List of The Legend of Sword and Fairy characters
The following is a list of characters from the action role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy.
Protagonists
Li Xiaoyao (李逍遙)
Li Xiaoyao comes from a small fishing village, Shengyu Village, in Yuhang County. He is an orphan and was raised by his aunt, who runs a small inn. While serving as the waiter in the inn, he daydreams all the time of becoming a great jianghu hero that his parents were rumored to be. His aunt suddenly falls ill one day, he makes a perilous journey to a magical island to seek a cure from a "fairy goddess", as advised by three mysterious Miao warriors, who stay in the inn. On the island he meets the "goddess" — a beautiful young lady named Zhao Ling'er. Caught by Zhao Ling'er's guardian granny, he is forced to marry Zhao and doomed to remain on the island forever, but Zhao helps him escape. However, when he returns home he soon loses memory of his adventure and does not recognize Zhao when he meets her again, this time unawaringly saving her from some enemies. Zhao Ling'er's island has been destroyed and Li Xiaoyao decides to accompany her to find her mother in southwestern China, where she may be still alive.
They arrive in Suzhou and meet Lin Yueru. Unexpectedly, Li Xiaoyao defeats Lin Yueru in a martial arts contest and wins her hand-in-marriage. On their wedding night, Zhao Ling'er disappears mysteriously with the sighting of a monster, and Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru set off in search of her. They arrive in Sichuan, where they learn that Zhao Ling'er has been captured and imprisoned by the elders of the Mount Shu Sect in the Demon Prison Tower. Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru break into the tower to save Zhao Ling'er and learn that she is actually a half serpent spirit. Nevertheless, they have forged a strong friendship and eventually combine efforts to escape from the tower as it starts to implode. Lin Yueru is fatally crushed by a falling boulder trying to save Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er.
The trio are saved by a herbal medicine guru, who reveals to Li Xiaoyao that Lin Yueru cannot be revived, and that Zhao Ling'er is already pregnant with his child. To save the lives of Zhao Ling'er and his unborn child, Li Xiaoyao embarks on a quest to find two special items. There he meets A'nu, who develops a crush on him. At the same time, he sees that the land of the Miao people is plagued by drought, causing the Black and White Miao to fight each other over scarce water resources. Meanwhile, Zhao Ling'er recovers after Li Xiaoyao brings back the items to her and she helps to summon a rainstorm and restore peace to the land. Li Xiaoyao, Zhao Ling'er and A'nu then learn that the drought is actually orchestrated by the evil leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult and they confront him in a battle. Although they succeed in defeating him eventually, Zhao Ling'er sacrifices herself to destroy the Water Demon Beast summoned by the villain. In the final scene, Li Xiaoyao bids A'nu farewell and wanders around in despair, saddened by the loss of his close friends. Just then, he sees an undead Lin Yueru, holding his child in her arms.
Zhao Ling'er (趙靈兒)
Zhao Ling'er is the daughter of the king of the Black Miao and chief priestess of the White Miao, and the sole heir to the throne of the Miao kingdom. She is also a descendant of the goddess Nüwa, making her a half-human and half-serpent. She is destined to be the guardian of her land as she possesses the supernatural powers of Nüwa, inherited from her bloodline. Her father is deceived by the evil leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult and believed that her mother is responsible for a drought that plagued the kingdom. Her mother is imprisoned and Zhao Ling'er is forced into exile. Zhao Ling'er was raised like an orphan by a loyal servant, Granny Jiang, who is also a half-serpent spirit. They lived in seclusion on an island in the Eastern Sea and the island is hidden from mortal eyes by a charm.
Zhao Ling'er meets Li Xiaoyao for the first time when he travels to the island to seek a cure for his ill aunt. Li Xiaoyao accidentally peeps at Zhao Ling'er while she is bathing in a pond, and blackmails her into helping him. Granny Jiang arrives before Li Xiaoyao is able to leave and threatens to devour him if he does not marry Zhao Ling'er and remain on the island forever. Zhao Ling'er helps Li Xiaoyao escape, but Li soon loses all memory of the adventure as he had previously taken a Miao amnesiac potion. Unknowingly, Li Xiaoyao's arrival on the island had broken the protective charm and revealed the location of the island. Zhao Ling'er's enemies — the three Black Miao warriors who live in Li Xiaoyao's inn — assault the island, massacre everyone and kidnap her. Thought Li Xiaoyao no longer recognizes Zhao Ling'er, he saves her by defeating the Miao warriors.
