Worm Wiki
Register
Advertisement
I can’t… too much to look at. So many worlds at once.

I know. We’re going to do what we can, okay?

I’m… I’m pretty scared.

—Doormaker and Contessa, Interlude 29

Doormaker was a core utility of Cauldron.

Personality[]

He was almost always accompanied by the Clairvoyant, whose power he made constant use of.

Appearance[]

Doormaker was a pale-skinned,[6] plain-looking, and thin young man who did not wear a cape costume.[8] He had a blank and unfocused gaze.[5]

Abilities and Powers[]

Primary Ability[]

Doormaker can open and close portals[4] between places he has sensory awareness of, including between dimensions. He has some degree of clairvoyance as he sees into other worlds to an extent.[9][10]

On May 1st, 1988,[11] he in combination with Contessa[5] created portals to New York, Chicago, and the Cauldron Compound.[12]

In combination with Clairvoyant, Doormaker normally used his power to transport members of Cauldron wherever they needed to go and was effectively the gatekeeper to their facilities. His power allowed Cauldron to pick up test subjects, that would become Case 53s, from everywhere, but Earth Bet, and dispense them in desired locations after the transformation.

Vulnerabilities[]

Doormaker unfortunately perceives too many worlds at once, which negatively impacted his life.[9][10] By May 1988,[11] he was functionally blind and deaf.[10] Legend speculated this was because of too much exposure to Clairvoyant, who had great synergy with Doormaker.[13]

He cannot move or drift his portals as they are anchored to the rotation of the planet.[14] Doormaker's power appears to be confined to the limits of Earth's atmosphere.[15] If Doormaker dies or the well of energy he drew from ran dry, then his portals would start winking out of existence.[16][17][18]

Large amounts of energy can disrupt Doormaker's portals, including Ash Beast's power.[19] His portals collapsed when the edge made contact with lava.[20] Significant disruptions to his portals can cause Doormaker to experience pain.[21]

Other Abilities[]

Doormaker was considered to be a Noctis type cape; he does not need to sleep and can function without any significant detriment.[7]

History[]

Background[]

Doormaker was one of Cauldron's first successful vial imbibers.[1][2]

Gold Morning[]

Khepri used Doormaker to make her apotheosis possible and to bring the fight to Scion.

Once his power stopped working, the well of energy that his shard drew on having run dry, Khepri released him. Teacher gave him a power that allowed him to communicate, so he could explain what he had seen while tied into the Clairvoyant alongside Khepri. Glaistig Uaine killed Doormaker and began using his power for herself.[22]

Chapter Appearances[]

Worm Chapter Appearances
Prey
1. Prey 14.1 Absent
2. Prey 14.2 Absent
3. Prey 14.3 Absent
4. Prey 14.4 Absent
5. Prey 14.5 Absent
6. Prey 14.6 Absent
7. Prey 14.7 Absent
8. Prey 14.8 Absent
9. Prey 14.9 Absent
10. Prey 14.10 Absent
11. Prey 14.11 Absent
x. Interlude 14.x Absent
y. Interlude 14.y Mentioned
Colony
1. Colony 15.1 Absent
x. Interlude 15.x Absent
2. Colony 15.2 Absent
3. Colony 15.3 Absent
y. Interlude 15.y Absent
4. Colony 15.4 Absent
5. Colony 15.5 Absent
6. Colony 15.6 Absent
7. Colony 15.7 Absent
z. Interlude 15.z Mentioned
8. Colony 15.8 Absent
9. Colony 15.9 Absent
10. Colony 15.10 Absent
i. Interlude 15 Absent
Imago
1. Imago 21.1 Absent
2. Imago 21.2 Absent
3. Imago 21.3 Absent
4. Imago 21.4 Absent
5. Imago 21.5 Absent
6. Imago 21.6 Absent
7. Imago 21.7 Absent
x. Interlude 21.x Debut
y. Interlude 21.y Absent
Cockroaches
1. Cockroaches 28.1 Absent
2. Cockroaches 28.2 Absent
3. Cockroaches 28.3 Absent
4. Cockroaches 28.4 Absent
5. Cockroaches 28.5 Absent
6. Cockroaches 28.6 Absent
x. Interlude 28 Appears
Venom
1. Venom 29.1 Mentioned
2. Venom 29.2 Absent
3. Venom 29.3 Mentioned
4. Venom 29.4 Absent
5. Venom 29.5 Absent
6. Venom 29.6 Mentioned
7. Venom 29.7 Appears
8. Venom 29.8 Absent
9. Venom 29.9 Appears
x. Interlude 29 Mentioned
Speck
1. Speck 30.1 Appears
2. Speck 30.2 Appears
3. Speck 30.3 Appears
4. Speck 30.4 Appears
5. Speck 30.5 Appears
6. Speck 30.6 Appears
7. Speck 30.7 Spirit

