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Leshrac, the Tormented Soul, is the elemental guardian of the evil truth of all creation beyond our benighted comprehension. With the elements of nature and the Chronoptic energies of nature's blasted core at his beck and call, the pristine natural world will soon mirror its horrifying counterpart as he ushers it to chaos, decay, and suffering.

Nihilosophy

 * The truth of nature is only torment, suffering, and decay. Said reality warped Leshrac into a nihilist
 * Painfully aware of the evil truth of reality, Leshrac has no use for those who believe that the cosmos will reward benevolence.
 * A true nihilist of chaotic evil alignment, Leshrac the Destroyer swears allegiance or subservience to no one.
 * inclination to destroy

Miserabilism

 * His twisted mind is often in a state of brooding, sometimes producing agonizing insights that painfully manifests on his physical form.
 * Leshrac is a miserabilist, he hates fun or having fun. He is also a buzzkill to others, even to the likes of.
 * Such a hopeless creature is Leshrac, for he is prone to despair even when he dies in battle.
 * An example of his pessimism is him yearning for death, so that he may learn what worse mysteries are hidden by the Impurities.
 * Compared to most Heroes who cheerfully and confidently declare "It's in the bag" for their victory, he says it without those two.
 * When preserving a rune for later, Leshrac will save its use for a future full of grief.
 * His brand of wisdom is also said to be bleak. Rumors have it that his dismal wisdom is a product of his despair after he lost his own tail.

Cruelty

 * The very basis of his cruelty, Leshrac laments our ignorance to what he knows about the cosmos, yearning for everyone to know the agonizing truth like he does.
 * As such, Leshrac is inclined to share his torment and inflict exquisite suffering upon others so that they may realize it like him.
 * From the black thoughts of his twisted mind sprout his foul deeds, carried out with twisted intention, bringing naught but woe to all who encounter him.
 * sadism

Arrogance

 * Leshrac is an arrogant creature. His biography describes this as a "fitful glare" against the darkness of what he knows, implying that he expresses his arrogance in fits and starts.
 * He expresses his arrogance well in one of his voice lines where he prides himself as the wisest of all for being the only one who sees the evil truth of nature.
 * He humiliates others upon killing them, but realizes that he has been humbled when slain.
 * His tendency to humiliate others might be a part of his sadism.
 * Mayhaps he humbles others because, as a nihilist, he knows that everyone is nothing special compared to the cosmos and its truth...
 * ...or he humbles others because everyone is unenlightened compared to him, the wisest of all, who knows the evil truth of reality.

Temperament

 * According to the hostile, Leshrac has an ire that they consider insignificant.
 * Perhaps his ire is a resentment or a reaction to his torment or he's furious since he often attacks others angrily, such as reviling his foes and impugning them.
 * Not to mention that most of his voice lines have him talk with a raised voice. That being said, Leshrac's wrath might just be an indiscriminate hatred towards all existence.
 * Leshrac is an arrogant creature. His biography describes this as a "fitful glare" against the darkness of what he knows, implying that he expresses his arrogance in fits and starts.

Miscellaneous

 * Leshrac seems to be proud of his four-legged body, reviling beings who only have two legs. In addition to that, he reviles beings with physical abnormalities.
 * He sees the form of the Enchantress as a disgrace to four legs for some reason.
 * He is so twisted from his former self that he feels alien in the natural world. He relates this with the faerie dragon Puck, who is also alien to nature.

Motives of Chaos and War of the Ancients
Leshrac often speaks of a state of absolute chaos,   which he seeks to achieve by tipping the balance of our world. In order to achieve this, he must bring about the most indiscriminate desolation to this world and its inhabitants. He achieves this by blighting nature itself, twisting it into a blasted world (just like its blasted core) and utilizing whatever resource he has for the purpose of achieving imbalance. Those who are unfortunate enough to be sentient and animate are destroyed alongside the world that they dwell in, plus they are treated with a trip to the heart of all existence to see this unpleasant truth of nature, alongside other twisted intentions that Leshrac has in store. He also states that he must restore this state of imbalance, implying that it has already existed before and he is merely bringing it back.