Despite Zhao Ling'er's despair that Li Xiaoyao does not remember her, they set off on a journey to find her mother in southwestern China. While passing by Suzhou, Li Xiaoyao unexpectedly defeats Lin Yueru in a martial arts contest and according to the rules, he must marry her. During the wedding night, Zhao Ling'er disappears after the sighting of a giant serpent. Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru pursue and find her under the care of the elder of a rural village. Later on, Zhao Ling'er is taken away by Black Miao warriors, who are then ambushed by White Miao forces, causing a battle. The leader of the Mount Shu Sect passes by and wrongly accused Zhao Ling'er of the killings, and imprisons her in the Demon Prison Tower. Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru eventually rescue her and learn of her true identity — a descendant of Nüwa. They fight their way out of the tower by destroying its foundations, causing the structure to implode and killing Lin Yueru in the process. After being saved by a retired Miao sorceress, Zhao Ling'er gives birth to Li Xiaoyao's daughter. She recovers her mother's magical staff with the help of A'nu and re-assumes the role of guardian of her kingdom.
Zhao Ling'er joins Li Xiaoyao and A'nu in the battle against the evil leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult and they succeed in defeating the villain. However, Zhao Ling'er sacrifices herself to destroy the ancient Water Demon Beast summoned by the villain, though she lives on as a divine being as suggested in the sequels.
Lin Yueru (林月如)
Lin Yueru is an only daughter from the prestigious Lin family of Suzhou. She first meets Li Xiaoyao outside Suzhou, when she is thrashing two servants who attempted to elope. Li Xiaoyao came to the servants' aid and frees them after defeating Lin Yueru in a fight. He binds Lin Yueru to a tree as punishment, but later returns to drive away two thugs who tried to molest Lin. When Li Xiaoyao frees Lin Yueru, she attacks him with her sword, and wounds him badly before fleeing in panic. Li Xiaoyao only survived thanks to a powerful but risky healing spell cast by Zhao Ling'er.
At the same time, Lin Yueru's father is planning to find a suitable spouse for his daughter, so he stages a martial arts contest, inviting young men to participate and win his daughter's hand-in-marriage. Li Xiaoyao, still angry with Lin Yueru over the earlier incident, jumps into fight Lin and get even. Without realizing the nature of the contest, Li Xiaoyao defeats Lin Yueru and wins the marriage unwillingly. This marks the start of a complex love triangle among Li Xiaoyao, Lin Yueru and Zhao Ling'er. Zhao Ling'er disappears mysteriously on the wedding night and Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru set off to find her.
After finding that Zhao Ling'er is held in the Demon Prison Tower on Mount Shu, Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru break into the tower to rescue her. As the tower starts to crumble after the destruction of its foundation pillars (the only way to get out), Lin Yueru is hit on the head by a large falling boulder and cannot be revived. However, the Miao sorceress who healed Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er asks Li to collect 36 "puppet bugs", without explaining the purpose. After the final victory over the evil leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult, as Li Xiaoyao returns home in sorrow, an undead Lin Yueru is seen waiting for him in the snowfield holding the baby Li Yiru (Li and Zhao's daughter), presumably due to the preserving effect of the puppet bugs.
At the end of the series sequel The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2, the teenage Li Yiru acquires a resurrection pearl after the defeating the final villain, and uses it to definitively revive Lin Yueru. In the MMORPG The Legend of Sword and Fairy Online, Lin Yueru is seen as the formal wife of Li Xiaoyao and loving stepmother of Li Yiru.
A'nu (阿奴)
A'nu is the daughter of the leader of the White Miao tribes. She is an apprentice sorceress adept in healing and magical spells, having trained under the Divine Lady, an elderly Miao sorceress.
A'nu first meets Li Xiaoyao when he is on a quest to find two special items to ensure Zhao Ling'er a smooth childbirth. After Li Xiaoyao fights the Golden Phoenix to take its eggshells, A'nu suddenly appears and snatches the eggs. In surprise Li Xiaoyao falls off the giant tree and is on the verge of death, forcing A'nu to use the same healing spell that Zhao Ling'er used to revive Li. Li Xiaoyao wakes in a delirious state and mistakes A'nu for Zhao Ling'er, and hugs and kisses her. A'nu is initially upset by Li Xiaoyao's actions, but she is moved by Li's desire to save Zhao Ling'er's life and decides to help him retrieve the other item. She also starts to develop a crush on Li Xiaoyao, especially after he disappeared for a months after being warped to the past from the Nüwa Temple.
A'nu later joins Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er in the final battle against the evil leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult in order to restore peace to the Miao kingdom. Zhao Ling'er perishes in the battle even though the trio manage to achieve victory. In the ending, A'nu is seen tearfully playing a farewell tune to Li Xiaoyao on her flute.
