A royal consort, a reformer emperor, and a shadow-banking vampire named Degula. From the Boxer Siege to modern Beijing, the hunt crosses palaces, cathedrals, and tunnels under the city.
Explore the cast across court, church, and Degula’s network.
Court • Boxer Era
Polyglot consort, quick wit, steely resolve. From palace etiquette to catacomb tactics.
Network • Pan-Era
Old-world vampire, modern finance. Opium, paper credit, and influence that never sleeps.
Court • Reformer
Gentle brightness and dangerous ideals. A sovereign caught between knives and shadows.
Court • Statecraft
Calculating, relentless. The empire’s iron will with a velvet smile.
Modern • Outsider
An American thread pulled taut: a flight in, a dive below, and a life rewritten.
Scholar • Bridge
Archivist of inconvenient truths; the map between rumor, church bells, and blood debts.
Vampire law, contracts, and when reflections lie.
Old-world etiquette meets modern loopholes. Shadows, thresholds, and the price of consent.
Read →How goods became paper, and paper became power.
From chests to ledgers to whispers—finance as fangs.
Read →Church bells, rumors, and the Boxer spark.
Where superstition meets strategy—and who profits when fear spreads.
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