especially after their parents passed away - While Heng believed that all Solarians should respect the nature's cycle and accept returning to earth once their lives were over, Yi disagreed and declared that scientific advancements were more important on benefiting the Solarian society. Eventually, the siblings broke off with each other because of Yi's stubbornness on finding a solution for the council, who promised the society that they would be researching to find a cure for the virus of Tianhuo, causing Yi to impulsively left Heng alone after she insisted her desire to stay at Penglai.

    But before New Kunlun leaving Penglai, Yi was caught in a sense of betrayal when Eigong was the main culprit for spreading the virus of Tianhuo and causing his family to die. An injured and weakened Yi was hanging from a cliff, after he tried to expose Eigong but turned out that nobody from the council was going to support him. The mysterious person in bamboo hat threatened him with a sword, angered by his betrayal and decided to finish him off. After falling off a cliff, magical roots wrapped around the bleeding hero's body. Yi was saved by the roots of the tree, sleeping for five hundred years before awakening. Unfortunately, due to his slumber, he was unable to return to Heng in time, as New Kunlun had already been launched into space.

    Present 500 years later, the image of Yi's sister flowed into the image of a human child just as Yi was waking up. With this child, Shuanshuan, he will spend another 2 years.

    When Shuanshuan was chosen to "live with the gods", Yi knows things are not what it seems, and breaks protocol by saving Shuanshuan and disrupting the ceremony, which reveals his identity during so. He then embarks on a quest to take over the other Sol Seals in order to regain control over the Eternal Cauldron Project.

    After defeating the Sols, Yi obtained the Sol Seals, which ended up being stolen by Eigong, who ambushed him. Knowing that he won't be able to survive, Yi gives Shuanshuan the Mystic Nymph before Shuanshuan boards the evacuation ship with the other human villagers and Kuafu, and bids his farewell to them after Eigong infects the Primordial Roots. In the end, after sacrificing himself to end the Solarians' dying misery and ensure the humans' future, Yi was finally able to reunite with Heng in the afterlife.

17. #17Hengselective

    Keys: Heng

    Yi's naive and eccentric younger sister. She has a particularly close bond with Yi.

    As one of the few people who can resonate with Fusang, Heng believes in returning to the Tao and that it is natural to coexist and perish with Penglai. She therefore did not cling to life and refused Yi's proposal to live in New Kunlun. She chose to stay in their hometown and accept the natural end to her life.

    Heng is similar in appearance to Yi, due to them being siblings. She shares the same traits of having pointed ears, cream-colored fur and almond-shaped eyes as her brother, but there are still some fundamental differences between them.

    Unlike Yi, Heng's eyes have visible, wine-red colored irises. She also has long hair, a small visible mouth and no fur tufts on the sides of her face. She tends to show more emotions and facial expressions than her stoic brother, with two pink spots resembling a blush appearing on her cheeks whenever she is excited, embarrassed or annoyed. Heng also seems to have slightly longer eyelashes and is much more petite in appearance, compared to Yi.

    Her outfit consists of a shirt with wide sleeves and a long, black skirt. In some flashbacks, she is also seen holding a flute.

    Heng was described to be naive and eccentric. She was someone who believed that everyone should respect in the natural cycle of life and death. Despite her naïveté, Heng was gentle, understanding and compassionate in nature. This trait of hers was best shown in her relationship with Yi. Although she didn't really understand science, she was still supportive of him and even after their fallout, she never held any anger or grudges against her brother, instead wishing him to live well. She was curious in nature and was always asking Yi questions about things, which he patiently answered and also had a somewhat stubborn, childish and playful side to her, as seen when she pouted at Yi calling the Mystic Nymph "Azure flyer", saying to him that "It's Mystic Nymph! You said you'd let me choose the name!".

    Her stubbornness is also what eventually caused a rift in her and Yi's relationship, in some aspects. While Yi believed in science and its benefits for the Solarians, Heng stuck to her ideal of having the Solarians experience life and death the natural way and remained behind in Penglai, even when Yi left her and travelled to New Kunlun.

18. #18Yanlaoselective

    Keys: Yanlao, Council, Sol, Sols

    "One of the Ten Sols in the Council and responsible for overseeing the Warehouse. Yanlao sees himself as a wise elder and attaches great importance to etiquette and propriety." "For generations, his family has guarded the horde of treasures left behind by their ancestors. In his youth, he may have felt ambivalent about this mission, but as he grew older, he gradually recognized and venerated the teachings of his predecessors and became committed to maintaining those traditions."

    Yanlao is a red exotic shorthair cat, featuring one of the smallest statures in the game, large yellow eyes, a yellow nose and a long, droopy white mustache. He is the oldest character in appearance, and wears a gold, black and white robe with a high collar that surrounds his head, minus his face. He also wears a cubic hat with his Sol Seal imprinted on the front. Yanlao is a grouchy, stubborn old man, who always emphasizes respect for seniors like him. He values legacy deeply to ensure his knowledge and power, that he disregards the bigger picture and needs of other people, and even his own health. If one did, he would lecture them and possibly spend hours non stop talking. He always reiterates the saying about to "respect your elders", but this one may not be easy to tolerate.

    Deep down, his biggest wish is to be respected for his capabilities, but his actions only make him into a coward who only regards his own self-importance at the expense of the masses.

    Yi is shown details of Yanlao's life leading up to his time as a Sol after entering his Soulscape. In his hometown of Yan Kingdom, Yanlao was very intelligent with machines and technology for his age, the materials and parts for his creations came from those of his ancestors from long ago, and were ancient artifacts worth protecting. yet no one paid attention or made use of them, But Yanlao was the opposite. He saw great potential that the parts can be recycled and reused to make something else, such as weapons, security, and robots big and small. Even Eigong was impressed by his knowledge, earning him the title of the Council's inventor of weaponry.

