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Once a Grandmaster of the Demon Witch tradition of sorcery, Lion earned fame among his brethren for fighting on the side of light and righteousness. But adulation corrupts. With powers surpassed only by his ambition, the mage was seduced by a demon and turned to evil, trading his soul for prestige. After committing horrible crimes that marred his soul, he was abandoned. The demon betrayed him, striking better deals with his enemies. Such was Lion's rage that he followed the demon back to hell and slew it, ripping it limb from limb, taking its demonic hand for his own. However, such demonoplasty comes at a cost. Lion was transfigured by the process, his body transformed into something unrecognizable. He rose from hell, rage incarnate, slaying even those who had once called him master, and laying waste to the lands where he had once been so adored. He survives now as the sole practitioner of the Demon Witch tradition, and those who present themselves as acolytes or students are soon relieved of their mana and carried off by the faintest gust of wind.
The fabric of creation needs constant care, lest it grow tattered; for when it unravels, whole worlds come undone. It is the work of the Weavers to keep the fabric tight, to repair worn spots in the mesh of reality. They also defend from the things that gnaw and lay their eggs in frayed regions, whose young can quickly devour an entire universe if the Weavers let their attention lapse. Skitskurr was a master Weaver, charged with keeping one small patch of creation tightly woven and unfaded. But the job was not enough to satisfy. It nagged him that the original work of creation all lay in the past; the Loom had done its work and travelled on. He wanted to create rather than merely maintain--to weave worlds of his own devising. He began making small changes to his domain, but the thrill of creation proved addictive, and his strokes became bolder, pulling against the pattern that the Loom had woven. The guardians came, with their scissors, and Weaver's world was pared off, snipped from the cosmic tapestry, which they rewove without him in it. Skitskurr found himself alone, apart from his kind, a state that would have been torment for any other Weaver. But Skitskurr rejoiced, for now he was free. Free to create for himself, to begin anew. The raw materials he needed to weave a new reality were all around him. All he had to do was tear apart this old world at the seams.
Link to Liam's reply: http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=133219&page=3&p=1140729&viewfull=1#post1140729This is Liam at Valve. I'll reach out to Seifer and Voshond directly, but here's how we generally address use of our intellectual property by customers:Under the Steam Subscriber Agreement, we allow our customers to use game assets (art, etc.) for noncommercial purposes in support of the game community. For example, we're happy to see free mods of our games. For apps, that means free apps are ok. We don't allow customers to use our assets in paid apps (including apps supported by ingame sales).If apps refer to our trademarks, we permit people to refer to our trademark to indicate compatibility or a reason like that (e.g. "XYZ Companion App for Dota 2"). We don't (and can't) allow customers to use Valve trademarks in a way that suggests their apps come from Valve (e.g. "The Dota 2 App!").In addition, use of the web API is governed by terms posted here: http://steamcommunity.com/dev.
2. LICENSES
D. License to Use Valve Game IP in Fan Art.
Valve appreciates the community of Subscribers that creates fan art, fan fiction, and audio-visual works that reference Valve games ("Fan Art"). You may incorporate content from Valve games into your Fan Art. Except as otherwise set forth in this Section or in any Subscription Terms, you may use, reproduce, publish, perform, display and distribute Fan Art that incorporates content from Valve games however you wish, but solely on a non-commercial basis.
If you incorporate any third-party content in any Fan Art, you must be sure to obtain all necessary rights from the owner of that content.
Commercial use of some Valve game content is permitted via features such as Steam Workshop or a Steam Subscription Marketplace. Terms applicable to that use are set forth in Section 3.D. and 6.B. below and in any Subscription Terms provided for those features.
To view the Valve video policy containing additional terms covering the use of audio-visual works incorporating Valve IP or created with The Source® Filmmaker Software, please click here: http://www.valvesoftware.com/videopolicy.htmlIf you get a "Violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy" from Google for your Android app, it may be because your app name starts with Dota. Examples of this are "Dota 2 Quiz", "Dota 2 Assistant", "DotA 2 PEDIA", "Dota 2 Wallpapers", "Dota 2 Guide", "DotA 2 Database", "Dota 2 Art", or "Dota 2 Builds". Although not guaranteed, it is safer to have an app name that follows the format "X for Dota" or "Y for Dota 2". So from the examples, it would be "Quiz for Dota 2", "Assistant for Dota 2", "PEDIA for DotA 2", "Wallpapers for Dota 2", "Guide for Dota 2", "Database for DotA 2", "Art for Dota 2", or "Builds for Dota 2". But, if you are going to have the word "Dota", "DOTA", or "Defense of the Ancients" in your app name, I suggest that you follow Valve's Dota Trademark guidelines found at http://www.valvesoftware.com/trademarkguidelines.html
Ulfsaar the Warrior is the fiercest member of an ursine tribe, protective of his land and his people. During the long winters, while the mothers sleep and nurse their cubs, the males patrol the lands above as tireless, vigilant defenders of their ancient ways. Hearing dim but growing rumors of a spreading evil, Ulfsaar headed out beyond the boundaries of his wild wooded homeland, intending to track down and destroy the threat at its source, before it could endanger his people. He is a proud creature with a bright strong spirit, utterly trustworthy, a staunch ally and defender.
