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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.

What the Thunder Said
Nikdo doesn't have a physical appearance in this episode, but he was mentioned several times. In the corner of a tavern within the human settlement of Barrowhaven, Gwanwyn, an elf whose occupation is locating items of great value for wealthy clients, reveals to Mirana and Marci that he does not have the stolen lotuses of her moon-goddess that she asked him for. Instead, he recommends going to the Black Market in Hauptstadt to see Nikdo, who will help her in locating the lotuses. Unsatisfied, Mirana rejects his offer and reminds him of his job of retrieving items, not names. He insists on being paid for that, but Mirana refuses to pay only for a name, so he replies that he will cancel the bargain with Nikdo and leaves.

Not wanting to leave a transaction empty-handed, Mirana stops Gwanwyn from leaving and decides to pay him instead. She admits that she has no money but she is willing to pay him with "other items of value" as she reaches for something in her pocket. Gwanwyn mistakes the offer for prostituting herself and refuses, mockingly remarking that human women are "pleasantly soft but too easy to come by." This provokes Marci who rises from her seat, only to be restrained by Mirana who corrects him. She hands her golden bracelet to him, who recognizes Mirana's identity through it and her circlet. He is suddenly interrupted by a perverted villager and his friends, the former intending to take Mirana and Marci as his women.

Following a scene in the tavern that was pacified by Davion, Gwanwyn was banished and forced to leave because he was an elf. Mirana and Marci follow him outside as he tells them to meet Nikdo in Hauptstadt before running away.

Princess of Nothing
After being admitted entry to Hauptstadt's Black Market, Mirana and Marci are escorted to a private meeting room by a majordomo. They find an portrait of Nikdo on the wall before Mirana takes a seat while Marci stands guard beside her. The doors in front of them open as four beefy bodyguards enter the room, followed by the man himself. Nikdo introduces himself to the pair and asks for their names, but Mirana gets straight to business and confirms if he has info on the location of a certain rare artifact. He confirms that to some extent, saying that he knows a lot, but like Gwanwyn before him, he seeks payment for his services. Mirana replies by revealing herself to the pride of Selemene herself and that he will be rewarded handsomely by her goddess if he helps them.

Although he seemed to be oblivious to who Mirana truly was, Nikdo revealed that he knew that all along as Gwanwyn walks into the room with her bracelet. Realizing that she had been betrayed, Gwanwyn reveals that he was working for her uncle Shabarra all along to return her to the Helio Imperium. After stealing her circlet without resistance, Mirana expresses her regret of not leaving him to be killed by the villagers in Barrowhaven. Gwanwyn then leaves Marci and Mirana to Nikdo and his men to be taken to the jails downstairs for trafficking and being returned to Shabarra, respectively. He is never seen again after this.

Personality and Mannerisms

 * Nikdo seems to have a somewhat feminine voice. It's unknown what this implies about him.
 * Nikdo is a degenerate. He relies on human trafficking to add more servants to the Black Market, possibly to be allocated to the chambers of servicing.

Black Market
The majordomo in the Black Market refers to him as "Master Nikdo", implying that he has a high rank in the Black Market, or he is its head honcho. As such, he is often accompanied by multiple bodyguards, further proof of his status.

Other Characteristics
He often carries a mundane scepter with him. Nikdo uses it as a walking stick, despite having no apparent problems in walking or posture. It may be a symbol of his status.

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.

The Thunder
All Dragons from the eight cosmic Eldwurms themselves to their flesh illusions, are one. They may have distinctions between each other such as their unique identity, 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 the 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 the dream, she sings together with the rest of the Thunder her song, an expression of themselves to each other through speech and music. All dragons and their cousins—ranging from their flesh illusions to the Eldwurms—hear this song in their sleep.

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 all water dragons have "her" within them. Only one water dragon at a time, and only the oldest water dragon, may have the spirit of Lirrak herself. The rest of her water dragons have no soul or consciousness of their own—the 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, 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 is aware of its being, including said finger that belongs to it.

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 and goddesses, divinities, deities, whatever names one might have for them, are very powerful in their own right. But even gods are subordinate to the eight Pillars of Creation. No mere empty boast, the Eldwurms are the ones who support and sustain the existence of the domains of the divine and the infernal.

Transcendent though they may be, the only power that they look up to is the Worldwyrm.

Enemies
All Eldwurms seem to be aware of the mice known as Dragon Knights, who slay dragons and fashion equipment from their remains.

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.

Consciousness, the dragon song, and whatnot
Indrak and the Thunder tapped into Davion's memories.

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.

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.

It would appear that she also has powers over the 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 the 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.

It's possible that Lirrak also has the natural powers of Rylai and Auroth, since they're both related to water dragons.