The Unlocking of the Hidden Temple
Lanaya opened a door in the world itself and found the ones behind it already waiting for her.
Lanaya finds the answers she wanted behind a door whose keepers already know her.
opened a door in the world itself and found the ones behind it already waiting for her. She spent her first years reading grimoires of magic and alchemy, rebuilding experiments from charred scraps of the , and memorizing the notes of the Keen recordkeepers. Getting hold of such things took stealth, and stealth became her second talent; a louder woman would have made a name among the guilds as a thief-scholar.
Lanaya went quieter and further, until her furtive work turned up a secret door set into nature, the way into the most . The intelligences beyond it knew her before she knew them. They offered the answers she craved in exchange for her service as the temple's guardian and assassin, and she swore it, because each foe she removes uncovers a little more of the mystery.
She calls them intelligences, and nothing else. The temple is 's, and by his own word she knows him without recognizing him; that alone puts him on the far side of her door.
Inai calls the celestials together while Lanaya's pledge suggests a place at the gathering's edge.
The Great Confluence- Templar AssassinServesVoid Spirit
Lanaya serves the master of the , though he says himself that she has never recognized his face. Her true service now comes to pass, he says. What that service is, he has not told her.
- Templar AssassinServesHidden Temple
She kills to guard the temple's mysteries and is paid in answers. The vow, as she tells it, is to the temple and not to any person.
- Void SpiritSet inHidden Temple
The temple is his seat and his charge. He dwells there, emerges from it sparingly, and has vowed not to let it fall.
- Meld · Ability · Templar Assassin
is as elusive as her covenant with the .
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- In game bioTemplar Assassin official Dota 2 biography: the studies, the door, the expectant intelligences, and the service
- Voice linesVoid Spirit to Templar Assassin, ally response (Valve): 'You do not recognize me, Lanaya. But I am known to you all the same.'
- Voice linesTemplar Assassin to Void Spirit, ally response (Valve): 'In the face of your wisdom, I am humbled, master.'