Faceless Void

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This article is mostly accurate for the latest version of the game (7.37b), in which this hero/item was changed.
It has no changes in the current game version — 7.37e.

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Faceless Void

#27

20 + 2.6

19 + 3.3

15 + 1.5

Grants the following bonuses per attribute point:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed +1 Main Attack Damage
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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560 +3

255 +0.75

3.17 Armor (666.51 EHP)

26.5% Magic Resist (761.9 EHP)

56 ‒ 62 ▶️ Damage (59 Avg)

Instant Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

150 Attack Range (600)

100 (119) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.5 + 0.56 Animation

300 / 330 ▶️ Move Speed

0.9 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.116s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Default Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_faceless_void

2011-02-19 Released

2004-02-03 (v0.60)

Competitive Span 2011-02-19 — 2015-12-16 2015-12-20 — Present

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Can freeze his enemies in time.
Darkterror is a being for whom the laws of spacetime do not apply. He fast-forwards Back and Forth through space, Time Walking past obstacles, manipulating it to dodge any damage taken and Pausing his enemies in place momentarily. Enemies near him feel his gravitational presence and experience Time Dilation, slowing not only their movement, but also the rate at which spells can be cast. He rips open a rift, bringing all but himself to a complete standstill. Frozen in Time, enemies can only stand oblivious as the Faceless Void dismantles them from within.
Roles:	Carry Initiator Disabler Escape Durable
Adjectives	NicePecs Legs ( 2 )

Facets

Chronosphere

Chronosphere is Faceless Void's ultimate ability with the selected facet.

Trap all units caught within the radius and causes Faceless Void to move very quickly inside it. Reveals invisible enemies within the sphere.

Time Zone

Time Zone is Faceless Void's ultimate ability with the selected facet.

Alters the speed of various properties for both allied and enemy units within the squared-zone.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Applies Time Lock of the corresponding level onto all units at the landing destination.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Reverse Time Walk ability.

Available for a short time after landing Time Walk. If used in a certain time period, Faceless Void will reverses time walk back to the previous cast location.

Increases max travel distance.

Talents

+140 Chronosphere Radius +200 Time Zone Radius	25	+20% Backtrack
-1s Time Walk Cooldown	20	+80 Chronosphere Attack Speed +80 Time Zone Attack Speed Change
+12% Time Dilation Move Speed Slow +12 Time Dilation Attack Speed Slow	15	+30 Time Lock Damage
+0.5s Time Walk Damage Timer	10	+7 Time Dilation Damage per Second
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Bio

From a place beyond time, and time beyond counting.

▶️  Darkterror, the Faceless Void

Alias:

FV

Lore:

Darkterror the Faceless Void is a visitor from Claszureme, a realm outside of time. It remains a mystery why this being from another dimension believes the struggle for the Nemesis Stones is worth entering our physical plane, but apparently an upset in the balance of power in this world has repercussions in adjacent dimensions. Time means nothing to Darkterror, except as a way to thwart his foes and aid his allies. His long-view of the cosmos has given him a remote, disconnected quality, although in battle he is quite capable of making it personal.

Voice:

Dave Fennoy (Responses)

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Distortion Field

Distortion Field

Ability

Passive / Aura

Affects

Units

Applies an attack projectile speed factor on offensive and incoming enemy attack projectiles within the radius, centered around the time master.

Affects projectiles even if Faceless Void isn't the attacked target.

Radius: 600

Projectile Speed Factor: 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5

This ability levels up with Chronosphere.

Details

• Does not affect spell projectiles.

• Stacks additively with other attack projectile speed factor sources.

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Other Bash sources are passively disabled on Faceless Void.

Darkterror brings all but himself and his likeness to a complete standstill within the Chronosphere.

Darkterror reigns within spacetime. Him and his likeness are immune to the Time Zone effects.

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• Bash sources are innately disabled for Faceless Void, even when Time Lock is not learned.

• For Chronosphere:
  • Faceless Void and all illusions based on him, regardless of faction, are innately immune to Chronosphere's disable.

• For Time Zone:
  • Faceless Void and all illusions based on him, regardless of faction, are innately immune to Time Zone's negative ability effects, but are not buffed by enemy instances.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  The bash component innate ability notes do not apply.

