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Lirrak (also known as the Mother of Oceans and Mother of Storms) is the element of water, the spirit and the sum of all water dragons, and one of the eight Pillars of Creation, exclusive to the series of Dota: Dragon's Blood.

Speak the Words
Alone in the flowery coast of a caldera lake, the Invoker deeply concentrates on his Magic before unleashing his Wex orb. He sends it into the depths of the lake to capture its resident Lirrak. The water where the orb was dipped in begins to stir into a whirlpool, before parting a dry path as he draws the Water Eldwurm out of the lake, encased in his magical orb. Both combatants struggle against each other, but Lirrak begins to slowly break free from the orb as it starts to expand. She then unleashes a frigid exhalation that finally shatters this magic sealing orb and creates a massive path of spiky ice directed towards the Invoker, prompting him to dodge and retaliate by sending out another, a more powerful golden orb that traps Lirrak again in its ensorcelled embrace.

Lirrak strains against this sage's orb as the Invoker puts in more effort into capturing her. Although she is nowhere near to escaping her bonds, her sheer strength reverberates beyond the orb, even displacing dust from the earth and pushing the Invoker back. He lets out a long cry as he recalls a few memories of a wistful age lost to time, drawing strength from these reminiscences. With one final push, he slams his hands together and finally seals Lirrak, the essence of the water element itself now within his grasp.

As the Dust clears, his golden orb recalls itself back to the Invoker, whose life-force has been mostly drained from the endeavor. Completely ignoring the golden orb in front of him, he contemplates deeply on his cosmical bargain with Terrorblade to collect the rest of the dragon souls, deciding whether he should continue with his end of the bargain. Later on in this episode, he is seen deep in his past as he recalls the time Selemene refused to cure their daughter Filomena. With the renewed motivation, he rejuvenates himself by draining all of the life-force from the surrounding plant life and proceeds with his task. Although off-screen, her soul was relinquished to Terrorblade.

Nothing with Nothing
Having learned of Davion's whereabouts (and thus where to claim Slyrak's soul) in the material world when he caught Father's deep fears, Terrorblade used Lirrak's soul to puppeteer a thunder of water wyrmlings to attack Dragon Hold from without, while Uldorak's soul was used to control a thunder of earth wyrmlings to attack this keep from within.

My Sword, My Life
The unhallowed army of possessed earth and water wyrmlings laid waste to Dragon Hold and slaughtered the Dragon Knights.

Following the unnatural dragon-strike on the Knights' Keep and the death of his vessel Father, Terrorblade released his control over his army of earth and water wyrmlings, although it appears that he forced them to kill each other or commit suicide by falling off of Dragon Hold's lofty heights. Their Eldwurms' souls still remained in possession of Terrorblade.

Desolate and Empty the Sea
Armed with this essence of water herself, Terrorblade used Lirrak’s spirit to appear to the Invoker as a rainstorm, also using her power over water to accumulate uncounted amounts of raindrops to form a large globule of rainwater that acted as a reflective surface that he can manifest his image in to communicate with the Invoker about their deal.

Personality and Mannerisms

 * Like her fellow Eldwurms, Lirrak often calls lesser creatures as "mice" regardless of their power. It seems that this is not arrogance so much as her knowing what she really is and her reminding those who oppose Her about that, for Lirrak's "arrogance" is well-earned with her place in all of existence. But like all forms of arrogance, it may be humbled by someone greater, case in point the Invoker who managed to overpower her with great difficulty.
 * Most, if not all, of the Eldwurms are uncaring for the lives and existence of lesser entities. Lirrak proposed killing Davion so that Slyrak's Soul can return to the Thunder. She did this not out of sustenance or ill will, but simply out of necessity. The Eldwurms even ignored Davion's speech where he expresses his hate for Dragons, the reason why he saved Slyrak in spite of his hate, and his plea to cooperate with them so as to save his friends and the people of the Broken Peaks in exchange for helping them with their demon issue.
 * Only Lirrak, Indrak, and Aethrak seem to be the more logical and less emotional members of the Thunder. When faced with the Disruption of Slyrak's reincarnation cycle, the three of them approached this issue logically, actively attempting to investigate it with what info that they have, before coming up with a logical conclusion to their benefit.

