Dota 2 Hero Lore - Void Spirit & The Great
Confluence
Templar assassin has always searched for knowledge.
in her childhood she was already studying
natures laws, magic, and recreating keen experiments.
She got extremely good at staying hidden,
in order to access secret knowledge equally
well hidden away. Then, while trying to unlock
the ultimate secrets of the universe… She
instead unlocked the hidden temple. There,
a master taught her in his ways, and she grew
incredibly powerful. As long as she stayed
loyal and kept the secrets hidden, her powers
would not be lost. She served the temple and
this master, despite not knowing who he is.
But now with the outlanders update, His identity
has been revealed.
(void spirit intro) Lets listen to his “void”
voice line sone by one, and i will comment
on what it means exactly. So before there
was anything, including the primordial mind
and its shattering, there was the void. Void
is just nothingness. Then, the
great being came, aka elder titan. He then
caused the schism, which shattered the primordial
mind creating the ancients and arc warden,
and then later created the four fundamental
laws 
of the universe, ck, kotl, enigma and io.
Then he saw the expanse of time, which may
mean this is the part where the claszureme
realm came to exist, and faceless void too.
Then amids the chaos, the void finally willed
itself into a being of its own, creating inai
the void spirit.
Theres a lot to speculate about purple things
like dark seer and the place beyond the wall,
faceless void and claszureme, spirit breaker,
even the place where they play artifact to
test out events, the violet plateau and much
more. But i know that siractionslacks has
a huge, amazing theory about this, so i will
leave that to him. I have a seperate theory
of my own.
Void spirit
usually resides in a diferent plane than the
material one, in The hidden temple. (bastion)
The doorway to it is found within nature itself,
and cant be seen by normal people. and If
you watched my snapfire video, you know that
snapfire talks about this place beyond the
barren desert nanarak called the outlands,
which few know of. In my head cannon, the
outlands is where TA found the entrance to
the hidden temple. The hidden ones live in
the temple, and among them is templar assassins
master, Inai, the Void spirit. They are known
by him as the kordomite monks. (koru) Void
spirit is a celestial, and the fourth spirit
brother. I have a video about the spirit brothers
in the top right corner. He is the oldest,
wisest, and at least lore-wise, probably the
most powerful of the four. The secrets and
powers he holds would shatter a regular mortal
mind, but templar assassin was special. He
prefers to stay in his hidden temple, only
observing time and space from afar, and instead
has servants like TA that do his bidding and
protect his forbidden knowledge.
From the void he can see everything, every
timeline, every event, every hero. But one
thing escapes him. While he is able to know
the battle of the ancients is coming, he cant
peak beyond it. (blind) (fabric) He knows
the fabrics of multiple realities will collide,
but what is the conclusion of that? He can
see all the simultaneous timelines are coming
together, meeting like rivers: the great confluence.
But he doesnt know what happens when one ancient
is destroyed - only that a greater conflict
emerges. A bigger threat. This is the same
one spirit breaker has come to fight, because
he too knows that the material plane is only
a shadow of the elemental one, where he and
the celestials reside. But from artifacts
twitter, we know that after one ancient is
destroyed, the timeline just resets. I wouldnt
word a reset the way Void spirit and templar
assassin does. I think either this is a hole
in the writing, or a void if you will hehe,
OR the statement could have been retconned.
Every dota game is cannon, because its every
timeliene, every outcome, every reality we
see for example in the oracle and phantom
assassin comic. But it makes more sense that
they are simultaneous, rather than after one
another. The artifact tweet and TA voice line
are in my understanding conflicting, and dont
make sense. (voice line) It makes sense that
void spirit cant peak beyond the battle of
the ancients, because there literally is no
time there, since it gets reset back to zero.
But this makes no sense when he talks about
the timelines meeting in a confluence, implying
they are simultaneous, and the sensing of
a greater conflict after it. There cant be
a greater conflict, if the timeline jsut resets.
They would NOT make it this big a deal that
they put it in his lore bio, if this great
thing that happens when an ancient is destroyed,
wasnt a great event of its own… Maybe even
enough to make a game out of? So we have artifact
which is kind of a prequel, since its all
events happening between the sundering of
the mad moon, and dota 2. We also have underlords,
which is also a brawl happening prior to the
final battle of the ancients. But we have
never seen a sequel to the original dota 2
before… Is it just me, or is the way they
talk about this thing happening AFTER dota,
kind of like a setup for something new? And
it cant just be an event, because whatever
it is, it would have to happen AFTER an ancient
is destroyed, which is literally what ends
a dota game. I dont know, but that would honestly
be amazing.
After all of this, lets read the second half
of his lore. “With an expansive perspective
on existence, Inai is focused intently on
a point in time beyond which he cannot see,
when the fabrics of multiple realities are
fated to collide. Now he steps from the aether
to personally resolve the battle of the Ancients
and prepare his allies for what he views as
a greater conflict to come.” And now you
can decide for yourself if you think this
opposes the timeline resetting or not. I personally
think either they forgot about it, or retconned
that tweet. Especially because earthshakers
arcana is kinda hinting more in the void spirit
direction than the artifact tweet one. siractionslacks
has a great video about the earthshaker arcana
if you havent seen it.
For now, lets just say that USUALLY an ancient
being destroyed resets the timeline, and usually
void spirit knows about that because the void
is infinite even beyond time, but at one point
for some reason something else happens, as
multiple realities collide in the confluence.
And that greater conflict for some reason,
he cant see.
So thats it for void spirit, thank you so
much for watching. Im finally done with the
outlanders update, so i can get back to regular
uploads. Next up is crystal maiden, as well
as some artifact guides. The long haul league
main events are happening this weekend, and
then on monday the league starts over. So
if you want to join from the start, make sure
to join the discord and look out for lobbies
starting next week!
Anyways, until then, have a wonderful day,
and PEACEE
