So first of all - disregard what i said about
whitespire in my last underlords video. Let
start fresh.
Whitespire, is as far as we know, a completely
independant city state, and its seperate from
revtel and weeping rose. Weeping rose is similar
to whitespire, and they might be neighbors.
Revtel might also neighbor whitespire, and
is a nation seperated into 3 kingdoms. Dont
worry i know its a bit confusing, but all
you have to know is that whitespire is its
own thing. It used to be run by momma eeb,
a keen looking woman who ruled it with an
iron fist, but then she was assassinated,
and her four selected underlords are now fighting
to take each of their district, and eventually
the whole city. Lets first cover the basics
of whitespire, and then talk about each distrcit
and its underlord.
Whitespire is a city known for its scummy
low life inhabitants. Bar fights, backstabbing,
swindling, smuggling, scheming and other shenanigans
are the norm, but behind it theres suprizingly
a somewhat stable infrastructure. Bars, shows,
and even a sort of police called the Rookery
are well established, and also betting on
courier races. The rookery is likely led by
the ravenhooks, the raven humanoid looking
things you see in the newspaper and from an
artifact card. The reason why whitespire has
been able to have this stability, might be
because of their former leader, momma eeb.
She was first mentioned in meepos lore in
artifact, where her prowess is shown in meepos
fear of her. Then now in city crawl, we hear
first hand from hobgen who was her leutenant,
how respectable she was. Hes a psycho asshole,
but even he would never go against her, and
puts a lot of emphasis on fulfilling her wishes.
Some new factions that have been emphasized
in underlords, are the dragons of dragon hold,
and trolls. The trolls are following the dark
troll cheiftan, j’muy. He was First planning
to seek asylum in weeping rose, but the quorum
there told him he would first have to deliver
them whitespire. So thats what he is doing.
He probably will not be an underlord, he is
simply part of the puzzles and stuff in citycrawl,
trying to take over the districts.
Now before we talk about each underlord and
district, lets look at the trailer video.
Anessix is a demon who is trying to gain power
over whitespire, while also maintaining a
good relationship with the court of ristul.
The court of ristul is an institution for
demons, but little else is known about it.
Anessix kind of explains why all these big
otherworldy things like weaver and the spirit
brothers take part in streetfights, because
she is looking for more than just control
of the city. For her, thats only the beginning.
She is known as the mistress of secrets, and
likes to control people by giving them what
they want and make them indebted to her - kind
of like the devil does according to some beliefs
IRL. Shes an earthbound demon, but can still
summon demons to help her out in a fight.
Anessix is trying to take control over the
district little revtel, which probably got
its name because of its similarities to the
nation. I have a video that goes more in detail
about anessix, if you want more than just
the basics. Youll find it in the top right
corner, along with my video on hobgen, jull
and enno.
Hobgen is a fairy, and likely from the fairy
kingdom that lord sunbreeze rules over. Its
part of revtel, and is likely inhabited by
fairies. But now he has set his sight on the
district New tenebrous. He is a chaotic neutral
psychopath who loves to set things on fire
and bring chaos in general. Hes basically
the joker from DC comics, but a fairy in love
with fire and mireska the dark willow. He
quite literally just wants to see the world
burn. Suprizingly though, he does have some
principles, and he remains loyal to those
he respects. Thats why he still mourns mama
eeb, and is deeply in love with dark willow
and does anything to impress her. While anessix
and jull seems to somehwat get along, anessix
and hobgen do NOT. She is trying to have him
killed. They are all competitive, but there
seems to be some extra rivalry between the
two. They also both have very different approaches
to controlling people. Hobgen was moma eebs
most feared leutenant, her right hand, and
was maybe the one closest to her of all her
underlords.
Jull is a walrusbear, the same kind as tusk,
and they were friends back in the day. As
such, Jull is likely from the north, more
specifically icewrack. He smuggles liquor
and sells it at his bar, the sundered moon.
The district he controls is port slipshade,
where he does his business which includes
exchanging exotic things to serve on his menu,
and competing with other pubs. If anessix
is the devil and hobgen is the joker, jull
is the ultimate neutral evil russian mafia
boss. Though suprizingly, he doesnt mind getting
his own hands dirty, and will gladly fight
in the frontlines. Where anessix and hobgen
are rivals, julls rival is enno. They absolutely
HATE eachother.
Enno is a little furry creature trying to
take over the warrens. In the warrens, only
the natives are safe. What kind Enno is exactly
is unknown, but there are many anthropomorphic
characters in dota, so hes likely just another
one. He doesnt say much intelligeble, but
we know that he spends his free time patrolling
the warrens looking for anyone who doesnt
belong there, to kill them. He got power over
the district by poisoning the water supply
and killing a lot of people, and poison is
a code word for him. Like a simple animal,
he likes shiny things, and even attempted
to steal KOTLs staff. His way of fighting
includes poison darts and stealing the enemies
items, and jumping around chaotically in general.
I think this part from city crawl explains
him well: "It's no secret that of the 4 ascendant
Underlords, Enno is the dark horse.  He has
no business ventures.  He has no demonic
allies.  He never stood at Momma Eeb's right
hand.  To say that Enno feels like he has
something to prove is an understatement."
Other than the four current underlords, we
also have some information on six more upcoming
ones. If you have already seen my video on
Tyler mcvickers valve news network youtube
channel, you can skip to this time on the
screen.
