Some time ago, a time now none of us can quite recall, we began to set our minds on matters of the monstrous. Our work has always concerned itself with the manufacture of frightening things, so there was no reason at that time for alarm.
Until we began to fill a new treasure chest with item sets themed around eldritch and otherworldly designs.
As each horrific creation took more defined shape, unsettling yet tantalizing inspirations took hold of us. Fantastical and Immortal glamours coalesced around each and every set; they grew more spellbinding, a vision that would remain, stuck fast in the mind's eye. Thoughts of monsters birthed thoughts of even more monstrous monsters. Our minds became gateways for greater abominations still, our hands became not our own.
Soon our collection of new item sets numbered fifteen, eldritch abominations from the realm of nightmare all. We knew each thing was hideous. Not one of us could look away. Not one of us was content to stop there.
To master horrors, we required greater horrors... We required ARCANA.
Our first attempt summoned the haunting shape of a Drow Ranger Arcana long thought lost to the flow of time. By some trick of the mind, she can look as she once did or assume a grave-stalking new form.
Our appetites remained unsatisfied.
Our second attempt unleashed something none of us had ever seen, something that hungrily emerged from a bloodstained sea: the all-new Maw of the Megalodon Arcana for the creature called Tidehunter, arriving with a new model, a host of custom animations, effects, taunts, voice lines, and dragging a familiar-looking corpse that serves as one part security blanket and one part snack. A whisper in the darkness, instructing, teasing: "Should one master this Arcana's secrets, one would surely unlock all three of its shark-toothed designs."
This Trove is a doorway to things we cannot explain, let alone understand. The more of these treasures that you open, the more your own minds shine out like beacons to things lurking beyond the limits of reason. Open enough treasures and you're guaranteed to attract the gaze of an all-seeing new Tormentor. Open a number more and you'll surely summon the face of eldritch terror itself, manifesting as an incomprehensible new design for Roshan.
We must part now with one final revelation. Take it as a warning if you wish. We didn't make this treasure... It made itself. We thought we were creating something, but we were not. We were merely the conduit, unknowingly letting something into our world from the great dark beyond: The Trove of Terror — overflowing with a mind-bending number of Immortal item sets, one new and one returning Arcana, and brand-new Tormentor and Roshan appearances — available now.
If you dare, all you need to do is launch Dota to learn more.
Some time ago, a time now none of us can quite recall, we began to set our minds on matters of the monstrous. Our work has always concerned itself with the manufacture of frightening things, so there was no reason at that time for alarm.
Until we began to fill a new treasure chest with item sets themed around eldritch and otherworldly designs.
As each horrific creation took more defined shape, unsettling yet tantalizing inspirations took hold of us. Fantastical and Immortal glamours coalesced around each and every set; they grew more spellbinding, a vision that would remain, stuck fast in the mind's eye. Thoughts of monsters birthed thoughts of even more monstrous monsters. Our minds became gateways for greater abominations still, our hands became not our own.
Soon our collection of new item sets numbered fifteen, eldritch abominations from the realm of nightmare all. We knew each thing was hideous. Not one of us could look away. Not one of us was content to stop there.
To master horrors, we required greater horrors... We required ARCANA.
Our first attempt summoned the haunting shape of a Drow Ranger Arcana long thought lost to the flow of time. By some trick of the mind, she can look as she once did or assume a grave-stalking new form.
Our appetites remained unsatisfied.
Our second attempt unleashed something none of us had ever seen, something that hungrily emerged from a bloodstained sea: the all-new Maw of the Megalodon Arcana for the creature called Tidehunter, arriving with a new model, a host of custom animations, effects, taunts, voice lines, and dragging a familiar-looking corpse that serves as one part security blanket and one part snack. A whisper in the darkness, instructing, teasing: "Should one master this Arcana's secrets, one would surely unlock all three of its shark-toothed designs."
This Trove is a doorway to things we cannot explain, let alone understand. The more of these treasures that you open, the more your own minds shine out like beacons to things lurking beyond the limits of reason. Open enough treasures and you're guaranteed to attract the gaze of an all-seeing new Tormentor. Open a number more and you'll surely summon the face of eldritch terror itself, manifesting as an incomprehensible new design for Roshan.
We must part now with one final revelation. Take it as a warning if you wish. We didn't make this treasure... It made itself. We thought we were creating something, but we were not. We were merely the conduit, unknowingly letting something into our world from the great dark beyond: The Trove of Terror — overflowing with a mind-bending number of Immortal item sets, one new and one returning Arcana, and brand-new Tormentor and Roshan appearances — available now.
If you dare, all you need to do is launch Dota to learn more.
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