Phantom Blade Zero: All 33 Tales — Side Quest List

Phantom Blade Zero’s quest log registers 63 quests — 9 main Story missions, 11 Mysteries, 10 Collectibles hunts, and 33 Tales: the game’s traditional side quests. Tales range from one-conversation errands to multi-region chains that revisit earlier areas after story beats. Several reward weapons, accessories, or trophies — and a cluster fails silently at regional checkpoints. This is the full index — region, trigger, reward, and missable window for each, followed by a priority order for blind playthroughs. For the fail mechanics in depth, keep the missable side quests checklist open alongside.

The Full 33-Tale Index

Verified against keengamer’s complete 33-Tales walkthrough. “Missable” marks a hard fail trigger; details in the section below.

Which Tales to Accept First

On a blind playthrough, accept and progress these before anything else — once the trigger passes, they are gone for that run:

1. A Severed Mindseal — speak to the Shadow Warden at Valley Sha-Chi Tower Summit immediately and deliver the first Primal Stone before leaving Weeping Creek Valley; the chain finishes late-game and awards a trophy.
2. Apprentice Healer — three herbs around Weeping Creek Valley, one conversation. Finish before Jing Ye in Crimson Forest or the Medicine Case is lost.
3. The Bai Chilian block (five Tales) — before Crimson Forest’s final boss: Purge the Sect, Festering Secret, Honor Among Thieves, A Healer’s Mercy, plus the Flesh Lily hand-in, and accept Secrets of the Baishan Sect. This single fight wipes out more content than any other checkpoint in the game.
4. The Village of Lu pair — report to Old Man Gen (The Journey Home) and talk to Young Master Lan before entering Pangzhen; both trophies depend on it.
5. Triple Threat — long but self-contained; its Freezing Chaos reward carries the mid-game.
6. Everything else can wait — all regions reopen after the credits. See the true ending route and trophy guide for completionist sequencing.

Detailed Quest Guides

Deep dives for the Tales (and related questlines) already covered on this wiki:

• Flesh Lily walkthrough and Purge the Sect walkthrough — the two earliest missable Tales
• Triple Threat walkthrough — the Freezing Chaos weapon chain
• Hero’s Lament walkthrough — Ink Cut Phantom Edge in the Mountain of Imprisonment
• The Young Mistress ribbon hunt runs parallel in the Village of Lu, but it is tracked as a Collectibles quest — not one of the 33 Tales
• Quick Hand Zhang’s Treasures — Pangzhen relic hunt tied to the Four Fierce Axes evidence trail
• Memory Flowers in the Crimson Forest and Secrets at the Heart of the Lake — collectible chains that intersect several Tales
• Six Paths Warrant, Bloodline Awakening, Allure of Vanity, and Deep in the Valley for the remaining questlines
• Region hubs: Village of Lu, Mandate Encampment, Meigu Lake, and the Mountain of Imprisonment

Sources

• Keengamer — Phantom Blade Zero: All 33 Tales and Side Quests Walkthrough
• AllThingsHow — All Phantom Blade Zero Tales and Side Quests
• IGN — Phantom Blade Zero Side Quests
• PCGamesN — Phantom Blade Zero quest list