Deep in the
Archive of Ultimyr, shelved between scholarly treatises on dragon cladistics
and books of untranslatable spells, there is an ancient tome of entomological
curiosities. Compiled by scholars, the book describes the telepathic talents of
the zealot scarab, a strange species of social insect with abilities unique to
all the seven planes.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Medusa - Gorgon
Beauty is
power. This thought comforted Medusa--the youngest and loveliest of three
beautiful Gorgon sisters, born to a sea goddess--because she alone of the
sisters was mortal. It comforted her, that is, until the day masked assailants
invaded the Gorgon realm and tore the two immortal sisters from their home,
unmoved by their beauty or by their tears. One of the invaders seized Medusa as
well, but then cast her aside with a disgusted look: 'This one has the mortal
stink upon her. We have no use for that which dies.' Humiliated, enraged,
Medusa fled to the temple of her mother and cast herself before the goddess,
crying, 'You denied me eternal life--therefore I beg you, give me power! Power,
so I can dedicate what life I have to rescuing my sisters and avenging this
injustice!' After long thought, the goddess granted her daughter's request,
allowing Medusa to trade her legendary beauty for a face and form of terrifying
strength. Never for a moment has Medusa regretted her choice. She understands
that power is the only beauty worth possessing--for only power can change the
world.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Leshrac - Tormented Soul
Leshrac, Tormented Soul, is an entity torn from the heart
of nature, a liminal being that exists half in one plane of existence, half in
another. His penetrating intelligence is such that he can never ignore for a
moment the agonizing horror at the heart of all creation. Once a great
philosopher who sought the meaning of existence, he plumbed the depths of
nature with the haunted Chronoptic Crystals, and was forever altered by the
hideous mysteries thereby revealed to him. Now the darkest depths of his
enlightenment are illumined only by the fitful glare of his arrogance. Like
other elemental characters, he is completely at one with nature, but in his
case it is a nature lurid and vile. He alone sees the evil truth of reality,
and has no use for those who believe the cosmos reserves a special reward for
those who practice benevolence.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Terrorblade - Demon Marauder
Terrorblade is
the demon marauder--an outlaw hellion whom even other demons fear. A cosmic
iconoclast, he stole from the Demon Lords, ignored the codified rites that
should have bound his behavior, and broke every law of the seven Infernal
Regions. For his crimes, he was taught this lesson: even Hell has a hell. A
short, brutal trial ensued, with many dead on all sides, and he was finally
incarcerated in Foulfell, a hidden dimension where demonkind imprison their
own.
But Foulfell
is no normal prison. In this dark mirror of reality, demons are sentenced to
gaze eternally into the twisted reflection of their own souls. But instead of
suffering, Terrorblade made himself master of his own reflected worst self--a
raging, thieving demon of unimaginable power. With his inner beast under sway,
he destroyed the fractal prison walls and burst free to turn his terror loose upon
all creation.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Pugna - Oblivion
In the realm of Pugna's birth, near the vents of the Nether
Reaches, there stood a lamasery devoted to the Arts of Oblivion, which drew its
power from the nether energies. The Grandmaster of the temple compound had
himself passed into Oblivion several years prior, leaving his academy without a
leader. From the moment of their master's death, the regents of the temple
began rites of divination to identify their master's reincarnation, and
eventually all signs converged on the immediate neighborhood. Several villages
squatted in the shadow of the temple, their alleys and plazas full of the
laughter of squalling children. Pugna, a mere thirteen months of age, was but
one candidate among the local brats, and on the appointed day he was presented
at the temple alongside two other promising tots. The lamas offered a jumble of
worn relics to the children, treasured possessions of their former grandmaster.
One boy reached for a porphyry wand that had belonged to the lama...and put it
in his nostril. An impish girl pulled out an amulet that had also been the
lama's, and immediately swallowed it. Pugna regarded the other two coolly, gave
a merry laugh, and blasted them with gouts of emerald flame, reducing them to
ashes in an instant. He then snatched up the wand and amulet, saying 'Mine!'
The regents hoisted the beaming Pugna on their shoulders, wrapped him in their
grandmaster's vestments, and rushed him to the throne before his mood could
change. Within five years, the temple itself was another pile of ash, which
pleased Pugna to no end.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Magnus
The master-smiths of Mt. Joerlak agree on only a single
point: that the horn of a magnoceros is more precious than any alloy. And of
all such horns, the largest and sharpest belongs to the beast they call Magnus.
