| Elementals | |
|---|---|
| About | |
| Examples | Ancient Apparition Bane Earthshaker Forged Spirit Golems Gargoyles Leshrac 20px|link=Morphling|class=noprint Morphling 20px|link=Phoenix|class=noprint Phoenix 20px|link=Razor|class=noprint Razor 20px|link=Spirit Breaker|class=noprint Spirit Breaker Stone Giants Stars 20px|link=Tiny|class=noprint Tiny 20px|link=Visage|class=noprint Visage |
| Origin/Abode | Terrene Plane Astral Plane Nishai Heart of Nature Elemental Plane |
| Associated With | |
| Heroes | Enigma 20px|link=Invoker|class=noprint Invoker 20px|link=Windranger|class=noprint Windranger |
| Factions | Order of the Rising Gale |
| Gods | Fundamentals |
| Characters | Barathrum's Master Culween |
Elementals are forces at one with nature's elements in the lore of Dota 2.
Abode[]
Elementals have varying abodes, they don't seem to come from the same plane of existence. Though there is a plane for them, which is the elemental plane.
Because they physically embody the elements of nature, many elementals can be found in the material plane where they are at one with nature itself.
Characteristics[]
Embodiment[]
All elemental characters are at one with nature, regardless of what kind of nature it is, be it natural or unnatural.[1] Elementals are at one with nature, because in a way, they are nature itself. They are in harmony with nature, for they are merely congruent aspects and parts of the vast whole that is known as nature. For instance, an artisan will harvest a chunk of stone from the earth, before carving a golem or gargoyle out of that stone and animating it. Since the rock was sourced from nature, the resulting golem or gargoyle that was crafted from it is an elemental at one with nature, because even though they have been separated from the earth, they still have their source in nature. In other words, they are nature given form.
Their harmony and affinity to nature means that their embodiment is that of nature and its elements, depending on their nature and element/s they represent. It may come in the form of them embodying the whole element itself (e.g. the alive and sentient sands of the Scintillant Wastes), borrowing aspects of nature into their body that they can form for themselves (e.g. Barathrum's bovine-simian form), or simply being sprung out of a preexisting element by themselves or some external influence (ex. Earthshaker's mortal form and Tiny). Because of the diverse motley of geneses, common and recurring physical features between elemental species are uncommon, making them difficult to organize and classify according to their own physical features.
The elements that compose the elementals can align to enhance an elemental's ancient strength[2] or realign to reassemble their forms.[3] This seems to tell us that the alignment of an elemental's elements is responsible for their health, affecting stuff like their physical strength. It also signifies that their elements are the building blocks of their being.
Notable Elementals[]
Heroes[]
The Ancient Apparition, whose true name is Kaldr, is an elemental of ice.[4] As an ice elemental, he can manipulate the cold elements of nature, such as freezing temperatures, cold caustic winds, and ice storms.[5]
- Superficially, Kaldr appears to embody the icy and cold elements. In truth, he is actually the ghost of his true form who is ubiquitous through time,--past, present, and future--who will soon bring the Great Equilibrium at the end of the cosmos' life, an apocalypse where all matter will stop in his cold grip.[6] This may suggest that he is actually the cosmos' cold temperatures that has been dropping over time ever since its genesis.
- Besides the material plane where we can observe his icy form and power, the real Kaldr exists outside of time in the cold infinite void that predates creation and will soon outlive it. [7][8] He returns to the void beyond time when he dissipates.[9]
The Blueheart Conduit is the very incarnation of the Blueheart Glacier in Icewrack. Appearing as a wolf, the Conduit can take on many forms, but it is an elemental to the core.[10]
- The elemental plane is its home where its true form dwells and where it is most powerful and advantaged.[11] It protects this plane from doom by winning the Ancients' war.[12]
Earthshaker, also known as Raigor Stonehoof, is the elemental earth of Nishai incarnate. He is unique among the elementals because his current body does not inherit the element that he represents, instead being made of flesh and blood.[13]
- Although he is not made of the earth element like his golem and gargoyle brethren in Nishai, his spirit is at one with the earth.[14][15] Like other elementals, he is connected with his respective element,[16] including the moon because it is a body of earth.[17][18] Following a fateful encounter, he has merged with a fragment of another earth.[19]
Leshrac, the Tormented Soul, is an elemental of the evil core of all nature. What makes him distinct from his fellow elementals is that he wasn't one of them in the first place, but he was just a mundane philosopher, only becoming one when he saw the shocking truth of nature using the haunted Chronoptic Crystals. Compared to most elementals who usually have a single element at their disposal, Leshrac has mastery over multiple elements, such as the earth and storm elements via Split Earth and Lightning Storm.
