It’s unclear why these lines haven’t been used and Terrorblade contains no responses specific to Anti-Mage, with most of his lore-focused kill lines and greetings dedicated to other demonic characters.
Illidan and Malfurion were brothers in WarCraft, and Dota 2 also casts Terrorblade and Anti-Mage as siblings.ĭota 2 has a series of unused Anti-Mage voice lines in the Dota 2 files that explicitly reference Terrorblade as his estranged brother. WarCraft 3 uses the model of the young elven Illidan for Anti-Mage, and the demonic Illidan for Terrorblade.
They still maintain a close relationship that can be found in hidden Dota 2’s voice lines. While Nature’s Prophet was apparently cut out of the family in the jump from Defense of the Ancients to Dota 2, that isn’t the case with Anti-Mage and Terrorblade. Why didn’t Valve commit to using the “Furion” name? That answer has likely been lost to history. There are no apparent ties between Nature’s Prophet and those two in Dota 2. Malfurion is also the brother of Illidan Stormrage, whose character models were used for both Anti-Mage and Terrorblade.
While the “Furion” name attached to Nature’s Prophet is the most enduring DotA 1 name of all, Valve has completely forsaken it and simply refer to the popular offlaner as “Nature’s Prophet.” But Furion wasn’t the character’s full name in the first place.įurion was an abbreviation of Malfurion Stormrage, the WarCraft 3 character that served as his avatar in DotA 1. For example, Drow Ranger is referred to as “Traxex the Drow Ranger” and Lifestealer is “N’aix the Lifestealer.”īelieve it or not, Nature’s Prophet isn’t actually one of them. Most Dota 2 heroes have rarely used first names. Furion isn’t the full name of Nature’s Prophet Kimahri does not have the ability to duplicate himself in any way, and instead copies the ability of enemy monsters in a way that is more similar to Doom. However, in terms of their combat abilities they’re not at all alike. Both are anthropomorphized cat people with blue fur and white beards that use spears.
Even today, there are striking similarities between Dota 2’s Phantom Lancer and Kimahri.