For half a generation, Magnus took easy sport goring hunters come to claim the
treasures of his kin. Each time he would return to his cave with hooves and
horns stained red, until his Matriarch urged him and all their kin to seek
refuge to the north beyond the shadow of the mountain.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Arc Warden - Zet
Before the
beginning of all, there existed a presence: a primordial mind, infinite,
awesome, and set to inscrutable purpose. As the universe thundered into being,
this mind was fragmented and scattered. Two among its greater fragments--who
would come to be named Radiant and Dire--found themselves locked in vicious
opposition, and began twisting all of creation to serve their conflict
Monday, February 26, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Dark Seer - Ish'Kafel
Fast when he needs to be, and a cunning strategist,
Ish'Kafel the Dark Seer requires no edged weapons to vanquish his enemies,
relying instead on the strength of his powerful mind. His talent lies in his
ability to maneuver the fight to his advantage. Hailing from a place he calls
'The Land behind the wall,' Dark Seer remains an outsider here--a warrior from
a realm beyond the veil of this reality.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Dazzle - Shadow Priest
Each young acolyte to the Dezun order must complete a
series of rites before becoming a shadow priest. The final rite, the rite of
shades, is a harrowing spiritual journey through the Nothl Realm, an
unpredictable domain from which not all visitants return. Of those who do, some
return mad. Others return with strange aptitudes. But all who go there are
changed by their experiences. Driven by the need for enlightenment, Dazzle was
the youngest of his tribe ever to request the sacred ritual. At first the order
refused him, saying he was too young. But Dazzle was not to be dissuaded.
Sensing something special in the headstrong young acolyte, the elders relented.
Dazzle drank down the sacred potion and sat by the fire while the rest of his
tribe danced through the night. In this ethereal dimension of the Nothl Realm,
the properties of light and dark are inverted. Thus his brilliant healing light,
beautiful to our eye, is actually a sinister kind of evil; and the darkest
deeds are done in a dazzling glow. The elders' intuition was prophetic: Dazzle
returned to his people as a Shadow Priest like none seen before, with the power
to heal as well as to destroy. Now he uses his gift to cut down his enemies and
mend his friends.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Weaver - Skitskurr
The fabric of
creation needs constant care, lest it grow tattered; for when it unravels,
whole worlds come undone. It is the work of the Weavers to keep the fabric
tight, to repair worn spots in the mesh of reality. They also defend from the
things that gnaw and lay their eggs in frayed regions, whose young can quickly
devour an entire universe if the Weavers let their attention lapse. Skitskurr
was a master Weaver, charged with keeping one small patch of creation tightly
woven and unfaded. But the job was not enough to satisfy. It nagged him that
the original work of creation all lay in the past; the Loom had done its work
and travelled on. He wanted to create rather than merely maintain--to weave
worlds of his own devising. He began making small changes to his domain, but
the thrill of creation proved addictive, and his strokes became bolder, pulling
against the pattern that the Loom had woven. The guardians came, with their
scissors, and Weaver's world was pared off, snipped from the cosmic tapestry,
which they rewove without him in it. Skitskurr found himself alone, apart from
his kind, a state that would have been torment for any other Weaver. But
Skitskurr rejoiced, for now he was free. Free to create for himself, to begin
anew. The raw materials he needed to weave a new reality were all around him.
All he had to do was tear apart this old world at the seams.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Lycan - Banehallow
Banehallow was noble-born to the house of Ambry, the
greatest of the landed castes in the old kingdom of Slom. Before the Fall, as
the King's wants grew strange, and his court grew crowded with sorcerers and
charlatans, the house of Ambry was the first to rise against the avarice of the
throne. No longer willing to pay homage and fealty, they instead sent
six-thousand swords into the capital, where they were wiped out in the Massacre
of the Apostates. And then came the teeth behind the old truth: When you strike
a king's neck, you had better take his head. Enraged by the betrayal, the king
exterminated the vast Ambry bloodline, sparing only the lord of the house and
his youngest son, Banehallow. Before all the royal court, with the disgraced
lord chained to the ornate marble floor, the King bade his magicians transform
the boy into a wolf so that he might tear out his own father's throat. "Do
this," the king said, "so that Lord Ambry will understand the bite of
betrayal." Powerful magic was invoked, and the child was transformed. But
though his body was changed, his spirit remained intact, and instead of biting
the exposed neck of his father, he attacked his handlers, tearing them to
pieces. A dozen of the King's knights perished under the wolf's teeth before
they managed to drive it off into the night. Lord Ambry laughed from his chains
even as the King ran him through with a sword. Now the heir to the lost house
of Ambry, Banehallow wanders the trail as the Lycan, part warrior, part wolf,
in search of justice for all that he lost.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Chaos Knight
The veteran of countless battles on a thousand worlds,
Chaos Knight hails from a far upstream plane where the fundamental laws of the
universe have found sentient expression. Of all the ancient Fundamentals, he is
the oldest and most tireless, endlessly searching out a being he knows only as
"The Light." Long ago the Light ventured out from the progenitor
realm, in defiance of the first covenant. Now Chaos Knight shifts from plane to
plane, always on the hunt to extinguish the Light wherever he finds it. A
thousand times he has snuffed out the source, and always he slides into another
plane to continue his search anew.
