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Does It End, Death Prophet?

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Undying asks the one woman who has died and come back whether it ends.

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Death Prophet

Krobelus once used prophecy to look beyond the veil for wealthy clients, until curiosity about her own fate consumed her.

“What I've seen goes far beyond death.”

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Stories

Appears in 3 stories

CanonStory thread

The Duchess Remembers Krobelus

An elderly duchess tells how her father challenged Krobelus to foretell her own fate. He was among the last to receive one of her readings, when Krobelus still sold glimpses beyond the veil to the very rich. She warned him of a darkness that would engulf him in two years.

He was healthy and arrogant, and asked why she had never read her own future. Krobelus could never answer that one; when she turned her gaze inward, death mocked her back. So she crossed the veil herself, and death sent her back again and again, thinned and altered with each return, denied her final rest and her answer.

The duchess says her father’s fate came true in the end, because Krobelus no longer foretells death. She brings it.

The duchess says her father’s fate came true without ever saying how he died.

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Cast
  • Death Prophet
The hero's story

Krobelus once used prophecy to look beyond the veil for wealthy clients, until curiosity about her own fate consumed her. She repeatedly surrendered her life for death's secrets, only to be returned each time. Every failed death leaves her less alive and brings more wraiths with her, yet she continues seeking the final end denied to her.

Connections
  • UndyingCanonRivalry

    Undying asks Krobelus whether it ends; she tells him his death is ready and that even his name gives her shivers.

Voice lines

  • “Does it end, Death Prophet?”

    Undying, about Death Prophet · Meeting an ally

    Undying asks Krobelus whether it ends; she tells him his death is ready and that even his name gives her shivers.

  • “Undying. Oh! Even the word gives me shivers.”

    Death Prophet, about Undying · Meeting a rival

    Undying asks Krobelus whether it ends; she tells him his death is ready and that even his name gives her shivers.

Open questions
  • Who follows Krobelus back? Every failed death brings more wraiths with her, and her ability texts call them a flock of the damned and the banshee remnants of her previous lives. Krobelus names none of them, no patron, and not the death she bargains with.
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    • In game bioDeath Prophet official Dota 2 biography (Valve)
    • Item loreDota 2 client, abilities_english.txt, DOTA_Tooltip_ability_death_prophet_carrion_swarm_Lore: 'Krobelus' many trips to the grave gather a flock of the damned.'; DOTA_Tooltip_ability_death_prophet_exorcism_Lore: 'the banshee remnants of her previous lives return to haunt the present.'
Ability lore
  • Crypt Swarm

    Krobelus' many trips to the grave gather a flock of the damned.

Official biography
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Krobelus was a Death Prophet--which is one way of saying she told fortunes for the wealthiest of those who wished to look beyond the veil. But after years of inquiring on behalf of others, she began to seek clues on her own fate. When death refused to yield its secrets, she tried to buy them with her life. But the ultimate price proved insufficient.

Death disgorged her again and again, always holding back its deepest mysteries. Her jealousy grew. Others could die for eternity--why not she? Why must she alone be cast back on the shores of life with such tiresome regularity? Why was she not worthy of the one thing all other living creatures took for granted? Still, she would not be discouraged.

Each time she returned from the grave, she brought a bit of death back with her. Wraiths followed her like fragments of her shattered soul; her blood grew thin and ectoplasmic; the feasting creatures of twilight took her for their kin.. She gave a little of her life with every demise, and it began to seem as if her end was in sight. With her dedication to death redoubled, and no client other than herself, Krobelus threw herself ever more fervently into death's abyss, intent on fulfilling the one prophecy that eluded her: That someday the Death Prophet would return from death no more.

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