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| “ | ▶️ Before there was something... there was nothing.
— Inai on what came before all things
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The Void is the essential and primordial nonexistence in the lore of Dota 2.
Description
[edit]Origins and scope
[edit]Despite being pure nothingness, the void is absolutely omnipresent.[15] Such is its omnipresence that it overlaps with that of this Fundamental Io whose vast being occupies all planes at once,[16] and every thread of fate woven is touched by the void, making it inevitable.[17]
Nothingness exists inside of all things[6][18] just as all of existence exists within the void, leaving nothing outside of reality but the void.[19] Even moreso, nothing seems to exist beyond the void,[20] but Aghanim says otherwise as he claims to have sourced power beyond it.[21]
The void existed before the creation of existence, silently witnessing the series of moments that led to it, including the Elder Titan's arrival and the Sundering of the Primordial harmony, in which it felt the Fundamentals scattering into the Seven Planes and the birth of time itself.[22] The void also existed before the spirit itself.[23]
Properties
[edit]The void is completely untouchable[24][25] and unfathomably darker than the absence of light itself.[26] It has nothing but inscrutable horror[27] and overwhelming despair in place of any mercy,[1] perhaps because it causes those who are trapped in it to be humbled when it makes them realize their infantile knowledge and mortality,[28] as well as draining and consuming hope from those who hold it against the void.[29][30]
Functions
[edit]According to the void itself, the void is one of the vital ingredients of magic itself, alongside other unspecified ingredients. It is so vital to magic that it can't exist without the void.[31][32] Relatedly, the void seems to produce the Runes of Power,[33][34][35] like the Bounty Rune.[36]
Though not directly stated, it's implied the void also produces mana.[37] What implies is this is that the crystals of the Outworld (which are said to be the embodiments of the Void[38]) produces arcane energy that can be used to fuel magic.[39]
Besides magic, anything that exists is created out of nothing, making the void one of the sources of creation.[40][41]
The Void is the Astral Plane
[edit]In Dota 2's lore, it's heavily implied that the astral plane and the void are one and the same. What implies is their shared functions and both of them being referred to interchangeably, like using the adjective “astral” for things from the void.
According to Void Spirit, within the void's vastness lies infinite possibilities.[42] These infinite possibilities are actually the multiverse.
Supporting this is Grimstroke's speculation on the Chaos Knight calling his legions' Phantasms out of the aether.[43] Grimstroke speculates this because this ability's lore states that these ethereal phantasms come from many planes, in many worlds, and even many times[44]—which can only come from the multiverse's countless worlds. So he must somehow know the aether holds the multiverse to ask this question.
This function of having the multiverse is shared with the Astral Plane, which implies that this plane and the void are one. Aghanim verifies this when he explains that he was lost in the astral plane's countless dimensions when he forged his titular 
Aghanim's Scepter.[45][46][47]
The void also functions as a mirror.[48] The Astral Plane also has this function because all trusted accounts on astral experiences may mention a strange reflection of the beholder, manifesting as a physical simulacrum with oddly distorted features and an available personality.[49]
There are also abilities involving the void that are described as “astral” (like the astral plane) in nature like Harbinger's Astral Imprisonment which banishes victims deep in the void and Inai's Astral Step where he tears a rift in the astral plane by passing through his void.[5][50] And since these void-based abilities are astral, then this implies that the void in these abilities is astral like the astral plane is.
In Inai's lore, the astral plane and the void are used interchangeably. Inai can see the future because of his advantageous vantage point in this astral plane from where he watches over the map of all time there, gazing the lines that streak across said astral plane to survey the fate of all existence.[51] It is also said that he watches over the cosmos from the void, but there can only be one place he watches from.[2][52] So, both the astral plane and the aether he watches reality from are one and the same.
The Void is Claszureme
[edit]Relationships
[edit]Heroes
[edit]Those close to the void typically have these traits: an inclination to control or humiliate others, pessimism, despair, and some form of nihilsm.