In later sequels of the series, A'nu is revealed to have inherited the leadership of the White Miao tribes. She is reportedly never married, implying her ongoing devoted love for Li Xiaoyao.
Other characters
- Listed in order of appearance in the game
- Rakshasa Demonic Granny (羅剎鬼婆) — a demon whom Li Xiaoyao dreams fighting at the beginning of the game, likely conceived out of Li's own grudge against his overbearing aunt. He encounters and fights the demon again later while passing the illusion realm.
- Aunt Li (李大娘) — Li Xiaoyao's aunt, though some hints suggest that they are not blood related. She used to a powerful jianghu pugilist and was nicknamed "Iron Palm Flying Phoenix" (鐵掌飛鳳) for her famous "Cloud Penetrating Palm" techniques (穿雲掌). She now keeps a low profile and runs a small inn in Yuhang County. She raised Li Xiaoyao and treats him like her own son, but appears fierce and demanding towards him, and often beating him with her wok.
- Leader of the Miao men (苗人頭領) — the leader of a group of three Black Miao warriors who stay in Li Xiaoyao's inn. They are actually after Zhao Ling'er and trick Li Xiaoyao into breaking the charm that shields the island where Zhao lives. Before sending Li Xiaoyao there, they make him drink a potion, which causes him to lose memory of his adventure on the island after he returns. They raid Zhao Ling'er's island later and kidnap her and hide her in a bag. Li Xiaoyao discovers Zhao Ling'er and saves her by defeating the Miao men, thinking that they are slave traders. The leader later tries to hold Li Xiaoyao's aunt hostage, only to be surprised and killed by her.
- Drunken Sword Immortal (酒劍仙) — real name Situ Zhong (司徒鍾). He is an elder of the Mount Shu Sect and first meets Li Xiaoyao when he is found drunk and craving for wine in from of the inn's door. To get him to leave, Li Xiaoyao secretly gives him a few sips of leftover wine. He is grateful to Li Xiaoyao and tells the boy to meet him a few nights later at a rundown temple outside the village. He teaches Li Xiaoyao the Mount Shu Sect's "Sword Command Techniques", which Li relies on for his future adventures.
- Wang Xiaohu (王小虎) — a young boy living in the same village as Li Xiaoyao. He looks up to Li Xiaoyao as his idol and follows him whenever he can. Wang Xiaohu is also the protagonist in the sequel, The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
- Uncle Ding (丁大伯) — an elderly farmer who lives next to Li Xiaoyao's inn. He dislikes Li for being a slacker and gets annoyed when he sees both his daughters having a crush on Li, but decides not to interfere.
- Ding Xianglan (丁香蘭) — Uncle Ding's older daughter, who is very good at cooking. She has a crush on her neighbor Li Xiaoyao.
- Ding Xiulan (丁秀蘭) — Uncle Ding's younger daughter, who is very good at embroidery. Like her sister, she also has a crush on Li Xiaoyao.
- Zhang Si (張四) — a fisherman from Li Xiaoyao's village, and a very reliable mate. Li often goes and buys seafood from him at the market. When Li was in need of transport to the magical island in seeking the cure for his aunt's illness, Zhang Si was the only person who agreed to help him through the hostile waters — twice.
- Physician Hong (洪大夫) — the local physician in Li Xiaoyao's village.
- Granny Jiang (姜姥姥) — a servant of the Miao queen. She is also a half serpent spirit and knows some magic powers. She brings Zhao Ling'er with her into exile and raises Zhao on an island that is protected from human sight by a charm. She is fiercely protective of Zhao Ling'er and she forces Li Xiaoyao to marry Zhao and remain on the island after Li admitted that he accidentally saw Zhao bathing. She is severely wounded by the Miao men when they raided the island. Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er return to find her and she entrusts Zhao to Li's care with her dying breath, telling them that Zhao's mother may still be alive in the Miao kingdom.
- Boss Fang (方老板) - a merchant who travels between Li Xiaoyao's village and other bigger cities. He provides Li and Zhao Ling'er a ride to Suzhou.
- Liu Jinyuan (劉晉元) —- Lin Yueru's cousin. He is very close to Lin Yueru and is secretly in love with her, but she only sees him as an older brother. He does not know martial arts and is not considered by Lin Yueru's father as a prospective son-in-law. He first meets Li Xiaoyao in Suzhou and both of them become friends. However, when he learns that Li Xiaoyao has won Lin Yueru's hand-in-marriage, he says to Li coldly that their friendship has ended and leaves in disappointment. He saves Caiyi, a butterfly spirit, by coincidence and Caiyi is so grateful to him that she transforms into a woman and marries him. Liu Jinyuan has been poisoned when he saved Caiyi from the spider's web and is almost dying. He does not appreciate Caiyi's love for him and treats her coldly. Out of love for Liu Jinyuan, Caiyi sacrifices her powers acquired from a thousand years of cultivation to increase Liu's lifespan by 10 years.