- His embodiment is composed of the Impurities at the heart of nature, as evident in his reformation process where his Impurities align and unite within him.[3][20] Since the elements that constitute his being are in torment, he too is in a state of torment and anguish.[21]
- This elemental has a liminal existence between the material plane and the heart of nature.[22] He returns to the latter when he dies to reincarnate unto the world once more.[23]
The 20px|link=Morphling|class=noprint Morphling is a water elemental. Not like most elementals, he did not originate from the elements of this planet. Instead, he came from outer space in a comet that crashed into our world, until he became at one with the tides of this planet's oceans,[24] allowing him to use the unconstrained element of water.
- He exists on two planes at once, the Terrene Plane and the Astral Plane. This allows him to deal damage on both levels of existence.[25]
The sands of the Scintillant Waste are alive and sentient, thus it is an elemental sand.[26] As a vast expanse of living sand, it has an unfathomable form to the eyes and minds of mortals, so it frees a fragment of itself that fills a magical carapace shaped after the scorpions of the Waste to become more discernible to them. This magic armor—filled with the sands of the Waste that animates the carapace—is known as Crixalis, meaning "Soul of the Sand", but he is also known as 20px|link=Sand King|class=noprint Sand King who is the Waste's sole guardian and ambassador.
Barathrum, the 20px|link=Spirit Breaker|class=noprint Spirit Breaker is an elemental intelligence hailing from the elemental realm that is his home. His element is a lot less obvious than the other elementals, but he has a recurring Earth theme in his lore and designs. The symbol that appears when using his Charge of Darkness is the Taurus sign, one of the three signs that is associated with the Earth element in astrology. The element is well represented by his 
Strength attribute and his motifs of iron,[27] magnetism,[28] and crystals[29] all of which belong to the earth.
Strength attribute and his motifs of iron,[27] magnetism,[28] and crystals[29] all of which belong to the earth.
- His form is a reflection of the native bovines and simians of the material plane, borrowing a bunch of their aspects into his form as outward emblems of his inner strength, agility, & cunning. This unnatural beast's form from beyond the planes of reality[30] is a mockery to nature, according to Ursa.[31]
- Besides the elemental realm that is his home, and the material plane where we can observe his physical form, Barathrum oft travels between the planes, returning to this interstitial space when he dies[32] before setting out from it once more.[33][34]
Although 20px|link=Tiny|class=noprint Tiny's origins are mysterious even to himself, his status as an elemental is less mysterious but implicit. According to two reliable sources Kaolin and Elder Titan, the being known as Tiny has his origins from the earth's soil or the bedrock.[35][36] In Dota Underlords, he is classified as a Primordial Hero, an alliance which includes forces of nature, such as the Fundamentals and the elementals. He could be classified as the latter with his alignment to the earth.
Possible Heroes[]
Bane (a.k.a. Atropos) is said to be a Bane Elemental.[37] Abaddon also calls him an elemental,[38] but it's unknown if Bane represents something in nature.
- Nothing besides his title and Abaddon's statement considers him as an elemental. At the very least, his vaporous form comes from the ichor of Nyctasha, the goddess of fear. Since his form comes from Nyctasha's divine blood, he is also said to be the essence of fear itself.[39] It's even possible that he is a blood elemental or vapor elemental.
Althought not explicit, Dawnbreaker is heavily implied to be an elemental. She is akin to a golem, which is a type of elemental according to Earthshaker's bio.
- Like all elementals, her body is sourced from nature itself since hers is forged from the core of a once young star.[40][41] Because of this, she is an extension of that star's core.[42][43]
It's no mystery that the Enigma is a Fundamental. However, with one who is known as an enigma, nothing is what it seems. When his subordinate Kaldr kills him, he will call him an elemental.[44] His potential elemental identity is supported by the fact that one of the afterlives he travels to is the "elemental force" which may or may not be the elemental realm.[45] In Dota Underlords, he has aligned himself with the elementals for unknown reasons, going so far as to replace his Fundamental kin Ezalor with the elemental Tiny.[46][47]
- Like his fellow Fundamentals and their creator, Enigma exists across all planes at once and he can draw other aspects of himself to assist him via Demonic Conversion. The ability gives rise to an eidolon or more, aspects of Enigma that may be a kind of elemental like him if he is considered one.