Ancient Apparition
[edit]Kaldr, known in our world as the Ancient Apparition, is a being who awaits the universe at time's end with his bleak fate in which all matter will stop in a state of equilibrium. The true eternal form of Kaldr lurks beyond time itself in the cold infinite void from where his vile Apparition springs into existence, projected here by his will.[55][56]
The true function of his Cold Feet is that his mere presence brings others around him into a “frozen void” that threatens to lock them in an icy prison for eternity, far deadlier and more terrifying than trapping them in mundane ice.[57]
Anti-Mage
[edit]According to the Anti-Mage's disciple, 
Wei, the “void” in Mana Void is not merely titular. Their technique involves the void itself once it consumes a mana-depleted victim[58] by turning the emptiness in their soul left by the missing mana against them.[59][60]
Enigma
[edit]Enigma is the Fundamental of gravitation whose physical form is flesh made of void and darkness.[61][62] When his form (which is called his “pattern” to him) dissolves with his death, he returns to the void.[63] The same fate is prescribed to those he kills.[64][65]
Personality wise, Enigma is a lordly being who puts others under his control, like with his Demonic Conversion,[66][67] and his connection to Kaldr.[68][69] He's heavily pessimistic as he holds little faith in the existence of all existence itself[70][71] while sowing his pessimism on others by inflicting despair.[72][73] This is connected to his faith in the ontological form of nihilism.[74][75][76]
His unique abilities which involve the void include his Midnight Pulse, in which he drags a section of existence down into this void, creating a deadly area filled with dark resonance.[77][78]
Faceless Void
[edit]Within the darkling and timeless void of Claszureme, the Faceless Void and his no-eyed kin activated from a state of dormancy, akin to that of fungi or lichen, when Clasz's membraneous being provided sustainable conditions for them to thrive in.[79]
When Darkterror dies, he enters some state of darkness,[80] which turns out to be Clasz who will consume him entirely as sacrifice,[81] possibly explaining why he, maybe as an Acolyte who is naive to his fate, wishes to be cast into the void's embrace.[82] Despite this he can still return to life and existence from Claszureme.[83]
Darkterror is a lordly being who seeks to rule over all things in existence,[84] which seems to drive this desire to rewrite time and fate.[85][86][87] Nevertheless, he gets his pessimism from his fatalistic outlook in which he has foreseen the destined end of all things.[88][89][90] Like other void characters, Darkterror is afflicted with existential nihilism, which he seems to only apply to this plane instead of his own existence.[91][92]
His abilities which involve the void include Time Walk, in which he exits time to pass through the timeless void of Claszureme (allowing him to travel distances in no time), before he reappears in another spot.[93][94] His own Time Lock freezes beings in time via knocking them into Claszureme.[95] Lastly, the feared Chronosphere's a rift in spacetime that leads to Claszureme, stopping all things in its temporal stasis and threatening to trap them there.[96]
Night Stalker
[edit]What society knows as the Night Stalker is in fact one from the extinct night creatures, foul primordial beasts who once thrived in the early universe's natural state of darkness that predated the First Day itself, which wiped out his kind from the cosmos.[97]
Balanar is a malevolent beast who inflicts torment on others for the sake of it, much to his own pleasure.[98][99] He and his race made fearful servants and worshippers out of the ancient beasts they preyed on,[100][8] and this role of a Boogeyman was created by him to savor the fear that he as a figure of terror spreads.[97] He embodies despair as he sows it upon lesser beings as a means of domination.[9]
The Night Stalker's void-based powers include his aptly-named Void in which he creates a vile vortex that pulls others into the darkness he once thrived in, a space of the vile void itself where no light or hope can escape from.[30][101] Balanar can inflict Crippling Fear on others by summoning the spirits of his baleful brethren from the edges of the void, scaring the wits out of those who cross him.[102]
Outworld Destroyer
[edit]Harbinger, the Outworld Destroyer, is the last of an alien race from the Outworld, a crystalline fortress perched at the edge of this cosmos where he, like his kind before him, watches over the nothingness beyond for a foretold threat that will come for our world.[103] The Void is the Destroyer's cloister of comfort since he peacefully meditates there, despite its incomprehensible horror,[27] and it functions as his afterlife[104] where he can resurrect from.[105] But those he sends to this place in death share no such luck.[106]
Like his kin, Harbinger is a lordly and magisterial being who seeks to bend the wills of others around him to his own[107][108][109] via use of fear and despair to dominate others,[110][111] all while he gains enjoyments out of humiliating lesser beings.[112] The prophecy of the end times has made him pessimistic,[113][114][115] and seeing the end of all things has made him existentially nihilistic.[116][117]
His closeness to the abyss allows him to harness its power in combat, as shown by his abilities. The Destroyer can lock others in the void in an Astral Imprisonment to condemn his victims into a period of dark contemplation on their lesser knowledge and mortality in the face of the vastness of nonexistence[118][119][120] all while siphoning their intellect from them.[121][122] This, in turn, fuels his Sanity's Eclipse (which gets power from the void itself[123]) to shatter feeble minds against a psychic blast from his accumulated wisdom.[124]
Pugna
[edit]
Pugna may be related to the void, because the stuff in his background—the Nether Reaches, the force of Oblivion he embodies and the vile Arts of Oblivion that he wields, his personality—share similarities with the void.
Firstly, Pugna shares personality traits that are common with Heroes who are connected to the void. He is a control freak with sadistic inclinations, he is pessimistic in a sense that he strives to facilitate the worse that could happen, and he is said to be a nihilist by his erstwhile pet Viper. Whether he is existentially nihilistic or not is unknown, since this nihilism is often associated with the void in Dota 2, but it's clear as day that he is a nihilist.
Pugna's domineering and sadistic personality
- ▶️ u Roll over and show me your belly.
- ▶️ I renew my vows to cause the most possible suffering.
- [?]
versus 
What are you thinking, foolish pet? Obey your master! - [?] I HAVE NOT LOST CONTROL! I AM CONTROL!
Pugna's pessimistic personality
- ▶️ As bad as things get, I can always come up with a way to make them a little worse.
- ▶️ Ah, let's see if I can make the worst of a bad situation.
