Phantom Blade Zero · Hound Trainer · Monsters

Hound trainers wearing sinister smiling masks. They know little of martial arts, but have no fear of pain. The many scars covering their bodies were mostly left by the claws of maddened hounds. As long as they are fiercer and more fearless than the beasts, they can command them at will. These hound trainers originally hoped to combine their taming techniques with Transcension to save dogs that had accidentally eaten the rotting corpses of those who underwent Transcension, and rein in their uncontrollable ferocity. Instead, the trainers themselves have become even more crazed than the hounds.