Are We Heroes Yet?
Two rogues, Sithil and Quirt, are sent with the guide Roquelaire to recover the broken Demon Edge, and learn what only a hero can carry.
Sithil and Quirt recover a hero's sword and discover what its halves can make of lesser hands.
Two rogues, and , are sent with the guide to recover the broken , and learn what only a hero can carry. The keeper tells the sword's making first. After the broke and the Ancients fell, the forged it from two splinters of the , a hilt and a blade, and killed himself testing it.
The keeper commissions its recovery and sends Roquelaire, who invokes Scree'Auk as the Vulture Goddess along the way. At 's , Sithil retrieves the blade and Quirt the hilt, rescuing him. When the halves collide and rejoin, both rogues become creeps, Sithil and Quirt .
Quirt comes out human after a fall into water, and no one asks why; Sithil stays changed until a later escape. Years on, both are human again, Sithil having spent them arranging Quirt's release, and Quirt claiming a new deal with the keeper over an unnamed tentacled object. No tale gives a year for any of it.
An official comic. The forging is the keeper's account and matches the Demon Shard item text; the transformations are temporary by the epilogue.
Radiant Ore and Direstone fall from the broken Mad Moon, supplying the splinters Abzidian joins in the Demon Edge.
The Fall of the Mad Moon- SithilСпутникQuirtТолько в этом изложении
Partners in the recovery, each rescuing the other in turn, and reunited human in the epilogue after years apart.
- RoquelaireСпутникSithilТолько в этом изложении
He guided the rogues on the keeper's errand to recover .
- RoquelaireСпутникQuirtТолько в этом изложении
He guided the rogues on the keeper's errand to recover .
- Radiant OreВраждаDirestone
The moon's willful fragments carry the warring Ancients' opposition onward; the battle disrupts ages later is theirs.
- AbzidianСозданиеDemon Edge
Forged from two splinters of the ; slew himself testing her edge.
- Demon EdgeНесёт силуRadiant Ore
Her blade is a singing shard of Radiant ore.
- Demon EdgeНесёт силуDirestone
Her hilt, of Direstone cunningly carved.
- RoquelaireСлужитScree'aukПодразумевается
Invokes her as the Vulture Goddess on the road, as a worshiper would.
- 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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- КомиксAre We Heroes Yet? official comic (Valve), pages 11 to 14, 24, 25, 27 to 30, 33 to 38, 47 and 48
- Лор предметов и способностейDemon Shard item text (Valve, 2013), held in the atlas's texts