Pugna's nihilistic personality
- [?] versus I am your pet no longer, ill-tempered little nihilist.
The Nether Reaches seem to be functionally similar to the void in a sense that they are both fundamental to sorcery. According to Pugna, all sorceries are sourced from the Nether. The void is an ingredient in the arcane arts that is so vital to it that there would be no magic without the void.
▶️ All sorceries have their source in the Nether Reaches.Pugna on where all magic really comes from
Also, there is a jewelry (even though it's an ornate rock) called a Void Stone which is used to channel the Nether Reaches' energy. Besides being called a “Void Stone” in its name, this item shares a similar function with the void which is the in-game ability to provide mana energy in the form of its mana regeneration bonus.
If the Nether Reaches is the void because they share similiar functions, then the emerald flame he conjures from the Nether Reaches using the Arts of Oblivion is very similar to how Vrogros summons his Firestorm from the abyss using the arts of the Dark Rift. Pugna and Vrogros are alike because they are both subterranean monsters who use foul magic to call upon green flames from a deep place of evil.
Lastly, Pugna oftens mentions the mysterious force of Oblivion, which the void is also known by. All these similarities could be telling us that the Nether and the void are one.
Razor
[edit]Unlike other void characters, Razor was not originally connected to the void at all. In life, the young being who would become the Lightning Revenant struck a bargain with the Court of Ristul to gain powers that would allow him to defeat his ancient enemy Storm Spirit. But he had to pay for such power by surrendering his sense of self, erasing all memories of his past life as he was reborn in the Underscape as the Lightning elemental who dominated the souls of the dead, but served the Court's demands unquestionably in the Narrow Maze.[125]
It was only when a “void-touched threat” sent by Inai into this Maze freed him from the mystic shackles that leashed him to the Court of Ristul. This entity sent from the void also infused Razor with the power of the void, combining it with his mastery over the elements.[126]
Not only did Razor gain the void's powers, but his mind has also been warped by its touch, giving him traits found in void characters. Although he is already a sadistic and masterful being, Razor has also become pessimistic in the wake of this void's infusion, believing the worse to come as the truth of existence.[127][128][129] He has become existentially nihilistic as well.[130][131][132]
Shadow Demon
[edit]
Underlord
[edit]Underlord is the Lord of the Abyss, hailing from this subterranean city of Aziyog, who seeks to expand his dominion with the lands beyond his own. To this end, Vrogros wields absolute command over the fearsome Abyssal Horde, the foul arts of the Dark Rift, and the bespoke dark weaponry of his demonsmiths to conquer the realms and demand subservience from those wise enough to fear his punishment.[133]
As an overwhelming force from the abyss, Vrogros embodies total domination over others, seeking their obedience and submissiveness to his dark will by using fear.[134][135][136][137] Although Vrogros is earnest in his work to expand his possessions, he may still derive pleasure from the sufferings and domination he inflicts on others.[138][139][140] Although Vrogros isn't pessimistic, he does embody despair.[141][142][143][144] Under his whelming Atrophy Aura, those who oppose Vrogros with the will to fight back will find it drained by his mere presence.[145]
His training in the arts of the Dark Rift lets him call down Firestorms whose corrupted blaze burns from the abyss.[146] Tapping deeper into his foul arts, he can tear open a Pit of Malice with his hatred as he taps into the twists between worlds, paralyzing any foes who are caught in this cruel pit,[147] while threatening to drop them into the abyss below.[148][149] But the apex of his techniques would be the Fiend's Gate, where he tears a rift in reality to transport his forces and allies across the abyss and into their destination to conquer nations.[3]
Void Spirit
[edit]The one known as Void Spirit is the Void's sole and true incarnation.[150] Created at the dawn of the universe by the still formless void after it witnessed the Beginning to interact with the mortal plane,[23] Inai is projected from the void he embodies to our world in the Hidden Temple he constructed by himself when the affairs here attract his concern.[151] But while he dwells inside the void, he watches over reality's course in time's river and fate's path to ensure that it follows the destiny he prescribes it.[2]
made of void, void heals him[152] When Inai is somehow destroyed[153] respawn from void[154]
Inai is unique among the void characters in that he has most of their traits, but in a benevolent way. While Inai does share their inclination to control others, his is less sinister. When he visits the material plane, it is to control the destiny of it and its inhabitants so that they survive the Great Confluence, manipulating events to suit his ends[155][156] and instructing those who agree to serve him.[157][158] While he does apply existential nihilism to the lives of mortals, his brand of it is meant to give them comfort and relieve their burden.[159][160]
Aether Remnant[161] Dissimilate[162] Resonant Pulse Astral Step
Races
[edit]Creatures of Darkness
[edit]When the night creatures perished in the dawn of the First Day, their loosed souls departed for the void where they now rest at its edges.[102]
Gods
[edit]Clasz
[edit]The Dead God
[edit]The Dead God possesses a yawning pit (which seems to be in his belly) that leads to pure nothingness where the living are cast into by his foul followers to be left alone with other victims where they will hear the Dirge, a music that destroys their mind and leaves them with only hunger to turn themselves on each other as witless zombies in the void, before they are completely annihilated.[10]
Characters
[edit]Aghanim
[edit]Artifacts
[edit]Abyssal Blade
[edit]Like its master for whom it was a bespoke weapon, the 
Abyssal Blade draws the Abyss' foul power[163][164] to cut deep into the soul.[165]
Bottle
[edit]Inai states that only the Bottle can contain the void, which might refer to the runes that the void produces with inscrutable means.[166]
Ninja Gear
[edit]The Ninja Gear is a set of valuable stealth equipment found by a young explorer among the flotsam and detritus drifting in the void.[167]
Sange and Yasha
[edit]Darkterror can change 
Sange and Yasha's attunement with the moon to the void instead, transforming them into voidblades.[168]
Town Portal Scroll
[edit]One secret behind the Town Portal Scroll's power is that, when used, the caster travels through the void to arrive at their destination.[169]
Mentions
[edit]Miscellaneous parts of the lore where the void itself is mentioned, explicitly or implicitly.
