Gram

Siegfried holding the Demon Sword Gram

**Gram** is the strongest Demon Sword also known as the **Demonic Emperor Sword**.

## Summary

The strongest Demon Sword created, Gram was previously wielded by the original Siegfried who used it to slay the Dragon King Fafnir, though Fafnir was later revived by the Norse Gods.

In the present day, it was wielded by Siegfried, a former member of the Hero Faction in the Khaos Brigade, prior to his death in which Gram abandoned Siegfried and chose Yuuto Kiba as its new wielder.

## Appearance

Gram is a large double-edged sword that has vibrant colors despite being a Demon Sword. The pommel is a gold cone-like shape with the addition of a triangle attached to the pommel, the triangle is missing the base and the middle of it because of the pommel and the handle is colored with a mix of red and purple. The crossguard is a rectangular bar colored black, with gold symbols etched onto it a brown X-mark in the middle, and features a red semi-circle protrusion on both sides of the crossguard. The blade is black with a red edge, but a red aura sometimes shrouds it giving it a dark red color all around. The blade itself is fairly long and near the tip, it curves upwards, then curves back in. The blade also sports three hollow holes in the form of a triangle and is located in the middle of the blade curving upwards. At the bottom of the blade, there is a piece of metal, acting as a fuller, it has red lines on it that increase in height but it stays on the golden part and the fuller at the bottom is in the shape of a rectangle standing upwards, the difference is that the top left has a large amount taken of off it, which makes the left side shorter compared to the right. Further along the blade is a golden design, which looks like a blade, with two black rectangles connected by a line and the tip of it goes out by a small degree and goes back into the tip of the blade, the tip part of the blade design is two black modified squares and a black diamond-like circle shape.

## Abilities

Similar to Caliburn, Gram is the most powerful demonic sword in existence enough to be known as the *Demonic Emperor Sword*, considered the combination of Durandal and Ascalon; as such, it can release destructive power, but it doesn't require the same charging time as Durandal, making it more lethal; as well as being able to slay powerful dragons such as Fafnir.

Yuuto noticed that Gram is sharper than any kind of Holy Demonic Sword that he can create, which proved ineffective against Siegfried's Chaos Drive; whereas Gram could do so, and even managed to wound Grendel, an Evil Dragon with immense defenses who was further modified by the Sephiroth Graal to resist Dragon Slayers. It can also affect Issei's Diabolos Dragon Armour with its aura despite being unable to cut past it.

## Weakness

Despite its massive power, it has some major flaws, if anyone wields it carelessly, then they'll have their lifespan trimmed, which increases from continuous usage, killing them in the process. Siegfried had also faced additional difficulties as well because he had a Twice Critical, a sacred gear with dragon traits, which clashed against Gram because of its dragon-slaying attribute.

Leaving that aside, Kiba found it difficult wielding Gram at first, having his stamina, demonic power, and his other departments drained from swinging it once. However, he attempted to overcome this through covering Gram with his Holy-Demonic Sword in an attempt to cover and stabilize it using its holy and demonic powers respectively. It was after he managed to stabilize his Holy-Demonic Swords that he was able to absorb the demonic powers of it using its holy attribute, which could allow him to use Gram.

Following his instruction under Vasco Strada during the Azazel Cup, Kiba has almost overcome the drawbacks of using Gram in combat, as well as releasing the destructive power on contact.

## Trivia

* Gram comes from the old norse word *Gramr* meaning "wrath".
* In The Nibelungenlied, as translated by Margaret Armor, it is named Balmung. During Richard Wagner's work, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), it is referred to as Nothung.