The Woods Go Quiet
The thing in the woods stops coming out, and the people it fed on forget their fear.
The people forget the thing in the woods once it stops coming for them.
The thing in the woods stops coming out, and the people it fed on forget their fear. Once a year it had left the trees to feast on them. Then one year nothing came out of the woods at all, and another year passed, and another.
The people turned their backs on the dark, while slivers of the hung forgotten in their sky, slowly aligning. Now the tide rises again, and it brings something dire.
The thing in the woods is only ever the thing in the woods, and Diretide’s return finds the Mad Moon’s slivers aligning overhead.
- 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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- Event loreDota 2 client, panorama/videos/diretide2020/diretide2020_english.vtt, cue-1 through cue-11: the yearly feast, the year nothing came, the forgotten fear and the slivers of the Mad Moon slowly aligning; the narrator goes unnamed.