Dialogue
[edit]Aghanim's Labyrinth: Continuum Conundrum
- “I would make you choose, mortal. With the knowledge that thousands of your kind have appeared before me, brief flickers of warmth in the comforting abyss, quickly dissipating into a state of nothingness functionally no different from the professed state of order in which they came within my sight. For nothing they could accomplish would weight worthy in the eyes of one such as me. So choose that which you take from here, knowing that I care not what you choose, and that you go forth towards either victory or defeat, but most certainly continuing upon an unrelenting march towards death.”
Responses
[edit]Moving
- ▶️ Everything lies within nothing.
Biography
[edit]Responses
[edit]Casting Black Hole
Failure
- ▶️ u This emptiness is too empty…
Match end, win
Match end, lost
- ▶️ All is void.
Responses
[edit]Activating Watch Tower (with Claszian Apostasy)
- ▶️ I light a beacon in the void.
Killing an enemy (with Claszian Apostasy)
- ▶️ r I have seen the true terrors of the void. Do not call this an unkind fate.
Acquiring a specific item (with Claszian Apostasy)
- ▶️
r Their essence to oblivion. - ▶️
r The face of madness adorns the gates of oblivion. - ▶️
r Oblivion unseen.
Responses
[edit]Killing a specific Hero
- ▶️
r My spear enters the void!
Responses
[edit]Attacking
- ▶️ The abyss calls.
Leveling up
- ▶️ The darkness deepens.
Responses, Artifact
[edit]Taunt
- From the cold and nameless space between the stars, I arrive.
- Omens are fulfilled. Nothingness awaits.
Potential kill
- The abyss calls to you...
Permanent health boost
- The darkness deepens.
- The Abyss sings.
- I am become the void.
Debuffing enemy
- The Abyss is calling you.
- Sssh. Let the darkness take you.
Multi damage, small
- Nothingness awaits you.
- I usher you in to the darkness.
- By my hand and will, the void claims you all.
Responses
[edit]Takeover (with Voidstorm Asylum)
- ▶️ The masters of the Narrow Maze will suffer...
- ▶️ The recollections of the void.
Entering battle (with Voidstorm Asylum)
- ▶️ I find refuge in the touch of the void.
Attacking at less than 20% health (with Voidstorm Asylum)
IsLinkFilled (with Voidstorm Asylum)
- ▶️ It's never enough to fill the void.
Denying at less than 20% health (with Voidstorm Asylum)
Acquiring specific item (with Voidstorm Asylum)
- ▶️ r I curse the masters of the abyss.
Activating Bounty Rune (with Voidstorm Asylum)
- ▶️ Another bounty from the void.
Cosmetic lore
[edit]
Responses
[edit]Killing a specific Hero
- ▶️
There is no winter in the Abyss.
Responses
[edit]Levelling up
- ▶️ A brimful of aether will help my side.
- ▶️ Only I can draw upon the strength of the void.
- ▶️ The power of the void breaks across the planes.
Killing an enemy
- ▶️ You cannot escape that which is all around you.
- ▶️ There is nothing for you here. There is nothing for you anywhere.
- ▶️ If you look long enough into the void...
Killing a specific Hero
- ▶️
r Even a god is nothing set against the void. - ▶️
r Your potential has been dulled to the point of nothingness. - ▶️
r Your curse is nothing to the void. - ▶️
r What is a flame burning in the void? - ▶️
r The sea is a storm pond when compared to the void. - ▶️
r The soul of the slayer has been enveloped by the void. - ▶️
r There's no one to hear you sing in the void.
Meeting an ally
- ▶️
r Does the old road go unguarded?
Last hitting
Denying
Acquiring a specific item
- ▶️
r They will weep as the void takes them.
Match end, lost
- ▶️ Would I have better served this fight from within the void?
Trivia
[edit]- Purple (or other similar colors like violet) and green seem to be the colors of the void. Some Heroes who represent the void often have the aforementioned colors as a major part of their design's color scheme.
