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- 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.
- DawnbreakerЗнакомствоArc WardenПодразумевается
Dawnbreaker knows Zet's role and addresses his unfinished duty; whether her fall freed his wards is her own speculation.
- DawnbreakerСтолкновениеThe Mad MoonПодразумевается
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 MoonРасколRadiant Ore
The moon's remains settled as Radiant Ore.
- The Mad MoonРасколDirestone
The moon's remains settled as Direstone.
- The Mad MoonРасколNemestice
Nemestice was left drifting with the remnants of the broken moon.
- RadiantЗаключениеThe Mad Moon
Radinthul was imprisoned within the Mad Moon before it broke.
- DireЗаключениеThe Mad Moon
Diruulth was imprisoned within the Mad Moon before it broke.
- 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.
- NemesticeНесёт силуArc Warden
Nemestice carries the power Zet sacrificed to imprison the and . He is not bound within it; he spent his power into it.
- Arc WardenСозданиеThe Mad Moon
Zet forged the Mad Moon as the prison, at the cost of most of his own power.
- Radiant OreВраждаDirestone
The moon's willful fragments carry the warring Ancients' opposition onward; the battle disrupts ages later is theirs.
- DawnbreakerВраждаRadiant
She vows to end both Ancients. Whether her fall freed them is her own speculation.
- DawnbreakerВраждаDire
She vows to end both Ancients. Whether her fall freed them is her own speculation.
- PrellexСлужитRadiantArtifact
Prellex is Priestess of the Radiant and commands its faithful.
- 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.
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- Биография в игреArc Warden official Dota 2 biography (Valve, held): the captives' internal clash, Zet's depleted containment, and the completed shattering
- РепликиDawnbreaker 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'
- Лор событияNemestice event lore (Valve, 2021, held): Radiant Ore, Direstone, and Nemestice as remnants of the shattered moon
- Лор 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