There are several reasons that motivate him to do all of these awful stuff. First of all, this Tormented Soul feels compelled to share his torment to others. Not only by inflicting suffering to those who cross his path, but by unlocking the innate torment that everyone has within them by enlightening them with the horrible truth of nature—the very same way he realized that his whole existence is a torment. However, what really drives him to do such foul deeds is his thirst for dark knowledges. Still unsated from learning the horrifying mystery at the heart of nature that altered him into the being that he is today, Leshrac desires an "end to it all" which he believes may allow him to learn this worse mysteries hidden by the Impurities at the heart of existence.

Perhaps this is what motivates him to participate in the war of the Ancients. Should he fail, he will be sentenced to what might possibly be a state of never-ending torment.

The Impurities
Leshrac is the self-proclaimed guardian of the Impurities. On some occasions, he gives them tithes of Gold for unknown reasons. It's unknown what use do the Impurities have for gold. That aside, the Impurities are his source of healing (especially with Regeneration runes ) and power, despite them being the source of his torment.

He invokes the Impurities with his actions, possibly to show his devotion to them. When he dies, he will mention them out of lament for some reason.

Lastly, he seeks an "end to it all" which he believes will allow him to learn the worse mysteries that they hide.

The Void
Leshrac may or may not have a connection to the void. Supporting this is the fact that he shares lots of things in common with other void characters.

Speaking of Leshrac's desire for an "end to it all" to sate his thirst for dark knowledge, his desire may imply a connection to the void. Upon slaying him, may say that a death by his hand is the only end that one like Leshrac could meet. Being destroyed by the void may align with what Leshrac wishes for. Although Inai's words to Leshrac may be interpreted as the former giving him a death that only a wicked creature such as him deserves.

Ash the Defiler, another nihilist and inhabitant of the heart of nature just like him, seems to be related to the void. His nihilistic view of existence makes him think that everyone is a fitful light in the dark ready to be snuffed out, inevitably returning to the state of nothingness that's functionally no different from the professed state of order that was once their existence. He also thinks of the "abyss" as comforting. The inverse also applies. , a being of the void, is related to the heart of nature itself. He is a nihilist like Ash and Leshrac, plus he seems to be aware of the heart of nature like both of them, calling it the "fundament of nature" or the "core of the universe" where he receives "treasures" from.

Further evidence that supports his relationship to the void is in his item Tormented Crown. Some of the particle effects of the Chronoptic energy that flows from it have the "void" labelled on them.

Quadrupeds
There seems to be a recurring kinship/contention between Heroes who have four legs, especially those who are or resemble Centaurs.

Despite Leshrac's unfriendly nature, the may align himself with him because of his quadruped form. However, the latter (as an enemy) believes that the form of this elemental is a bastardized version of a centaur's body and that he is unworthy of his form.

also sticks with Leshrac, likely due to the both of them being four-legged creatures.

The form of the seems to be an issue for some Heroes, Leshrac included. He thinks that she is a disgrace to four legs.

Allies
Fitting for his nihilistic nature, Leshrac has no loyalties. Thus he serves no higher power or entity other than nature itself, professing himself as its darkest agent.

Still, this apparent loner can get along with others who have something in common with him. Alienated in nature, he seems to get along with who's also alien to nature.

Siltbreaker and Leshrac have a lot in common, but these similarities are not enough for the former to not kill the latter. This unnatural elemental finds a kindred spirit in Leshrac, because he's also a walker between the planes. Upon killing him, he expresses his disappointment for he had high expectations for him. Despite this, Leshrac thinks of him as a biped abomination. This may just be a reference to Leshrac from Magic: The Gathering though.

considers it a waste to kill Leshrac, because he had plans to join him to his side. What he plans to do alongside the nihilistic elemental is currently unknown.
 * Seeing how they are both wicked creatures, he would've appreciated if Leshrac joined him in inflicting suffering on others, especially the revenants of Ashkavor's people.
 * However, he may have meant to include this tormented soul in the dark reservoir of his people's tortured souls, allowing them to suffer even more with Leshrac among them.