- In some cases, blue (which is between green and purple in the color wheel) is also used by some Heroes who are connected to the void itself, like Night Stalker's appearance and Outworld Destroyer's spells.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Underlord's selecting response: ▶️ “The Abyss knows no mercy. It knows no light. It knows only fear and despair.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Void Spirit's biography.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Legion Commander's biography: 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…
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's casting Astral Imprisonment response: ▶️ u “To the place of darkness.”
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Void Spirit's casting Astral Step response: ▶️ “A journey through darkness.”
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Enigma's selecting response: ▶️ “I sense an emptiness inside you. Let me fill it with death.”
- ↑ Shadow Demon's kill response: ▶️ “Eyik vo'hollom.”
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Crown of Black Nihility description.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Span of Black Nihility description.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Undying's biography.
- ↑ Void Spirit's casting Resonant Pulse response: ▶️ 120 “Oblivion pulse.”
- ↑ Shadow Demon's dying response: ▶️ “Omoz groth ozh.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's entering battle response: ▶️ “From the outer dark I come.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's casting Astral Imprisonment response: ▶️ u “To the outer dark.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's “Wheel” response: ▶️ u “The void is not absence. The void is omnipresence!”
- ↑ Void Spirit's unique kill response versus
: ▶️ r “You cannot escape me, Io. Our paths are linked.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's unique kill response versus
: ▶️ r “It isn't possible to weave a fate untouched by the void.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's kill response: ▶️ “You must learn to live with the void inside.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's respawning response: ▶️ “There's nothing out there but the void.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's kill response: ▶️ “There is nothing outside the void.”
- ↑ Aghanim's teleportation response: ▶️ “With power from beyond the void!”
- ↑ Void Spirit's respawning response: ▶️ “Before there was something... there was nothing.”
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Void Spirit's “Void” monologue
▶️ “Before there was the spirit, there was the void. Before there was anything, there was the void.”
▶️ “Long after -- though only a moment in the scope of the whole -- there came...a being of great power.”
▶️ “Still without comprehensible form or voice of my own, I felt this titan's hammer fall and the four children scatter.”
▶️ “I began to find myself in the reverberations of the blow. And I saw the expanse of time flash forth from the instant.”
▶️ “In that cascade of moments, I knew I must learn to compose a form capable of interacting with the material plane.” - ↑ Void Spirit's casting Resonant Pulse response: ▶️ 120 “You cannot touch the void.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's dying response: ▶️ “You cannot truly pierce the void...”
- ↑ Void Spirit's unique kill response versus
: ▶️ r “Your depths aren't nearly as black as the void.”
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Artifact Card: Astral Imprisonment
Outworld Devourer: “For me, the void is a place of reflection and peace... but to my enemies, it is a realm of inscrutable horror.” - ↑ Astral Imprisonment lore: Locked away in the pocket between this world and the Outworld, victims realize their infantile knowledge and mortality.
- ↑ Void Spirit's kill response: ▶️ “Surrender all hope to the void.”
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Talons of Black Nihility description.
- ↑ Void Spirit's unique kill response versus
: ▶️ r “There would be no arcane arts without the void.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's “koru” monologue, fourth voice line:
▶️ “There could be no arcane art were it not for the void. While not the sole ingredient, it is certainly a vital one.” - ↑ Void Spirit's bottling runes response: ▶️ “A gift from the void.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's bottling runes response: ▶️ “A comfort from home.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's bottling runes response: ▶️ “A taste of the void.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's activating Bounty Rune response: ▶️ r “A bauble from the void.”
- ↑ Mana Pool description.
- ↑ Shards of Exile description.
- ↑ Essence Aura lore: The crystals of the Outworld produce arcane power, and the Harbinger channels it into the world of mortals.
- ↑ Enigma's common cosmetic item drop response: ▶️ “Something appears out of nothing.”
- ↑ Earth Spirit's entering battle response: ▶️ “That which is arises from that which is not.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's entering battle response: ▶️ “Embrace the infinite possibilities of the void.”
- ↑ Grimstroke's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “Do the phantasms live inside you, Chaos Knight? Or do you summon them from the aether?”
- ↑ Phantasm lore: Drawing on his battles fought across many worlds and many times, phantasms of the Chaos Knight rise up to quell all who oppose him.
- ↑ Aghanim's Labyrinth Trailer transcript
Aghanim: “From the far reaches of the astral plane, beyond countless dimensions, MONSTERS! BEASTS! Beasts without legs! Beasts that are only legs! Heroes that aren't heroes at all! I have brought them here to answer one simple question: Can your hands wield the true Aghanim's Scepter?” - ↑ Aghanim response: ▶️ “I am Aghanim. Yes, that Aghanim. Aghanim the Mighty. Aghanim who studied dark forbidden magic and became lost across the astral dimensions in an effort to create a grand scepter. I'm sure you heard lies of my work in hero school.”
- ↑ Aghanim response: ▶️ “I've been lost beyond the astral plane moving hither and yon between dimensions for countless lifetimes. My mind is as warped as my sense of time.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's respawning response: ▶️ “The void is a mirror.”