Backtrack

2

2

Backtrack

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

The time manipulator has a chance to avoid damage entirely.

Proc Chance: ( 20%)

Darkterror sees what has yet to be seen.

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• LEVEL 25
  Learning the talent unlocks this ability.

• This ability has the following properties:
  • Fully negates damage (after all reductions), causing on-damage effects to not trigger.
  • Does not negate any other ability effects other than damage and/or damage instances.
  • Has a lower priority than evasion sources.
    • When evasion procs, Backtrack cannot proc on that attack.

• Does not negate the following mechanics:
  • Heal
  • HP Removal sources.

• Backtrack uses pseudo-random distribution.

modifier_faceless_void_backtrack

Hidden modifier

• Increases Faceless Void's effective health on an average of against all damage types.

Abilities

Time Walk

Q

W

Time Walk

▶️

Ability

Point / Passive

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Rushes to a target location while healing up from any damage taken in the last few seconds.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0

Cast Range: Global

Max Travel Distance: 650/700/750/800 ( 800/850/900/950)

Damage Taken to Self-Heal Factor: 1

Damage Timer: 2 ( 2.5)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Applies Time Lock of the corresponding level onto all units at the landing destination.

Radius: ( 400)

Effect Delay: ( 0.4)

Number of Instances: ( 1)

Landing Damage: ( 12/18/24/30) ( 42/48/54/60)

Instant Attack Factor: ( 1)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases max travel distance.

24/18/12/6 ( 23/17/11/5)

40

Darkterror tears a hole in time, passing through Claszureme, and appearing back in an instant.

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• Grants Faceless Void a 2 ( 2.5)-second damage counter that accumualtes all damage type Faceless Void receives, upon learning the ability.
  • Does not accumulate HP Removal sources.

• Grants the following bonuses upon cast:
  • Turns invulnerable while traveling.
  • Heals Faceless Void based on the accumulated damage counter value.

• Does not disjoint projectiles upon cast.

• Time Walk utilizes the forced movement mechanic, and has the following properties:
  • EXPR
    PointDistance < MaxDistance Time Walk moves Faceless Void toward the point-targeted distance.

• SCEPTER NOTES
  0.4 seconds upon cast, Time Walk applies time_lock_force_proc debuff to enemy units within the radius, which procs Time Lock of the corresponding level at the destination point.
  • Time Lock applied this way cannot proc more than once.
  • Dispelling the time_lock_force_proc debuff prevents only the instant attack component from occurring.

• Affects the following units:
  • Ethereal units.
  • Fogged units.
  • Hidden units.

• Does not affect the following units:
  • Enemy Couriers.
  • Invisible units.

• Affect enemy units up to 1050/1100/1150/1200 ( 1200/1250/1300/1350) away with the travel distance and effect radius.

• BREAK
  Does not disable the Time Walk proc at the destination area.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Requires drafting Time Lock for its corresponding component to work.

modifier_faceless_void_time_walk_tracker

Hidden modifier

modifier_faceless_void_time_walk

Hidden modifier

modifier_faceless_void_time_walk_shardbuff

Time Walking: Ready to Reverse Time Walk.

modifier_faceless_void_time_lock_force_proc

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  Despite not performing instant attacks, for melee units, if the enemy target is 350 range farther than the attacker's range, the attack will always miss.

Reverse Time Walk

D

D

Reverse Time Walk

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Available for a short time after landing Time Walk. If used in a certain time period, Faceless Void will reverses time walk back to the previous cast location.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Reversal Time Window: 1.5

0.5

0

Sub-ability of Time Walk.

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• Acquiring Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the      fourth ability slot.

• Reverse Time Walk only moves Faceless Void back to the position upon cast, using the same travel speed.
  • Neither reverse the heal nor procs Time Lock.

• This sub-ability stays inactive until Time Walk is cast and turns inactive again once the reversal time window passes.
  • Cooldown resetting sources immediately turns this sub-ability inactive.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Replaces Time Walk while active as a regular sub-ability.

• Recasting Time Walk multiple times within 1.5 seconds moves Faceless Void back to the first point before Time Walk was cast, upon casting Reverse Time Walk.