Like his counterpart in real-life, Monkey King was born from a massive magic stone.[50] As such, he may make a connection between him and Tiny who was also born from rock.[51]
20px|link=Phoenix|class=noprint Phoenix has been called an elemental by Bristleback.[52]
- The Phoenix that we are familiar with is but a shadow of his real form. Phoenix is actually a young star that has taken a terrestrial form resembling that of a fiery bird.
- Beyond Rigwarl's statement, nothing yet suggests that he's an elemental, besides embodying flame in the form of a star.[53] This may also suggest that stars are elementals.
While not evident at first, 20px|link=Razor|class=noprint Razor the Lightning Revenant might be an elemental. In Dota Underlords, he is classified as a Primordial hero, an alliance which includes forces of nature such as the Fundamentals and elementals. He could be classified as the latter with his alignment to lightning.
- The Underscape is his home realm, the dark hereafter where he patrols the Narrow Maze as an usher to the afterlives of the dead.[54][55][56] Besides being his home, he returns to the bleak and dismal Underscape when he dies[57][58] so that he can be recharged and revived there.[59]
20px|link=Visage|class=noprint Visage's lore does not explicitly classify him as an elemental, but his potential elemental status is somewhat evident in his features.
- Like his comrade Razor, this gargoyle hails from the Underscape. In this dark and cold hereafter, Visage watches the dead cross beyond the veil of death and into the Narrow Maze where he is perched atop its ingress.[62][63]
Races[]
Golems and gargoyles are implied to be elementals. They're stated to be one with the earth but are freed from it as chunks of stone carved into a shape and given life.[60]
Stone giants may be a type of elemental, given that their remains are now made of gravel, the result of the earth that bore them also destroying them by the shifting of the earth.[64]
Wildwings may call upon the spirit of the wind to summon a hurricane[65] or a sentient tornado,[66] the latter of which might be a wind elemental.
Others[]
Forged Spirits (also known as Grief Elementals[67] or Culween's Most Cunning Fabrications[68][69]) are elementals that are conjured by invoking two Exort and one Quas.[70]
- Like all elementals who embody the elements, the Forge Spirits embody the elements in their own way. They embody the fortitude of Quas' ice and the strength of Exort's fire.[71]
- Anyone who can summon them are considered as their masters, like 20px|link=Invoker|class=noprint Invoker and Culween, the latter being the creator of the spell that summons them.[68][69]
Formless wind elementals exist in the lore of the 20px|link=Windranger|class=noprint Windranger.[72]
Elementals versus Celestials[]
Due to the mention of the word "elemental" and "elements" or anything relating to those in the lore surrounding the Celestials, these entities may be mistaken for elementals. Truth be told, elementals and Celestials are quite distinct from each other, but they both share an amount of similarities between them.
Between elementals and Celestials, the former are products of the latter while the latter are the origins of the former. Elementals come from the Celestials, while the Celestials give rise to the elementals. For example, Earthshaker is an elemental whose soul is at one with his planet's soul.[14][15] The soul of the planet itself is within the reincarnated Kaolin, who now calls himself the Earth Spirit as a result.[73] This is only one example, though, so it is not known if this also applies to the other Celestials and elementals. Because of this relationship, it could explain why elementals are very common and populous while Celestials are one of a kind.
All four known Celestials originate from planes of spiritual existence beyond the mortal plane.[74][75] They're also divine authorities, as shown when all four spirit brothers uphold order in nature, such as the purging the Monkey King's immortality when he made transcended the cycle of nature that ensures death for all living beings, a crime that they didn't take very kindly to.[76] This shows that Celestials are gods who are above most elementals in the hierarchy.
But not all elementals come from the Celestials, though, let alone have any relationships to them. Sometimes, elementals are just a form that a higher entity who has little or nothing to do with the elements may assume on the terrene plane. Kaldr may appear to us as an ice elemental, but what he truly is is the great equilibrium at the end of the universe that will stop all matter, his true self existing outside of time. It's likely that he simply manifests as an elemental of ice because the ice element fits with the cessation of motion, which he embodies.
