Chaos | |
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About | |
Associated With | |
Heroes | Chaos Knight Dazzle Doom Leshrac Monkey King Oracle Spectre |
Races | Demons |
Factions | Radiant Dire |
Gods | Fundamentals Radinthul Diruulth |
Items | Orb of Destruction Overwhelming Blink |
“ | ▶️ All is chaos.
— Leshrac explains the chaos of the world
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Chaos is a mysterious concept in the lore of Dota 2, often spoken about by entities of cosmic consequence or other lesser beings who may have an affinity for it.
Description[]
The definition of chaos is vague because of the sparse information that mentions it, but it is known that chaos is the antithesis of order[1] which is said to make up all of creation.[2] Chaos exists between the stars (likely referring to chaos' original meaning in Greek which is void or vast chasm)[3] and within each scene of battle and strife.[4] Chaos can be made from order[5][6] and vice versa.[7][8] Chaos encompasses the following stuff compared to its counterparts in order. Note that some of them may not have a counterpart.
Chaos | Order |
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Disharmony/Dissonance | Harmony |
Disunity | Unity/Wholeness |
Darkness | Light |
Paradox | Destiny/Fate |
Destruction | Creation |
Imbalance | Balance |
Asymmetry | Symmetry |
Randomness | ?? |
?? | Tranquility |
?? | Control/Discipline |
Corruption | ?? |
Notable Entities[]
It's interesting to note that just because the following entities are aligned with chaos, it doesn't mean that they don't have some form of order to their existence. That's the essence of duality, after all.
Heroes[]
Chaos Knight is the paragon of chaos, a physical manifestation of chaos itself.[9] He embodies everything about chaos—randomness,[10][11] disunity,[12] corruption,[13] darkness,[14] [15] and other chaotic stuff that he may have intrinsically. Despite all this stuff about chaos, he seems to be compelled to reunite his Fundamental brothers back to their home realm, an act that inclines to order itself.[16][17]
- He is capable of bringing others into lower states of order, especially when killing them.[18]
Dazzle's powers over light and dark are said to be a blend of chakra and chaos magic respectively.[19]
Doom is said to be no different from the Chaos Knight, who even claims that the former is an agent of chaos.[20][21] Demons in general are said to be chaotic creatures, as stated by one particular demonologist.[22] It's interesting to note that even as an agent of chaos, Doom still abides to the Umbral Pact and is concerned when its ancient equilibrium is about to be destabilized, hinting at his inclination to order.[23]
Leshrac is an entity devoted to chaos. Although his existence is proof that he is maintained by the stuff of order such as unity[24][25] and wholeness,[26] not to mention that parts of his master plan have some form of order in them such as wholeness and unity,[27][28] there is no denying the chaos in his actions. He seeks to topple the natural order of today's world [29][30][31] so that he can achieve his goal to make a desolate world of chaos.[32][33]
- Not only that, but the Impurities that he embodies and is devoted to are corrupt and impure elements, embodying chaos in the form of being corrupt.[34][35] As its sole agent,[36][37] he is the impurifier[38] who wields the power to debase and corrupt nature, so that it may mirror its horrifying core.[39][40]
Monkey King's very existence is chaotic. Although he claims to be an agent of chaos,[41] he truly embodies it with each of his signature abilities of deception and trickery. He has gained his true immortality after he disrupted his place in the natural cycle of life and death by removing his name from the Book of the Dead, something that the forces of order did not take kindly to.[42][43]
Oracle is said to have emerged from chaos and causality, likely referring to his home reality that he split into a paradox.[44] His ability to create paradoxes and disrupt the paths of fate and destiny with his abilities makes him an entity of chaos.
Spectre embodies the stuff of chaos, especially outside of her natural and eternal form. Hailing from a plane of existence that is full of chaotic, violent energy[45] she is an entity of chaos who is irresistibly drawn towards scenes of conflict in the material plane. When she manifests on a battlefield in the material plane, her otherwise whole form will enter a state of disunity where her identity gets shattered and she becomes multiple entities known as Haunts—fragments of her once whole self.[46]
- The first line of her bio compares her incarnation on the material plane to entropy,[47] which is (without saying any physics jargon) chaotic with its randomness and uncertainty.