Enemies
In accordance to his brand of nihilosophy, all who encounter Leshrac shall have only grief and destruction upon them. None shall be spared. As such, the evil nihilistic creature is disliked and reviled by many for his crimes against creation. Even death reviles this fiend. By his own word, he is a mass murderer and may have committed genocide.

His powers solely focusing on death and decay, Leshrac is a blight upon nature. Possibly reinforcing this is his. He may say "Enemy of earth!" after using it, possibly meant for him to profess that he is indeed a blight upon nature. As one of the many guardians of the soil, recognizes his crime, saying that the earth will reciprocate the destruction that he afflicted upon it.

Leshrac dislikes those who have only two legs, as well as those who possess physical abnormalities and those who are freaks. This includes the following: Leshrac once did something bad to a woman acquainted with. As such, he spared his life following this event, but swore an oath to kill him the next time he saw him after this wrongdoing to avenge her. Even as allies, he very much disagrees with fighting alongside this nihilist and finds it difficult to forgive him for what he's done. doesn't like Leshrac. She seems to be familiar with his kind and is surprised to see him besides the others that she has met, plus she has a very bad relationship with an unnamed female character who will get mad at her for killing Leshrac. For some reason, Leshrac has an enemy response for, saying that he "couldn't blink away from that one" after killing him. It's unknown what he meant by this.
 * is an abomination disliked by him, because he is a mess of parts made from corpses.
 * The same reason applies to the, since he's an unnatural being made of many parts taken from bovine and simian animals in nature.
 * As a wingless Skywrath, is disliked as an abomination by Leshrac.
 * Perhaps Leshrac reviles because the undead archer believes flesh to be unnecessary, making him an abomination in Leshrac's eyes.
 * 's form, which is a mix of cervine and simian features, is probably what makes Leshrac think of him as a freak.
 * The is a freak among the ogres because of his polycephalic nature. As such, Leshrac dislikes him.
 * Leshrac seems to know that the is a freak among the Drow, since she looks nothing like her people.
 * With 's demonoplasty warping his entire body into something "unrecognizable" from his previous form, Lion is a freak to Leshrac.
 * being a freak should be a no-brainer since he is just a withered corpse of his former self.
 * Perhaps the most interesting part of this is the . Perhaps he's a freak to him because Sven implies that he's ugly.
 * may be a freak to Leshrac because he has weird feet that have claws instead of nails. Who knows?
 * Lastly, the may be a freak to Leshrac because of his lack of a face. Or perhaps it's because of his overall alien appearance.
 * It's interesting to note that Leshrac's beliefs, which encompasses torment and suffering, clashes against Donté's hedonism, which is basically about the pursuit of pleasure in life.
 * It's possible that Hoodwink has met Ash the Defiler before, hence her saying that she has met Leshrac's kind before.
 * This is because she was in the Continuum Vault where Ash can be found in the Weald of Torment. She went to the Vault to imprison the Beast there using.
 * Thus, while she was in the Vault locking up the Beast, she may have chanced upon Ash in his Weald.

Physical Form
Leshrac's previous form from when he was still a philosopher is unknown, but a remnant of his former appearance can be still be seen in his current form. His face is a good indicator of what he used to be–his most notable facial features are his wide, flat nose and blank yellow eyes–features that can be seen on the Oglodi people. It's also worth noting that the Oglodi were once an intellectual race consisting of esoteric artists and philosophers, the latter of whom Leshrac was possibly a part of given his background.

