GATE Arch Defense Facility

GATE Arch Defense Facility is a location tied to the GATE-side arch facility encountered in the game’s story. It is treated as something that should not be widely known by GATE as a whole, and the Compendium entry for it states that no information is available and that, as far as the Compendium is concerned, the facility appears not to exist.

When the player enters the area for the first time, they are trapped by a forcefield. A Gatekeeper, identified as the Jotun of the Fold, calls the player an anomaly and radios for instructions. After a short exchange, the Gatekeeper is ordered to let the player through the forcefield and leave the area because of the risk of a temporal break.

The site also has some practical loot and progression value:

• A pod in the facility contains the recipes for two items.
• The area is associated with Shadowgate-related fishing junk drops, and with enemies and sources tied to GATE-adjacent content elsewhere in the game.
• The acronym used to refer to Arch N.S.Z has no confirmed meaning, though the N is confirmed to stand for Northern.