Thronebreaker The Weight of Kings
Zth’kaa’ri of Scales
“The Song has been sung. Judgment is unchained. I am Thronebreaker, the Weight of Kings. Behold my power, and let the scales fall.”
Legendary Name & Power: Thronebreaker, The Weight of Kings – Said to hold the power to reshape the world with a single strike. Said to be able to increase or decrease the size of anything it touches.
True Name & Power: Sword of Scale – Alters the relative size of inanimate matter, either doubling or halving its proportions upon direct contact. Does not cut space; it redefines proportions, making the small immense and the immense minuscule.
📍 Original Location: The Library of the First Mind – A hidden archive even the gods cannot find.
Current Bearer: The Librarian of Creation
Core Mechanics
✔️ Tap (Flat of the Blade): Doubles the size of the object(s) it directly touches.
✔️ Slash (Cut with the Edge): Halves the size of whatever is sliced.
✔️ Multiple Strikes: Can be applied repeatedly to keep increasing or decreasing size in increments (e.g., an object struck twice with a tap grows 4×, three times grows 8×, etc.).
✔️ Limits of Contact: It only affects exactly what the blade touches—meaning no chain reactions (e.g., striking the ground affects only those particles, not the whole Earth).
✔️ Does Not Affect Living Beings: Plants, animals, and people are immune while alive, but once dead, their bodies and remains are fully affected.
Pros:
✅ Can make a needle the size of a skyscraper or shrink a mountain to a pebble.
✅ Precision Scaling – The user can strategically enlarge or shrink objects for tactical advantages (e.g., shrinking a locked door’s bolts to weaken it or making a thrown pebble the size of a boulder).
✅ No Energy Cost, Just Contact – There’s no strain on the wielder; the sword’s power is absolute and instantaneous.
✅ Stackable Effects – Since multiple strikes compound, this means wild possibilities (a coin repeatedly halved down to a speck of dust—or expanded into a massive plate of metal).
✅ Works on Non-Living Things – Dead bodies, dried wood, discarded weapons—all fair game.
✅ The wielder can adjust their own size, towering over foes or becoming small enough to slip through atoms.
✅ Cuts "scale down" reality, making wounds heal slower or objects lose their significance.
Cons:
❌ The wielder’s own sense of scale becomes unstable, causing them to grow and shrink unpredictably.
❌ Using it recklessly could collapse the balance of space, causing objects to lose their defined size.
❌ Prolonged exposure causes conceptual instability, making reality reject the wielder.
❌ Only What It Touches – There’s no "wave" or area effect—you have to physically hit the object, which means precision is key.
❌ No Reversal – Once something is scaled, it stays that way unless affected again.
❌ Can Be Overdone – Shrink something too much, and it might become irretrievable or useless.
Grow something too much, and it may collapse under its own weight.
❌ Still Bound by Mass – A sword can shrink a boulder, but the weight remains proportional—so if you shrink a giant metal safe, it’ll still be incredibly heavy even if it’s now pocket-sized.
Curse: The Unchained Mind
💀 The sword feeds on willpower—if the bearer doubts themselves, the sword may reject them entirely.
💀 Prolonged use results in disconnection from the physical world, as their mind begins to operate on a higher, more detached plane.
💀 If wielded too long without rest, they may lose their grip on reality, becoming a ghost in their own body.
Results on Bearer:
🔹 They sometimes misjudge distance, unable to tell if something is far away or simply tiny.
🔹 They develop proportional blindness, where small details become overwhelming, or large objects seem insignificant.
🔹 Fingertips become unnaturally precise, like a sculptor’s hands, able to detect even the smallest imperfections in material.
🔹 Their perception of space shifts, making it hard to judge true sizes naturally (a house might feel “normal” even if it’s only a foot tall).
🔹 Over time, they may begin seeing the world fractally, noticing the infinite layers of reality between atoms.
