Oracle

False Promise Calculations

 * At the end of the duration:
 * When, the affected target will be healed equal to the sum of the remaining heal value in one instance, sourced to Oracle.
 * Other heal multipliers are applied after the sum of the remaining heal value.


 * At the end of the duration:
 * When, the affected target will receive damage equal to the sum of remaining damage in one instance, while the kill credit is given to the caster whose ability depletes the healing value.

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.


 * 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.


 * 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).


 * 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".


 * 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.


 * 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."


 * "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".


 * vo_oracle_orac_kill_13.mp3 "Consequences will never be the same." refers to: Jessi Slaughter cyberbullying case.

Prophecies

 * Several of Oracle's voice lines are prophecies:
 * 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".
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.