Gargoyles

Gargoyles are a type of elemental in the world of Dota 2.

Habitat
There are gargoyles that can be found in Nishai, the abandoned Temple of Ermacor,  and the Narrow Maze.

Characteristics
Gargoyles are sculptures of grotesque and fearsome looking beasts carved from stone by sculptors or artisans. Hence, they are earth elementals like the golems.

They are distinguished from motionless statues by their ability to switch between an animated state, despite their stone bodies, and their more natural.

Heroes
Of ghost and stone, the dreaded gargoyle is the bound form of the eternal spirit Necro'lic, forever hunting fugitive souls who have escaped the afterlife to live again.
 * The consists of tough scales that share equal properties of spirit and earth, protecting against blade and spell respectively.
 * Like calls to like as Visage to assist him in his efforts, hounding after anyone and anything their master dispatches them against.
 * The Tolling Shadows are one of the several familiars available at Visage's disposal, each one carrying a bell that tolls for the doomed and those who ask.

Characters
The blind, sneering perched atop the Narrow Maze's entrance are the gargoyle guardians of that maze, looking down upon all who decide their final afterlife.

Heroes
Before assumed a mortal bovine form to roam far from Nishai, he once had gargoyle friends in that land, whom he still misses dearly.

One of the 's is a jade gargoyle carved by the Kuur-Ishiminari craft-clan. It has witnessed many profane and glorious deeds.

speculates that the small chunk of stone that he came to life in could be a shard swept from a gargoyle-sculptor's workshop.

Gods
The eternal spirit Necro'lic is the master and owner of Visage, who is its bound form. Being the master of Visage, he is the master of its gargoyles as well.

Factions
Ever motionless in their jade form, the Kuur-Ishiminari's gargoyles have seen many profane and glorious deeds, never intervening as they merely watch with unblinking eyes.

Trivia

 * Gargoyles are a mythical creature from France.