A Teaspoon of Transcendence

A Teaspoon of Transcendence is a 5-star claymore.

Ascensions and Stats

Ascension Phase	Level	Base ATK	‍CRIT DMGSecondary Attribute‍
0✦	1/20	48	9.6%
	20/20	133	17%
Ascension Cost (0 → 1) 10,000 5 5 3
1✦	20/40	164	17%
	40/40	261	24.7%
Ascension Cost (1 → 2) 20,000 5 18 12
2✦	40/50	292	24.7%
	50/50	341	28.6%
Ascension Cost (2 → 3) 30,000 9 9 9
3✦	50/60	373	28.6%
	60/60	423	32.5%
Ascension Cost (3 → 4) 45,000 5 18 14
4✦	60/70	455	32.5%
	70/70	506	36.4%
Ascension Cost (4 → 5) 55,000 9 14 9
5✦	70/80	537	36.4%
	80/80	590	40.2%
Ascension Cost (5 → 6) 65,000 6 27 18
6✦	80/90	621	40.2%
	90/90	674	44.1%

225,000 Mora

5 Sundered Glory of the Far-North Scions

14 Unyielding Delusion of the Far-North Scions

14 Oblation of the Far-North Scions

6 Aureate Radiance of the Far-North Scions

23 Fractured Lunar Iron

27 Depleted Lunar Iron

41 Unblemished Lunar Iron

15 Tattered Warrant

23 Immaculate Warrant

27 Frost-Etched Warrant

Description

The heroes of different stories will naturally find different holy swords, and they must also face different nemeses.
And for all their strength and schemes, the villains will ultimately be defeated by the heroes wielding their swords.

"So it ends the same way again? The hero defeats his evil foe, and then he and the princess live happily ever after..."
The clever, elegant young lady closed the book. The clockwork key on her back gave a faint, confused whirr.
"I don't understand, Alain. Why do all these stories end the same way? Why does the hero always win?"

"Hmm... I suppose people prefer stories that are easy to follow and end happily."
"I once had a friend who loved chess. Looking back, I think it may not have been the game itself he loved, but what the game stood for."
"He used to say that chess pieces have no choice but to follow the moves set for them, just as those too weak to resist have no choice but to give in to fate."
"Stories are no different. If a hero is given a holy sword, then the story must also give him a dragon to defeat."

The clever, elegant young lady thought it over with great seriousness for several seconds, then quickly arrived at the perfect conclusion:
"I have no idea what that means."

"Then let me tell you a different kind of story. In this one, the hero with the holy sword does not win."
"Long, long ago, in a land far, far away..."
"There was a kingdom ruled by a white dragon..."

...

The prophecy foretold that the kingdom was destined to dry up and perish, and that even the beautiful princess would wither along with it.
To save the dying world inside the eggshell, the hero Narzissenkreuz went in search of the greatest holy sword ever spoken of in legend.
He believed salvation could only be reached by severing ordinary bonds, uniting the wishes of all, and crossing beyond the bounds of good and evil.

Unstinting in sacrifice, unflinching in farewell, undaunted by pain.
The hero Narzissenkreuz always dreamed on a scale so vast and noble,
That no mortal vessel could withstand its weight.
And so the hero longed to transcend the weakness of flesh and blood.
He dreamed of shouldering all sin and suffering by himself,
Of wiping every tear from the world through the mysteries of a tearless magick,
And of attaining what some called transcendence — a transformation like the leap from ape to man.

But what is a kingdom without its people?
So the white dragon, stubbornly clinging to the old ways, tried to stop the righteous hero.
He built countless wicked mechanisms and scattered them across the land,
Until even the hero Narzissenkreuz, though he carried the holy sword, was forced into a desperate corner.

And before the hero fell into the chasm that dissolves all things, he seemed to think of the times he had once spent with the dragon. Then he said:
"Yes, hatred shall not fill me. I know that you have not seen the sights I have, and that is why you wish to stop me."
"I will surely return to save all souls. Ten years, even a hundred years may pass, but I shall be reborn as a new universe."

His dream was always so sincere, the dragon thought. Perhaps, for a moment, the dragon even wished the hero could win.
Yet a dragon is a dragon in the end. A dragon is not so easily moved by a hero's heart.
And so the dragon only watched as the hero fell into the rift, and he and his dream dissolved together, all in vain.

...

"The dragon was awful."

"Yes. That's why he was the dragon. Even though he defeated the hero, he lost everything he treasured most."
"Perhaps the dragon simply could not understand the hero's choice. The hero wanted to save the human world, but he couldn't accept human weakness."
"And if not everyone could become a hero strong enough to rise above fate, then there was no meaning in transcendence for one person alone."

"Hah... I don't like this story. The hero was too arrogant, and the dragon was too stubborn. They were both idiots who couldn't find another way."
"They claimed they wanted to save the world, but they couldn't even understand what the other was thinking. If it were me, I'd never do it like that."

"That's good to hear. After all, this idea of sacrificing yourself to save the world is little more than an unrealistic obsession."
"That is why stories where the righteous, kind-hearted hero wins are often more popular."
"The heroes of different stories will naturally find different holy swords, and they must also face different nemeses."
"And for all their strength and schemes, the villains will ultimately be defeated by the heroes wielding their swords..."

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Full Weapon - 2nd Ascension

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Weapon Event Wishes

A Teaspoon of Transcendence has been promoted or featured with a drop-rate boost in 1 Event Wish:

Wish	Featured	Duration	Version
Epitome Invocation 2026-07-01	A Teaspoon of Transcendence Star­cal­ler's Watch Fa­vo­ni­us Sword Rain­slash­er Drag­on's Bane Sac­ri­fi­cial Frag­ments Sac­ri­fi­cial Bow	July 1, 2026 – July 21, 2026	Luna VIII

Trivia

• In the original Chinese, the weapon is described with the character 匙, which may refer to both a spoon and a key depending on its reading.
  • The weapon's description plays off this ambiguity:
    于宇宙或梦的尺度上，勇者的圣剑与公主的茶匙，冰冷的发条与开启超越之扉的钥匙，本质其实并无区别。
    On the grand scale of the universe or the realm of dreams, there is no real difference between the holy sword of the brave warrior and the princess's teaspoon, or between the ice-cold clockspring and the key that will unlock the gates of transcendence...
• The first paragraph of the weapon's description paraphrases the first paragraph in the description of the Fell Dragon's Monocle, from the Nymph's Dream artifact set.
  • The second last paragraph of the story paraphrases the second paragraph of Fell Dragon's Monocle's description. However, the labels of "hero" and "dragon" are reversed between Alain and Rene.
• Sandrone is seen wielding the unascended version of this claymore in her Character Trailer.

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