Arcane tells you what the Blightshades really are.

The Tianshi regard it as random incidents that occur when the Ætherside consumes its victims. They are momentary "information fragments".

Blightshades were usually sighted deep in the Zone. Such incidents were very rare as well.

They only mimicked how the victims acted when they were alive. Like a flashing phantom, they would dissipate in a few minutes to half an hour.

I'd never seen so many Blightshades attacking Yinglung Pass.

It feels as though ... they're trying to escape the Zone...

Precisely why we must extract more intel from that Ardashir.

He manipulated rift phantoms at the Marker Stone and knows how to wield the Æther. He might've had a hand in this.

The Yinglung Special Task Force rarely interrogates prisoners... Most of our enemies aren't people, after all.

But this might be a refreshing experience.