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• Before the Battle by leafgilly

  Fandoms: Dota 2, Defense of the Ancients | Dota  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • No category
  • Work in Progress

  25 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Original Characters
  • Shendelzare the Vengeful Spirit
  • Balanar the Night Stalker
  • Karroch the Beastmaster
  • Atropos the Bane Elemental
  • Vrogros the Underlord
  • Yurnero the Juggernaut
  • The Shopkeeper (Dota 2)
  • Purist Thunderwrath the Omniknight
  • Boush the Tinker
  • Chen the Holy Knight
  • Undying the Almighty Dirge | Dirge the Undying
  • Squee and Spleen and Spoon | Goblin Techies
  • Nerif the Oracle
  • Jakiro the Twin Headed Dragon
  • Rattletrap the Clockwerk
  • Rooftrellen the Treant Protector
  • Pudge the Butcher
  • Zet the Arc Warden
  • Ish’Kafel the Dark Seer
  • Morphling (DOTA)
  • Mercurial the Spectre
  • Meepo the Geomancer
  • Terrorblade the Demon Marauder | Soul Keeper
  • Shadow Demon (DOTA)
  • Mireska Sunbreeze the Dark Willow
  • Rizzrack the Timbersaw | Goblin Shredder
  • Ficlet Collection
  • Not Beta Read
  • Dota 2 Lore
  • October Prompt Challenge

  Summary

  A collection of day-in-the-life ficlets focused on different Dota heroes’ adventures before the war of the Ancients.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,509

  Chapters:

  25/31

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  7

  Hits:

  101