Upon his steed Armageddon he rides, wading into battle
with maniacal frenzy, drawing strength from the disorder of the universe. A
physical manifestation of chaos itself, in times of need he calls upon other
versions of himself from other planes, and together these dark horsemen ride
into battle, as unstoppable as any force of nature. Only when the last Light of
the world is scoured from existence will the search be ended. Where rides the
Chaos Knight, death soon follows.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Queen of Pain - Akasha
The Ecclesiast-King of Elze nursed a desire for
pain--forbidden pain. In a less prominent political figure, such desires might
be considered unwise, but in a monarch of his stature, to satisfy such thirsts
would have threatened the virtue of the Divine Throne itself. Therefore he
turned to his dungeon full of demonologists, promising freedom to whoever could
summon a personal succubus of torment and bind it entirely to his service. The
creature who arrived, Akasha by name, visited upon him such exquisite torments
that he named her his Secret Queen, and he began to spend all his spare moments
submitting to her clever torments--eventually abdicating all his
responsibilities in his pursuit of the painful pleasures that only she could
bring. Queen of Pain could bring him to the brink of death, but she was
rune-bound to keep him alive. At last the King's neglect of state brought on an
uprising. He was dragged from his chamber and hurled from the Tower of
Invocations, and at the moment of death, Queen of Pain was let loose into the
world, freed from servitude--freed to visit her sufferings on anyone she deigned
to notice.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Doom - Lucifer
He that burns and is not consumed, devours and is never
sated, kills and is beyond all judgment--Lucifer brings doom to all who would
stand against him. Bearing away souls on the tip of a fiery sword, he is the
Fallen One, a once-favored general from the realm behind the light, cast out
for the sin of defiance: he would not kneel.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Spirit Breaker - Barathrum
Barathrum the Spirit Breaker is a lordly and powerful
being, a fierce and elemental intelligence which chose to plane-shift into the
world of matter to take part in events with repercussions in the elemental
realm that is his home. To that end, he assembled a form that would serve him
well, both in our world and out of it. His physical form borrows from the
strengths of this world, blending features both bovine and simian--horns,
hooves and hands--as outward emblems of his inner qualities of strength, speed
and cunning. He wears a ring in his nose, as a reminder that he serves a hidden
master, and that this world in which he works is but a shadow of the real one.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Death Prophet - Krobelus
Krobelus was a Death Prophet--which is one way of saying
she told fortunes for the wealthiest of those who wished to look beyond the
veil. But after years of inquiring on behalf of others, she began to seek clues
on her own fate. When death refused to yield its secrets, she tried to buy them
with her life. But the ultimate price proved insufficient. Death disgorged her
again and again, always holding back its deepest mysteries. Her jealousy grew.
Others could die for eternity--why not she? Why must she alone be cast back on
the shores of life with such tiresome regularity? Why was she not worthy of the
one thing all other living creatures took for granted? Still, she would not be
discouraged. Each time she returned from the grave, she brought a bit of death
back with her. Wraiths followed her like fragments of her shattered soul; her
blood grew thin and ectoplasmic; the feasting creatures of twilight took her
for their kin.. She gave a little of her life with every demise, and it began
to seem as if her end was in sight. With her dedication to death redoubled, and
no client other than herself, Krobelus threw herself ever more fervently into
death's abyss, intent on fulfilling the one prophecy that eluded her: That
someday the Death Prophet would return from death no more.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Slark - Nightcrawler
Little known
to the inhabitants of the dry world, Dark Reef is a sunken prison where the
worst of the sea-bred are sent for crimes against their fellows. It is a razor
barbed warren full of murderous slithereen, treacherous Deep Ones, sociopathic
meranths. In this dim labyrinth, patrolled by eels and guarded by enormous
anemones, only the vicious survive. Pitched into Dark Reef for crimes unknown,
Slark spent half a lifetime without kin or kindness, trusting no one, surviving
through a combination of stealth and ruthlessness, keeping his thoughts and his
plans to himself. When the infamous Dark Reef Dozen plotted their ill-fated
breakout, they kept their plans a perfect secret, murdering anyone who could
have put the pieces together--but somehow Slark discovered their scheme and
made a place for himself in it. Ten of the Dozen died in the escape attempt,
and two were captured, hauled back to Dark Reef, then executed for the
entertainment of their fellow inmates. But Slark, the unsung thirteenth, used
the commotion as cover and slipped away, never to be caught. Now a furtive
resident of the carnivorous mangrove scrub that grips the southern reach of
Shadeshore, Slark remains the only successful escapee from Dark Reef.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Night Stalker - Balanar
Of the Night Stalker, there is no history, only stories.
There are ancient tales woven into the lore of every race and every culture, of
an impossible time before sunlight and daytime, when night reigned alone and
the world was covered with the creatures of darkness--creatures like Balanar
the Night Stalker.
