While I'm not entirely sure about your notation here, if the $X_j$ are iid then your $W^n$ have constant variance. This is in turn because of the basic properties
$$\text{Var} \left ( \sum_{j=1}^n X_j \right ) = n \text{Var}(X_1) \\
\text{Var}(cX)=|c|^2 \text{Var}(X)$$
when the $X_j$ are iid and $c$ is a constant. Combining these gives
$$\text{Var} \left ( \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} \sum_{j=1}^n X_j \right ) = \frac{1}{n} n \text{Var}(X_1)=\text{Var}(X_1).$$
This is probably why you would want the walk to be scaled in that way. This same scaling is used in, for example, the central limit theorem.