Dota 2 Eredar, The Shadow Demon (Unranked All Pick)

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Published on May 7, 2023 8:56:46 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlTiRqcJn4

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• In DotA, Shadow Demon's hero name was Eredar. This was removed in his transition to Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard as the Eredar are a race of magic wielders from the Warcraft universe.
• In earlier versions of DotA, Shadow Demon's in-game model was a Gnoll Warden, a canine-like creature in Warcraft. However, in 6.72 through 6.74, Shadow Demon's model was replaced with a purple Eredar Warlock. From 6.75 onwards, Shadow Demon's model was once again changed to Archimonde's Warcraft III model, a blue variant of Eredar Warlock.
• Shadow Demon's first model in DotA would eventually reused for Arc Warden.
• Shadow Demon's fun/alternate name was "Giblet", innards of birds that are used in cooking.
• All of Shadow Demon's ability sound effects have some of his voice lines interpolated. The used lines are all in the demon language "Ozkavosh".

Lore: Among the sovereign demons with explicit access to this world, Doom scarcely bothers with the affairs of Noninfernals and Lesser Spectral Consorts, while Shadow Fiend passes through almost exclusively on collecting expeditions. The Shadow Demon, however, has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the material plane, as if sensing that mastery of this gritty dimensional nexus might be the key to total domination of all realities.

Summoned first by minor wizards, the Shadow Demon granted every wish and put on increasingly impressive displays of power until he had the full attention of the greatest demonologists, and through them the various lords, tyrants, autarchs and hierophants who depended on sorcery to buttress their mundane power. So great was his deception that all his summoners considered themselves the master and Shadow Demon the servant; meanwhile, he eroded their identities and made their minds his own. In the end, most members of the cult were hollow puppets, extensions of his evil will.

What Shadow Demon's next step would have been remains open to speculation, for around this time, Nevermore the Shadow Fiend bit into a particularly nasty-tasting soul and discovered that it held nothing but a foul nougat of Shadow Demon's essence. Alerted that a coup was underway, and that the ancient equilibrium of the Umbral Pact was about to be destabilized, Doom and Shadow Fiend briefly joined forces to destroy the burgeoning cult. Combining spells of incredible force, they undid Shadow Demon's centuries of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens—and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon's next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup.

Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place in our world...yet Shadow Demon does not lack for followers.
Alias: SD
Voice Actor: Nolan North

Developer and Publisher: Valve
Designer: IceFrog
Writers: Marc Laidlaw, Ted Kosmatka, Kris Katz
Composer: Jason Hayes, Tim Larkin
Series: Defense of the Ancients
Engine: Source engine 2
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, OSX
Release: Windows (July 9, 2013), Linux, OSX (July 18, 2013)
Genre: Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)

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