Transformed into a twisted being by the horrifying mystery at the heart of nature, Leshrac is at one with this lurid and vile nature. As such, he is an elemental, except he is composed of the Impurities, the dark elements that compose the heart of all creation. This is evident in his reincarnation process, which reunites the Impurities in him. Because he is made of these impure elements, he too is in torment. Not only did his body inherit these Impurities, but even his now warped mind is corrupted with Chronoptic energy. His bio states that he is a liminal being, meaning he exists half in our world and half in its core. Him being a "liminal being" may also mean that he is a half-man and half-ungulate creature.

Transformed into an evil elemental by the horrifying mystery at the heart of nature, Leshrac is at one with this lurid and vile nature. His form resembles that of a Centaur's body, but its features are twisted and unnatural. Stony outgrowths form his weird looking antlers and the shoulder growths on his equine torso. Unlike the front legs of a horse and other ungulates his front legs have can bend towards and away from his body. He has three-toed hooves and there are runic markings all over his form, of which we know nothing about its meaning. His body emits a faint glow at all times. Like the horses and other similar ungulates that his form is based from, he may sometimes paw the ground in his idle animation. According to Traxex, she surmises that his flesh is tough. Siltbreaker implies that he can swim via dog paddling, like most quadrupeds in real-life.

His physical form bears host to the same Chronoptic Crystals that allowed him to see the heart of all reality. These crystals jut out of his back, his shoulders, and the back of his skull by default. They are pink or purple in color, and may be the source of his Chronoptic power. The crystals on the back of his head may multiply and grow even longer, replacing his own antlers. These woeful spires are nourished by each wave of Chronoptic energy that passes through his warped mind.

This unnatural form can be warped further by his manifest will. For example, Leshrac's agonizing insights can manifest beyond the mind and onto his body, causing them to burst from deep within. These painful insights manifest as spiky outgrowths that burst out of his flesh, sharing the agony of his mind to the body as well. Leshrac's anguish, black thoughts and foul deeds have made him the host of an evil growth of vines, a twisted kind of wisdom that feeds and thrives off of those three aspects of Leshrac.

A sip of the tainted waters from his nature has irreparably corrupted his body with a motley of unnatural vegetative mutations. This corruption has caused a growth of branches on his arms, which he uses to channel great power through them. There is an unnatural growth of stone-hard fungus on his shoulders and back, and his tail has been transformed into a weapon that "pulses desolation" probably referring to his Pulse Nova. This effect has reached his curved horns as well, which permanently corrupts the souls of anyone who touches them.

Death and Immortality
It's interesting to notice that Leshrac's life can be learned through his death and rebirth. Just like all living creatures, Leshrac's heart holds a spark of life that will fade when he dies. But unlike other living creatures, the life that was given to him by the Impurities is unnatural, and thus even his death is unnatural. Perhaps, his death is unnatural to him since he is reviled by death itself, a natural end to all living things. Thus he won't get a natural death like all things, so he gets an unnatural one instead. Or maybe death purifies impure entities like him because death ends his torment, an inherent impurity deeply rooted within him by the elements that compose him. However, his death isn't permanent, and he returns to the foulest heart of nature when he dies to reform himself.

From the heart of nature, the alignment of his elements are restored and the Impurities unite in him, restoring his form and his unnatural life.

We learn from this reincarnation process that Leshrac is composed of the Impurities, the impure elements in this vile heart of existence, which confirms his nature as an elemental. This should explain why Leshrac is stated to be at one with nature, for he is a sentient and congruent extension of the foul nature that he is from. We also learn that Leshrac is immortal because death doesn't send him to any afterlife (e.g. the Underscape, the Seven Hells, the heavens, etc.) like every other being. He is reviled by death and thus rejected for being so unnatural, thus he is sent back to his cloister instead when he dies, before restoring his life and physical form from there.

Elemental Powers
All of Leshrac's powers and abilities suit his purpose of destroying and defiling nature on a wide and indiscriminate scale to spread his nihilosophy and quicken the world's desolation. The energy that Leshrac hurls from his hands or staff in his attack animations may be a form of evil Chronoptic energy.

