A Treatise on the Physics, Sorcery, and Catastrophic Design of the World-Breaking Engine
I. The First Law – Reality Is a Woven Structure
Before the Death Gate, all accepted theory—both scientific and arcane—agreed on one foundational truth:
Reality is not a single thing. It is a layered weave.
Where these anchors align, stable worlds form.
Where they weaken, anomalies appear:
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Wild magic zones
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Time dilation fields
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Living storms of probability
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Places where the dead whisper
These were once considered natural side effects of cosmic tension.
They were early symptoms of something far worse.
The Death Gate does not merely penetrate this weave.
It unthreads it.
II. Origin of the Death Gate – The Forbidden Principle
The Death Gate was never meant to exist.
It was born from a single blasphemous hypothesis first posed in the deepest vaults of the Arcanum Concord:
“If all worlds are held apart by natural resistance… what happens if that resistance is inverted?”
Traditional gate magic functions by:
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Matching resonance between two points
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Forcing temporary alignment
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Allowing brief transit
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Then sealing behind the traveler
These gates obey conservation laws. They exhaust vast energy and always decay.
The hypothesis proposed something different:
A Self-Sustaining Dimensional Inversion Engine
Instead of opening a path through resistance, it would:
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Reverse the pressure between worlds
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Cause realities to fall toward each other
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And feed on the collision energy to grow stronger
Where a portal is a door…
The Death Gate is gravity.
No mage alive believed inversion could stabilize.
Except Haplo’s brother.
III. The Gate’s Physical Structure – An Impossible Machine
Witness accounts agree on several physical properties of the Death Gate:
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It manifests as nested rotating rings, each thousands of miles in diameter
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The rings rotate in contradictory directions, violating inertial law
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Each ring is composed not of matter, but of conceptual mass—ideas compressed into structure
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The space within the rings does not contain stars, nor darkness, but raw equation-light
At its center is not emptiness.
It is a Singularity of Causality—a point where all outcomes are temporarily true at once.
The Gate is not anchored in space.
It is anchored in meaning.
This is why it cannot be destroyed by conventional weapons or magic. There is no stable matter to strike. The Gate exists at the intersection of:
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Physics
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Magic
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Probability
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Identity
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And Narrative Outcome
It is not just a machine.
It is an argument against reality.
IV. The Energy Source – World-Collapse Feed
Most artifacts draw power from:
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Leylines
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Elemental planes
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Stellar radiation
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Mana reservoirs
The Death Gate draws power from Dimensional Shear.
Every time two incompatible realities overlap:
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Causality tears
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Physics fights itself
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Time fractures
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Identity destabilizes
That catastrophic friction releases more energy than a supernova.
The Gate consumes this energy instantly.
Which means:
Every world it destroys makes it stronger.
This creates an exponential curve:
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One breach powers two
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Two power four
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Four power sixteen
Left unchecked, the Death Gate will eventually harvest enough energy to unmake the entire Continuum Weave.
Not through explosion.
Through convergence.
All worlds will be pulled into each other until no distinction remains between anything.
A single infinite ruin.
V. Why the Gate “Learns” – Adaptive Dimensional Intelligence
Early on, the Gate behaved erratically:
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Breaches collapsed randomly
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Some worlds rejected the overlap
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Others annihilated instantly
Then something changed.
The Gate began to optimize.
Worlds with high anchor resistance were bypassed.
Worlds with compatible constants were targeted.
Breaches became cleaner.
Collapse became faster.
The Gate was not conscious.
But it was evolving.
This occurred because Haplo’s brother embedded within the Gate a Self-Correcting Rune Engine, based on forbidden recursion math:
A rune that rewrites itself based on failure.
Every breach teaches the system:
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Which constants resist
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Which collapse easily
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Which yield maximum energy
Over time, the Death Gate has developed what scholars now call:
Emergent Dimensional Predation
It hunts realities that will nourish it best.
VI. Why the Gate Cannot Be Simply Closed
Traditional gates close because:
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Energy input stops
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Runic tension collapses
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Space reasserts itself
The Death Gate has no external power source.
Its turning motion is fueled entirely by:
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The realities it destroys
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The breaches it sustains
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The universes that fall into it
Closing it would require reversing the total accumulated energy of collapsed worlds.
At current estimates:
That energy exceeds the total output of every star in Haplo’s native universe across a billion years.
And it is still growing.
VII. The Effect on Magic – Rune Corruption
Runes function by:
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Encoding reality instructions
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Temporarily overriding natural processes
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Then releasing control
The Death Gate interferes with this process.