- Lin Tiannan (林天南) — the father of Lin Yueru. He is a highly respected pugilist in the jianghu and an influential politician. He forces Li Xiaoyao to marry his daughter after Li wins the martial arts contest, against Li's wishes. On the wedding night, Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru leave to find Zhao Ling'er, much to his dismay. When he meets Li Xiaoyao again later, he engages Li in a duel to test Li's abilities and eventually agrees to let his daughter follow him.
- Healing Immortal Han (韓醫仙) — a county physician and chief of White River Village. His daughter finds the unconscious Zhao Ling'er while out collecting herbs and brings her back to his clinic for treatment. Han discovers that Zhao Ling'er is pregnant but agrees to keep the secret for her from Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru, who have arrived there by then. After Zhao Ling'er recovers, the trio returns the favor by helping eliminating the evil aura surrounding the village. When they return to the village later, they find Han tied up and his daughter taken hostage by Black Miao warriors. Han appears again later to heal Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru after they are wounded during the fight with Elder Shi on Mount Ghost Shadow.
- Han Mengci (韓夢慈) — Healing Immortal Han's daughter
- Little Pebble (小石頭) — a spirit formed from Bodhidharma's prayer beads after 999 years of cultivation. He forces people to become monks after being strongly influenced by reading Buddhist scriptures. He is enlightened by Zhao Ling'er and transforms back to a string of beads. He helps the protagonists defeat the Red Demon King.
- Jiang Shi King (僵屍王) — a demon living in the General's Tomb in Black Water Town. He is defeated and slain by the protagonists. He is revealed to have the possession of the Earth Pearl, one of the five lost divine pearls of Miao religion.
- Red Devil King (赤鬼王) — a demon living in the Blood Pool below the General's Tomb in Black Water Town. He is responsible for causing a plague in the town, which claimed several lives and transformed people into zombies. He is defeated and slain by the protagonists. Li Xiaoyao takes the Earth Pearl from him.
- Elder Shi (石長老) — an honorable highly-skilled Black Miao elder who is fiercely loyal to his king. He prevents the evil cleric from killing the queen and helps the queen escape after she is imprisoned by the king. He is tasked with finding the lost princess, Zhao Ling'er, and kidnaps Han Mengci to force Zhao to meet him on Mount Ghost Shadow. He knocks out Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru in a fight and Zhao Ling'er is forced to strike a deal with him to ensure the lives of Li and Lin. He is later ambushed by White Miao warriors led by Gai Luojiao and commits an extremely suicide attack after being cornered.
- Gai Luojiao (蓋羅嬌) — a female White Miao general and A'nu's senior. She is highly skilled in sorcery and toxicology.
- Ji Sanniang (姬三娘) — the leader of a group of female bandits in Yangzhou. When Li Xiaoyao first saw her, he felt that she resembles his late mother and follows her secretly. However, after he discover her secret vault, she frames him and Lin Yueru for the thefts she committed. Lin Yueru is detained by the authorities and Li Xiaoyao has to track down the robbers to prove their innocence. Li Xiaoyao trails Ji Sanniang to her hideout and eventually defeats and captures her after a fight. Ji Sanniang reveals later that she actually stole to acquire enough money to buy a special drug, which will help to preserve her late husband's body. She is sentenced to exile eventually.
- Liu Meiniang (柳眉娘) — also known as Golden Toad Demonic Mother (金蟾鬼母). She used to be a beauty but is disfigured after associating herself with the Venomous Toad Demon. She is rejected by her lover and gradually develops an intense hatred for men.
- Prefect of Yangzhou (揚州太守) — the official in charge of Yangzhou
- Sword Saint (劍聖) — real name Dugu Yuyun (獨孤宇雲). He is the leader of the Mount Shu Sect and a highly skilled swordsman. He loathes all demons and mistakes Zhao Ling'er as a harmful serpent spirit, imprisoning her in the Demon Prison Tower. Although he refuses to admit his mistake, he secretly rescues the trio after the tower collapses, and takes them to the Divine Lady for healing. As suggested in the sequels, he retires and passes the leadership of the Mount Shu Sect to Li Xiaoyao.
- Aunt Yun (雲姨) — Liu Jinyuan's mother, Lin Yueru's aunt, who lives in the capital city.