- One of her Haunts, who has gained individuality after it was separated from the main Spectre by cursed armor, enters a state of dissonance when she dissipates. Her reincarnation undoes this state.[48]
Other Entities[]
The Radiant and the Dire Ancients, Radinthul and Diruutlh, possess dissonant energies that can warp others into beings of disunity.[49][50] This dissonance may explain why Zet's own attempts to fuse them both and restore them back to the whole Primordial Mind that it once was before it was broken failed.
Races[]
According to a certain practitioner of demonology, demons are said to be creatures of chaos.[22] Said demonologist also uses the word "chaos" as a metaphor to describe these dark entities.[51] Besides that, demons usually have the stuff of chaos like corruption,[52][53] darkness,[54][55] deception,[56] destruction,[57][58] etc.
Items[]
The Orb of Destruction is an arcanist's orb that contains an ingot of chaos suspended in wizard's ether. It's possible that the Obliterating Orb in the card game Artifact is the same item as this orb.
- In the card art of this orb in Artifact, it is seen in front of a mural that depicts it being used. The mural shows a pair of Radiant and Dire towers being destroyed by the power of this orb. It's also described as an orb that "undermines the most well laid of plans" when used in the right hands.[59] Not to mention that its passive ability is called Impeding Corruption which reduces the target's armor and slows them. As an item of chaos, it has destruction and corruption which are elements of chaos.
The Overwhelming Blink is a horrifying dagger that was forged in the chaos maw. It is virtually untouchable to mortals.
DOTA: Dragon's Blood[]
In this continuity "chaos" essentially correlates to the weak nuclear interaction.[60]
References[]
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ My antithesis rides no more.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ All creation is order which must be scattered to the wind.
- ↑ Entropic Axe description.
- ↑ Luminosity description.
- ↑ Mercurial's Call response: ▶️ From order, to disorder.
- ↑ Dark Ruin Crusher description.
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ Order from chaos.
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Ember Spirit response: Harmony comes from conflict.
- ↑ Chaos Knight description.
- ↑ Chaos Bolt description.
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ Chaos Knight: so limited by uncertainty.
- ↑ Arc Warden response: ▶️ May your disunity end with you.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ Chaos and corruption take your corpse.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ The light shall be blackened, and chaos shall reign.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ All that is light shall be cast in darkness.
- ↑ Chaos Arbiter description.
- ↑ Slyrak, Father of Fire response: ▶️ Your compulsion itself seeks a form of order.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ Your flesh achieves a lower state of order.
- ↑ Aghanim response: ▶️ Oh, prepare yourselves for an earthy blend of chakra and chaos magic. Sharp on the nose, nutty in flavor and... a bloody finish.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ We were not so different, you and I.
- ↑ Chaos Knight response: ▶️ So dies another agent of chaos.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Warlock responses: ▶️ Oh creatures of chaos who come as I command, hear my voice cry down from dark eternities!
- ↑ Shadow Demon's biography.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ My elements realign.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ The Impurities unite in me.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Reconstituted.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ You merge with the Impurities.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Your form returns from whence it came.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ I come to tip the balance!
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Imbalance demands it.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ I shall restore the imbalance.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Your desolation and the world's are one.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Ah ha ha! A world out of balance!
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ By the impure powers of nature.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ The impure elements distilled to their essence.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Nature's darkest agent, and a return to form.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Guardian of the Impurities, I return.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ The impurifier…purified.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ I blast the land.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Your form debases.
- ↑ Monkey King response: ▶️ ▶️ r There's only room for one agent of chaos on this battlefield.
- ↑ Legends of the Monkey King comic, page 00.
- ↑ Eternal Crucible form of the Great Sage's Reckoning arcana lore.
- ↑ Foreseer's Contract update - Oracle introduction
- ↑ Horns of the Ephemeral Haunt description.
- ↑ Haunt description.
- ↑ Spectre's biography: Just as higher states of energy seek a lower level...
- ↑ Phantom Advent response: ▶️ ▶️ Dissonance undone.
- ↑ Arc Warden's biography.
- ↑ Tempest Double description.
- ↑ Warlock response: ▶️ Chaos comes at my command!
- ↑ Corrupted Shard description.
- ↑ Soul Catcher description.
- ↑ Demon Eater description.
- ↑ Shadow Demon's responses about darkness and whatnot
- ↑ Disruption description.
- ↑ Chaotic Offering description.
- ↑ Warlock Golem response: ▶️ u Death and destruction in my path!
- ↑ Artifact Card: Obliterating Orb
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ashmasterzero/status/1381634912009080833