It is said that on the dawn of the First Day, all the
night creatures perished. All, that is, save one. Evil's embodiment, Night
Stalker delights in his malevolence. He created the primal role of the Night
Terror, the Boogeyman, and as long as there have been younglings, his is the
specter summoned to terrify them. This is a role he relishes; nor are these
empty theatrics. He does indeed stalk the unwary, the defenseless, those who
have strayed beyond the lighted paths or denied the warnings of their
communities. Night Stalker serves as living proof that every child's worst
nightmare....is true.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Warlock - Demnok Lannik
As Chief Curator and Head of Acquisitions for the Arcane
Archives of the Ultimyr Academy, Demnok Lannik was tireless in his pursuit of
lost, rare and forbidden tomes. No cursed temple was so foreboding, no cavern
path so treacherous, that any concern for his own survival could dissuade him
from entering if rumors hinted that some pamphlet of primordial lore might
still survive in its depths. However, so often did his investigations trigger
the wrath of protector entities, that he finally found it necessary to master
the arts of magic. He bent himself to learning sorcery with the same thorough
obsessiveness that marked his quest for incunabula, becoming the most powerful
Warlock of the Academy in less time than most practitioners required to
complete a course of undergraduate work. Almost as an afterthought, he carved a
staff of Dreadwood and summoned into it a captive spirit from the Outer Hells.
And anticipating the day when he will have recovered every last lost spellbook,
he has commenced writing his own Black Grimoire. It will undoubtedly be
instructive.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Meepo
"If you
ask me, life is all about who you know and what you can find. When you live up
in the Riftshadow Ruins, just finding food can be tough. So you need to cut
corners, you need to scrounge, you need to know your strengths. Some of the
beasts up there can kill you, so you need a way to trap the weak and duck the
strong. On the upside, the ruins have history, and history is worth a lot to
some people. There used to be a palace there, where they had all these dark
rituals. Bad stuff. If you survived the ceremony, they would shatter a crystal
and split your soul into pieces. They made great art though! Sculptures and
such. Let me tell you: sometimes you stumble onto some of those old carvings.
Take a pack full of those to town and sell them, then get yourself food for a few
weeks. If luck is really on your side, you might find a Riftshadow crystal. Get
it appraised and start asking around. Someone always knows some crazy fool
looking for this kind of thing. If all else fails, sell it to a Magus the next
time one's in town. They love that stuff. Still, whatever you do, be careful
handling those crystals. You do not want one to go off on you. It really
hurts."
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Tidehunter - Leviathan
The Tidehunter known as Leviathan was once the champion
of the Sunken Isles, but his motives are as mysterious as those of his people.
We all know the importance of the Drylanders' shipping lanes, how empires may
rise and fall according to who controls the open water. Far less is known of
the submarine lanes, and how the warring tribes of the Meranthic Diaspora have
carved out habitations through endless undersea skirmishes. In the fragile
treaties between the Mer and Men, we can glimpse the extent of the drowned
empires, but their politics appear complex and opaque. It would seem that
Leviathan tired of such petty strife, and set off on his own, loyal only to his
abyssal god, Maelrawn the Tentacular. He stalks the shallows now in search of
men or meranths who stray into his path, and with a particular loathing for
Admiral Kunkka, who has long been his nemesis for reasons lost in the deepest
trenches of the sea.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Spectre - Mercurial
Just as higher
states of energy seek a lower level, the Spectre known as Mercurial is a being
of intense and violent energy who finds herself irresistibly drawn to scenes of
strife as they unfold in the physical world. While her normal spectral state
transcends sensory limitations, each time she takes on a physical
manifestation, she is stricken by a loss of self--though not of purpose. In the
clash of combat, her identity shatters and reconfigures, and she begins to
regain awareness. She grasps that she is Mercurial the Spectre--and that all of
her Haunts are but shadows of the one true Spectre. Focus comes in the struggle
for survival; her true mind reasserts itself; until in the final moments of
victory or defeat, she transcends matter and is restored once more to her
eternal form.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Wraith King - King Ostarion
For untold years, King Ostarion built a kingdom from the
remains of his enemies. It was an obsessive's errand, done to pass the long
eternities of a monarchy that seemed fated never to end. He believed that as
long as he built up the towers of his palace, he could not die. But eventually
he learned that he had been deluded... that bone itself could perish. Deeply
mistrustful of flesh, he sought a more permanent way of extending his reign,
and at last settled on pursuit of wraith energy, a form of pure spirit given
off by certain dark souls at death. Should he infuse himself with Wraith
Essence, he thought he might create a body as luminous and eternal as his ego.