Relationships[]
Masters[]
The subservience of an elemental to a higher power is a recurring thing in Dota 2 lore. Here is a table of elementals and their respective masters.
| Elemental | Master |
|---|---|
| Ancient Apparition | Enigma[77][78] |
| Bane | Possibly Nyctasha, the goddess that bore him and the one he frequently invokes[79][80] |
| Dawnbreaker | Once served the Children of Light until their death, curently none |
| Earthshaker | None at first, but he now serves Kanna to recompense all the good that she did to him[81] |
| Enigma | None |
| Leshrac | None.[82] He only serves nature and its Impurities[83][84] |
| Morphling | Birot,[85] Polymorphia,[86] and an unnamed master who has been looking for him[87] |
| Phoenix | None |
| Razor | Visage and other higher powers of the Underscape |
| Sand King | None.[88] Though he is said to be a supplicant to the Djinn of Qaldin[89] |
| Spirit Breaker | Barathrum's unnamed master |
| Tiny | None so far |
| Visage | An unnamed creator, possibly Necro'lic[90] |
Worship[]
Elemental communion can be found in the lore surrounding the one we know as Lyralei the Windranger.
Before the fateful elemental retribution that fell upon them all, the Zaru'Kinan order of the Rising Gale learned to make ethereal connections with powerful elementals that they could scarcely comprehend. Their elemental gifts were passed on to their children, bearing a lineage of scions who could also harness the wind element. They gave offerings to the elements [91] and in return these elements gave them gifts, such as an Observer Ward.[92] Besides the wind itself, there are other clans who had connections to the other elements such as the "servants of a dancing flame" who were friends with Lyralei's ancestors.[93]
Like Mother Nature who's both cruel and kind, these wind elementals have a darker side to them. Lyralei's paternal great grandfather, a high priest in Zaru'Kina, despised the Order of the Rising Gale and resented their influence. He found an opportunity to abolish the order once he learned that his son fell in love with Lyralei's grandmother. Having sanctioned their union and welcomed her into Zaru'Kina, he then infiltrated the order through this union and learned their ways, assimilating himself so as to dismantle it from within by spreading lies about the true motives of the Order.[94] For merely allowing these crimes to transpire, the wind did not forgive their blindness and sentenced all of Zaru'Kina to death by destroying all of them and their village with a storm of wind to start anew.[95][96]
Gods[]
In Dota Underlords, the elementals seek to restore balance to the Fundamentals, possibly by reuniting these separated forces.[97]
Items[]
The Cloak of Flames is named after the overly-protective living flame that is bound to this cloak.
Some believe that the Wind Waker is proof that there are unseen forces that manipulate the happenings of the material plane.
References[]
- ↑ Leshrac's biography: Like other elemental characters, he is completely at one with nature, but in his case it is a nature lurid and vile.
- ↑ Ancient Armor Shoulder Shields description.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leshrac response: ▶️ My elements realign.
- ↑ Ancient Apparition response: ▶️ Ice elemental.
- ↑ Ancient Apparition's abilities.
- ↑ Ancient Apparition's biography.
- ↑ Ancient Apparition biography: Kaldr, the Ancient Apparition, is an image projected from outside time. He springs from the cold, infinite void that both predates the universe and awaits its end...
- ↑ Ancient Apparition response: ▶️ From time's cradle I bring death.
- ↑ Ancient Apparition response: ▶️ I return to time's cradle.
- ↑ Conduit of the Blueheart 1st monologue
▶️ I am the Conduit.
▶️ Through which all frost magics of the world flow.
▶️ Only when a worthy student rises...
▶️ Might I materialize to step from Blueheart's core.
▶️ To choose one who must carry the secret burden of the living.
▶️ And keep a world of chaos clinging to a semblance of balance.
▶️ Or, failing that, decide when the next age of ice begins. - ↑ Conduit of the Blueheart response: ▶️ This would have been even worse for you on the elemental plane.
- ↑ Conduit of the Blueheart response: ▶️ This loss threatens even the elemental plane...
