![]() It is unknown what image appeared on the Gate for Izumi Curtis. Father's Gate appears to be completely blank, likely because of his inability or unwillingness to learn, change, or grow spiritually during his lifetime. For Roy Mustang, the mural depicts a stylized version of the Flame Alchemy array designed by Berthold Hawkeye. Additionally, the mural on Alphonse Elric's Gate is a relief of an illustration from 15th-century alchemist George Ripley's text "The Marrow of Alchemy". For Edward Elric, who has passed through the Gate no less than four separate times, the mural is a relief of the Sephirothic Tree of Life, which originates from a mystic branch of Judaism known as Kabbalah. Though the Gate appears identically to any and all who pass through it, the engravings on the stone doors appear different to each person as a reflection of their true self and to that alchemist's understanding of "The Truth" (all the engravings, in one way or another, are representations of the Universe and the Cosmos). Rather, their limbs can, when clapped together, serve as the outer circle for the transmutation, and the body of the alchemist itself serves as the matrix. They also can perform alchemy without needing to draw Transmutation Circles. If an alchemist survives their passage through the Gate, they are sent back to the mortal plane without whatever they left behind as payment. It is unknown what happens to those alchemists whose lives are given up, but the Philosopher's Stone appears to be the only thing that would allow one to pass through the Gate without paying a personal toll. For example, Edward Elric, who gave up his left leg, only saw so much, but his brother Alphonse - who had given up his whole body - saw a bit further. However, the alchemist is only granted as much knowledge as proportionate to what is being given up as a "toll" through the Gate. Inside, pure knowledge about the world, the universe, alchemy, and everything is forced into the alchemist's mind as they begin to break down both physically and mentally, becoming part of the flow. The shapeless void and its extremities look very similar to the original forms of both Father and the Homunculus Pride.Īny alchemist who attempts a Human Transmutation is summoned before the Gate by the transmutation's rebound and is confronted briefly by the being known as Truth before the Gate itself pulls them through its doors. Though there appears to be nothing behind the doors when they are closed, upon opening, they reveal a dimension of information which manifests as a shadowy void with several shadow-like ethereal hands protruding from it and a single large eye within. ![]() In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga and 2009 anime series, the Gate is a pair of doors resembling a set of large stone tablets engraved with a mural, floating in an endless white expanse. ![]() It is the source of alchemical knowledge and the entrance to God's domain, where no mortals are meant to tread. The Gate of Alchemy (also called The Gate of Truth, The Portal, and most commonly The Gate) is a metaphysical and possibly metaphorical structure that appears within-and is central to-the Fullmetal Alchemist series in both the 2003 anime and manga/ Brotherhood storylines. The Gate, as seen in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
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