- ↑ Devourling description.
- ↑ Void Spirit's casting Astral Step response: ▶️ 120 “Void strike!”
- ↑ Void Spirit's taunting response: ▶️ “The map of all of time unfolds before me...In lines that streak across the astral plane.”
- ↑ Dota 2 – Void Spirit by dota2 on YouTube
Void Spirit: “Long have my celestial brothers beckoned… But I abhor the blindness of the mortal plane. From the void, nothing escapes my notice— No secret lies beyond my grasp. Yet, soon I must finally step from my hidden bastion, to wage battle alongside my brothers, and save them for a greater cause to come.” - ↑ Astral Step lore: A small step for Inai creates great devastation on the mortal plane.
- ↑ Void Spirit's entering battle response: ▶️ “Existence as you perceive it is but a shade of the infinite realm.”
- ↑ Ancient Apparition's biography.
- ↑ Shatterblast Crown description.
- ↑ Cold Feet lore: Kaldr's presence draws those around him into a frozen void, threatening to lock them in an icy prison for eternity.
- ↑ The Disciple's Path's casting Mana Void response: ▶️ 120 “Let the void consume you.”
- ↑ Anti-Mage's casting Mana Void response: ▶️ u “Thou hath borrowed heavily against thy soul.”
- ↑ Anti-Mage's kill responses:
▶️ “Pay for thy lack.”
▶️ “Thou payest dearly.”
▶️ “The cost of magic.”
▶️ “Thy life's weight in mana pay.”
▶️ “The scale's balanced.”
▶️ “Here's thy reckoning.”
▶️ “Thy soul's in deficit.” - ↑ Enigma's entering battle response: ▶️ “Void made flesh.”
- ↑ Enigma's entering battle response: ▶️ “From void and shadow, I assemble.”
- ↑ Enigma's dying response: ▶️ “To void, I return.”
- ↑ Enigma's kill response: ▶️ “Welcome to the abyss.”
- ↑ Enigma's kill response: ▶️ “Void takes you.”
- ↑ Enigma's casting Demonic Conversion response: ▶️ “Control is mine.”
- ↑ Enigma's casting Demonic Conversion response: ▶️ “Serve the void.”
- ↑ Enigma's unique kill responses versus
:
▶️ “You should not fight your betters.”
▶️ “You are beneath me.” - ↑ Enigma's unique ally response with : ▶️ r “Ancient Apparition: an elemental in service to the Fundament.”
- ↑ Enigma's bottling runes response: ▶️ “If there is a future, this will be useful.”
- ↑ Enigma's acquiring specific item response: ▶️
r “Existence itself may die in a blink.”
- ↑ Enigma's casting Black Hole response: ▶️ “If light cannot escape me, what hope have you?”
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Enigma's win response: “For a moment, they had hope. Which made killing them all the sweeter.”
- ↑ Enigma's moving response: ▶️ “Reality is illusion.”
- ↑ Enigma's dying response: ▶️ “Is this real? Am I…real?”
- ↑ Enigma's levelling up response: ▶️ “My nihilism increases.”
- ↑ Midnight Pulse description: Steeps an area in dark resonance…
- ↑ Midnight Pulse lore: A section of the world slowly descends into the void.
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's monologue group E
▶️ “We were not created by Clasz.”
▶️ “Such efforts are alien to him.”
▶️ “We are mere lichen or fungus.”
▶️ “The Claszian Expanse provided the conditions, and we materialized to feast.”
▶️ “But now I take the next step.”
▶️ “I demand more than just a piece from Clasz.”
▶️ “I carve a swath, and I claim it for myself.” - ↑ Faceless Void's dying response: ▶️ “I face...the darkness.”
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's dying response: ▶️ “I face the darkness that hunts me.”
- ↑ Faceless Void's dying response: ▶️ “Commend me...to the void.”
- ↑ Faceless Void's respawning response: ▶️ “Returned from Clazureme!”
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's unique ally response with : ▶️ r “Together we could rule everything. But that isn't your way.”
- ↑ Artifact Card: Fractured Timeline
Faceless Void: “I respect the Claszureme Treaty and the human wizard that helped broker it. As such I would never rewrite time for my own amusement... however, I think it's healthy to remind the Sapphire Conclave what I am capable of; lest they grow complacent and fail to live up to their end of the bargain.” - ↑ Dota Underlords - Faceless Void's recruitment response: “Fate is but a toy for me to play with.”
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Faceless Void's unique ally response with ,
, , or 
: “Together, we will remake the world as we see fit.”
- ↑ Faceless Void's moving response:
▶️ “Dark portents ahead.”
▶️ “Road to oblivion.” - ↑ Faceless Void's kill responses:
▶️ “Birth is a promise; death its fulfillment.”
▶️ “We all owe a life. I take yours.” - ↑ Faceless Void's dying response:
▶️ “My debt to life...is paid.”
▶️ “As was promised.”
▶️ “We all owe a life to the fates.” - ↑ Claszian Apostasy's unique kill response versus
: ▶️ r “A life without meaning meets merciful end.”
