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Cedric is a character in the lore of Dota 2, making his first and last appearance in The Summoning comic.

Biography
Little is known about Cedric's life before that fateful summoning, but he was an alchemist who was interested in the works of another alchemist named Jovat Kazran. He found Jovat Kazran's journal through unknown means. The first half of this book has a blueprint for a pair of golden bracers that allows the wearer to manipulate the fabric of spacetime itself, but it can slay any mortal who wears them. The second half contained instructions for a ritual that transforms the caster into a Dark Fundamental, allowing them to wear the said bracers which compliments their newfound powers over the fundamental forces of nature.

However, the journal was missing its last page, its potentially powerful information expunged and the void left behind was filled by mystery. Cedric was not deterred by this inconvenience, thus he set off to follow in Jovat Kazran's path to godhood. Gathering every necessary element of the rite, as well as preparing for any contingencies that may happen in the ritual, Cedric plans to summon the journal's author whom he believes is the only one who can reveal the mystery of the missing last page.

Personality and Mannerisms

 * As a man who is dedicated to a tradition where the border between science and sorcery grows blurry, Cedric is an intellectually intelligent human. Enigma said that the bracers he made was an ingenious item because he was able to craft them properly from the instructions that Enigma wrote in his fabricated journal.
 * Despite his intelligence, his emotion can get in the way. His ambitiousness was his undoing as it set the events that led to his to motion.
 * This alchemist claims to be celibate. He revealed this when the Enigma offered him the gift of women, which he refused.
 * Cedric hates politics and prefers to not be involved in its matters. This is why he refused Enigma's offer of kingly power.

Connections
In order to gather the elements of the summoning ritual, Cedric had to gather magical resources and information beforehand. He gathered (approximately) up to seventeen spells for the rite to prepare for his dangerous minion: a Dark Fundamental who was once an alchemist named Jovat Kazran. Most of the magics were generic or not mentioned by him when he explained them to the Enigma, but two of them are quite distinct. These two spells were a summoning invocation from the kingdom of Elze that he used to summon the Enigma, and a Turstarkurian rite of binding that he stacked with other binding spells to bring the Enigma to heel. How he managed to source these magics is unknown.