Editing Portal (section)

==Description==
Portals are "holes" in reality. They allow travel across the multiverse lattice, allowing people travel to other worlds.

Portal appearances are dictated by their creation:<ref name="fw3">“Here,” Golem said.  He indicated the portal.  It was the same rip-in-reality style that Kenzie’s cube made, rather than the electricity-framed doorway that Teacher’s tech tended to produce, or the three-dimensional-hole style that Faultline’s group and Khepri had made. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/20 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.3]]</ref> [[Palanquin (team)|Palanquin]] ones are three dimensional regions of translucent overlaid space;<ref name="scrublab">“It’s all part of a whole,” she replied, absently.  Her focus was on the others.  “Scrub!  Get closer to the tower!  Everyone else, get back!  Labyrinth, don’t use your power any more!  Hold off!”<br><br>Heads turned.  People had no doubt noticed the tower, but now something was happening.<br><br>Scrub stepped closer, and one of his explosions ripped through the air.  Another followed shortly after, intersecting one area of altered road.<br><br>Like a gas in the air that had been ignited, the entire thing went up in a heartbeat.  In an instant, it was a white void, as undefinable as Grue’s darkness, perceivable by the edges, but with zero depth or dimension.  He’d shunted out the entire structure, as well as everything that had altered on the ground, but nothing had come back.<br><br>The door had been kicked out of the frame. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/12 Excerpt] from [[Scourge 19.7]]</ref><ref name="fw3"/> [[Looksee#Equipment|Warden tech]] creates temporary tears in reality,<ref name="fw3"/> [[Teacher's Group|Teacher's students]] construct similar tears, but opaque, cruder and more dangerous to the traveler,<ref>Leaving the medical room, they entered a hallway.  At one end, a portal was open, the edges ragged and crackling.<br><br>“I’m still refining transportation, but this works.  We’ll need to take three trips to get where we want to be.”<br>[...]<br>Through the portal, a smell of burnt ozone in the air, they were on a rocky clifftop.  Rain pattered down around them.<br><br>Another device was rigged.  Ten people with white shirts or white clothes were working on it.  An archway with power from a chain of six generators feeding into it.<br>[...]<br>The gate that was hooked up to generators was being powered.  Electricity crackled, arcing inside the gateway until it looked like the ‘door’ of the arch was a solid pane of crackling energy.<br>[...]<br>Then he strode forward, into the electricity.  William could see him flinch at the touch of electricity, the burning of clothes.<br><br>Not perfect.  Worse, if that broke his concentration, augmented as it was…<br><br>Better that it happen now than later.<br><br>He marched forward, his strides long.  His hands pushed his sweat-damp hair out of his eyes and against his scalp.<br><br>Lightning kissed him, and then licked across his arm, up to his sleeve.  The arm burned, and the sleeve was set on fire.  Another shock made his body go stiff, and he felt one of the things slip out of his hold.  His back.<br><br>He staggered through what felt like a very long tunnel, collapsing to his knees. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/08/18 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y II]]</ref> with later versions improved somewhat.{{Cite}} [[Doormaker|Cauldron's method]] creates near seamless portals, however they are not necessarily permanent by themselves either.<ref>[[Doctor Mother|A woman stood there, dark-skinned, with her hair cut into a short style that was more utilitarian than stylish.]]  She wore a doctor’s lab coat and held a white plastic clipboard with both hands.<br><br>That wasn’t the startling thing.<br><br>At a point halfway inside the barn, there ceased to be any barn at all.  White tiled floor and white-painted walls stretched a distance behind the woman, and the ceiling was all glass, hiding a smooth distribution of flourescent lights that made it all glow evenly. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/26 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.5]]</ref>

They can function as a useful power source with interactions in several parahuman effects,<ref name=smug/> useful is not the same as safe however.<ref>“A broken second trigger multiplied by a portal and time effect, or something.”<br><br>

“Kind of.  Um.  But when I work on the right people I see the landscape that’s laid out, the old roads where connections used to be.  I think we’re going to see more.”<br><br>“More broken triggers?” I asked.<br><br>“More Dauntlesses.  A lot more, and soon.  The city’s the worst spot… it’s like all those portals?  Them being there make it easier for the big, messy results to happen.  Like tearing paper with a row of holes in it.  The holes guide the tear. [...] the city’s like a lake covered in ice, with countless cracks spread across it.  Powerful capes are staying away from it because they make it worse.  They’re too heavy for the ice.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/15 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.9]]</ref>{{Cite}}<!-- vicky mentions something about energy needed to put in and take out power while delivering case twelve? chapter Black prolly-->

===Creation ===

*[[Doormaker]]
*[[Tinker]]s
**[[Professor Haywire]]<ref name="3.4" /><ref name="16.1II" /> 
**Tinker group (including [[Lookout]]) working in conjunction
**[[Teacher]] through his students and appropriated tech
*Combos
**Dimension manipulators
***[[Labyrinth]]
***[[Myrddin]]
**[[All-or-nothing]]s
***[[Scrub]]
***[[Foil]]
***[[Ashley Stillons]]
*[[Trigger events]] by design create an interdimensional connection inside each [[parahuman]] brain to their [[shard]]. This is known as the [[Corona Pollentia]].<ref name="nano">'''Torrieltar:''' How do you nullify a power in Wormverse? Would any old power nullifier from another universe work, or does it need to be done in a specific way? Similarly, what would it take to duplicate a Wormverse power?<br>'''Wildbow:''' Depends, really. Mantellum was a power nullifier who basically blinded shards. He arguably wouldn't have any effect on a sensory power that wasn't a Worm power. Scion had an adaptive nullifying defense that was just borg shield, basically, auto-tuning against whatever was used against him, and would work against anything to one hundred percent efficacy, after the initial hit.<br><br>To nullify a power you'd need to counteract the work of a fine tuned, vast alien processing engine in an inaccessible alternate Earth (they flake off of entities that exist in multiple realities simultaneously, set up shop in an empty world, then block off all access), or break the connection to the host of the powers (interdimensional portal within the host's brain). - [https://redd.it/5jmo6d Featured Character - Contessa] ([[Wildbow]], Reddit.com, 2016-12-21)</ref>
*[[Endbringers|Endbringer]] cores are specialized portals that allow for their manifestation.<ref>If one threw an Endbringer into the sun, though, given what the core is, both in immensity and that it's essentially a doorway into multiple realities, a lens to make the Endbringer projections manifest as reality, they might risk putting out the sun, or at least disturbing it to the point that Earth was gravely affected. - [https://redd.it/2sju2u Endbringers vs. Justice League] ([[Wildbow]], Reddit.com, 2015-01-15)</ref><ref>“Powers come from somewhere,” Faultline said, “They originate from within our bodies through, essentially, portals.  To get to that origination point… you gotta dig.  Or cut.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/01 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.a II]]</ref>