Dota 2 Hero Lore - Why ancient apparition
is the strongest hero lore wise
Whats popping gamers?
Kaldr, the ancient apparition, is a very interesting
hero. He is the embodiment of the element
ice and cold, and is among the oldest heroes
in the game. He predates time, and only gets
stronger and stronger as the end comes nearer.
Kaldr means cold in old norse, so he could
also be the embodiment of the norse mythological
doomsday, ragnarok. Ragnarok is a series of
events which will lead to a lot of the norse
gods dying. It includes fimbulwinter, a catastrophic
battle, natural disasters, and basically noahs
ark style everyone dies but a male and female
human who will repopulate. A bunch of powerful
beings dying during a great battle sounds
awfully familiar doesnt it? And fimbulwinter
is a prophesiced 3 year long winter where
winds blow from every direction, and the sun
cant get through. This will cause poeple to
starve and become desperate, losing their
morals and killing their kin. So the doomsday
of ragnarok includes a very cold part, which
maybe is what kaldr the ancient apparition
is, since he gets stronger and younger and
colder as the end is getting closer. But…
this does not make satisfactory sense. And
since he is not in artifact or underlords,
theres nothing else to get a hint from either.
But then… i realized something after some
research, which blew y mind and made me get
not just closure about what the hero means,
but also an incredible respect for him, and
he may even be the strongest hero in the universe.
I will get back to this. First, lets talk
about his origins and relationships.
Behind the hero
In dota 1, ancient apparition actually had
a very similar lore bio as lich from dota
2. He was a powerful mage once, who was banished
to a tomb of ice for al eternity. After a
long time he was freed by, ironically enough,
the lich king, but he was no longer capable
of gratitude or anything other than hatred.
Also worthy of note in dota 1, he had his
own custom model, and not just one taken from
warcraft 3.
Relationships
He doesnt seem to have any friends. But according
to monkey king he wants to ask crystal maiden
on a date. Most of his encounters even with
allies, poeple are neutral or hostile to him.
Especially enigma, the gravity fundamental,
looks down on him. This is interesting, because
ancient apparition predates enigma. Enigma
was not around before the universe, but kaldr
was. So if he doesnt look down on him for
being younger, then it must be for being…
weaker. This made me think, who is the strongest
hero in the dotaverse? And while i know others
ahve done this in the past, i feel like ancient
apparition has been underestimated. And in
my journey of figuring out exactly how strong
kaldr is lore-wise, i discovered that he is
not just stronger than enigma. Heck, he might
be stronger than EVERYONE. Allow me to explain.
Speculation
So most of the people i have talked to about
this, think weaver is the strongest hero lore
wise. That is because he is the weaver of
the mesh of reality that the dota universe
is set in. other notable competitors are elder
titan who caused the schism, and in my headcannon
he was the one who even shattered the primordial
mind. Some also value the fundamentals chaos
knight, keeper of the light, enigma and io
very highly, as they are some of the oldest
heroes and they control each their fundamental
forces of physics. And of course faceless
void, puck, OD, morphling, dark seer and any
demon could be considered, since they are
not from the terrene plane, our realm or our
planet. But after realizing what ancient apparition
is, all of these just seem kind of meh in
comparison. Weaver is of course a very strong
second place still, be he is NOT the strongest
in my opinion.
That is MA BOI kaldr the ancient apparition.
His lore is a bit cryptic, but basically what
it actually means is, he is the embodiment
of heat death. Also known as big chill or
big freeze, its a theory that higher and higher
entropy is predicted to cause the heat death
of the universe. The entropy of lost energy
spreads disorder into the finite cosmos, resulting
in thermodynamic equilibrium, which then would
make life unsustainable. Basically, even distribution
of energy make space go cold and life die.
And while weaver is indeed incredibly powerful,
even he uses energy while working. And nothing
can be perfect. And the imperfect lost energy
has to be spilt out somewhere, becoming disorder,
feeding ancient apparitions power. His source
of power is entropy.
Entropy is basically about enrgy distribution
within a finite space. The entropy is low
if its all concentrated in one place, while
its high if its evenly spread out, within
the space. Everytime you do something, you
spend energy on doing that particular task.
But nothing is perfect, so some energy is
wasted, and being distributed outside of the
concentrated point you wanted it to be within.
That means you have made more entropy. Now
imagine that finite space is the universe.
Energy is concentrated in suns, planets, everything
you do and anywhere else photons go. And then,
theoretically, life will end when the entropy
within the universe is so high, and the energy
so spread out evenly, that we reach heat death.
And heat death, contrary to what its name
suggests, actually means that because we have
reached thermodynamic equilibrium, which means
that basically energy cant be transfered because
entropy must always rise, the temperature
will decrease, and life will become unsustainable.
And the higher the entropy is, and the closer
we are to the end and heat death, the stronger
ya boy kaldr becomes. Now since weaver is
literally creating reality, that should mean
he could just weave that aa gets useless and
dies, or that the concept of entropy isnt
a thing right? Well no, because entropy must
exist even where the weavers, the loom and
the guardians are. If they were all powerful,
then the bugs growing eggs in the fabric of
reality would have been written out long ago.
Entropy is present everywhere and is inescapable,
but every other element, fundamental or even
god must obey rules and utilize energy. Everything
needs a source for their power, the only infinity
that exists is the amount of things that can
go wrong. That is what entropy is, the possability
that things will not be in comlete order.
If you throw a bunch of bricks in a pile,
they are much more likely to be a random mess,
than a nice, neat, orderly stack. No matter
how powerful whoever is now, in the end, the
only one left will be heat death itself, aka
kaldr the ancient apparition - the image projected
of the inevitable cold end.
But thats just a theory, and im kind of an
idiot, so if i got anything wrong about heat
death or entropy please correct me in the
comments and i will pin it!
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