The Thunder
All dragons, ranging from the eight cosmical Eldwurms themselves to their flesh illusions, are one. They all might have distinctions between each other—such as their unique identity and other attributes—but the lines that differentiate themselves from each other are a bit fuzzy because they all have something in common. Just like how all dragons in the physical realm are merely pieces of the whole that are their respective elemental or fundamental Eldwurms, the Pillars are merely parts that form a greater whole—an all-encompassing entity known as the Worldwyrm.

When her current water eldwurm that Lirrak inhabits goes to sleep, she enters the dream roost with the other Pillars of Creation who might be asleep like she is. In her dream, she sings with the Thunder, an expression of themselves to each other via speech and music. All dragons and their cousins hear this song in their sleep's dream or their consciousness.

Lesser dragons can recognize flesh illusions that are vessels of an Eldwurm soul. For example, a bunch of air wyrmlings sensed Slyrak within Davion, causing them to flee from his ire.

Water Dragons
Water dragons are merely parts of the whole that is Lirrak's vast embodiment. They are the physical manifestations of her vast embodiment in the terrene plane, a projection of herself into our material universe, proof of her higher existence to us in the lower plane of physical matter. These water dragons are just a fraction of her being in one plane—they are her and she is them.

But not every water dragon has "her" within them. Only one water dragon at a time, and only the oldest of them all, may have this soul of Lirrak herself. The rest of these water dragons have no soul or consciousness of their own—the only source of their individuality—hence they are not creatures who are distinct from Lirrak's being. A water dragon may only gain a bit of that individuality when she passes into them. With no Lirrak within them, they are simply just empty sacks made of meat, bone, and scales. No will of their own but Lirrak's who controls their every move from birth to death and no intelligible voice of their own at all.

If it may seem confusing, try to think of Lirrak and her water dragons as a sentient creature and its body parts, respectively. Only Lirrak is self-aware, while water dragons are just parts of her being. Like fingers of a human body, water dragons are not aware of themselves as a finger is not aware of itself. Fingers don't have a mind of their own. They only move because the mind that they are linked to tells them to move. Only the creature that the finger belongs to and is a part of is aware of its being.

That being said, since water dragons are just extensions of herself, she can bend them to her will. Terrorblade demonstrated her control when he had the essences of both Lirrak and Uldorak, using them to puppeteer a thunder of earth and water wyrmlings to siege Dragon Hold and slaughter the Dragon Knights, before forcing them to kill each other.

Auroth, the, used to be one of these indistinct water dragons, at one with Lirrak's being. Until one day, she chanced upon a huge piece of Radiant Ore and stored it in her lair with the rest of her hoard, completely oblivious to its power. Its influence began to sever her from the Thunder, and instead of dreaming of the dragons and their song in her sleep, she had dreams of humans peacefully talking to each other. The will of this Ore gradually detached her from Lirrak's being and her voice began to fade from Auroth's mind until she was bereft of the dragons' songs. When the last vestiges of her dream with the Thunder finally faded, she awakened in a humanoid form and the ability to assume her original form and back. She rejoiced at this individuality, but she no longer heard the dragon songs. Hence she substituted it with her poetry, another type of self-expression that is akin to the song of her lost brethren.

Dragon Clan
The obscure Dragon Clan consists of nondragons who carry draconic traits in their blood, inheriting their natural talents and powers. The true nature of all dragons implies that the members of this clan are not only related to them by blood, but they are also extensions of their respective Eldwurm's soul.

is one of the known members of Dragon Clan. She manifests some features of a water dragon, which may be the new source of her ice powers in this series.

Hierarchy
Gods are very powerful in their own right. But even they are subordinate to the Eldwurms, for they are the ones who support and sustain the existence of the heavens and hells.

Transcendent though they may be, the only power that they see beyond them is the Worldwyrm.

Enemies
All Eldwurms seem to be aware of this mice known as Dragon Knights, who slay dragons and exploit their remains by crafting dragon-forged equipment. These primordial entities may have gotten their awareness of their slaughter thru their physical avatars that these knights have killed and harnessed as tools of great power.

Having learned this Idea of creation, seeks to collect all eight dragon souls to remake existence in his own image. Assisting him in his Infernal efforts is the, who has made a bargain with the demon to help him capture the Eldwurms' souls.

