The Arc

Final view of the Arc after Ava passed through it.

**The Arc** or **the Ark** is a quantum portal designed by Jillian Salvius and built with Arq-Tech technology. It is made with divinium, providing it with special properties. When powered with a sufficient source of energy, it can act as a portal to the other realm.

## Description

The Arc is a technological device of circular form, around two meters in diameter. It is partly made of divinium found in ancient artifacts and relics, such as the Shield of Faith. It needs to be powered by a source of energy to activate as a door to the other realm. The only sources of energy which have been able to activate it are the Halo and Adriel's cross.

## History

### Season 1

The Arc was initially inspired by Adriel to Michael Salvius through telepathy. Her mother Jillian Salvius collected the data on Michael's drawings and decided to build the Arc to save her ill son, as she believes that it can provide access to another world where there is no death and no disease. As such, she uses Arq-Tech's technology and needs divinium to build the Arc.

After she is able to complete the Arc, Jillian initially believes that the Warrior Nun Ava can provide enough energy to activate the Arc as a portal thanks to the Halo, which is a powerful source of energy. When Adriel escapes his prison, the Arc fully activates and Michael passes through the portal. When Jillian tries to enter it herself, the portal closes before she could passes through it.

### Season 2

Jillian Salvius realizes that the Arc activates briefly every six hours, not enough to completely open a portal. When Lilith later comes to see Jillian to help her, the portal activates. Lilith enters the Arc and successfully passes through the portal, coming back seconds later. However, she claims that she spent hours on the other side and felt she was not welcome there. Jillian realizes that there are 107 minutes of footage from Lilith's camera on the other side while she was away only for 7.8 seconds. She tries to understand why and when accelerating the footage matching 7.8 seconds, she can see the face of another being from the other side.

Jillian later observes that the Arc remains active at a low level without interruption, due to a flow of radiological current that she can see with quantum frequency glasses. Following the current to its source, she realizes that it comes from Adriel's Cathedral, built with Arq-Tech's funds, as she gave the direction of the company to Kristian Schaefer, who is now a member of the Firstborn Children. Jillian later understands that the energy current somehow comes from prayers converted into energy by Adriel and is used to send so-called plagues with conductive infrastructure. She also understands that Adriel plans to use the Arc for himself and believes that he wants to bring over wraith demons to enslave the entire planet. However, the Warrior Sisters from the OCS are not able to stop Adriel from taking the Arc.

The OCS then plans to attack Adriel's Cathedral, send Adriel back through the portal and destroy the Arc to make sure he will never return. As the OCS's plan fails, Adriel steals the Arc and activates it with a cross to drag Reya out of her realm down to Earth in order to make her a prisoner, giving him full power over Reya's realm. Before he can do it, Ava calls the Tarasks to kill him. As Ava was severely injured in her fight against Adriel, Lilith and Beatrice put her through the activated Arc, as they thought it was the only way for her to survive. Shortly after, the Arc deactivates. It is not specified where the Arc is kept after this, nor whether it is destroyed as initially planned.