The Great Confluence
Inai has left the Hidden Temple telling anyone who listens that the Great Confluence approaches.
Inai calls his scattered kin together, but none has yet taken a seat.
has left the telling anyone who listens that the Great Confluence approaches. It has not happened: every line he speaks points forward. What he intends is a gathering of his own kind.
'It is time for the celestials to unite...or fall before me,' he says, and his brothers , , and are the scattered kin those lines summon, each with his own attitude toward the summoner and none yet with a seat. the half-celestial is welcomed to the cause in Inai's own greeting, cousin by Inai's word, though nothing says he will stand at the gathering itself. 's seat is the boldest guess: Inai does not name her among the kin he summons, but her own pledge to stand ready with her master against the upheaval that lies ahead once the Ancient falls, set beside Inai's own word that her true service now comes to pass, suggests a place at the gathering's edge.
Each of them came to this point by a road of his own, and every one of those roads is still being walked.
It has not happened yet. Inai's every word points forward, to a Confluence that approaches, is at hand, and trails its consequences behind it, a gathering that so far exists only as its architect's intention.
Inai questions the road Harbinger left unguarded when the Ancients drew him away.
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- BrewmasterFamilyStorm Spirit
Mangix calls the Storm Spirit cousin: their ancestors welcome him home, and the will grieve his name tonight. Both descend from the celestial line.
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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.
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Brothers of the celestial line with a history between them. Inai makes no apology for letting Thunderkeg stumble on the forbidden spell. Raijin says his brother cannot control him, only set him loose, and will forgive the scheming but never the entitlement.
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Xin is the brother who listens. 'Long have we waited, brother,' he tells Inai, and of his preparations he has no doubt. Inai allows that they are not always in agreement, but can at least work in alignment.
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Kaolin is the brother who doubts. 'I suspected we might see your face, brother,' he tells Inai, and asks how the earth feels beneath his feet. The brothers, he warns, are not what Inai thinks they are.
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- Voice linesVoid Spirit spawn and intro responses (Valve, held): 'Long have my celestial brothers beckoned...'; 'This path leads amongst my brothers, where they have long wished I'd go.'; 'Friend or foe, in the wake of the confluence, you will follow where I lead.'
- In game bioVoid Spirit official Dota 2 biography (held): Inai is 'focused intently on a point in time beyond which he cannot see, when the fabrics of multiple realities are fated to collide', preparing 'his allies for what he views as a greater conflict to come'
- Voice linesVoid Spirit to Brewmaster, ally response (Valve, held): 'You are welcome to our cause, cousin, but no drinking spirits in the temple.'
- Voice linesTemplar Assassin and Void Spirit, ally responses (Valve, held): 'I will serve faithfully in this battle, master, and once the Ancient falls, we will stand ready against the upheaval that lies ahead.'; 'You have done well, child. Now your true service comes to pass.'