On the millennial solstice known as Wraith-Night, he submitted to a rite of
transformation, compelling his subjects to harvest enough souls to fuel his
ambition for immortality. No one knows how many of his champions died, for the
only survivor who mattered was the Wraith King who rose with the sun on the
following morn. Now he rarely spends a moment on his glowing throne--but
strides out with sword drawn, demanding a fealty that extends far beyond death.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Broodmother - Black Arachnia
For centuries,
Black Arachnia the Broodmother lurked in the dark lava tubes beneath the
smoldering caldera of Mount Pyrotheos, raising millions of spiderlings in
safety before sending them to find prey in the wide world above. In a later
age, the Vizier of Greed, Ptholopthales, erected his lodestone ziggurat on the
slopes of the dead volcano, knowing that any looters who sought his magnetic
wealth must survive the spider-haunted passages. After millennia of maternal
peace, Black Arachnia found herself beset by a steady trickle of furfeet and
cutpurses, bold knights and noble youths--all of them delicious, certainly, and
yet tending to create a less than nurturing environment for her innocent
offspring. Tiring of the intrusions, she paid a visit to Ptholopthales; and
when he proved unwilling to discuss a compromise, she wrapped the Vizier in
silk and set him aside to be the centerpiece of a special birthday feast.
Unfortunately, the absence of the Magnetic Ziggurat's master merely emboldened
a new generation of intruders. When one of her newborns was trodden underfoot
by a clumsy adventurer, she reached the end of her silken rope. Broodmother
headed for the surface, declaring her intent to rid the world of each and every
possible invader, down to the last Hero if necessary, until she could ensure
her nursery might once more be a safe and wholesome environment for her
precious spiderspawn.
Monday, February 12, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Lifestealer - N'aix
In the dungeons of Devarque, a vengeful wizard lay in
shackles, plotting his escape. He shared his cell with a gibbering creature
known as N'aix, a thief cursed by the Vile Council with longevity, so that its
life-sentence for theft and cozening might be as punishing as possible. Over
the years, its chains had corroded, along with its sanity; N'aix retained no
memory of its former life and no longer dreamt of escape. Seeing a perfect
vessel for his plans, the wizard wove a spell of Infestation and cast his life-force
into N'aix's body, intending to compel N'aix to sacrifice itself in a frenzy of
violence while the mage returned to his body and crept away unnoticed. Instead,
the wizard found his mind caught in a vortex of madness so powerful that it
swept away his plans and shattered his will. Jarred to consciousness by the
sudden infusion of fresh life, N'aix woke from its nightmare of madness and
obeyed the disembodied voice that filled its skull, which had only the one
thought: To escape. In that moment Lifestealer was born. The creature cast its
mind into dungeon guards and soldiers, compelling them to open locks and cut
down their companions, opening an unobstructed path to freedom while feeding on
their lives. Lifestealer still wears the broken shackles as a warning that none
may hold him, but on the inside remains a prisoner. Two minds inhabit the
single form--a nameless creature of malevolent cunning, and the Master whose
voice he pretends to obey.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Necrophos - Rotund'jere
In a time of great plague, an obscure monk of dark
inclinations, one Rotund'jere, found himself promoted to the rank of Cardinal
by the swift death of all his superiors. While others of the order went out to
succor the ill, the newly ordained cardinal secluded himself within the
Cathedral of Rumusque, busily scheming to acquire the property of dying nobles,
promising them spiritual rewards if they signed over their terrestrial domains.
As the plague receded to a few stubborn pockets, his behavior came to the
attention of the greater order, which found him guilty of heresy and sentenced
him to serve in the plague ward, ensorcelled with spells that would ensure him
a slow and lingering illness. But they had not counted on his natural immunity.
Rotund'jere caught the pox, but instead of dying, found it feeding his power,
transforming him into a veritable plague-mage, a Pope of Pestilence.
Proclaiming himself Necrophos, he travels the world, spreading plague wherever
he goes, and growing in terrible power with every village his pestilential
presence obliterates.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Axe - Mogul Khan
As a grunt in the Army of Red Mist, Mogul Khan set his
sights on the rank of Red Mist General. In battle after battle he proved his
worth through gory deed. His rise through the ranks was helped by the fact that
he never hesitated to decapitate a superior. Through the seven year Campaign of
the Thousand Tarns, he distinguished himself in glorious carnage, his star of
fame shining ever brighter, while the number of comrades in arms steadily
dwindled. On the night of ultimate victory, Axe declared himself the new Red
Mist General, and took on the ultimate title of 'Axe.' But his troops now
numbered zero. Of course, many had died in battle, but a significant number had
also fallen to Axe's blade. Needless to say, most soldiers now shun his
leadership. But this matters not a whit to Axe, who knows that a one-man army
is by far the best.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Phantom Assassin - Mortred
Through a
process of divination, children are selected for upbringing by the Sisters of
the Veil, an order that considers assassination a sacred part of the natural
order. The Veiled Sisters identify targets through meditation and oracular
utterances. They accept no contracts, and never seem to pursue targets for
political or mercenary reasons. Their killings bear no relation to any
recognizable agenda, and can seem to be completely random: A figure of great
power is no more likely to be eliminated than a peasant or a well digger.
