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Gluttony is said to be a fake Gate of Truth, as shown by when he swallows Ed
and Ling. They are transported to a place that is full of blood, which seems
to be entirely different from the place where the real Gate of Truth takes
someone. What does him being a fake Gate of Truth mean, as opposed to just
being some sort of transportation device? What is the difference between his
Gate of Truth and the real one?


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What does it mean that Gluttony is a fake Gate of Truth?


Gluttony was created for the sole purpose of being a portal of Truth. Father
was attempting to create a way to access the so-called "non-reality" (beyond
the Gate) without paying a toll; essentially, he wanted to entirely bypass
Truth so that he could access [all alchemical knowledge within the
Gate](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4938/274).

!["Gluttony is the result of Father's unsuccessful attempt at recreating the
Gate of Truth."](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pNwjA.png)

However, Father is not omnipotent; he was unable to create a portal which was
able to do what he hoped for. Instead, what you see of Gluttony was the
result: A portal, attached to a homunculus, that serves as a gateway to a
different world, one that is neither reality nor non-reality (that is, it is
somewhere between the universe and the realm of Truth).

!["I guess it's safe to call this place the crevice between reality and the
truth."](https://i.stack.imgur.com/640dl.png)

It probably goes without saying at this point that the difference between this
Gate and the real one is that, well, this one is useless. Basically, it's just
[its own dimension](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2336/274) that serves as
nothing but a place for Gluttony's consumptions to go. It contains no
alchemical knowledge, no God (which would be in the real Gate), and no way
out.


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