Ginyotei

Charles XII of Sweden(Formerly),

Napoléon Bonaparte (Formerly),

 Ryōki (Currently)

### Materials - Parts

Gold-covered silver ornate hilt, pommel, cross-guard, quillons, knucklebow, and rain-guard,Silver ornate katana-like blade

### Size

Length : 2 meters total, 1.7m for the blade.Largeness : 45cm total, 10 to 7cm for the blade.

Thickness : 7cm total, 7 to 0.1mm for the blade.

### Accessories

3 Gems in the guard.

*"I am Ginyotei, the Emperors' sword."* - Ginyotei

**Ginyotei**, formerly Bonaparte, is a legendary sword, titled the "Ruler Sword".  Its legend was mounted as it was forged for Alexander the Great originally, and was passed through Europe to several rulers, notably those that marked history then disappeared in 1945 to be found again in 2019 at the Hiroshima Academy. Its current owner is Ryōki, an unorthodox girl who was chosen to be Sapphire.

The legends around tells it has the power to unify a whole people for a common goal, and capable to pierce through everything. The design of the sword and its name changed since its creation, depending on the owner. It is currently a saber with golden hilt and guard, and a silver katana-like blade.

It is meant to be used by a deserving ruler or by Judge Sapphire, and is part of Ryōki's family legacy. When sheathed, the sword is not more dangerous than a foam toy and once an owner is chosen, it won't be usable by anyone else.

## Description

Currently Bonaparte is a 2 meters long saber-revolver, with 1.6m for the blade,  large of 45cm in total and 10cm at the largest and 7cm at the narrowest of the blade, and thick of 7cm in total with 7mm for the center and 1nm for the edge of the blade.

Made mainly of silver and gold, with a saber-style overall shape, the blade is curved and the guard comports a knucklebow linking it to the pommel, and comports a flower as ornament, itself surrounded by 3 gems. A 4-chambered revolver is incorporated in the guard to fire 8mm bullets.

Gionyotei is necessary for Judge Sapphire to achieve her true form, as the sword has the 3 Gems that go with her, thus the sword is absolutely mandatory for her to gain power. Judge Sapphire has to be a "Lion" for the sword, which she is by definition, but she has to get it first.
When used by True Sapphire, Ginyotei can become a massive cannon to the liking of its owner.

## Sword Spirit

Ginyotei has a special kind of spirit. It takes the appearance and voice of one of its previous owners. She mark that she isn't obtained, she is deserved, and always seem imposant like the characters which she takes the voice and appearance. She have an imperial but fair view of leadership, and don't tolerate "monsters" and fanatics who believe that mass murdering for some fantasies is normal. She's very critical to her pretenders as she knows that her own power can change the world, even having the ambition to mark the world, but not the same way depending of if her user is a benevolent and eventually ambitious person ("Lion"), an evil one ("Hyena"), or someone that is just normal, average, without particular qualities or flaws for her ("Cat"). Through she takes in account that her user can change, and will continue to oversee her chosen one.

Thus, when someone tries to wield the sword, it become unconscious and meet the sword spirit who present herself. Then she analyze who she has in front of her, very critical. If she judge the pretender unworthy, a Hyena, she curses it on some degrees, Cats who met her are just denied, and unable to wield it. If she judge the pretender worthy, a Lion, she gives her service to it, allows it to own her. Once the owner has been chosen, no one can take its chance again and good candidates just can perceive a white glow on the blade when they try to handle it, without  being able to. If someone tries to take the sword without being its owner, it will be felt so heavy and change temperature until it drops. A red glow is perceived if it is a Cat or a Hyena who attempted. However, "Lions" are very rare, "Hyenas" are quite frequent,  while "Cats" are a great majority.

The spirit is able to take a physical appearance if it needs to, in such case the blade turns blue and a blue fire burns on its tip. The saber then explodes in white rectangular particles which assemble the body of the spirit. In such form, the spirit has the strongest control arts, can change her blade form, and can summon this same blade form to fight by herself.

## History

The sword wasn't always the golden ornate silver sword that belonged to rulers, and thus had many forms and appearances that depended of the owner and the time. It also has a tendency to travel in space, belonging to leaders in different countries other its previous owner's.