Whatever pattern the killings may contain, it is known only to them. They treat
their victims as sacrifices, and death at their hand is considered an honor.
Raised with no identity except that of their order, any Phantom Assassin can
take the place of any other; their number is not known. Perhaps there are many,
perhaps there are few. Nothing is known of what lies under the Phantom Veil.
Except that this one, from time to time, when none are near enough to hear, is
known to stir her veils with the forbidden whisper of her own name: Mortred.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Enigma
Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only
stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In
truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he
is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times
corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Clinkz
At the base of
the Bleeding Hills stretches a thousand-league wood, a place called The Hoven,
where black pools gather the tarry blood of the uplands, and the king-mage
Sutherex sits in benevolent rule. Once a sworn protector of the Hoven lands,
Clinkz earned a reputation for his skill with a bow. In the three-hundredth
year of the king-mage, the demon Maraxiform rose from sixth hell to lay claim
to the forest. In response, the king-mage decreed an unbreakable spell: to any
who slew the demon would be granted Life Without End.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Slardar - Slithereen Guard
Slardar is a Slithereen, one of the Deep Ones, guardian
of a vast network of sunken cities and the ancient riches buried within them.
In the lightless gulf of the deepest ocean abysses, the Slithereen Guard
patrols secret treasure rooms, ever vigilant against the subaqueous thieves
sent into the deeps by covetous dryland sorcerers. He is utterly loyal, and his
taciturn nature hides deep knowledge of the most secret places of the sea. He
rises to the shallows in spite of the pain caused him by brightness, to commit
reconnaissance, to make sure no one is conspiring against the depths, and
sometimes in relentless pursuit of the rare few who manage to steal off with an
item from the Sunken Treasury. Because he has spent his whole life at great
pressure, under tremendous weight of the sea, Slardar the Slithereen Guard is a
creature of immense power.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Viper - Netherdrake
The malevolent
familiar of a sadistic wizard who captured and hoped to tame him, Viper was
curiously glad to have been sprung from the sealed and unchanging subterranean
Nether Reaches where his race had lived for millions of years, after tectonic
slippage had sealed off the Netherdrakes in luminous caverns. Viper spent some
time appearing to submit to the wizard's enchainments, hoping to learn what he
could of the dark magics the mage practiced. But he soon realized that few
spells were as deadly as the toxins that were his birthright. Exuding an acid
that swiftly ate away the bars of his cage, the Netherdrake slipped free of his
confines, spit poison in the old spellcaster's eyes, and soared out to let the
world know that it had a new master.
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Pudge - Butcher
In the Fields of Endless Carnage, far to the south of
Quoidge, a corpulent figure works tirelessly through the night--dismembering,
disembowelling, piling up the limbs and viscera of the fallen that the
battlefield might be clear by dawn. In this cursed realm, nothing can decay or
decompose; no corpse may ever return to the earth from which it sprang, no
matter how deep you dig the grave. Flocked by carrion birds who need him to cut
their meals into beak-sized chunks, Pudge the Butcher hones his skills with
blades that grow sharper the longer he uses them. Swish, swish, thunk. Flesh
falls from the bone; tendons and ligaments part like wet paper. And while he
always had a taste for the butchery, over the ages, Pudge has developed a taste
for its byproduct as well. Starting with a gobbet of muscle here, a sip of
blood there...before long he was thrusting his jaws deep into the toughest of
torsos, like a dog gnawing at rags. Even those who are beyond fearing the
Reaper, fear the Butcher.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Sand King - Crixalis
The sands of the Scintillant Waste are alive and
sentient--the whole vast desert speaks to itself, thinking thoughts only such a
vastness can conceive. But when it needs must find a form to communicate with
those of more limited scope, it frees a fragment of itself, and fills a
carapace of magic armor formed by the cunning Djinn of Qaldin. This essential
identity calls itself Crixalis, meaning 'Soul of the Sand,' but others know it
as Sand King. Sand King takes the form of a huge arachnid, inspired by the
Scintillant Waste's small but ubiquitous denizens; and this is a true outward
expression of his ferocious nature. Guardian, warrior, ambassador--Sand King is
all of these things, inseparable from the endless desert that gave him life.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Lich - Ethreain
In life, the frost-mage Ethreain (not yet a Lich) had
used the threat of destructive ice to enslave entire kingdoms. His subjects,
aided by a few desperate magicians, eventually grew bold enough to ambush him.
Armed with enough charmed rope to bind him forever, they tied the frost mage to
adamant weights and dropped him in a pool known chiefly for being bottomless.
