Oracle

Nerif, the Oracle, is a ranged intelligence hero who alters the fate of allies and enemies with his combination of multipurpose nukes and buffs. He possesses the ability to change his foes' fortunes with Fortune's End, which deals nuke damage and pins down any enemies in its radius, while dispelling buffs from them. His Fate's Edict can be cast on allies and enemies alike, disarming them but also granting them complete resistance against magical damage; used with skill, he can render his foes' weapons useless or shield his allies from unfriendly spells. Purifying Flames, like Fate's Edict, can be cast on friend or foe, dealing magical damage but also applying a healing buff to them. His signature ability and ultimate, False Promise, puts an ally's fate on hold, removes every dispellable disable and prevents them from being harmed by the enemy for a short time, and then fully returning them to reality at the end of the spell's duration. Knowledge of Oracle's skills is key to use him at his full potential; while he can defy destiny and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, one mistake can potentially seal the fate of his allies.

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Trivia

 * Oracle made his first official Dota 2 appearance in the comic The Contract, revealed on the 14th of November 2014 on the official Dota 2 blog. On day 2, his spells and model were revealed.
 * Mike Shapiro (Oracle's voice actor) is also well-known for voicing Barney Calhoun and G-Man, two prominent characters in the Half-Life series
 * His lines vo_oracle_orac_randomprophecies_10.mp3 "Prepare for unforeseen consequences.", and vo_oracle_orac_respawn_10.mp3 "Is it really that time again?" are referring to lines spoken by G-man in Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Half-Life 2 respectively.
 * The line vo_oracle_orac_move_11.mp3 vo_oracle_orac_move_19.mp3  vo_oracle_orac_death_15.mp3 "So it goes." is a reference to the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. In the novel, it is a phrase used by the aliens, known as Tralfamadorians, who perceive all time simultaneously.
 * The line vo_oracle_orac_firstblood_01.mp3 "First blood! Out of fifty possibilities, that was my preferred." is because there actually are 50 possible first bloods (each of 10 heroes can be killed by any of the 5 opposing heroes).
 * Oracle's spell and his phrase vo_oracle_orac_purifyingflames_02.mp3 "I must harm to heal." are a direct play on the medical principle "Primum non nocere", which is latin and translates into "First, do no harm".
 * The hero kill line vo_oracle_orac_kill_08.mp3 "Ask again later." is a reference to an answer of the Magic 8-ball, a toy used for fortune-telling.
 * The respawn line vo_oracle_orac_respawn_08.mp3 "Like the past, I'm never dead. I'm not even past." is a reference to the novel Requiem for a Nun from the author William Faulkner. The original quote goes The past is never dead. It's not even past.
 * The very rare death line "I want to die" alludes to a passage from Petronius's Satyricon, concerning a seer from Roman Mythology: "For I, myself, saw the Sibyl at Cumae, hanging in a jar; when the boys asked Sibyl, what do you want? She responded I want to die." The passage was made famous as the preamble to T.S. Eliot's poem The Wasteland.
 * Oracle's invisibility response "The future's not ours to see" is a reference to the line in the song Que Sera Sera from the film The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Prophecies

 * The prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_051.mp3 "Fear neither witch, nor wardrobe. Tis a demon beast that fingers your demise." is a reference to the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia book series by C.S. Lewis, titled The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
 * The prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_035.mp3 "You ought to read Chronosphere of a Death Foretold. It's a prophetic book." is a reference to the book called Chronicle of a Death Foretold, written by Gabriel García Márquez.
 * The prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_104.mp3 "V is not for visions of victory, but for a victim of a vicious viper." is a reference to the quote of V for Vendetta.
 * The prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_017.mp3 "Beware the knight who commandingly demands: do you even rift?" is a reference to the internet meme "Do you even lift?" This is also an indirect reference to Chaos Knight's recurring theme of strength which represents the strong nuclear force.
 * The prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_036.mp3 "I foresee four flames." may be a reference, both in content and length, to the fact that most of Ember Spirit's spoken lines are four words long, or to the four of "him" – the real one and three remnants.
 * The prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_059.mp3 "No empathy test can save you from the watery replicant." is a reference to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, where human-like androids called replicants can only be distinguished from human beings through an empathy test called the Voight-Kampff test.
 * The second sentence of the prophecy line for vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_057.mp3 "Four friends await divided from earth. But they are no friends of mine." may be a reference to the sentence in the song Safety Dance from Men Without Hats.