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's unique kill response versus
: ▶️ r “Once void of purpose, now void of breath.”
- ↑ Time Walk lore: Darkterror tears a hole in time, passing through Claszureme, and appearing back in an instant.
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's casting Time Walk response: ▶️ “Astride the void.”
- ↑ Time Lock lore: The strike of the Faceless Void lands with dimension shifting force.
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's casting Chronosphere responses:
▶️ “Into the void!”
▶️ “I bring oblivion!”
▶️ “A gateway to Claszureme!” - ↑ 97.0 97.1 Night Stalker's biography.
- ↑ Pangolier's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “Cruelty for the sake of it... I do not approve.”
- ↑ Snapfire's unique ally response with : ▶️ r “You don't have a kind bone in your body. But that don't mean we can't put something sweet in there.”
- ↑ Black Nihility description.
- ↑ Void lore: Balanar creates a vortex of infinite night, tearing opponents violently into the eternal darkness that once was.
- ↑ 102.0 102.1 Shadow of the Dark Age description.
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's biography.
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's dying response: ▶️ “I return to the outer dark.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's dying response: ▶️ “A quick trip to the outer dark.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's kill response: ▶️ “Visitant to the outer dark.”
- ↑ Artifact Card: Outworld Devourer
Outworld Devourer: “The Dire Child has begun to come into her own. She will need guidance. Molding. She has chosen the beast to be her champion... but I shall be her seneschal...and eventually... her master.” - ↑ Pangolier's unique kill response versus : ▶️ r “I don't do well with authority figures.”
- ↑ Artifact - Outworld Devourer's enigmatic response: “Your lives are mine to toy with...”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's beginning battle response: ▶️ “Their sanity I'll shatter, their dreams of conquest I'll destroy.”
- ↑ Artifact - Outworld Devourer's small multi damage response: “Unworthy though you may be, kneel now and accept your fate.”
- ↑ Artifact - Outworld Devourer's arrogant response: “Watching hope fade from your eyes was beautiful.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's kill responses:
▶️ “The worst is still to come.”
▶️ “There will always be something worse on the wing.” - ↑ Outworld Destroyer's levelling up response: ▶️ “Good news travels slowly, bad news has wings.”
- ↑ Artifact - Outworld Devourer's pleased response: “I expected far worse.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's victory response: ▶️ “At last my existence has meaning.”
- ↑ Artifact - Outworld Devourer's small multi damage response: “Nothing is lost, for none of you ever mattered.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's casting Astral Imprisonment response:
▶️ u “To the outer dark.”
▶️ u “To the place of darkness.”
▶️ u “To the abyss.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's casting Astral Imprisonment response:
▶️ u “Think it over.”
▶️ u “Take some time to think it over.” - ↑ Astral Imprisonment lore: Locked away in the pocket between this world and the Outworld, victims realize their infantile knowledge and mortality.
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's casting Astral Imprisonment response: ▶️ u “Lend me some mindpower.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's casting Astral Imprisonment response: ▶️ u “I've received some intelligence.”
- ↑ Outworld Destroyer's Sanity's Eclipse kill responses:
▶️ u “Power from the outer dark.”
▶️ u “Power from the darkness.” - ↑ Outworld Destroyer's Sanity's Eclipse kill responses:
▶️ “Your sanity, eclipsed.”
▶️ “My mind blots yours out.”
▶️ u “You're a lesser power.”
▶️ “Small minds are quickly broken.”
▶️ “I'll snuff out your sanity.”
▶️ u “Let me shatter that mind for you.” - ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's monologue group D
▶️ “I remember. The mistakes of my distant youth.”
▶️ I burned for the power to rise above my oldest enemy.
▶️ I struck a bad bargain with the Court of Ristul.
▶️ And the powers for which I bartered came at a terrible price.
▶️ Until my storm swirled into nothingness...
▶️ My sense of self -- my life and my purpose -- would be surrendered.
▶️ Lost to the shadows of the maze. - ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's monologue group B
▶️ “I have leashed countless travelers.”
▶️ “Throughout aeons of service to the maze.”
▶️ “None carried powers into the afterlife that could stand against mine.”
▶️ “But an unseen architect sent a void-touched threat to find me.”
▶️ “One bent not on confrontation, but infiltration.”
▶️ “To sever the tendrils of Ristul that bound me.”
▶️ “To finally set me free.” - ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's acquiring specific item response: ▶️
r “There is no heaven. Only hell.”
- ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's acquiring specific item response: ▶️
r “Take it from Razor. Truth is a lie.”
- ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's acquiring specific item response: ▶️
r “Nothing is at it seems outside of the maze.”
- ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's beginning battle response: ▶️ “I fight...for nothing.”
- ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's unique kill responses:
▶️
r “As in life, you'll find no meaning in death.”
▶️
r “Like all else, your family's fate means nothing in the end.”
- ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “Fight all you like. The Darkbrew name will soon be forgotten.”
- ↑ Underlord's entering battle response: ▶️ “Lord of the Abyss.”
- ↑ Underlord's levelling up response: ▶️ “I will teach them obedience!”