Based on his attack responses, Leshrac's energies can debase the forms of those he uses it on. His energy breaks down the form until it is reduced to its elements. He destroys the form so that he can access the elements that compose it and purge them. It's unknown why he does this, but he believes that purging the elements is an important role that he must take on, since he is worried that no one will purge the elements if he's dead.

As for their ruined form, it is sent back to the heart of nature where it came from. There, his victims will return to the Impurities and merge with them to realize the torment that they always had but were oblivious to all along.

capable of making stuff impure? hence "the impurifier"

Even our natural world isn't safe from him. Leshrac warps nature to his vile will to blight and blast his surroundings. It is possible that all of these destructive actions against Nature and its inhabitants can help him achieve his ultimate goal of bringing the world into utter desolation and chaos.

all this purifying and destroying of stuff achieved by the chronoptic energy that he hurls in his attack animation

Powers
Leshrac's mastery of the elements and the Chronoptic Crystals allows him to effortlessly manipulate our natural world around him as his weapon. This makes him a powerful being who can destroy entire armies and demolish nature itself with his mere presence.

Split Earth
Twisting nature to his vile will, a is observed as the ground shifts beneath his hooves, opening fissures that consumes his enemies in the earth's chasms. A closer look on this ability shows that it uses Chronoptic energies to work its destructive powers, as seen in the picture to the right. Enemies stricken by this are soiled for some reason, probably because the sudden ground movement discharges the soil around.
 * Leshrac states that he "cracks the bones of earth" when he uses this ability. With the aforementioned meaning of "bones" in this voice line, it is possible that this spell breaks deep into the earth layers that compose the structure or the skeleton of the planet itself, compromising the very structure of the earth and damaging it greatly.
 * This ability is said to be an act of revenge from the earth itself, for reasons unknown.
 * When he is equipped with a staff capped with a shard of haunted Chronoptic Crystal, he can call upon more of these crystals from the ground below, breaking the earth in the process. Just like what they did to Leshrac, the crystal's powers can bring eternal torment to others.

Diabolic Edict
Also known as the "Edict of Death" to Leshrac, his fluxes Chronoptic energy from one plane to another, manifesting bursts of said energy that evaporates anything it touches. Besides destroying others, this evil decree shares Leshrac's impure torment to others, suggesting that the energy is the source or cause of his torment.
 * The sounds made by its bursts of Chronoptic energies share the same sounds with Pulse Nova's energy waves, suggesting that both abilities utilize Chronoptic energy to work their power. This is evident in the yellow-orange and pink-purple color of the Edict's energy, a set of colors that can be found in other depictions of said energy.
 * void ember

Lightning Storm
Leshrac ignites a spark in the skies to cause a massive that rains down indiscriminate streaks of lightning upon entire enemy armies.
 * The lightning's unnatural color may be from his Chronoptic energy, but purple lightning is natural in real life, so it might not be the case for this one. It could even be the lightning of Wex due to their similar colors, but this could also be a stretch.

Nihilism
has no lore to describe what it does outside of gameplay, besides it being a reference to his nihilosophy.

Pulse Nova
This foul body of Leshrac sparkles as he emits waves of damaging energy in a luminous, manipulating the spacetime fabric itself to destroy lesser beings around him.
 * As previously mentioned, Pulse Nova uses Chronoptic energy because its waves of energy share sound effects with Diabolic Edict's Chronoptic energy bursts. Further proof of this spell using said energy is its orange and pink color, colors that can also be seen in the energy found in Split Earth and Diabolic Edict.
 * An unused voiceline for this spell has him describing it as an "impure impulse" when he uses it. This implies that something about Pulse Nova is impure, such as the destructive energies that it emits in pulses or novae. In this case, Chronoptic energy is an impurity.
 * His transformed and weaponized tail is stated to pulse with desolation, which might be referring to this spell. In this case, Pulse Nova emits from this tail, instead of his body.

