The War of the Ancients
Radiant and Dire have been at war since before there was anything to fight over.
Radiant and Dire turn creation into a battlefield that their prison cannot end.
and have been at war since before there was anything to fight over. They are two of the larger fragments of one primordial mind that shattered as the universe came into being, and from the moment they knew each other they stood opposed, and they began bending everything made to the shape of that quarrel. 's prison did not end it.
The stones it left behind still carry the war.
Zet offers Zeus restored power in exchange for helping destroy both Ancients.
Zet's Bargain at the Sundered Moon- RadiantСемьяDire
Siblings from the same shattered mind, and the two sides of every war fought on the Ancients' ground.
- Arc WardenСемьяRadiant
Zet's sibling and one of his two wards, sealed in the ; Zet would end it to restore unity.
- Arc WardenСемьяDire
Zet's sibling and his second ward, sealed in the beside ; Zet would end it too.
- RadiantЗаключениеRadiant OreТеория
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.
- DireЗаключениеDirestoneТеория
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.
- Radiant OreВраждаDirestone
The moon's willful fragments carry the warring Ancients' opposition onward; the battle disrupts ages later is theirs.
- Nemestice: Mysterious Meteorites Strike the Heart of the Battlefield · Текст 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.