The Portal is a magic inter-dimensional doorway between the human and demon realm in the Disney Channel animated series, The Owl House.
Background[]
The portal was created centuries ago by Philip Wittebane, the first human to live on The Boiling Isles. It uses titan's blood as a power source, which is a rare substance that causes leaks between realms. The key is also filled with titan's blood and without it the door will not open. Even fabricating a new key would not open the portal if the original went missing.
Sometime after Philip's disappearance, the portal and its key ended up buried in the earth next to the Clawthorne residence partially submerged in the ground. When Eda was a teenager, she discovered the portal while running away from home after contracting the Owl Curse. She found it peeking out of the ground. After discovering it could open a gateway to the human realm, she used it to escape her mother, who was ardent in removing the curse. Over the next thirty years, Eda used the portal to either hide from her mother or collect human artifacts and sell them on her Human Collectibles stand.
Philip, now known as Emperor Belos, wanted the portal back. In order to obtain it, he demanded Luz turn it over in exchange for Eda's safety, and Luz did so, but the portal was subsequently destroyed by her Fire Glyph. Nonetheless, Belos was able to salvage the centerpiece and rebuild it as part of a larger mechanism within his castle. However, Belos could not get the portal to work without the key, which was still in Luz's possession. By "Eclipse Lake", they key was in Amity's possession while Luz was sick with the common mold. When Hunter realized she had the key, he tried to take it from her. But after a restless fight between the two, Amity reluctantly surrendered the key when Hunter threatened to harm Luz if she did not. But, before handing it over, Amity crushed the key in her hand, causing it to leak titan's blood on her hand, collecting the primary ingredient for Luz's plan to return home.
Using notes from Philip's diary, Luz created her own Portal but it turned out imperfect. Tying a rope around her waist, Luz passed through the Portal, but instead of exiting into the Human Realm, arrived in a space between realms. Eventually, Luz's portal collapsed on itself, forcing her friends to pull her out.
Belos later moved the Portal to the head of the Titan, where he planned to use the last of the titan's blood to power the Portal that he might escape the Demon Realm while it was being annihilated by his Draining Spell. In the end, after King released the Collector, who began tearing apart the Titan's head with their powerful magic, Luz's friends were forced to use the Portal to escape to safety. Refusing to abandon everyone else, Luz tried holding the Portal together with her plant magic, only for King to use his roar to send her through the Portal before it collapsed, trapping Luz, Amity, Hunter, Willow and Gus in the Human Realm.
Over the next few months, Luz and her friends attempt to create their own Portal using the front door of the house which the original Portal connected to with their Palismen running on hamster wheels, only to set it on fire. Fortuitously, Flapjack later uncovered a rebus under the floorboards of the house, revealing a map to a cache of Titan's blood in Old Gravesfield, so Amity and the others decide to tell Luz after the Haunted Hayride. Unfortunately, Belos, who was possessing Hunter, got to the Titan blood first and used it to create a new Portal to return to the Demon Realm to fulfill his genocidal plans. Luz, Camila and the others followed him through before the Portal collapsed.
Following Belos' final defeat, the Collector helped create a new Portal linking from the Human Realm to the Owl House, allowing Luz and Camila to visit the Boiling Isles on a regular basis.
Physical appearance[]
When dormant, it resembles a brown attaché case with a large, yellow, slit pupil eye on one side. When activated, the portal unfolds to the dimensions of a standard doorway. The door can then be opened, connecting the two realms and allowing passage between them. While the demon realm side of the portal is portable and can be opened anywhere, the earth realm side of the portal appears to be fixed to an abandoned house behind the home of Luz Noceda.
Based on Philip Wittebane's designs, the inner workings of the portal is a mix of human tech combined with magic and organic based components.
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