    When Yanlao was young, he regarded ancient artifacts as useless, and did not understand his father's will to preserve them for generations. However, when he got older and after being recognized by Eigong for the importance of ancient artifacts, Yanlao paid tribute to his father, recalling the time when his decrepit father risked his death to prevent the damage to the artifacts. Having understood how his family was trying to preserve legacy and pass them on to future generations, Yanlao's will to preserve historical legacies took hold of his mind.

    His warehouse grew, with his precious creations and treasures to stay secured. And he made sure it stayed and existed that way for as long the Tiandao Council' reign until the Eternal Cauldron Project. However, as pointed out by Yi, the spaces occupied by the high class nobles's wealthy possessions could've saved more lives of the Solarians, had Yanlao not allowed his own hoarding compulsion to sprawl.

    Since he became infected the Tianhuo virus, Yanlao's health deteriorated day by day on his work. His bones became fragile, and his body began to weaken to the brink of exhaustion. But he still kept going, not caring if his age got up to him. He had wealth, power and knowledge, as long as no one dared to enter. But in the face of death, his ambition of abiding by historical preservation had completely faltered.

    His greatest wish was that once Tianhuo would be cured, he could teach every Solarian the true meaning of legacy of and how everything had meaning, whether new or old.

19. #19Fangshi Guildselective

    Keys: Fangshi, Fangshi Guild

    The Fangshi Guild was a powerful faction in Solarian history during the late Turbulent Era. It was founded and led by Lear with the goal of establishing world peace, and pioneered many advanced technologies.

20. #20Shuanshuanselective

    Keys: Shuanshuan

    Shuanshuan is a small human boy, with olive skin and short, shaggy white hair that covers his eyes and has a cowlick on the top of his head. In the beginning of the game, he wears tight-fitting brown-ish robes, but at all other points wears looser fitting blue robes. He is a resident of Peach Blossom Village. Shuanshuan is a naive but very considerate and kindhearted child. He does not dwell on the other person's appearance, and recognizes their character only through the good deeds shown by the other person and accepts them easily, and sees and praises other person's strengths more than theirs flaws. He doesn't hold grudges, while also values promises immensely.

    Usually Shuanshuan seems to accept separations from loved ones, Which he believes is destined to come. But his true heart is that he is afraid of losing his loved ones, because he suffered a lot of loneliness due to losing his parents. This can be seen as an incident in which Shuanshuan was so preoccupied with making memories with his parents in a virtual reality, after being gifted a VR device by Yi, which led him to forget about reality for 10 hours. Shuanshuan also talks about camping with Yi and his parents and other dear acquaintances in her dream, and often, after Yi's work is completed, he expresses his desire to travel and live with Yi and his colleagues.

    Shuanshuan is also an intelligent kid who learns new skills quickly. This is acknowledged by Ruyi, Kuafu, Chiyou who have observed him, and especially Yi. According to Yi, Shuanshuan will be able to learn more things quickly in a place where he is free, which he has not been able to due to the limitations around him.

21. #21Pale Blue Planetselective

    Keys: Pale Blue Planet, Earth

    The Pale Blue Planet is the solarian name for Earth, the home of the Apemen.

22. #22Apemenselective

    Keys: Apeman, Apemen

    "Apemen" is the solarian name for humans, who have been abducted from Earth, genetically modified, and raised as livestock. Their brains are harvested and used to provide computing power for the Eternal Cauldron Project.

23. #23Vital Sanctumselective

    Keys: Vital Sanctum, vital sanctum

    The Vital Sanctum is a technology developed as part of the Eternal Cauldron Project, allowing solarians to be placed into cryosleep to drastically slow the progression of the Tianhuo sickness. During cryosleep, brain-death is prevented by using the Soulscape virtual dream system to sustain brain activity. Vital Sanctum technology was developed by a research team led by Lady Ethereal, along with the Soulscape system.

    During Nine Sols gameplay, Vital Sanctums are mainly accessed by defeating major bosses. Interacting with a character's Vital Sanctum allows entry into their Soulscape without going into cryo-sleep, and is how Yi retrieves the Sol Seals of the other Sols.

    Large towers of Vital Sanctums are located in the Empyrean District (Sanctum). They were capable of housing a total of 100,000 solarians aboard New Kunlun as work on a cure for Tianhuo continued.

24. #24Soulscapeselective

    Keys: Soulscape, soulscape

    The Soulscape is a virtual dream system created for the Eternal Cauldron Project. It is used to maintain brain activity during cryosleep, preventing brain-death. Soulscapes serve as personalized dreams or virtual realities for each Solarian in hibernation, and are primarily accessed by interacting with the person's Vital Sanctum.

    The Soulscape system was developed alongside Vital Sanctum technology by a research team led by Lady Ethereal. During development, several serious problems arose. First, the dreams could be so vivid and lengthy that some subjects began to develop disillusion syndrome, confusing the real world with the virtual world. Second, the dreams could be much more enjoyable than the real world, resulting in severe psychological distress upon waking. When disconnected from the Soulscape, many test subjects became violent toward themselves or others.

    Due to pressure from the Eternal Cauldron Project, Lady Ethereal did not disclose these problems and was unable to fully fix them before they caused the death of her entire research group. These events caused severe trauma and guilt, resulting in the state of Lady Ethereal as she is encountered during gameplay events.

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