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Doormaker was beside her. His voice was one of the voices she’d heard. Number twenty-three. One of her first true successes. - Excerpt from Interlude 28
  2. 2.0 2.1 Zero-twenty-three, with a placard beneath. ‘Doormaker’. - Excerpt from Interlude 21.x
  3. I could see my blonde friend with the portal man, talking to people. Talking to… what was his name? The one who gave thinker powers. Teacher.

    He’d given the portal man the ability to talk.
    [...]
    The portal man would explain what he’d seen. With luck, my brilliant friend would be able to connect the dots. - Speck 30.6
  4. 4.0 4.1 And the last… a boy, staring off into the distance.

    She asked her power, and she got her answer.

    He could make doors.

    He could also close the other doors, the gaps left around the other entity. It would minimize the chance that the golden man could find them. - Interlude 29
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 She turned to the girl in the suit and the young man with the thousand-yard stare.

    “You know where to take us.”

    The girl in the suit placed her hands on his shoulders, tapping one twice. In response, the boy raised his hands, bidding the back wall of the room to fold out into an area that shouldn’t have been there. Bright sunlight streamed down around them, a salt-scented wind blowing in their faces.

    “My god,” Legend said. - Interlude 15.z
  6. 6.0 6.1 At the very back of the room, separate from the group, were two pale young men, laid out on desks that sat on either side of a reinforced door. A twenty-something guy with flat skin stretched over where his eyes should be, and a guy that was maybe ten years older, with enough bloody bandage around his head and face that I couldn't make out his features. Doormaker, I could assume, based on what I'd heard upstairs, along with the clairvoyant the Doctor had mentioned in the past. - Venom 29.7
  7. 7.0 7.1 Tattletale went still, “Doormaker doesn’t sleep.”
    [...]
    Others have only been marked down as guesses. Doormaker and Contessa were among them, they said, going by the times the ‘bogeyman’ was showing up. - Venom 29.1
  8. The other two – I recognized their powers. A man with access to many powers at once, a fluctuating, flexible thing, and an thin, plain looking man with no costume, head hanging, with the power to make doorways. - Speck 30.7
  9. 9.0 9.1 “I can’t… too much to look at,” he said. “So many worlds at once.”

    “I know. We’re going to do what we can, okay?”

    “I’m… I’m pretty scared.” There was a tremor in his voice. - Interlude 29
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 “He gained a very valuable set of powers, but there was an unfortunate effect on his perceptions. He sees too much at once. He’s effectively blind and deaf. He agreed to work for me in exchange for care and comfort.” - Interlude 15.z
  11. 11.0 11.1 May 1st, 1988

    “Alexandria,” the Doctor called.

    Alexandria waited patiently as Contessa adjusted her cape, then strode through the door. The Doctor was there, of course. Professor Manton, too. The boy with the math powers was there, standing next to a boy who was staring off into space. - Interlude 15.z
  12. Eidolon and Hero advanced to the edge of the window, staring out at a landscape of tidy concrete buildings and overlarge trees. There was a coast there, too.

    “I will be locating my operations there in the future. Doormaker will shuttle you to and from my base in the future.”

