Gameplay guides
Lord of Mysteries Guides
Guides to the systems Lord of Mysteries actually opens up in China Open Beta. The two system guides are written from play sessions on the live China service and state when they were tested; the beginner guide is a community player guide that lives in the news section.
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System
Marionette System Guide
How the Marionette system unlocks, how the Golden Thread draw and its pity and wish mechanics really work, what marionettes give your character, and which to prioritise for each role. Includes all 28 marionettes with skills, cooldowns and stats.
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System
Sealed Artifacts Guide
Every Day 1 Sealed Artifact: its Beyonder power, the drawback that comes with it, and how to unlock it. Plus offensive and defensive picks per role, and how Beyonder Knowledge, substance embedding and fusion stack on top.
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System
SAN (Sanity) Guide
SAN runs 0-100 next to your health bar and moves you through eight named states, each with its own buffs and penalties. What raises it, what drains it, where the vendors and Requiem NPCs are, and what the game actually does to your character at zero.
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System
Connections Guide
Connections project figures out of history to lend you their skills. Draw and pity rules, what maxing a skill actually costs, the bond groups worth chasing, all thirteen Connections with every rank of their skill, and the daily affinity routine.
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Beyonder Substances Guide
Fusing substances is how you build the affixes your Sealed Artifacts actually want. Star odds, affix grades, the high-star gating rule, every mutated affix including the Fool — which switches off an artifact's drawback — and the fusion routes for chasing them. Includes the one button not to press.
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Community
Six Open Pathways Beginner Guide
Which first potion should you drink? A breakdown of the six Pathways open at launch — Warrior, Spectator, Seer, Mystery Pryer, Apprentice and Bard — in MMO terms: who tanks, who heals, who does the damage, and what each plays like.
About These Guides
The two system guides — Marionette and Sealed Artifacts — are English editions of guides originally written in Chinese by their author after playing the China Open Beta, republished here with permission. Each of those two links its Chinese original, states the date it was tested, and keeps the Chinese in-game wording in brackets so you can match the terms against a client that has no English interface.
The Six Open Pathways beginner guide is a different thing. It is a community player guide that has been in the news section since August 2026 and is listed here because it answers a question new players ask. It is labelled as a player guide rather than an official or tested source, and it does not link a Chinese original.
Terminology is a guide translation, not official. No global client has shipped, so English names for game-only systems and items are our renderings of the Chinese ones. Established novel terms — Beyonder, Pathway, Sequence, Potion, Sealed Artifact — follow the English novel.
Numbers age quickly. Everything here reflects the opening days of Open Beta and is subject to balance patches. Where a value or ranking is the author's own assessment rather than a confirmed figure, the page says so rather than presenting it as settled.
More episodes are planned. For launch-day essentials in the meantime, see the download guide, the redeem codes tracker, and the full 22-Pathway reference.