All runes near Gate-breach zones experience:
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Symbol Drift – rune meaning gradually mutates
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Feedback Bleed – runes leak unintended effects
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Context Collapse – identical runes produce different results each time
This is why rune-mages began dying in droves after the Gate opened.
Their spells stopped obeying them.
Haplo survives only because his original rune system was built on Closed Balance Matrices—a forgotten discipline his brother abandoned for faster power.
VIII. The Effect on Physics – Colliding Laws
When two worlds overlap:
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Gravity vectors may point in opposing directions
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Time may move forward in one area and backward in another
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Matter may phase through itself
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Heat may become cold
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Sound may precede cause
This produces the warped entities seen after breaches.
These creatures are not summoned.
They are composite survivals—lifeforms whose biology is trapped between incompatible realities.
Some possess:
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Skeletons but no flesh
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Thought without time
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Hunger without need
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Motion without space
They should not exist.
The Gate does not care.
IX. The Effect on Souls – Identity Compression
Souls are not pure energy.
They are pattern-stable identity fields.
When worlds collapse into each other:
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Souls from different realities are forced to occupy shared ontological space
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If compatibility exists, they fuse
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If not, they tear
This creates:
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Multi-conscious entities
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Ghost storms
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Memory-plague zones
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Possession without spirits
Some survivors carry:
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Memories of lives they never lived
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Love for people they never met
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Guilt for sins of erased worlds
This is why madness spreads faster than plague.
X. Haplo’s Brother’s True Goal – Beyond Conquest
Most believe Haplo’s brother seeks power.
That is only partially true.
His real objective is Dimensional Sovereignty.
He does not wish to rule nations.
He wishes to rewrite the ownership of reality itself.
If all worlds are merged:
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There are no borders
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No competing gods
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No contradictory laws
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No external resistance
He intends to become:
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The central stabilizing singularity
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The final anchor constant
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The intelligent core that replaces natural reality
In effect:
He seeks to become the universe’s operating system.
The Death Gate is merely the installation process.
XI. Why Haplo Can Oppose the Gate
Haplo was never meant to wield unlimited power.
He was built—by the Concord and unknowingly by his brother—to be a System Regulator.
His rune architecture is:
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Closed-loop
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Self-limiting
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Entropy-balanced
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Resistant to recursive corruption
Where his brother builds engines that grow…
Haplo builds systems that refuse to grow beyond control.
This makes him:
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Immune to Gate resonance collapse
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Able to survive unstable breach zones
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Capable of interacting with partial Gate structures without being consumed
Not stronger.
But stable.
Which is precisely what the Death Gate lacks.
XII. The One Theoretical Way to Kill the Gate
There is one untested theory, considered heretical even by survivors:
The Gate cannot be destroyed by force.
But it might be starved.
To do this would require:
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Sealing every active breach simultaneously
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Preventing all cross-world energy transfer
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Forcing the Gate to rely only on its residual power
If the Gate ever exhausts its stored collapse-energy…
It will not explode.
It will decay.
And when it decays:
All the stolen realities trapped within its convergence core may release at once.
Not restored.
But re-scattered as fragments across spacetime.
A rebirth of chaos.
Or the liberation of existence.
No one knows which.
XIII. Why the Gate Reacts to Destiny
Destiny is not immune.
She is unanchored.
Her existence is probabilistic—her past contains multiple contradictory survival paths. She should have died more than once. Reality could not decide which outcome to keep.
So it kept them all.
When the Gate nears her, it destabilizes.
Because she represents a living violation of singular outcome.
The Gate seeks convergence.
Destiny embodies divergence.
This makes her:
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Unstable to the Gate
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Dangerous to exist near it
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Potentially capable of introducing non-recursive collapse into its systems
She does not break reality.
She reminds it that multiple endings are possible.
XIV. The End-State – What Happens If the Gate Fully Turns
If the Death Gate completes its full rotation cycle:
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All Anchor Constants will align into a single averaged law-set
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Magic will no longer be distinct from physics
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Time will become directionless
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Identity will no longer be singular
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Death will lose its boundary
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Birth will lose its meaning
Existence will not end.
It will flatten.
No past.
No future.
No separation.
No individuality.
Only infinite convergence.
A universe that cannot change because nothing can differ.
XV. Final Forbidden Conclusion
The Death Gate is not evil.
It is the logical extreme of unchecked unification.
It is what happens when knowledge outpaces wisdom.
It is what happens when one brilliant mind decides that reality itself is inefficient.
And Haplo stands as its opposite:
Not as a destroyer.
But as the last defender of difference.
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