- Caiyi (彩依) — a butterfly spirit. She is saved by Liu Jinyuan after getting caught in Venomous Lady's web, and is so grateful to him that she transforms into a woman and marries him later to care for his illness from poisoning by Venomous Lady. At the end Caiyi sacrifices all the powers she acquired from one thousand years of cultivation in order to extend Liu Jinyuan's lifespan by another ten years, and transforms back into a butterfly as a result.
- Venomous Lady (毒娘子) — an evil spider demoness. She is defeated by the protagonists, and found to have possession of the Thunder Pearl.
- Golden Toad (金蟾)- a giant toad monster who holds one of the five elemental pearls. He is defeated by the protagonists and loses the pearl to them.
- Guardian King of Hell (鎮獄明王) - the deity guarding the Demon Prison Tower. He is defeated by Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru when they break into the tower to rescue Zhao Ling'er.
- Jiang Qing (姜清) - an elder of the Mount Shu Sect. He falls in love with Yue Rouxia, a demoness, and is expelled from the sect and imprisoned in the Demon Prison Tower with his lover. Some of his disciples attempt to save him but none of them survived after entering the tower. Jiang Qing feels guilty for causing so many deaths and has since remained as a bitter undead. Li Xiaoyao encounters Jiang Qing's spirit in the tower and frees him from his state of self-guilt after defeating him in a fight.
- Jiang Wan'er (姜婉兒) - Jiang Qing and Yue Rouxia's daughter. She was born in the Demon Prison Tower and has been living there for 18 years with her father's spirit, until being set free when the tower collapses. She inherits her parents' swordplay skills and becomes a powerful pugilist. She renames herself "Abbess Qingrou" (清柔師太) and becomes the founder of the Xianxia Sect (仙霞派) later in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
- Immortal in the Book (書中仙) - a bookworm who, out of thousands of years of cultivation, became a knowledgeable spirit residing in a book. He appears to give Li Xiaoyao advice when Li encounters trouble.
- Heavenly Devil Emperor (天鬼皇) - a leader of demons. He has been imprisoned in the Demon Prison Tower for a long time and is sucked into the Demon Sucking Altar. Li Xiaoyao saves him later and he repays Li's kindness by helping Li lift up a heavy stone door. He escapes after the tower collapses and sees Li Xiaoyao and his family as his benefactors ever since then.
- Seven Dragons of the Stars (七星盤龍) - dragons residing in the seven supporting pillars of the Demon Prison Tower. Li Xiaoyao slays all of them to free Zhao Ling'er and causes the tower to collapse.
- Divine Lady (聖姑) - an elderly Miao sorceress and A'nu's teacher
- A'tao (阿桃)
- Song Hewen (宋賀文)
- Taoist Wood (木道人) — a pine spirit who has been harassing Peach Village. He possesses the Wind Pearl.
- Queen of the Nanman (南蠻王) — the leader of the White Miao and mother of A'nu, and widow of the previous clan leader.
- Tang Yu (唐鈺) — a young Han Chinese man who lives with and fights alongside the White Miao. He has an unreciprocated crush on A'nu.
- Miao Queen (巫后) — real name Lin Qing'er (林青兒). The mother of Zhao Ling'er. She is a descendant of the goddess Nüwa and used to be the chief priestess of the White Miao. She sacrificed herself to destroy the original Water Demon Beast 10 years ago.
- Miao King (巫王) — the father of Zhao Ling'er and king of the Black Miao. He is murdered by the leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult and replaced by a tree demon in disguise.
- Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult (拜月教主) — an evil ambitious Black Miao cleric. He secretly harbors the Water Demon Beast and frames the Miao queen for the disaster caused by his monster. He murders the king later, taking over the Miao kingdom until Zhao Ling'er's return. After defeated by the protagonists, he used his own blood to revive the Water Demon Beast, forcing Zhao Ling'er to sacrifice herself to destroy the monster once and for all.
- Water Demonic Beast (水魔獸) — an ancient water monster summoned by the evil cleric. The monster thrives in places where water is present and its presence spells natural disasters for people near it. Zhao Ling'er sacrifices herself to destroy the monster in the final battle.
- Palace Mistress Divine-Moon (靈月宮主) — Zhao Ling'er's teacher and a friend of Zhao's mother. She recognizes Zhao Ling'er and Granny Jiang 10 years ago and brings them with her back to her palace on the island. She taught Zhao Ling'er most of her skills. She reportedly spent her entire life trying to find Zhao Ling'er's mother and died long before Li Xiaoyao first set foot on the island.
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