- ↑ Artifact - Earthshaker response: I am elemental earth made flesh.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Earthshaker's biography: Earthshaker was one with the earth but now walks freely upon it...But his spirit is still that of the earth; he carries its power in the magical totem that never leaves him. And on the day he returns to dust, the earth will greet him as a prodigal son.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Planetfall description.
- ↑ Earthshaker response: ▶️ The Earth and I rise as one.
- ↑ Eclipse Monolith description.
- ↑ Planetfall response: ▶️ r My connection to the moon is strong as well, Luna.
- ↑ Planetfall response: ▶️ It was earth, but it was not our earth. And now it is a part of me.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ The Impurities unite in me.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ The elements of my nature are in torment.
- ↑ Leshrac's biography: Leshrac, Tormented Soul, is an entity torn from the heart of nature, a liminal being that exists half in one plane of existence, half in another.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ To nature's foulest cloister, I return.
- ↑ Morphling's biography: Thus freed from its icy stasis, the Morphling was born into conflict, an elemental power at one with the tides of the ocean, capricious and unconstrained.
- ↑ Blade of Tears description.
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Sand King response: Elemental sand given new life in this body.
- ↑ Spirit Breaker response: ▶️ My iron will shall break them.
- ↑ Iron Surge description.
- ↑ Savage Mettle description.
- ↑ Battleseeker Helmet description.
- ↑ Ursa response: ▶️ Mock not nature's form, Spirit Breaker.
- ↑ Spirit Breaker response: ▶️ I return between the planes.
- ↑ Spirit Breaker response: ▶️ Back from between the planes.
- ↑ Spirit Breaker response: ▶️ Hmm, lost my way between the worlds for a moment.
- ↑ Earth Spirit response: ▶️ I return you to the soil from whence you came.
- ↑ Elder Titan response: ▶️ Go rejoin the bedrock, Tiny.
- ↑ Bane response: ▶️ Bane… Elemental…
- ↑ Abaddon response: ▶️ An evil mist enshrouds the elemental.
- ↑ Bane's biography: ...and stole his vaporous form from her inky blood. He is the essence of fear.
- ↑ Dawnbreaker's biography: Molded from the heart of a young metallic star, and charged by golden breath with new life...
- ↑ Dawnbreaker response: ▶️ Shaped from the heart of a dark star yearning to return to life and light.
- ↑ Dawnbreaker response: ▶️
r It's funny. I am a heart. But I've never actually had one.
- ↑ Dawnbreaker response: ▶️ You cannot stand this close to the heart of a star.
- ↑ Ancient Apparition response: ▶️ Enigma, elemental to elemental.
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ I return to the elemental force.
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Morphling response: Why do you stand with us and not the Keeper, Enigma?
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Keeper of the Light response: You think you can replace me with Tiny, Enigma? I am a Fundamental!
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ Void made flesh.
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ From void and shadow, I assemble.
- ↑ Timeless Tale form of the Great Sage's Reckoning lore.
- ↑ Monkey King response: ▶️ ▶️ r We've actually got something in common, Tiny. What kind of stone are you?
- ↑ Bristleback response: ▶️ I thought elementals were stronger than that.
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ r Flame and gravity make a star, Phoenix.
- ↑ Razor's biography.
- ↑ Razor response: ▶️ I bring my lightning whip not to punish souls, but only to hasten them toward the inevitable exit.
- ↑ Razor response: ▶️ I am but a humble servant of the Underscape, but once you arrive in the Narrow Maze, you are mine.
- ↑ Razor response: ▶️ To the Underscape I return!
- ↑ Razor response: ▶️ Death sends me home.
- ↑ Razor response: ▶️ The Underscape illumines me!
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 Earthshaker's biography: Like a golem or gargoyle, Earthshaker was one with the earth but now walks freely upon it.
- ↑ Gravekeeper's Cloak lore: Visage's tough scales share equal properties of ghost and stone, making it nearly impervious to blade and magical assault.
- ↑ Visage's biography.
- ↑ Visage response: ▶️ I have watched the dead cross over for an eternity. Many have I seen pass below, and beyond: kings and tyrants, peasants and knights, creatures large and small.
- ↑ Gravelmaw description.
- ↑ Hurricane description: The Wildwing Ripper calls on the spirit of the wind, createing a hurricane that can push a unit in the direction of Wildwing Ripper's choice.
