The Heavenly Ladder (天梯 Tentei) is the black spiral created in the sky above Misaki City as a preliminary stage to Xanadu’s creation by the God of Creation, the Snake of the Festival. The Heavenly Ladder functions as a passage leading its climbers to the newly created paradise that was formed in the Rift Between Both Worlds.
Appearance[]
The Heavenly Ladder’s black spiral had no physical form; however, it was immense and extended through the spatial rift opened in Misaki City, reaching into the Rift Between Both Worlds. Within it, silver-colored sparks of flame scattered.
According to the Snake of the Festival, when the Heavenly Ladder finally closed and its fragments in Xanadu scattered, he would enter a slumber proportional to the wish he fulfilled via the Divine Summoning. Given this, along with the fact that the Heavenly Ladder was formed from the black galaxy which in turn transformed from his main body, it could be said that the Heavenly Ladder was made from his own body.
Background[]
At the stroke of midnight, the God of Creation's Divine Summoning, Saiki Reisō, activated along with Reiji Maigo's which had its limiter removed. The World Egg that had been continued to expand finally reached the God of Creation's body that embraced it. When they touched each other, it was his main body that cracked under pressure.[1] Still, it did not simply shatter and vanish into nothingness. Its hardened fragments scattered into the sky. The broken shards split further into smaller pieces. All of them gleamed along their fractured surfaces. They spread and swirled around with the World Egg at its core, like a black galaxy. The black galaxy soon filled the Fūzetsu’s sky, and expanded outward into the vastness.[2]
Following this, with the aid of devices within the Shrine of True Ruler, the black galaxy began spinning rapidly, forming a black ring.[3] As the World Egg was completed, the black ring burst upward in a spiral shape. This black spiral pierced through the dome of the Fūzetsu, stretching endlessly into the sky and disappeared into the distance; the Heavenly Ladder was completed.[4]
Then, the cocoon of the Psalm of the Grand Order, which encapsulated the gathered wishes of Crimson Denizens and served as the Egg of the new world, traveled through the Heavenly Ladder.[5] After the World Egg made it into the Rift Between Both Worlds, the new world was born.[6]
Summoned by Bel-Peol through their Gordian Knots, Ribesal and Pirsoyn were ordered by the Leader to be the first to journey through the Heavenly Ladder to Xanadu.[7] Seeing their departure, other Crimson Denizens began to flow in as well.[7]
When Crimson Denizens passed through the Heavenly Ladder, the law of the world (similar to the law of conservation of energy) dictated that the Power of Existence they retained in this world would be left behind. As a result, all Power of Existence their bodies were composed of was taken apart and scattered back to this world as sparks of flame; only their own essence, appeared as a sphere of light, was allowed to cross over to the new world.
In the case of Flame Haze and Treasure Tools, they did not leave behind their Power of Existence when crossing like Denizens did. Instead, they vanished abruptly; whether they were absorbed or teleported remains unknown.
And after Crimson Denizens and Flame Haze, who boarded the Tendōkyū, had finished crossing, Shana and Yūji Sakai, who had come to understand each other through their battle, were the last to journey through the Heavenly Ladder. Immediately after they passed through, the black spiral collapsed and disappeared.[8]
Gallery[]
 The Snake of the Festival's main body surrounding the World Egg  The Snake of the Festival's main body collapses  The black galaxy  The black galaxy and the World Egg  The black ring and the World Egg  The black ring  The Heavenly Ladder forming   The Heavenly Ladder's view from below  The Heavenly Ladder pierced the black Fūzetsu  The Heavenly Ladder seen from outside the Fūzetsu  The World Egg ascending through the Heavenly Ladder  Crimson Denizens crossing  Crimson Denizens' Great Influx into Xanadu  Tendōkyū crossing  Shana and Yūji before the Heavenly Ladder  The Heavenly Ladder disappearing |
References[]
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 273
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 274
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 285-286
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 287
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 287
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 292
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume 22 page 296-297
- ↑ Shakugan no Shana Final Episode 24
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| Bal Masqué | ||
|---|---|---|
| Leaders | Snake of the Festival • Yūji Sakai | |
| The Trinity | Hecate • Sydonay • Bel-Peol | |
| Waches | Fecor • Purson • Vual | |
| Herolds | Decarabia • Gaap • Stolas | |
| Wanderers | Mammon • Orgon • Ribesal • Barma • Egyn • Orobas • Paimon • Phaleg • Bifrons | |
| Jaegers | Haborym • Ose • Leraje • Bufar • Pirsoyn • Bathin • Vine • Zarovee | |
| Army Commanders | Fecor • Decarabia • Haborym • Ribesal • Purson • Mammon • Orobas | |
| Allies | Dantalion • Domino • Sabrac • Rofocale • Lamies | |
| Conflicts | Ancient War • Great War • Révolution War • Second Great War | |
| Related Articles | Divine Gate • Fumina Konoe • Grand Order • Heavenly Ladder • Seireiden • The Silver • Statue of Pride • Xanadu | |