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Enigma
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Enigma

the Consumer of Worlds

Fundamental

A Fundamental created at the Schism, associated with gravity and the death of stars.

“Chaos hunts the spark of endless suns, whose light will die in my crushing grasp.”

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Stories

Appears in 4 stories

CanonHistorical event

The Summoning of Enigma

The alchemist prepared with borrowed rigor: a summoning invocation from , a Turstarkurian rite of binding, seventeen spells in all. Enigma answered, and the wards seemed to hold, until the Dark Fundamental stepped out of the circle and made clear they never had. Cedric wanted the missing last page of Jovat Kazran's roadmap to godhood, certain the being before him had walked it first.

Cedric asserts that Enigma was Kazran; Enigma denies any Kazran ever existed and calls the journals his own lures, planted where inventive alchemists would find them and build him ingenious toys. He claimed the spacetime bracers Cedric had built as a trade, granted the alchemist his promised glimpse of what being Enigma means, and left Cedric visibly changed. Then he called him along through the void portal.

There was, he said, a war to fight.

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Cast
  • Enigma
The hero's story

A Fundamental created at the Schism, associated with gravity and the death of stars. Aeons after escaping the plane, Enigma planted dozens of fake journals by an invented alchemist named Jovat Kazran, describing an ascension to Dark Fundamental with the final page missing, so that ambitious readers would come looking for him. One of them, , summoned and briefly bound him.

Enigma took Cedric's World Chasm Artifact for his trouble.

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Voice lines

  • “The shall win this day.”

    Enigma, about Chaos Knight · Meeting an ally

    Brothers of the Schism. Chaos Knight hunts Enigma as one of the escaped forces to be made one again.

  • “Born in the Schism, died in the forge.”

    Elder Titan, about Enigma · Meeting a rival

    Enigma remembers the titan's hammer falling and the four children scattering, and says so to his face.

  • “They said not even light can escape you. They lied.”

    Keeper of the Light, about Enigma · Meeting a rival

    The star-maker and the star-eater: gravity ends what light begins.

  • “The aid of a Fundamental is most welcome.”

    Arc Warden, about Enigma · Meeting an ally
Ability lore
  • Black Hole

    The ground trembles as Enigma channels his ultimate vortex of destruction, a singularity with the power to end worlds.

Appearances
  • Dota Underlords

    Addresses the other three as brothers and names the Fundamentals.

Official biography
Read Valve's biography

Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes.

There are stories that say he was once a great alchemist who tried to unlock the secrets of the universe and was cursed for his arrogance. Other legends tell that he is an ancient being of strange gravity, the abyss personified--a twisted voice from out the original darkness, before the first light in the universe. And there are older legends that say he is the first collapsed star, a black hole grown complicated and sentient--his motivations unknowable, his power inexorable, a force of destruction unleashed upon existence itself.

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