- ↑ Tornado description: The Wildwing calls on the spirit of the wind, creating a sentient Tornado that he can control.
- ↑ Invoker response: ▶️ 60 Grief Elementals!
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 Forge Spirit lore: Culween's Most Cunning Fabrications.
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 Invoker response: ▶️ 60 Culween's Most Cunning Fabrications!
- ↑ Invoker response: ▶️ 60 Exort Quas Exort!
- ↑ Forge Spirit description: Invoker forges a spirit embodying the strength of fire and fortitude of ice.
- ↑ Compass of the Rising Gale description.
- ↑ Earth Spirit's biography.
- ↑ Brewmaster response: ▶️ You rejoin the spirit plane.
- ↑ Earth Spirit response: ▶️ My spirit accretes from a higher plane.
- ↑ Legends of the Monkey King webcomic, page 8
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ r Ancient Apparition: an elemental in service to the Fundament.
- ↑ Enigma response: ▶️ You should not fight your betters.
- ↑ Bane response: ▶️ By the ichor of Nyctasha!
- ↑ Bane response: ▶️ By the Black Blood of Nyctasha, whose heart burst with fear of me, all shall drown in darkness.
- ↑ Artifact Card: Earthshaker
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ I kneel to no one.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Nature's darkest agent, and a return to form.
- ↑ Leshrac response: ▶️ Guardian of the Impurities, I return.
- ↑ Birot's Bracers, Crests, and Helm of Dignity description.
- ↑ Crests, Crown, Pauldrons, and Bracers of Polymorphia description.
- ↑ Dawnbreaker response: ▶️ r Your master was furious with your disappearance, Morphling. I hope you've been having fun.
- ↑ Dota Underlords - Sand King response: I have no masters.
- ↑ Ceremonial Claws of Qaldin description.
- ↑ Dawnbreaker response: ▶️ r Your creator's purpose does not need to be your own, Visage. Don't take as long to learn that as I did.
- ↑ Compass of the Rising Gale response: ▶️ With appropiate offerings to the elements of course.
- ↑ Eye of Lyralei description.
- ↑ Compass of the Rising Gale “Grandfather” monologue
▶️ My family, my real family, were special. But they weren't alone in their gifts.
▶️ Other distant clans have also learned to forge ethereal connections with… forces mortals could scarce comprehend.
▶️ And not just with our precious wind, other elements had their adherence as well.
▶️ It was from an elder who sits amongst the servants of a dancing flame that I heard the truth of my people.
▶️ One who knew friendship with my ancestors, one who mourned their passing, and celebrated my return. - ↑ Compass of the Rising Gale “Grandfather” monologue
▶️ My paternal great grandfather was high priest in Zaru'Kina.
▶️ He despised the windwalkers of the gale, resented their influence.
▶️ So when his son fell in love with a member of the gale's oldest family, he saw an opportunity.
▶️ He did not rush. He sanctioned their union, welcomed my grandmother into the village with open arms.
▶️ He spent time with members of the order, learned as much as he could about their ways.
▶️ Then slowly, but surely, he began to sew the seeds of fear and doubt about the true motives of those embraced by the gale.
▶️ In the minds of my grandmother and a growing number of villagers.
▶️ So slowly, that the changes were almost imperceptible, until it was entirely too late. - ↑ Compass of the Rising Gale “Birth” monologue
▶️ I never met my family, but I never imagined them to be bad people.
▶️ I certainly never imagined that their deaths were both… intentional, and deserved.
▶️ And they didn't die alone, an entire village was obliterated on the night of my birth.
▶️ I never questioned it growing up. Why would I?
▶️ Zaru'Kina didn't ever occupy my thoughts. It was just… a void in my life.
▶️ But now, I sometimes think of little else.
▶️ Because now I know that I wasn't just born on the night of a storm.
▶️ No, the gale descended upon Zaru'Kina that night because I was born.
▶️ Because I was the last chance for mother wind to right a great wrong. - ↑ Compass of the Rising Gale “Crimes” monologue
▶️ I don't know precisely what the last days of my people were like. The flame tender could not say.
▶️ But I know now, I could feel it, the night of my birth was a night of judgement.
▶️ When a guilty sentence condemned all of Zaru'Kina for the crimes they'd allowed to transpire. - ↑ Dota Underlords - Morphling response: We will restore balance to the Fundamentals.