Famed fight promoter and blood sport show
arranger Grek, is looking to rise above his
station and is trying to make a move against
all 4 of Eeb's Chosen, anessix, hobgen, jull
and enno. He is most likely the guy we see
in monkey kings comic, because the comic is
happening near julls bar, the sundered moon,
which is in whitespire. And additionally,
from city crawl we learn that grek knows monkey
king personally. So the evidence is pretty
clear. Grek is a scammy, scummy, asshole,
who owns a large collection of animals. Hes
maybe doing something resembling roman collosseum
fights, where it was common to have both people
and animals fight to the death. His animals
include dota 2, underlords and artifact creeps
such as thunderhides, wildwings, year beasts
and hellbears. Hes also known as a snakeoil
salesman, which means someone who is trying
to sell you some psuedoscientific medicine
or remedy, knowing it doesnt actually do anything.
Grek is trying to rise to the rank of an underlord,
but the four current underlords have been
underestimating him, and are only recently
taking notice and fighting back. My guess
is he will have something to do with summons,
as is described in encounters in city crawl.
He cant fight someone like jull one on one,
but instead overwhelms him with his goons
and creatures. He has also worked with o'nia
to take down anessix, whom i will come back
to. So he is capable of colabborating with
others on a shared goal. My guess is hes the
next underlord to be announced in season 2.
Wren is momma eebs daughter, and seems to
be some sort of traveler. Shes most likely
a troll or keen, considering eebs picture,
and is friends with dragon hold. Dragon hold,
and dragons as a species is a new and more
detailed faction introduced in underlords,
which is affiliated with dragon knight and
a new character, kaden. During the early beta
of underlords, the portraits of each player
looked like this, and this one image is what
im guessing is wren. Shes friends with nice,
human characters like lycan, kunkka, windranger
and mirana.
Carl is NOT invoker, but a new character we
know very little about. He most likely looks
similar to pudge and undying, because hes
an undead tailor. Lifestealer has been mistaken
for the same kind as carl, so hes definitely
a grotesque looking character, and maybe from
the fields of endless carnage where pudges
people hail from. Though he might not be that
bad a person, as he seems a bit sensitive.
Other inhabitants of the fields of endless
carnage are also nice, so he could be one
of the more sympathetic future underlords,
like wren. Dead bodies can be delivered to
carl for some cash, as he uses them for his
work. He is likely affiliated with the heartless
alliance.
O'nia is a banished merchant from revtel,
a nearby nation consisting of 3 kingdoms.
Shes wealthy, and always looking for a good
investment. We have no idea what she looks
like, other than that shes from revtel which
is inhabited by among other things, humans.
So she may be a human, and this one in particular.
Little else is known about her.
Quiet is an automaton from iron fog, one of
the kingdoms of revtel. She is very concerned
with details, efficiency and precicion. She
likely looks like this geary robot thing,
which is similar to the king of iron fog,
the brass herald. She will likely be friends
with the keens, as she was before they were
removed from the game.
Turath is a pretty enigmatic character, and
as such he is friendly with primordials, the
spirit brothers and other otherworly things
like weaver, razor and faceless void. He is
also hunted by the tyler estate, which is
an organization from revtel that hunts down
magic abusers. Otherwise little else is known
about him.
So dont get me wrong, i love underlords. BUt
im not gonna lie, i have my favourites and…
less favourites within the dota IP. Theres
a reason why i havent made underlords content,
and its quite simply because it makes me a
bit angry at times. Theres a lot of contradioctions
in the story, which i honestly think is because
valve got sloppy and thought nobody is gonna
care enough to check it anyways. Well here
i am, fact checking, and you do not pass the
test. Lets go through my main complaints.
First of all, theyre calling lycan the last
son of slom. He is the last son of ambry,
not slom. Slom is a kingdom of revtel, which
other than having their king slain, still
has many inhabitants. I have a whole video
explaining the kwerthias slom thing, and i
know for a FACT this is true, because of a
voiceline i have linked as a pinned comment
below the video. Theres no question. So this
is simply lazy. The video is linked up right.
Also, dark reef is a prison. It has ever ONLY
been referred to as a prison, and only that.
dark reef and dark reef prison has been used
interchangeably and synonymously. But now,
jull is doing business with them exchanging
goods? Like as if its a city? The city, or
nation, or whatever, would be crey. Theres
literally already an underwater place they
could have used. This is a minor thing though,
as you could always just excuse it as them
expanding upon the current lore.
Then theres the timeline issues. This is a
lot to unpack, but i will try my best not
to be confusing. So the happenings in artifact,
are BEFORE underlords, right? Because rix
has taken the oath, the whole lycan beastmaster
kwerthias thing is referred to in past tense,
sven is still part of the vigil knights, even
though he uses the blade he was supposed to
only steal after rebelling against them, and
j’muy is seeking refuge. So all of this
points to first artifact, then underlords.
then why the FRICK is meepo talking about
momma eeb being alive, while dark willow has
been caught? that places underlords before
artifact.
These are just a few examples, theres a lot
of tiny things like razor and the court of
ristul and some other things that bother me,
but the most annoying part is definitely svens
sword, beastmasters age, and dark willow being
caught while mama eeb is still alive.
Sorry for the negativity, i just had to get
this off my chest so i can move on. I promise
to only be positive from now, even though
the underlords lore is my least favourite
of the three. WHY is THE WEAVER OF REALITY,
the FACELES VOID FROM THE TIME REALM CLASZUREME,
THE FUNDAMENTALS and THE SPIRITBROTHERS JOINING
STREETFIGHTS? Anessix wanting to eventually
take over the primordial plane as the reason
is so awful writing and makes absolutely no
sense. WHy is she starting with a rinky dink
city???
ok. im done. thanks for watching, and thank
you tyler for the opportunity. Peace guys,
jull and enno videos coming up!
PEACEE
