The Fall of the Mad Moon
Radiant and Dire fought inside Zet's prison until its surface cracked, and Zet's depleted power could no longer hold the breach; that is how Arc Warden tells the fall.
Zet's prison has broken, and Valora fears her own failure helped break it.
and fought inside 's prison until its surface cracked, and Zet's depleted power could no longer hold the breach; that is how Arc Warden tells the fall. , for her part, wonders aloud whether her own transgression freed Zet's wards, and says only that the timeline seems to match. Her doubt stands beside his account without replacing it.
What the fall left behind is firmer: , , and , the last of them carrying the power Zet sacrificed to forge the prison. once described a inside a vision, while speaking of an Ancient's arrival as still to come. Whether she saw this fall, one still to come, or a sign in the shape of one, Prellex's vision keeps to itself, and it puts her at the edge of the event rather than at the scene.
Arc Warden tells the shattering and names what it left; Dawnbreaker only wonders at her part, and Prellex's vision stays a vision.
Radiant and Dire carry their unfinished war into the stones scattered after their imprisonment.
The War of the Ancients- RadiantFamíliaDire
Siblings from the same shattered mind, and the two sides of every war fought on the Ancients' ground.
- Arc WardenFamíliaRadiant
Zet's sibling and one of his two wards, sealed in the ; Zet would end it to restore unity.
- Arc WardenFamíliaDire
Zet's sibling and his second ward, sealed in the beside ; Zet would end it too.
- DawnbreakerConhecidoArc WardenImplícito
Dawnbreaker knows Zet's role and addresses his unfinished duty; whether her fall freed his wards is her own speculation.
- DawnbreakerColidiu comThe Mad MoonImplícito
Adrift for untold millennia before crashing on an unfamiliar world, Valora asks whether it was her transgression that freed his wards. The timeline seems to match, and she offers her first act of contrition in case it did.
- The Mad MoonFragmentou-se emRadiant Ore
The moon's remains settled as Radiant Ore.
- The Mad MoonFragmentou-se emDirestone
The moon's remains settled as Direstone.
- The Mad MoonFragmentou-se emNemestice
Nemestice was left drifting with the remnants of the broken moon.
- RadiantPreso emThe Mad Moon
Radinthul was imprisoned within the Mad Moon before it broke.
- DirePreso emThe Mad Moon
Diruulth was imprisoned within the Mad Moon before it broke.
- RadiantPreso emRadiant OreTeoria
The fragments are willful, only is unswayed by either petulant Ancient, and in a weapon forged of both stones the warring Ancients vie. The ore carries its Ancient onward, or something of it.
- DirePreso emDirestoneTeoria
The fragments are willful, only is unswayed by either petulant Ancient, and in a weapon forged of both stones the warring Ancients vie. The stone carries its Ancient onward, or something of it.
- NemesticeCarrega o poder deArc Warden
Nemestice carries the power Zet sacrificed to imprison the and . He is not bound within it; he spent his power into it.
- Arc WardenCriouThe Mad Moon
Zet forged the Mad Moon as the prison, at the cost of most of his own power.
- Radiant OreInimigoDirestone
The moon's willful fragments carry the warring Ancients' opposition onward; the battle disrupts ages later is theirs.
- DawnbreakerInimigoRadiant
She vows to end both Ancients. Whether her fall freed them is her own speculation.
- DawnbreakerInimigoDire
She vows to end both Ancients. Whether her fall freed them is her own speculation.
- PrellexServe aRadiantArtifact
Prellex is Priestess of the Radiant and commands its faithful.
- Nemestice: Mysterious Meteorites Strike the Heart of the Battlefield · Texto da Valve 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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- Biografia do jogoArc Warden official Dota 2 biography (Valve, held): the captives' internal clash, Zet's depleted containment, and the completed shattering
- FalasDawnbreaker to Arc Warden (Valve dialogue, held through a transcription index): her own responsibility is phrased as a question and a timeline that only 'seems to match'
- Lore de eventoNemestice event lore (Valve, 2021, held): Radiant Ore, Direstone, and Nemestice as remnants of the shattered moon
- Lore de ArtifactPrellex released Artifact introduction, Valve audio asset 01_Prellex_10053_response_intro.mp3, transcribed via the Artifact community index: a vision of a sundered moon and an Ancient arrival still to come