Black Gate

The Black Gate is a terrifying piece of technology created by Ruin and Exades. Created during the Lightning War as the centerpiece of the black world of Nar'ghul, it is the mechanism by which the Black Stones were created as well as the source of Ruin's immense power. Exades aided Ruin in it's creation under the genuine belief that its creation would lead to his own deification. 
The Black Gate was consciously based on the Gate technology of the Infinite Empire but repurposed its mechanisms to allow a single man at-will control over all matter, energy, space, and time. Multiple persons could interact with the Gate at once; whoever had the strongest willpower would be the controlling individual. By utilizing the Black Stones, both Ruin and Exades could tie other individuals to the Black Gate and allow them some degree of agency without allowing them to violate the precepts of their own personal will at any given time. They could also draw on some measure of the Gate's power, entirely according to the will of the controlling individual.
Functionally, it carries a reverse proportion: the more individuals interacting with it there are, the weaker each person's draw of power from the Gate becomes, but the more powerful the controlling individual becomes. This is because the concentration of Empyrean metaphysical material (i.e. souls) in one location has an effect in the Empyrean similar to gravity.
It was essentially based in large part on the Unity Gate; just as the Unity Gate acts as the physical brain of the Aetarn, the Black Gate acts as the physical housing for the controlling individual. It also integrates technology from the Nexus Gate to allow it to produce the Black Stones. 
The technology was essential to Ruin's war effort against the Infinite Empire during the Lightning War: he would gift a Black Stone to the established leader or key persons of a world and bring it under his practical control.
Category:Technology