    “Where is it?”

    “Another Earth.”

    “Like Earth Aleph? The one Haywire opened the portal to?”

    “In some respects, yes.” The Doctor gestured, and Contessa squeezed the boy’s shoulders again. The portal shut. “My assistant will hand you the booklets Alexandria prepared for her project. Doormaker will then take each of you home in turn. Thank you.”

    One by one, the others departed. Legend was first through the doorway Doormaker created, taken to New York. Both Eidolon and Hero made their way to Chicago. Professor Manton and the others left. - Interlude 15.z
  13. “Closed. They’re created by a parahuman called Doormaker. The Doctor told me he was blind and deaf to his surroundings, but I think it’s far more likely that it’s to do with another parahuman she partnered him with. Someone who grants sensory awareness. I think the Doctor gave Doormaker too much exposure to this parahuman and destroyed or atrophied his other senses. One of those nagging doubts I never acted on.” - Venom 29.3
  14. An exercise of Doormaker’s power let me experiment with the portals. They couldn’t move or drift, excepting the way they were anchored to the rotation of the planet as a whole. Instead, I opened and closed new portals, timing it so the opening of one was a fraction of a second before the prior one closed. I surrounded myself with them, a shifting, shuttering array of portals. - Speck 30.3
  15. My ranged capes aimed for portals once again. This time, I put the exit portals against Earth’s atmosphere, aiming for the general direction of a satellite.

    It took thirty seconds of sustained fire before Shén Yù’s power stopped telling me it was a weak point. Other thinker powers in my range were giving me similar feedback. A cape with perfect eyesight was telling me it could even see the explosion. - Speck 30.4
  16. “If it helps,” Legend said, “I don’t think Doormaker is dead. There have been two interruptions in his power, to date. One followed an earthquake. He was unhurt, but his partner… well, it was a clue that a partner existed. His doors all went down simultaneously the moment the earthquake hit the facility. I don’t think his power is the type that would outlast him after death, if it was so easily interrupted while he was alive.” - Venom 29.3
  17. Tattletale shook her head. “If Doormaker dies, she’s stranded here, all alone, more than a little borked in the head and in the heart. Possibly for the rest of her life.” - Speck 30.1
  18. It was when I was opening my door that the portals started winking out.

    It was like watching a blackout take hold over a city. Lights going out, sections of apartments at the same time, then buildings. Not all even, not quite logical in flow, but close.

    And with every other light that went out, I lost a member of my swarm.

    The portals shut en masse, ten by ten, a hundred by a hundred, the furthest one first. The ones next to me would disappear in seconds.

    I looked at Doormaker, who was staring into empty space.

    The realization dawned on me.

    I’d spent it all. Too much, pushing it too far. The well Doormaker drew from in using his power had just run dry. - Excerpt from Speck 30.5
  19. When working with power on this scale, chaos had a way of trumping order. Too much energy disrupted the portals. - Excerpt from Speck 30.5
  20. I began opening a portal beneath a flow of lava, a trickle on Earth Bet, at the mouth of a cave system. The lava met the edge of the portal, and it winked out of existence. A splash of it passed through the portal, touching Dragon where her ‘neck’ met her body. - Speck 30.4
  21. The beam hit the surface of the portal, and only a fraction passed through to strike Scion from behind.  Enough to kill someone, enough to kill me, if the beam had happened to touch any of my control portals, but even so, the portal itself took the brunt of the impact.

    Doormaker staggered beside me. - Excerpt from Speck 30.5
  22. Speck 30.6

Site Navigation[]

Noctis Capes
DefiantDoormaker DragonGasconadeMama MathersMiss MilitiaNight Hag  • Noctis *Weld
Cauldron
Leader Doctor Mother 
Members Alexandria Balminder Contessa The Clairvoyant The Custodian Doormaker Eidolon Harbinger Clones  (Harbinger I Harbinger II  • Harbinger III Harbinger IV Harbinger V ) • Hero Legend William Manton The Number Man Pretender The Slug 
Advertisement