- ↑ Underlord's levelling up response: ▶️ “Fear is my dominion.”
- ↑ Underlord's beginning battle responses:
▶️ “I will scorch this land and its people will come to fear a new master!”
▶️ “They will bleed, and they will burn. And they will learn fear.” - ↑ Underlord's entering battle response: ▶️ “Cower, for the Abyssal Underlord has arrived.”
- ↑ Underlord's levelling up response: ▶️ “Cruelty is its own reward.”
- ↑ Underlord's kill response: ▶️ “I want to hear you beg!”
- ↑ Underlord's unique kill response versus
:
▶️ “I bring pain beyond your wildest dreams.”
▶️ “I think you liked that!”
▶️ “If you want worse, just say the word.”
▶️ “You've been bad!” - ↑ Underlord's beginning battle response: ▶️ “Behold me and despair!”
- ↑ Underlord's moving response: ▶️ “Despair moves.”
- ↑ Underlord's moving response:▶️ “There is no hope.”
- ↑ Underlord's kill response: ▶️ “Die hopeless!”
- ↑ Atrophy Aura lore: To merely stand in the presence of the Underlord is to feel the conviction of battle sapped from one's soul.
- ↑ Firestorm lore: The flames of conquest blaze forth from the darkest depths of the abyss.
- ↑ Pit of Malice lore: Twisting into the seams of reality itself, Vrogros' manifest hatred paralyzes those who defy his will.
- ↑ Underlord's casting Pit of Malice response: ▶️ “The abyss yawns wide!”
- ↑ Underlord's Pit of Malice kill response:
▶️ “The chasm claims you.”
▶️ “Down you go.”
▶️ “You will never find the bottom.” - ↑ Void Spirit's entering battle responses:
▶️ “Void incarnate.”
▶️ “I am the void and the spirit.” - ↑ Void Spirit's “Bastion” monologue
▶️ “I have taken a form more able to interact with the matters of the mortal plane, but I do not pass my time here.”
▶️ “To house this body and the artifacts it collects, I long ago constructed a hidden bastion.”
▶️ “A temple fashioned after a Korumite design -- far removed from the reach of all but those very few I permit to chance across it.” - ↑ Void Spirit's activating Regeneration Rune response:
▶️ r “To restore the void within.”
▶️ “It fills me with nothingness.” - ↑ Void Spirit's dying responses:
▶️ “A return... to nothingness.”
▶️ “I return ... to the void...”
▶️ “Banished...to the void...” - ↑ Void Spirit's respawning responses:
▶️ “I step from the void's embrace.”
▶️ “The void reassembles my form.”
▶️ r “I have reformed myself from the fabric of the void.” - ↑ Void Spirit's unique ally responses with
:
▶️ r “You've provided much amusement, Wu Kong. It's always entertaining to see divine arrogance brought low.”
▶️ r “I serve no gods, Wukong. I merely had later need of you and this version is much more useful.” - ↑ Void Spirit's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “I make no apologies for allowing Thunderkeg to stumble upon that forbidden spell.”
- ↑ Templar Assassin's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “Your temple is not mine, Omniknight, but the Hidden Ones instruct me to cooperate.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “I warned you to follow my instructions to the letter...”
- ↑ Void Spirit's entering battle response: ▶️ “There is no inherent meaning to your mortal lives. That, you must leave to those of us above.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's unique ally response with
: ▶️ r “None of it truly matters, Skywrath. Try to let it go.”
- ↑ Void Spirit's casting Aether Remnant responses:
▶️ An echo from the void.
▶️ An aspect of myself.
▶️ Always watching.
▶️ r I will always watch over me.
▶️ Void sentinel.
▶️ Look here.
▶️ 120 My embrace awaits.
▶️ 120 As I guard the Temple.
▶️ I refocus.
▶️ Let none pass.
▶️ 120 The face of the void.
▶️ r Aether Remnant.
▶️ r I am all of the Hidden Ones. - ↑ Void Spirit's casting Dissimilate responses:
▶️ Aether step.
▶️ Void step.
▶️ A welcome respite.
▶️ All doors open to me.
▶️ r Ample time, here.
▶️ My preferred pathway.
▶️ r Secret paths known only to me.
▶️ Out of step.
▶️ I create opportunity. - ↑ Legion Commander's acquiring specific item response: ▶️ ▶️ r “This blade reeks of the abyss!”
- ↑ Phantom Advent's acquiring specific item response: ▶️ ▶️ r “Power from another plane.”
- ↑ Abyssal Blade lore: The lost blade of the Commander of the Abyss, this edge cuts into an enemy's soul.
- ↑ Void Spirit's acquiring specific item response: ▶️
r “Only this can contain the void.”
- ↑ Ninja Gear lore: Valuable equipment recovered by a young explorer sifting through the flotsam and detritus drifting in the void.
- ↑ Claszian Apostasy's acquiring specific item response: ▶️ r “I'll reattune these to the void.”
- ↑ Voidstorm Asylum's using Town Portal Scroll response: ▶️ r “Somewhere through nowhere.”
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