Time Dilation

W

R

Time Dilation

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Traps all nearby enemies in a time dilation field, decelerating their cooldowns and slowing their movement and attack speed per cooldown extended.

Deals damage per second per ability currently on cooldown.

Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.4

Radius: 775

Cooldown Rate Factor: 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6

Move Speed Slow per Stack: 7%/8%/9%/10% ( 19%/20%/21%/22%)

Attack Speed Slow per Stack: 10 ( 22)

Damage per Second per Stack: 7/9/11/13 ( 14/16/18/20)

Duration: 8/9/10/11

28/24/20/16

90

For those facing off against Darkterror, each moment seems to stretch into eternity.

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• Affects the following units:
  • Fogged units.
  • Invisible units.

• Does not affect the following units:
  • Hidden units.
  • Invulnerable units.

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  • Applies the following formulas to the affected enemy units' current ability cooldowns:
    • While the debuff is active:
      • EXPR
        DebuffedCD = CurrentCD / (1 - RateFactor)
    • Once the debuff expires:
      • EXPR
        CurrentCD = AffectedCD × (1 - RateFactor)
  • This affects the following aspects of ability cooldowns:
    • Charged-based abilities' replenish time.
    • Passive abilities' cooldown.

• Affects the following sources:
  • Abilities acquired via Devour.
  • Spirit Form abilities.
  • Previously Invoked abilities.
  • Abilities acquired from the Morphed targeted.
  • Abilities acquired via Spell Steal.
  • Losing already granted abilities by ability upgrades.

• Does not affect item abilities' cooldown.

• Abilities' cooldown affected by Time Dilation can still be reset per normal.

• The applied debuff adds a stack per ability currently on cooldown, and has no stack limit.

• Applies a 0-damage instance, that procs on-damage effects, to affected enemy units if they do not have any abilities on cooldown.

• DBF IMMUNITY
  The slow component does not affect debuff immune units, but reduces their cooldown rate.

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Time Dilation Slow: Movement speed reduced by x% and attack speed reduced by x.

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• COSMETIC
  Has a 0.7- cast backswing with Claszian Apostasy equipped.

Time Lock

E

E

Time Lock

▶️

Ability

Passive

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical / Instant Attack / Physical

Adds a chance for an attack to lock an enemy unit in time while attacking it a second time.

Proc Chance: 12%/16%/20%/24%

Damage: 12/18/24/30 ( 42/48/54/60)

Second Attack Delay: 0.4

Instant Attack Factor: 1

Bash Duration: 0.5

The strike of the Faceless Void lands with dimension shifting force.

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• 0.4 seconds upon proc, the magical spell damage is applied and Faceless Void instant attacks the affected enemy unit.
  • Procs any attack modifiers and on-cast effects, including Time Lock, as per normal.
    • For cleave sources, their respective effects still corresponds to Faceless Void's current position, and not Time Lock's ability effects.
  • Do not have True Strike.
  • Not affected by disarm sources.

• Death does not prevent the proccing attack from applying Time Lock on the affected unit.

• Does not affect the following units:
  • Buildings
  • Ward-type units.

• Time Lock uses pseudo-random distribution.

• TALENT NOTES
  The damage increasing talent immediately updates already procced instances.

• BREAK
  Disables the bash component.
  • The Time Walk proc at the destination area is applied via a different debuff. Hence, it does not disable the ability upgrade component.

modifier_faceless_void_time_lock

Hidden modifier

modifier_faceless_void_timelock_freeze

Time Lock: You have been locked in time by Faceless Void!

• The ability effects are applied upon proc as follows:
  1. The bash debuff.
  2. The attack instance that procs Time Lock.
  3. The magical spell damage.
  4. Faceless Void's instant attack instance.

• Procs an average of 0.1364/0.1905/0.25/0.3158 times on a single attack.

• The bash duration considers the following units as heroes:
  • Illusions
  • Creep-heroes
  • Roshan
  • Couriers

Chronosphere

R

C

  Chronosphere

▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Units

Trap all units caught within the radius and causes Faceless Void to move very quickly inside it. Reveals invisible enemies within the sphere.

Cast Animation: 0.35 + 0.35

Cast Range:  500

Radius: 500 ( 640)

Set Haste Speed: 1000

Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75

Aura Linger Duration: 0

Attack Speed Bonus: ( 80)

All ability and item cooldowns are frozen for the duration.

