Gate App

Materials
Crystal of Balance (golem core) x2, one from Dun and one from Morok (https://pastebin.com/nb1vp2vS)
Arcanium x6
Pure Terraheimic Soul Steel x2 (https://pastebin.com/ktKdsGia)
Blue Mercury x20
Mithril x50
Orichalchum x50
Frozen Mana Sapphire of Uraheim (https://pastebin.com/t4cyWbup)
Burning Mana Ruby of Ifraheim (https://pastebin.com/W4fq8CYT)
Earthen Mana Onyx of Terraheim (https://pastebin.com/ktKdsGia)
Occultic Mana Spinel of Helheim (https://pastebin.com/N1WXcsHA- including the death of Dun Task)


The Road Ahead

-After Task's discussion with Rinn on plans for the future, the elder of the Fireblooded enters the depths of the factory, planning out the schematics for the great gate of realms before assembling half of its raw support structure and design with the materials he has.

https://pastebin.com/Y6e2dKmD

Evolution

-Dun and Fidi discuss the importance and meaning of his own personal evolution, the gate's prototype phase displayed to the serpent as they discuss the future. When the latter departs, the old clown proceeds to double down on his efforts with the acquisition of pure soulsteel from Terraheim, completing the architecture, wiring, and integration with the twin Barsburg golem cores.

https://pastebin.com/qiJ5pcbV

The Inevitable End

-Not far from his death, and yet resolved to complete the Task at hand, Dun would modify and augment the Sanguinary Mitten into the Sanguinary Masterkey, seating and attuning the three elemental  mana gems into the gauntlet before attuning them directly to the gate with words of power, preparing the Masterkey for the insertion of the final gem of Hel and the gate's activation.

https://pastebin.com/d9xBn2xL


Dust to Dust

The final piece of the puzzle. Dun Task, in possession of Riftmancy materials that belong to Hades Task, was able to provide Fidi the means to utilize Lady Erie's Greed, the crystal that is capable of processing energy of any kind and gift it to its user - a magical 'sponge' that can unleash absorbed energy both ways, an artifact retrieved from the First-Born Demon. Through the complex work of Riftmancy runes, Arithmancy, and calculated process that followed principles of Wayfinding, but used more frivolous aspects that allowed the user to tap into Helheim as a source of its power, in exchange of greater possibilities, the Serpent was capable of retrieving the energy of Helheim. This was used as a means to secure the sample of the gate to construct it elsewhere, should Theria be conquered or destroyed, while also progressing current work - a side-effect of this was Fidi's intake of such energy, one that would lead him to a change. They say that the greatest gifts come when one's dreams align for something greater.

What can be greater than to change Esshar,
and to bring the change to humanity as a whole?

https://pastebin.com/JCLYFRyj


Abyssal Core

What better way to establish a clear link to Helheim other than to use the faithful servants of it? Gathering a coven of the witches, as well as preparing the necessary materials to imbue the gate with the particles of Helheim, a relic of the old, Abyssal Core, was imbued within the construction of the Helheim's gate- Morok's might was tested thoroughly as he used all that he learned about Riftmancy so far to attune the gate closer to the Underworld, where no soul dares walk into willingly. Through debauchery and dark rituals, the gate was attuned to the Helheim, seeking to make it a powerful conduit for all that the Serpent intended to pursue.

https://pastebin.com/S4NJPuMy


Enter the Shadows

The Damned of the Helheim are restless. They are condemned to exist in a pitiful state that would bring them naught but suffering in the Underworld- but the Archon knew that this suffering is what would make them an exceptional thing to use to shake the foundation of Esshar. With the recent resurgence of the Demon Hunters, Osrona pulling out of the war, and Myllenoris acquiring so many numbers, what other choice do they have but to resort to such things? A sacrifice of the Nysean Knight, a piece of a puzzle that would allow the other contributions, among them the Abyssal Core, the crystal of Lady Erie's Greed and the Golem core, as well as the Archon's skills. The obsidian hands would at last reach out, the Damned of the Helheim answering the call of their master, given the presence in this world. But even with this, his work is far from over.

Despite his success here...
He is yet to shake the foundation of Esshar to bring it to the new era.
The era of humanity's evolution.

https://pastebin.com/4aCeDg3u


-----Post Dun Task's Death

Opening the Gate

In order to fulfill the late Dun Task's final wishes, his last two surviving children and those involved with the project come together to attune the final gemstone to Helheim, in unison with the portal. The prodigal son, Revan Task, is the one to affix the last piece. His daughter, secretly of shared blood and long thought adopted, takes the glove once it's completed.

She has no intent of upholding his legacy. Far from it. Artemis seeks to shatter her brother, all he holds dear, and every last thing in Theria associated with her deceptive blood father's name.

https://pastebin.com/qsKr4T7c

A Mischievous Conspiracy

Now, with the glove finally in her hands, Artemis can fulfill her wishes of seeing Theria's destruction, and the erosion of all her father and her sole surviving brother had worked for. She'd given them their last chances, alerted them of their enemies and told them the way to greatness. Alas, the people of the mountain have grown complacent, lazy, indolent. The task still has an appetite for conquest and destruction that is yet to be sated.

She gathers those she knows among the Mischief in Barsburg's criminal underworld, those she regards as true family, and lays out her plan. They will use a local event as a distraction; while the people of the mountain are engaged in their unearned revelry, further distracted by Trik, his minions, and whatever other comrades they can drum up on the day, herself, Gavriil, and Stavros will be elsewhere. The plan is to open the portal to Helheim, stick it open, and leave whatever legions crawl out to raze anything on the mountainside in their path while they make their own getaway by the Kingpin's Rift magic.

https://pastebin.com/bzwKZ4Ls