Pathos, The Crying Blade
Zth’kaa’ri of Dreams, The End of Tears
“The Song has been sung. The dream breaks. I am Pathos, the Crying Blade. Behold my power, for sorrow is the sharpest truth.”
Legendary Name & Power: Pathos, The Crying Blade
True Name & Power: Sword of Dreams aka The End of Tears
Aspect: Emotion (The Power of Feeling)
Appearance: A silver blade that weeps red tears, its edge forever damp with blood that is not its own.
📍 Original Location: The Dreamscape of the Last Sleeper – A place where the first dreamer still dreams, and nightmares walk freely.
Pros:
✅ Allows the wielder to manipulate emotions—they can inspire hope, love, or fear with a mere gesture.
✅ Can manifest memories and dreams into reality.
✅ Grants perfect empathy, letting the wielder feel the emotions of others as if they were their own.
✅ Can restore lost knowledge, skills, and forgotten legacies.
✅ Allows the wielder to summon echoes of fallen warriors and lost civilizations.
✅ A powerful tool for historians, seers, and strategists.
✅ Can bring back what was erased, including identities and erased souls.
Cons:
❌ The wielder experiences every emotion at once, making it difficult to control their own feelings.
❌ Prolonged use causes emotional breakdowns, as the wielder absorbs the pain and suffering of the world.
❌ The blade can be turned against its wielder, making them feel unbearable sorrow or rage.
❌ Cannot resurrect the dead, only create echoes of their former selves.
❌ The wielder may become trapped in the past, unable to move forward.
❌ Restoring lost things may disrupt the present or create paradoxes.
❌ Some things are meant to stay forgotten—bringing them back may have dire consequences.
Curse: The Weight of Truth
💀 The sword reveals all hidden things, but knowledge is a burden—the bearer is constantly haunted by truths they wish they didn’t know.
💀 Secrets flow unbidden into their mind, making them question their own thoughts and memories.
💀 Over time, wielders become isolated, as they cannot relate to those unaware of deeper cosmic truths.
Result on Bearer:
🔹 Their tears turn red, as if weeping blood.
🔹 Their heartbeat echoes with the emotions of those nearby.
🔹 They become impossibly charismatic, yet unbearably tragic.
🔹 Over time, they risk becoming an emotional conduit, feeling everything but experiencing nothing of their own.
🔹 The wielder sometimes speaks in the voices of those long dead, and their dreams are filled with memories that are not their own.