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Weaver

#41

16 + 2

17 + 3.3

20 + 2

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+44HP and +0.2HP regeneration
	+0.55 armor and 3.3 attack speed +3.3 Main Attack Damage
	+24MP and +0.1MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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472 +2.85

315 +1.5

3.83 Armor (580.47 EHP)

27% Magic Resist (646.58 EHP)

54 ‒ 60 ▶️ Damage (57 Avg)

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

425 Attack Range (800)

120 (137) Attack Speed (1.8 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.55 + 0.36 Animation

275 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Goo Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_weaver

2011-06-10 Released

2005-03-01 (6.00)

Competitive Span 2011-06-10 — Present

Version Control This article is mostly accurate for 7.38c, the last version this hero was changed in. New interactions that emerged in following patches may have not yet been accounted for.

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Rewinds time to reverse damage and position.
All Weavers worked to maintain the fabric of creation, save one Skitskurr, who took it upon himself to create that which had not been woven. Cast out for his ambitions, Skitskurr was now free from his obligations, free to weave a new reality of his own. Opening a gap in spacetime, the Weaver invites 'The Swarm' — young Weavers to latch onto enemies, and nibble away at their armor. Nearly impossible to pin down, he slips into micro-wormholes, passing through enemies and reappearing with Shukuchi. The fabric of time frays around Skitskurr, occasionally replaying, causing his Geminate Attacks to be witnessed — and felt — more than once. The Weaver takes brinkmanship to an extreme. Fighting to the verge of death, Skitskurr turns back the clock with Time Lapse, reversing his injuries and undoing his foes' efforts, much to their dismay.
Roles:	Carry Escape
Adjectives	Legs ( 4 )

Facets

Skitterstep

Shukuchi has a greater haste movement, and applies a movement speed slow on affected enemy units when Weaver passes through them.

+50 Haste Speed

Hivemind

Each Beetle of The Swarm attached to an enemy hero grants experience to the Weaver over time.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Enables casting on allied heroes, applying most Time Lapse effects on the unit-targeted allied hero.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Puts a pre-Germinate Attack mark on enemy units it passes through for a brief duration.

Enemy units with the Shukuchi mark are attacked with a secondary Geminate Attack upon Weaver revealing itself.

Talents

+1 Geminate Attack Count	25	-3s Shukuchi Cooldown
+0.5 The Swarm Armor Reduction	20	+70 Geminate Attack Damage
+2 Beetles Hit Count	15	+20 Mana Break
+7 Strength	10	+60 Shukuchi Damage
▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes

Bio

Fate weaves the threads of our lives together. Fate also wields the blade that cuts them short.

▶️  Skitskurr, the Weaver

Aliases:

NW, Skitskurr

Lore:

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.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Innate

Rewoven

Rewoven

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants self attack range bonus for a short period of time per ability cast.

Attack Range Bonus per Spell Cast: 50

Duration: 7

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• weaver_rewoven
  • Utilizes a timer to track Weaver's current ability cast count.
  • Each stack places a new weaver_rewoven_stacks buff on Weaver, with each buff duration independent of the other.

modifier_weaver_rewoven

Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACK_RANGE_BONUS
MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ABILITY_EXECUTED

modifier_weaver_rewoven (x)

Hidden Modifier

modifier_weaver_rewoven_stacks

Hidden Modifier

• 
  • Grants bonus attack range based on the caster's attack range type.

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

Weaver's hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.

It may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.

Talent Upgrade
Burns an enemy's mana on each attack and deals damage equal to a percentage of the mana burnt.

Mana Burn per Hit: 20

Mana Burn to Damage Factor: 0.8

Talent Upgrade
Mana Break applied to enemy units from Weaver's illusions are less effective.

Mana Burn per Hit: ( 10)

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Hidden Innate Abilities

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  • Stacks additively with other mana break sources.
  • 
    • Mana Break is a bonus conditional attack damage source and has the following properties:
    • The bonus attack damage values are directly added to Anti-Mage's attack damage in the combat log and not displayed on the HUD.
    • 
      • The bonus attack damage value depends on how much mana the target actually lost from the attack.
    • Does not interact with the following sources:
      • Percentage-based bonus attack damage sources.
      • Allied units.
    • Interacts with the following sources:
      • 
        • Lifesteal sources.
        • Critical strike sources.
        • Cleave sources.
      • 
        • Damage block sources.

modifier_special_bonus_mana_break

Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PROCATTACK_FEEDBACK

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• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  • 1. The mana removal.
    2. Weaver's attack instance.

Abilities

The Swarm

Q

R

The Swarm

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Physical

Launches a swarm of Beetles, that latch on any enemy unit in their path, attacking and reducing the affected enemy units' armor until it is killed.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0

Cast Range:  3000

Max Travel Distance: 3000

Spawn Radius: 300

Beetles Latch Radius: 100

Number of Beetles: 12

These Beetles are not attackable when traveling as a swarm. They are only attackable after attaching itself onto targets.