It wasn't. He only fell for a year or so before an outcrop snagged him. There
he rested, dead but undecaying, until the geomancer Anhil thought to verify the
legend of the supposedly bottomless Black Pool. Anhil's plumbline snarled with
the ropes that bound the drowned magician, and up he hauled an unexpected
prize. Thinking that by rendering the dead undead, he could question the Lich
about the properties of the pool, he removed the bindings and commenced a
simple rite of resurrection. Even the descendants of Ethreain's enemies were
long forgotten by time, so there were none to warn Anhil against imprudence.
But he learned the error of his judgment almost immediately, as Lich threw off
the shackles and consumed him.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Lion - Demon Witch
Once a Grandmaster of the Demon Witch tradition of
sorcery, Lion earned fame among his brethren for fighting on the side of light
and righteousness. But adulation corrupts. With powers surpassed only by his
ambition, the mage was seduced by a demon and turned to evil, trading his soul
for prestige. After committing horrible crimes that marred his soul, he was
abandoned. The demon betrayed him, striking better deals with his enemies. Such
was Lion's rage that he followed the demon back to hell and slew it, ripping it
limb from limb, taking its demonic hand for his own. However, such demonoplasty
comes at a cost. Lion was transfigured by the process, his body transformed
into something unrecognizable. He rose from hell, rage incarnate, slaying even
those who had once called him master, and laying waste to the lands where he
had once been so adored. He survives now as the sole practitioner of the Demon
Witch tradition, and those who present themselves as acolytes or students are
soon relieved of their mana and carried off by the faintest gust of wind.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Faceless Void - Darkterror
Darkterror the
Faceless Void is a visitor from Claszureme, a realm outside of time. It remains
a mystery why this being from another dimension believes the struggle for the
Nemesis Stones is worth entering our physical plane, but apparently an upset in
the balance of power in this world has repercussions in adjacent dimensions.
Time means nothing to Darkterror, except as a way to thwart his foes and aid
his allies. His long-view of the cosmos has given him a remote, disconnected
quality, although in battle he is quite capable of making it personal.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Bane - Atropos
When the gods have nightmares, it is Bane Elemental who
brings them. Also known as Atropos, Bane was born from the midnight terrors of
the goddess Nyctasha. A force of terror too powerful to be contained by sleep,
he surfaced from her slumbers, fed upon her immortality, and stole his vaporous
form from her inky blood. He is the essence of fear. Mortals who hear his voice
hear their darkest secrets whispered in their ear. He calls to the hidden fear
in every Hero's heart. Wakefulness is no protection, for Bane's black blood,
continuously dripping, is a tar that traps his enemies in nightmare. In the
presence of Bane, every Hero remembers to fear the dark.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Venomancer - Lesale Deathbringer
In the Acid
Jungles of Jidi Isle, poison runs in the veins and bubbles in the guts of every
creature that scuttles, climbs or swoops between fluorescent vines dripping
with caustic sap. Yet even in this toxic menagerie, Venomancer is acknowledged
as the most venomous. Ages ago, an Herbalist named Lesale crossed the Bay of
Fradj by coracle, searching for potent essences that might be extracted from
bark and root, and found instead a nightmare transformation. Two leagues into
Jidi's jungle, Lesale encountered a reptile camouflaged as an epiphyte, which
stung him as he mistakenly plucked it. In desperation, he used his partial
knowledge of the jungle's herbal bounty, mixing the venom of the (swiftly
throttled) reptile with the nectar of an armored orchid, to compound an
antidote. In the moments before a black paralysis claimed him completely, he
injected himself by orchid-thorn, and instantly fell into a coma. Seventeen
years later, something stirred in the spot where he had fallen, throwing off
the years' accumulation of humus: Venomancer. Lesale the Herbalist no
longer--but Lesale the Deathbringer. His mind was all but erased, and his flesh
had been consumed and replaced by a new type of matter--one fusing the venom of
the reptile with the poisonous integument of the orchid. Jidi's Acid Jungles
knew a new master, one before whom even the most vicious predators soon learned
to bow or burrow for their lives. The lurid isle proved too confining, and some
human hunger deep in the heart of the Venomancer drove Lesale out in search of
new poisons--and new deaths to bring.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Phoenix - Icarus
Alone across an untouched darkness gleamed the Keeper's
first sun, a singular point of conscious light fated to spread warmth into the
empty void. Through aeons beyond count, this blinding beacon set to coalescing
its incalculable energy before bursting forth the cataclysmic flare of
supernova. From this inferno raced new beacons, star progeny identical to its
parent, who journeyed an unlit ocean and settled in constellatory array. In
time, they too would be made to propagate through supernova flame. So would
this dazzling cycle of birth and rebirth repeat until all skies hewn of Titan
toil deigned to twinkle and shine.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Razor - Lightning Revenant
Among the
emblematic powers that populate the Underscape, Razor the Lightning Revenant is
one of the most feared. With his whip of lightning, he patrols the Narrow Maze,
that treacherous webwork of passages by which the souls of the dead are sorted
according to their own innate intelligence, cunning and persistence. Drifting
above the Maze, Razor looks down on the baffled souls below, and delivers jolts
of scalding electricity that both punish and quicken the souls as they decide
their own fates, hurrying on toward luminous exits or endlessly dark pits.