Friendships and rivalries
Allies meeting Leshrac
 * vo_centaur_cent_ally_07.mp3  Ah, we four-legged travelers must stick together.
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_ally_87.mp3  The less you talk to me the better.
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_ally_88.mp3  Let's just get this over with Leshrac.
 * vo_dawnbreaker_valora_ally_095.mp3  I think you need some alone time, Leshrac. It did wonders for me.
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_ally_91.mp3  Move along.
 * vo_magnataur_magn_ally_04.mp3  Stick with me, Leshrac, and we'll go far.
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_ally_85.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_ally_85.mp3   Great. Another old guy that throws lightning around.
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_ally_86.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_ally_86.mp3   Just try not to electrocute me, okay Leshrac?
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_ally_91.mp3  I let you live before, Leshrac. But forgiveness will not come easily.
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_ally_92.mp3  I don't know what's come over me, fighting beside the likes of you...
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_ally_93.mp3  You take that foul mood n' keep it to yourself, mister.
 * vo_spirit_breaker_spir_rival_04.mp3  Leshrac, a fellow walker between the planes.
 * vo_abyssal_underlord_abys_ally_03.mp3  They will share in your torture, Leshrac.
 * vo_void_spirit_voidspir_ally_32.mp3  Yes, that's one way to look at the universe, Leshrac, but I'd argue it's a bit of a stretch.

Enemies killing Leshrac
 * vo_centaur_cent_rival_19.mp3 You were unworthy of your form.
 * vo_centaur_cent_rival_20.mp3 Like a centaur, only weaker, and ugly.
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_rival_87.mp3  I'm a mischief maker... not a sadist.
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_rival_88.mp3  You're a blight on this world, Leshrac!
 * vo_enchantress_ench_killspecial_02.mp3 Nice rack, Leshrac!
 * vo_grimstroke_grimstroke_rival_56.mp3  You could've joined me, Leshrac. Such a waste.
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_rival_91.mp3  Wait there's one of you here too?!
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_rival_92.mp3  Bro she is not going to be happy that I killed you. Oh well, she already had it out for me anyway.
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_rival_85.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_rival_85.mp3   It's all over Leshrac!
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_rival_86.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_rival_86.mp3   Begone Leshrac!
 * vo_furion_furi_rival_04.mp3 Leshrac, now the earth splits you.
 * vo_ogre_magi_ogmag_rival_15.mp3 Leshrac. Is Le Dead…hee hee hee hee!
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_rival_89.mp3  That was for her…
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_rival_90.mp3  Have you forgotten my oath, Leshrac? This time is the next time.
 * vo_razor_raz_rival_20.mp3 A pitiful display of lightning.
 * vo_nevermore_nev_rival_01.mp3 vo_nevermore_nev_arc_rival_01.mp3  Your tormented soul will shine in my collection.
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_rival_94.mp3  A no-count life ends in a no-count death.
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_rival_95.mp3  Want a cookie, Leshrac? Obviously I'm joking.
 * vo_spirit_breaker_spir_rival_05.mp3 Leshrac, I expected more from a fellow walker between the planes.
 * vo_visage_visa_rival_27.mp3 Your torment ends.
 * vo_void_spirit_voidspir_rival_54.mp3  What other end could one such as you meet?

Others
 * vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_047.mp3  Before this day has ended, you will fall beneath the shadow of a soul far more tormented than your own.
 * vo_legion_commander_legcom_duelhero_22.mp3 vo_legion_commander_legcom_dem_duelhero_22.mp3  Defend your beard!

Behind the scenes

 * According to former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw, Leshrac's doom and gloom temperament and attitude were based on Eeyore from the book Winnie-the-Pooh.
 * This inspiration might have been referenced by his Tail of Twisted Wisdom cosmetic, where its lore describes him losing his tail, a situation that Eeyore may find himself in.