Cooldowns Freeze Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75

Time Dilation's duration applied is paused for Chronosphere's current duration.

Debuff Extend Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75

160/150/140

150/225/300

When a rift opens to Claszureme, all poor souls caught within will likely never return.

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• Applies the following ability effects on units within the radius:
  • Freezes all units which are not owned by Faceless Void.
    • This overrides most forced movement sources on the unit upon the faceless_void_chronosphere_freeze application.
  • Leash
  • Stun
  • Also applies the aformentioned effects for the remaining duration on units entering the effect radius.
  • 
    • Pauses ability cooldowns, including its charge replenish time.
    • Extends the Time Dilation debuff for the Chronosphere duration.
  • 
    • Grants self and player-controlled units the following bonuses:
      • Phase movement.
      • Haste movement.
      • TALENT NOTES
        The flat attack speed immediately update all current Chronosphere instances.

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  • Grants the following vision bonuses centered around the radius for its duration:
    • 
      • Radius , 475-radius flying vision.
      • Radius or Radius , 500 ( 640)-radius True Sight.
  • Reveals the following units:
    • Blur
    • Proximity Mines
    • Disguise and Solitary Disguise.
  • Despite its visual effects, the effective area-of-effect is a cylinder and not a sphere.
  • Affects the following units:
    • Invulnerable units, except certain units mentioned below.
    • Instantly unperch a Tree Dance Monkey King.
    • 
      • Instant kills the following units:
        • The Homing Missile unit.
        • For The Swarm Beetles:
          • Units latched on the target before Chronosphere affects the enemy unit.
          • However, Beetles that are still traveling can latch on to units within the Chronosphere without being destroyed.
        • The Phantom's Embrace unit.
          • Phantom latched returns to their casters, and freeze traveling Phantoms.

• Does not affect the following units:
  • Hidden units.
  • Invulnerable heroes
  • The following clone sources:
    • Wukong's Command Soldiers.
    • The Parting Shot Clone.
  • Does not stop Nimbus from casting Lightning Bolt.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Faceless Void is still innately immune to Chronosphere.

modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere

On hidden entity

modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere_selfbuff

On hidden entity

modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere_speed

Hidden modifier

modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere_freeze

Chronosphere: Trapped in spacetime. Unable to move or act.

• Most abilities or items can move units out of Chronosphere, except the following:
  • Force Boots
  • Force Staff-based items.
  • Geomagnetic Grip
  • Dispose
  • Telekinesis
  • Firesnap Cookie
  • Snowball

• Applies and reapplies the Time Dilation debuff in 0.1-second intervals within the Chronosphere radius, causing it to refresh its duration.

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  • COSMETIC
    Has a 0.6- cast backswing with Claszian Apostasy equipped.

Time Zone

R

C

  Time Zone

▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Units

Alters the speed of various properties for both allied and enemy units within the squared-zone.

Cast Animation: 0.35 + 0.35

Cast Range:  625

Radius: 900 ( 1100)

Duration: 5/5.5/6

For allied units, the following values are increased.

Attack Speed Bonus: 70/110/150 ( 150/190/230)

Move Speed Bonus: 50%/60%/70%

Cast Animation Factor: 0.6/0.5/0.4

Turn Rate Factor: 0.6/0.5/0.4

Projectile Speed Factor: 1.3/1.4/1.5

For enemy units, the zone applies a leash onto them while reducing all aformentioned values.

Attack Speed Slow: 70/110/150 ( 150/190/230)

Move Speed Slow: 50%/60%/70%

Cast Animation Factor: 1.4/1.5/1.6

Turn Rate Factor: 1.4/1.5/1.6

Projectile Speed Factor: 0.7/0.6/0.5

Leash Duration: 5/5.5/6

130/120/110

150/225/300

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  • Affects the following mechanics:
    • Current traveling attack-based and spell-based projectiles.
      • Stacks additively with other projectile speed factor sources.
    • Both the ability's cast point and cast backswing.
  • Does not affect the following mechanics:
    • Channeling time.
    • Ward-type units' traveling speed.
  • Does not affect the following units:
    • Invulnerable units.

