SCALELIST · UNIVERSE

HADOM Rankings

HADOM = hjärtslag, the Swedish word for heartbeat. The tick-rate of reality itself — how many actions a being can resolve within one human heartbeat. A normal human is HADOM 1. Scalelist champions reach into the millions. Vidar speaks once a century. Mingus is uncountable.

Tier ∞

Cosmic Singletons — Above Counting

HADOM > ∞

Cannot be measured. The HADOM scale was built before they existed; the scale refuses to count them.

∞

unclassified · time freezes within a heartbeat

S

Smurjan (Tetrad)

∞ folded · 4 voices in 1 body

V

∞ − 1 · The Infinite Administrator

Tier K-V — Architects

The Twelve (now Ten + sealed)

HADOM 0 — special

The Architects' Council. Their HADOM is recorded as 0 — they don't act in heartbeats; they act in centuries.

V

Vidar (Rönnkvist V)

HADOM 0 · 1 sentence per cosmic century

K-I

K-I — The First

first carved into the seal

K-V

K-V — Current Elder

leads the Council

K-XII

K-XII (unwritten)

erased by Vidar's century-sentence

Tier Million

Realm-Class Champions

HADOM 100,000 — 1,000,000+

Each one rules a realm or holds a unique cosmic role. Acts faster than human eyes track.

K

10⁹ subtick · billion actions per heartbeat

T

10⁵ · backward Codex reader

R

Runa (Rönnkvist R)

ageless · pre-Codex rune-speaker

Tier Thousand

Star-Class & Realm-Lieutenants

HADOM 1,000 — 100,000

Read the cosmos at a faster rhythm than humans can hear.

R

12,000 · eight-blade dancer

Ö

Ögar (Rönnkvist Ö)

8,000 · 8K blinks per heartbeat

N

Njord (Rönnkvist N₂)

1,200 · tide-reader

Tier Hundred

Fast Mortals & Special Roles

HADOM 10 — 1,000

Higher than any normal human. Often empowered by realm or ritual.

O

Opha (Viktor O)

24 · the Conjunction

T

Tova (Rönnkvist T)

12 · thunder-herald

I

Iska (Rönnkvist I)

7 · spark-carrier

Tier 1

Ordinary Humans (and the Unclassifiable)

HADOM 1 — special

Most beings live here. A few souls have a HADOM of 1 by recorded number but operate outside the scale's logic.

I

1 · slows time around her

K

Kvar (Rönnkvist K)

1 (uncountable) · always survives

N

Niva (Rönnkvist N₁)

unmeasurable · the Untraversed

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1 — heartbeat humans

Want the full mechanics? Read the interactive HADOM Visualizer for the heartbeat simulation, or the Character Bible for canon-anchored values.