Aurora Curtain

This article is about a power in the Kamen Rider Series.

The Aurora Curtain

The Aurora Curtain (オーロラカーテン, Ōrora Kāten) is the primary mode of transformation and transportation used by multidimensional travelers. It originated in Kamen Rider Decade.

Overview

The Aurora Curtains act as the doorway between the many A.R. Worlds, often used by Tsukasa Kadoya, Daiki Kaito, and Narutaki to traverse across the multiverse, with almost little to no restriction in terms of space. So long as a curtain was activated by a user, anyone can pass through them. For example in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, Decade and GokaiRed sent their defeated victims through their own activated curtains. As the defeated heroes arrived in a safe Dimensional rift, the Decade and GokaiRed simply summoned another curtain to allow the heroes to return. However, for Aurora Curtains which were created by the worlds itself, it might become a barrier to prevent living objects from passing through.

Due to overuse of the curtains during his early time as the leader of Dai-Shocker, Tsukasa suffered from amnesia, causing his powers to become unstable and start the Rider War where it began converging the many A.R. Worlds, with it being accelerated due to the existence of Decade himself. The worlds were restored after Tsukasa sacrificed himself in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010. Tsukasa was resurrected due to his heroic acts during his amnesiac period, allowing him to co-exist alongside the A.R. Worlds and travel between them without fear of world convergence or amnesia again.

It can also be used to travel through time.^{[Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship][GO! GO! Ghost 2015]} The curtains also grant its users protection from temporal alterations in their current dimension, allowing them to act as time capsules for the multiverse, should they somehow be affected.

The curtains were also technologically imitated through Ho-Oh Kaguya Quartz's creation of the Aurora Curtain System (オーロラカーテンシステム, Ōrora Kāten Shisutemu), a giant Decadriver-shaped machine that granted its inhabitants prosperity through travel between worlds.^{[Kamen Rider Gotchard VS Kamen Rider Legend]} However, if the system overheats, travellers who use this system to travel to parallel worlds will be forced to return to their homeworld, while losing the memories of the parallel world, though their related memories may get recovered under certain circumstances. The Hundred can also uses the Aurora Curtain to traverse across the multiverse, their relationship with the Aurora Curtain System is currently unknown.

Users

• Narutaki
• Kiva-la (used only at the beginning of the series to send Yusuke Onodera to World of Kiva)
• Tsukasa Kadoya/Kamen Rider Decade
• Sayo Kadoya/High Priestess Bishum
• Daiki Kaito/Kamen Rider Diend
• Swartz (as Another Decade)
• Dai-Shocker
  • Apollogeist/Super Apollogeist
• White Woz (as Another Diend)
• Ho-Oh Kaguya Quartz
• Hundred
  • Saigetsu
  • Tasogare
  • Mimei
  • Gengetsu
  • Alpha

Gallery

The Decadriver and Ride Booker passing through an Aurora Curtain

Tsukasa Kadoya and Natsumi Hikari are separated by an Aurora Curtain

Kamen Rider Decade breaking an Aurora Curtain while transforming

See Also

• Crack, an alternative dimensional opening associated with Helheim
• Gamma Hole, an alternative dimensional opening associated with the Gamma
• Enigma, an artificial dimensional gateway created by Kaisei Mogami of the World of Build
• White Pandora Panel, an artificial device component which has the potential to cross over to or merge parallel dimensions

External Link

• Kamen Rider Zukan dictionary on Aurora Curtain.