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  • Applies the following ability effects on affected enemy units:
    • Leash
      • Only an offensive Hurricane Thrust cast on enemy units can push the allied caster within the Time Zone.
    • Grants a 900 ( 1100)-radius True Sight centered around the area-of-effect for its duration.
    • Reveals the following units:
      • Blur
      • Proximity Mines
      • Disguise and Solitary Disguise.
  • For ranged attack projectiles:
    • Projectiles with 0-speed are still launched per normal per attack point, but they do not travel.
    • The attack projectiles are considered valid, and only damage Faceless Void when he is within the bound radius of the attacking unit.

• DBF IMMUNITY
  The leash component affects debuff immune units.

• COSMETIC
  Has a 0.6- cast backswing with Claszian Apostasy equipped.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Faceless Void/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Jan 24, 2025 - 14:00 CET	Tier 3		EPL Season 23			1 : 0
Jan 19, 2025 - 16:00 CST	Qualifier		ESL One Raleigh CN CQ			0 : 1
Jan 19, 2025 - 16:00 CST	Qualifier		ESL One Raleigh CN CQ			0 : 1
Jan 16, 2025 - 16:00 PET	Qualifier		ESL One Raleigh SA CQ			1 : 0
Jan 15, 2025 - 20:00 CET	Tier 3		EPL Season 23			0 : 1

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.37b
(2024-08-14)

• Increased Time Lock damage 10/15/20/25 to 12/18/24/30.

7.37
(2024-07-31)

• REMOVED Temporal Impunity Facet.
  • Time Walk no longer grants a 1-second ensured Backtrack proc chance upon cast.
• ADDED Chronosphere Facet.
  • Chronosphere is Faceless Void 's ultimate ability with the selected facet.
• U Faceless Void 's hero model is now innately immune to all Time Zone sources.

• Talents:  

  LVL 25  +140 Chronosphere / Time Zone radius ➜  +140/+200 Chronosphere / Time Zone radius.

7.36c
(2024-06-24)

• Time Zone
  • Increased cast range from 500 to 625.
  • Increased radius from 800 to 900.
  • Increased ally attack speed bonus from 50/100/150 to 70/110/150.
  • Increased enemy attack speed bonus from 50/100/150 to 70/110/150.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Faceless Void's Relics	Voice Lines
Time Walk Damage Avoided Multi-Hero Time Dilations Chronosphere Kills Multi-Hero Chronospheres Physical Damage Stuns Leading To Kills Channels Cancelled Bashed Enemies Slows Leading To Kills Battle Fury Cleave Damage Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Heh heh hah ha hah heh heah heh. ▶️ Just as I envisaged.
	Silver	▶️ Some things were just not meant to be. ▶️ You lose face...and life.
	Gold	▶️ You've been voided. ▶️ I can't bear to look.
	Platinum	▶️ I may be faceless, but I'm not maceless.
	Master	▶️ An eternity of embarrassment!
	Grandmaster	▶️ Where do you think you're going?

Trivia

• In DotA, Faceless Void's alternate/fun name is Gorzerk.

• Enigma's rival line towards Faceless Void ▶️ "Even time may fail in the face of gravity." is a reference to the time dilating effect of gravity.

• ▶️ "Unkind…Rewind" is likely a reference to the old saying, "Be Kind, Rewind", a saying used to remind customers to rewind rented VHS tapes before returning them to the store.

• ▶️ "In the land of time, the no-eyed man is king." refers to the famous adage by Desiderius Erasmus: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

• ▶️ "Steal your face!" is a reference to the popular lyrical phrase "Steal your face right off your head!" from the Grateful Dead song "He's Gone", often seen as an allusion to the band's wild and extensive jam sessions "blowing your mind".

• ▶️ "Foreseen is forearmed." is a modified version of the proverb "Forewarned is forearmed" which means having prior knowledge begets being prepared for future problems.

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  Model and icons before March 19, 2015 Patch

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  Concept art

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead

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  Remodel concept art "Faceless Elf"

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  Remodel concept art "Faceless Rex"

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  Remodel concept art "Faceless Lobster"

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  Remodel concept art "Awesome-to-11-year-olds-in-the-1980’s Void"

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  Remodel concept art "Facefull Void"