The Knife of Transposition is Maurice’s dagger that can open portals between planes using gems infused with souls.
Description
- Dagger owned by Maurice
- Can carve tears in reality to create Planar Rips
- Requires gems infused with souls to power
- Gems fuse with hilt when activated
- Energy expenditure based on portal size and duration
Mechanics
Portal Creation:
- Wielder holds gem and carves tear in reality
- Gem magically fuses with knife’s hilt
- Energy feeds from gem into portal
- Moving knife to expand tear expends more energy
- Inch-long gem expended in ~2 minutes of maintaining portal
- Reusing same tear is easier to maintain than creating new one
Powering:
- Requires souls trapped in gems
- Souls obtained by killing reflections after separating them from host
- Each gem provides limited energy based on size
- Multiple gems needed for large-scale transport
Time Differential:
- Feywild time moves 2x faster than Material Plane
- Portal shows this effect - voices pitch-shifted, movement slowed
Chronology
First Mention:
- Maurice joined party
- Carried the knife (not yet demonstrated)
First Demonstration
- Party demonstrated knife to Queen of Hearts
- Hanzo wielded Maurice’s knife
- Held gem and carved tear into reality
- Gem fused with hilt, feeding energy into portal
- Hanzo pulled downwards to expand tear
- Accidentally sliced through person on other side
- Revealed Ev on Material Plane side
- Time differential observed: Ev moved 2x slower, voice lower pitched
- Louis Orrai measured energy expenditure
- Inch-long gem expended in about 2 minutes
- Portal closed when gem depleted
Soul Harvesting Process:
- Tie down humanoid
- Cast suggestion on their reflection
- Separate reflection from host
- Kill reflection to trap soul in gem
- Party used red caps provided by Queen
Hanzon:
Saviors of Lyric:
- Party transported ~1500 humans from Town of Diamonds back to Material Plane
- First tear: ~200 people (caused trample, took valuables)
- Reused tear easier to maintain: ~400 women with children
- Third reuse: ~600 people
- Fourth reuse: remaining people
- Used multiple soul gems (5 red caps harvested)
Piano Man’s Self-Sacrifice:
- Piano Man stabbed himself to foil The Coup
- Intentionally trapped his own soul to deny the conspirators their prize
- Act of defiance against Uptown Girl, Amras, and Elyas
- Quoted Fuck You as his final statement
- Knife now contains at least part of his soul
Connections
- Similar principle to Tinkers Guild’s instrument panel
- Both use combination of physical objects and soul energy
- Viscount Bridgerton’s Pan Flute also used gems and lenses
- All suggest musical/harmonic resonance for planar travel