### First Owner - Alexander

Ginyotei first belonged to Alexander II, a Macedonian king, also known as Alexander the Great, as a Greek saber named originally Keraunós. Pleased by Alexander's ambitions, however perturbed by his foggy motives, the sword spirit gives him the power to unify Greece and conquer half of Persia. The pact was broken when Alexander died by sickness, and it retain the lesson: sickness sucks.

### Second Owner - Caesar

Named Heracles, it was owned this time by Julius Caesar, Roman leader, as an ornate gladius. Caesar had at least the minimum qualities to use the sword, and used her to conquer a good part of Europe, and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. Through, when Caesar was assassinated by his opponents, Heracles's spirit decided that the candidate must unite his owns around him, to not be trapped or annoyed by political drama.

### Third Owner - Charles XII

Named Gustavus, it was owned this time by the king Charles XII of Sweden, aka Carolus Rex, as a legacy of his grandfather. The sword spirit became more critical, but was pleased by the motives of Charles, who for her just wanted to defend Sweden from other Eastern European countries, and help him to push back the invaders. It is when Gustavus's spirit discovers the limits of her power : not only sickness sucks as she learnt with Alexander, but also she doesn't give the power to form armies that don't suffer from starvation and cold. Despised and sad of seeing Carolus, an excellent candidate, fall, she tries since to learn to upgrade her power.

### Fourth Owner - Fredrick II

Named Wilhelm, it was owned this time by the king Fredrick II of Prussia, aka Old Fritz. Although Prussia was still a somewhat secondary power, Bonaparte found herself pretty stressed as the Old Fritz nearly faced total defeat but luckily succeeded during the 7 Years War. Even though Fredrick wasn't comparable to her other owners, Bonaparte was quite proud to find some progress with him and his humility compared to others also allowed her to think and relax.

### Fifth Owner - Napoleon

   Named Bonaparte this time, it was finally owned by the French General Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's qualities seduced the sword's spirit. She gives him the power to rule over Europe and to spread the Revolution over it. She is impressed by Napoleon's successes, but she gets frustrated that the same strategy used with Carolus Rex, ruin the plan, as she didn't upgrade her power enough. She is impressed that Napoleon could at least reach Moscow, but tries to reinforce her power to make usury-resistant her owners' armies. She is greatly saddened by the defeats of Napoleon after the Russian campaign, and puts most of her efforts to reinforce her power.

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, or Napoleon III, tries to man the sword, but the spirit, seeing that he wasn't good enough for her, didn't want to remake the experience again without having her power ready to finally be able to counter the Scorched Earth strategy, and make her users able to conquer every countries possible, that they are the coldest or hottest place on Earth, starting by Russia. A general close to the Emperor has taken it before the latter would leave to Saint-Helena and fled to Japan.

### Loss

The sword was lost by Kurokuin's family in 1933, in strange circumstances. By some circumstances, it was found and owned in the 40s by the IJN Grand Admiral Henry Sakura Boulton the 39th before his death in 1945.

After his death, the sword was lost and even his daughter Henry don't seem to know anything about it.

### Fifth Owner - Ryōki

Ryōki is clearly an unorthodox owner for Ginyotei, the new and current name of the sword which was also remade by Henry. Unlike its previous owners, Ryōki is not a noble, a ruler, but a simple shinobi girl. However, being Sapphire's incarnation, her kind and sweet nature and having great potential, Ginyotei deemed her deserving to be her owner.

However, Ginyotei was aware that Ryōki don't compare to her previous owners and thus needed to prepare her, train her to use the sword wisely, to teach her tactic and strategy, management and thus everything the previous owners knew, then to obtain her the blessing of all of Ginyotei's previous owners. Ryōki achieved all these courses and tests and fulfilled Sapphire's development, she will use her when she will need it.

## Trivia

* For mysterious reasons, Henry seems to try often to possess the sword for herself, by curiosity. However, she can't unsheathe it whatever she tries. Even if Henry forms a potential candidate, she is refused as an owner by the spirit who doesn't see any potential in her.
* Picking the sword from its owner's hand curses the thief and drains the totality of its power. Fooling the owner to make it give the sword in order to steal it counts as a theft, and will result to the same curse and power drain.