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The universe of Dota 2 contains a world brimming with established regions, races, factions, and characters. And as we all know, no expansive video game universe is complete without all the common fantasy tropes – enchanted forests, castles, wizardry, dwarves, and of course, the token dragon slayer.

Davion was everything you imagine a knight to be. A tall, dark man of honor, brandishing a suit of armor, wielding a sword and a shield as he strides bravely onto the battlefield. Unlike other knights however, Davion was above the mundane nature of simply fighting men. He sought a more ferocious prey, he hunted the winged infernos that were known to terrorize the kingdoms of the world. He was a dragon slayer.

As the years went on, Davion grew in skill and reputation as he bested more and more dragons in combat. He undertook daring exploits, such the time he saved the kingdom of Candoness from the dragon Uldorak, earning him the gratitude of King Tansis XIII. He clad himself in armor forged from parts of slain dragons, and the size of his armory increased exponentially as time went on, with Davion acquiring weaponry such as Dragonmaw – the only known Named Sword; a group of weapons renown for their power.

Over the course of several years, Davion had been on the trail of a legendary Eldwurm, Slyrak. Stories of Slyrak had become the stuff of legends. The beast had once decimated the empire of the powerful sorceress Yulsaria, who built her mighty lair in the northern reaches of Icewrack. Yulsaria commandeered an army of ice golems, which she sent on a campaign of conquest southwards through the region in order to expand her already immense territory. The transgressions of the sorceress angered Slyrak, who rose and rained fiery doom upon Yulsaras’ golem army until it was vanquished, then proceeded to fully decimate her entire empire with his breath of fire.

However, when Davion finally located the legendary beast, what he saw before him was not the beast of legend he had expected to find. Slyrak had been ravaged by the passage of time – it’s once crimson red scales were now few and far between, and stricken with scale-rot; its wings tattered, in a state of disrepair; its fangs dull and ground to stumps; and the gout of fire that once lay Yulsarias empire desolate had been reduced to mere embers, crackling in the air before them. Davion prepared to leave the ancient wurm to its old age, seeing no honor in striking down a frail and defenseless creature that posed no threat to anyone. But Slyrak approached the knight with a desperate plea – the dragon had no desire to succumb to old age, but requested that the knight honor it by granting it death in combat.

Davion decided to grant Slyraks wish, and engaged the aging wurm in mortal combat. The knight soon found the outcome of the battle to be greater than anything he had imagined, for as he struck down the ancient threat, one of Slyraks claws sank itself into the throat of Davion, and as their blood stirred and mingled, Slyrak passed on his power to the knight who so gracefully chose to honor him with the death he always wanted. Upon emerging from Slyraks lair, Davion had become more than an ordinary knight, for the blood of Slyrak now flows through him and gives life to the Dragon Knight.