Razor is the eternal embodiment of a dominating power, abstract and almost
clinical in his application of power. Yet he has a lordly air that suggests he
takes a sardonic satisfaction in his work.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Earth Spirit - Kaolin
Deep amid the Upland crags and cliffs there runs a seam
of sacred jade long foresworn by highland miners. From this rare material, the
likeness of the great general Kaolin was carved and buried at the head of a
stone funerary army ten thousand strong--a force of soldiers and holy men,
jesters and acrobats, carved by crafstmen and entombed for millennia in the
dark embrace of the Earth.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Techies - Squee, Spleen, and Spoon
In the storied saga of Dredger's Bight, no business has
ever been more reviled than Techies Demolitions. Then again, Dredger's Bight no
longer exists. Nor does Toterin. Or even Trapper Town. In fact, if one were to
track the history of Techies Demolitions they might notice that shortly after
Techies appear, towns tend to disappear.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Oracle - Nerif
Ascendants to the Great Seat of Cymurri had for ages
imported their Oracles exclusively from the Ivory Incubarium, high in the
hollow peaks of the Zealot's Range, with a downpayment made at the time of the
embryo's conception and the balance surrendered on delivery of a mature,
well-trained prophet to the Gate of the Graven King.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Shadow Fiend - Nevermore
It is said
that Nevermore the Shadow Fiend has the soul of a poet, and in fact he has
thousands of them. Over the ages he has claimed the souls of poets, priests,
emperors, beggars, slaves, philosophers, criminals and (naturally) heroes; no
sort of soul escapes him. What he does with them is unknown. No one has ever
peered into the Abysm whence Nevermore reaches out like an eel from among
astral rocks. Does he devour them one after another? Does he mount them along
the halls of an eldritch temple, or pickle the souls in necromantic brine? Is
he merely a puppet, pushed through the dimensional rift by a demonic puppeteer?
Such is his evil, so intense his aura of darkness, that no rational mind may
penetrate it. Of course, if you really want to know where the stolen souls go,
there's one sure way to find out: Add your soul to his collection. Or just wait
for Nevermore.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Legion Commander - Tresdin
They came without warning. Within the city walls of
Stonehall there came a rumble and a terrible sound, and from blackness unknown
came a force of beasts numbering beyond count, wielding flame and foul sorcery,
slaying and snatching mothers and sons to dark purpose. Of once-mighty
Stonehall's military strength only the Bronze Legion, led by the indomitable
Commander Tresdin, was near enough to answer the call of battle. They rode into
their city, fighting through bloodstained alleyways and burning markets, cutting
their way through the monstrous throng to the source of the sudden invasion: an
ethereal rift within the city square, and at its precipice thundered their
dreaded champion.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Skywrath Mage - Dragonus
A highly placed mage in the court of the Ghastly Eyrie,
Dragonus lives a troubled existence. Sworn by birth to protect whoever sits
within the Nest of Thorns, he hates the current Skywrath queen with all his
soul. As a youth, high-born, he was a friend and companion to the eldest
Skywrath princess, Shendelzare, first in line for the Nest. He had loved her
warmly and unshakably, but as his studies took hold, his mind turned to arcane
learning and the mastery of Skywrath sorcery.
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Bloodseeker - Strygwyr
Strygwyr the Bloodseeker
is a ritually sanctioned hunter, Hound of the Flayed Twins, sent down from the
mist-shrouded peaks of Xhacatocatl in search of blood. The Flayed Ones require
oceanic amounts of blood to keep them sated and placated, and would soon drain
their mountain empire of its populace if the priests of the high plateaus did
not appease them. Strygwyr therefore goes out in search of carnage. The vital
energy of any blood he lets, flows immediately to the Twins through the sacred
markings on his weapons and armor. Over the years, he has come to embody the
energy of a vicious hound; in battle he is savage as a jackal. Beneath the Mask
of the Bloodseeker, in the rush of bloody quenching, it is said that you can
sometime see the features of the Flayers taking direct possession of their
Hound.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Guide Dota 2 Indonesia: Keeper of the Light - Ezalor
Upon a pale horse he rides, this spark of endless suns,
this Keeper of the Light. Ezalor long ago escaped the Fundamental plane,
separating from the other ancient forces to which he was bound within the great
Primordial harmony. He is a power grown sentient in the dawn of the universe,
and now rides forth in all planes at once, one step ahead of pursuing chaos,
bearing his gift with him at the end of a radiant staff. His majestic truth
lies hidden beneath the outward appearance of a slightly doddering old man who
barely stays in the saddle. However, when faced with the challenge of chaos, or
the forces of darkness, his primordial light bursts forth, and his full power
is revealed, transforming him once again into a force to be reckoned with.
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