Scales of Oblivion

About this drama

The source for this entry is a 302-character premise that ends with its own title as the final words, a logline built for a poster. She can weigh any soul and erase it from the world. She meets a warrior the scales cannot read, and the past she buried begins to surface, and with it the prophecy of an oblivion that will swallow the world. To survive, she must remember the truth she was never meant to know. The premise is a single named power, a single exception to it, and a single task. No character is named, no ending is stated, and the prophecy is a promise rather than an event. What the source does give is the engine: a woman whose power is judgment, undone by the one person it cannot judge, with amnesia as the lock on the plot. The scales are the title and the weapon and the rule. The exception is the story. A power that judges everyone meets the one body it cannot read, and the premise stops exactly there. The run is fifty-eight episodes, the longest in this batch, with 1,221 views, in the lower half, a long runway for a premise that names its mystery and keeps it.

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