Creation
Three accounts of the beginning survive, and none of them claims to come first.
Zet tries to reunite a mind whose other fragments have turned creation toward war.
Three accounts of the beginning survive, and none of them claims to come first. In one, the Titans stood near the Beginning, perhaps witnesses to creation and perhaps born while it still echoed, and set about shaping matter, themselves and reality. In another, a single primordial mind fragmented as the universe came into being; two of its pieces, and , turned creation toward their war, while a third, , tried to restore the unity that was lost.
In a third, the ancient were bound in a primordial harmony until walked out of the Fundamental plane, and Io and Enigma keep their own memories of the Schism. Whether these were one event seen from three sides, three stages of one long dawn, or three beginnings that never touched, no teller says. They stand side by side.
Three origin accounts, told side by side; no single creation reconciles them.
The thread continues at Zet's bargain, where the third fragment starts recruiting for its answer to the Ancients.
Zet's Bargain at the Sundered Moon- Chaos KnightEnemyKeeper of the Light
He hunts the light across every plane of existence, and the light he hunts may well be his own brother.
- EnigmaRivalryKeeper of the Light
The star-maker and the star-eater: gravity ends what light begins.
- Elder TitanCreatedChaos Knight
The hammer fell, the plane split, and chaos walked out of the wreckage first among four.
- Elder TitanCreatedKeeper of the Light
Ezalor was made bound to the primordial harmony, and was the first to walk out on it.
- Elder TitanCreatedIo
Io is the quietest of the four children, and the one the died trying to bind.
- Elder TitanCreatedEnigma
Enigma remembers the titan's hammer falling and the four children scattering, and says so to his face.
- Chaos KnightFamilyKeeper of the LightImplied
Brothers by the Schism, hunter and hunted by nature; the light Chaos Knight chases may well be Ezalor himself.
- Chaos KnightFamilyIo
Brothers of the Schism. Chaos Knight pursues Io to bring him back to the plane the abandoned.
- Chaos KnightFamilyEnigma
Brothers of the Schism. Chaos Knight hunts Enigma as one of the escaped forces to be made one again.
- RadiantFamilyDire
Siblings from the same shattered mind, and the two sides of every war fought on the Ancients' ground.
- Arc WardenFamilyRadiant
Zet's sibling and one of his two wards, sealed in the ; Zet would end it to restore unity.
- Arc WardenFamilyDire
Zet's sibling and his second ward, sealed in the beside ; Zet would end it too.
- Nemestice: Mysterious Meteorites Strike the Heart of the Battlefield · Valve text 2021
In the wake of the 's destruction, willful fragments of and crashed upon our world. But a third type of stone—, warped remnants of the shattered moon still unswayed by either petulant Ancient and bursting with 's sacrificed power—was left drifting behind. Aeons later, Nemestice at last makes landfall to disrupt their battle, and to those who would hold power over both Ancients, there is no greater prize.
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- In game bioElder Titan official Dota 2 biography (Valve, held): the Titans near the Beginning and the biography's own witness hedge
- In game bioArc Warden official Dota 2 biography (Valve, held): the primordial mind, Radiant, Dire, and Zet
- In game bioChaos Knight, Keeper of the Light, and Io official Dota 2 biographies (Valve, held): the ancient Fundamentals, Fundamental plane, and Primordial harmony
- Voice linesElder Titan and Enigma targeted responses (Valve dialogue, held through transcription indexes): Io and Enigma as children of the Schism and Fundamentals