Cosmic powers
All Eldwurms or Pillars of Creation, including Lirrak herself, are the four elements and the four fundamental forces of nature themselves. They may take the form of dragons in the physical plane, but they are not the Pillars' true forms, although these beasts still belong to them nevertheless since they are needed as vessels for their spirits. These elements and forces are not exclusive to the material plane like their real-life counterparts, however, as they are actually higher beings from a plane of existence beyond this world. For instance, the element of water wouldn't just be the rain and the oceans that we see on our world. In truth, there is more to water than what it seems here.

In the cosmic hierarchy of Dragon's Blood, the Eldwurms are the highest and most powerful beings. All of existence exists because of them, and thus they are known as the Pillars of Creation. The burden of the cosmos is shouldered upon them, supporting and sustaining the existence of its elements: time and space, the pillars of order and chaos, the Manifold Forms, and nothing. They also support and sustain the existence of all worlds: the material plane, the seven heavens and seven hells, as well as the ever-multiplying and infinite multiverse and its restoration from destruction in the cycle of creation. Should all the Eldwurms have their souls unbound from a corporeal body, everything here will be destroyed without any restoration to follow. All of this power is why the Invoker and Terrorblade sought them out, since they can remake the world with the foundations of creation to their image.

According to writer Ashley Edward Miller, the Eldwurms are self-conscious "Demi-planes" with their boundaries being fuzzy. This has yet to be seen in the show, but it is possible that he's saying that each Eldwurm—besides literally being the forces and the elements themselves—is also a living plane of existence. The borders between these sentient planes are blurry, implying a slight lack of distinction or separation between them, possibly referring to them being parts of the whole that is the Worldwyrm. Again, this planar stuff isn't in the show. Yet.

Life, death, and the cycle
biological sex (and thus possibly gender) isn't a property of their essential self, hence it depends on the binary vessels that they possess

Consciousness, the dragon song, and whatnot
keep the lesser dragons' minds in order, if her soul released, all water dragons will act unnaturally

Indrak tapped into Davion's memories. rest of the remaining thunder saw what indrak saw, implying shared consciousness. further proof of their weak distinction between each other as parts of the Worldwyrm

Elemental Powers
Truly embodying water itself in all of its states, Lirrak expresses this power in our physical plane through the oldest dragons of her type, using her ability to manipulate all states of water including its solid form and gaseous form. She isn't called the Mother of Oceans and Storms for naught.

In the fifth episode "The Fire Sermon" of Book One, Lirrak emanates the sound of bubbling and flowing deep water, showing her element.

Through the breath of a powerful Water Eldwurm, Lirrak's cool exhalation can unleash a massive path of ice spikes. This frigid breath of her lesser water dragons such as water wyrmlings and Auroth can freeze an entire human body into brittle ice and create walls of ice big enough to entomb multiple water wyrmlings in flight, respectively. Lirrak is much more powerful than these two instances plus they technically belong to Her, hence she should have a more potent version of these abilities. Her breath is strong enough to break the Invoker's Wex orb of sealing.

It would appear that she also has powers over this movement of water. This was first shown when the waters of her caldera lake home whirled and parted to reveal herself and the lakebed. At first, it may look like the Wex orb that Invoker threw into the waters was the one stirring her lake, but given that the water was still parted when the Wex orb was broken, this should be Lirrak's doing.

Her captured spirit not only granted Terrorblade the power to bend lesser water dragons to his will, but also gave him access to her omnipotence over the element of water. With her spirit in hand, it is implied that he used her to appear as a rainstorm to the Invoker and accumulate numerous raindrops to form a large disc of water that's suspended in the air, which served as a reflective surface that he used to talk to the sage.

Terrorblade's corruption even extended to the very essence of Lirrak herself, assimilating her into his unhallowed dragon army alongside Uldorak and later on Slyrak. Combined with the powers of the other two Eldwurms, her frosty breath was powerful enough to heavily damage the magical, tri-orbant shield of the Invoker to the point that Terrorblade only needed to toss his blades at it to break through. In the hands of Hybrion, they used Lirrak's power to freeze the fragments of a meteor that they destroyed with an explosion from within it before using these fragments as projectiles to fire at the Invoker as a salvo of ice shards. Once again, Invoker's barrier fails against Lirrak as it was strong enough to heavily damage his bubble shield to the point of it cracking.

When Hybrion performed this feat, his alignment to water was expressed by manifesting wings of blue light and his eyes turning blue.