Hit Count: 3/4/4/5 ( 5/6/6/7)

Debuff Interval: 1.2/1.05/0.9/0.75

Damage per Instance: 18/22/26/30

Armor Reduction per Instance: 1 ( 1.5)

Beetle Duration: 16

Creep attacks are less effective on the Beetles.

Creep Hit Count: 6/7/8/9 ( 10/12/12/14)

44/36/28/20

110

Skitskurr opens a gap in the space time fabric, allowing young Weavers to slip through and aid him in combat.

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Hivemind

Each Beetle of The Swarm attached to an enemy hero grants experience to the Weaver over time.

Self Exp Bonus per Instance: 5/8/11/14

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Beetle (Summoned Attached Unit)

100

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These uncontrollable Beetles has the highest target priority of all units, they are targeted by auto-attacks first.

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750

Lvl

2

0

0%

321

This unit does not attack.

20

33 (x̄)

This unit ignores collision size and may pass through other units.

This unit does not feel the effects from magical spell damage sources.

Towers simply do not attack the Beetle.

• Has the following unit additional properties:
  • These attached-type units first spawn randomly around Weaver within 300 radius.
  • 
    • Take 4 seconds to travel the max distance.
    • Have attack immunity.
    • Can latch on valid enemy units 3400 range away, with the max travel distance, spawn radius, and latch radius.
    • Grants flying vision throughout the travel duration.
  • 
    • Affected enemy units may only have one attached Beetle at any time.
    • Has the following latch-on properties:
      • Latches 64-distance north of a non-Beetle-affected enemy unit within its latch radius.
      • Grants flying vision centered around itself upon latching on a valid enemy unit.
    • Do not latch on the following units:
      • An already Beetle-affected enemy unit.
      • Couriers
      • Already hidden units.
      • Invisible units.
    • Can latch on the following units:
      • The Beetle continues latching on the affected enemy unit if the hidden source is applied after being latched on.
    • Affected units turning invulnerable instant kill the Beetle, and neither grants the gold nor experience bounty to anyone.

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  • weaver_swarm_debuff
    • Affects the following units:
      • Ethereal units.
    • Does not affect the following units:
      • Invulnerable units.
    • The ability effects are applied as follows in 1.2/1.05/0.9/0.75-second intervals:
      1. The armor reduction.
      2. The physical spell damage, sourced to Weaver.
  • 
    • FACET NOTES
      Grants Weaver the flat experience bonus.
      • Considers enemy clones and creep-heroes as heroes, illusions as creeps.

Interactions: Debuff Immunity

The expose component affects debuff immune enemy units.

modifier_projectile_vision

On hidden entity

modifier_weaver_swarm

Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_STATE_MAGIC_IMMUNE
MODIFIER_STATE_NO_TEAM_MOVE_TO
MODIFIER_STATE_NOT_ON_MINIMAP
MODIFIER_STATE_NO_UNIT_COLLISION
MODIFIER_STATE_NO_TEAM_SELECT
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_PHYSICAL
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_MAGICAL
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_PURE
MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACKED
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEALTHBAR_PIPS

modifier_weaver_swarm_debuff

Swarm: Doing damage and reducing armor.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PHYSICAL_ARMOR_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PROVIDES_FOW_POSITION

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  • The Swarm has a 750- projectile speed.

• Instant kills the Beetle, and neither grants the gold nor experience bounty in the following conditions:
  • 
    • Affected by Chronosphere.
  • 
    • Affected by the following sources:
      • Invisible sources, without an ally True Sight source applied to the affected enemy.
      • Infest into an allied unit.
      • Gobble Up
      • Voodoo Switcheroo
    • The Beetle applies its first debuff instance on untargetable sources, then instant kills itself after 4 server ticks.

• Has the following max ability values over 14/16/18/22 instances, over the entire duration, per Beetle:
  • 
    • Deals a max 252/352/468/660 physical spell damage (before reductions).
    • Reduces a max 14/16/18/22 ( 21/24/27/33) armor.
  • 
    • Grants self a max 70/128/198/308 bonus experience.

Shukuchi

W

C

Shukuchi

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Shifts out of visibility while reaching max movement speed — doing harm to any enemies it passes through.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Fade Time: 0.25

Damage Radius: 175

Damage: 100/130/160/190 ( 160/190/220/250)

Buff Duration: 4

Haste Speed: 550

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Puts a pre-Germinate Attack mark on enemy units it passes through for a brief duration.

Debuff Duration: ( 4.6)

15/12/9/6 ( 12/9/6/3)

65

As the Weavers worked in the fabric of creation, small wormholes allowed them to slip through time to better work their craft.

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Skitterstep

Shukuchi has a greater haste movement, and applies a movement speed slow on affected enemy units when Weaver passes through them.

Haste Speed: 600
Move Speed Slow: 100%
Slow Duration: 0.2

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  • Does not interrupt Weaver's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • Disjoints projectiles upon cast, only if the enemy has no True Sight on Weaver.
  • weaver_shukuchi
    • 
      • During the fade time, Weaver can still attack and cast abilities.
      • Grants the following bonuses while fully invisible:
        • Haste movement.
        • Phase movement, this ability component is granted immediately upon cast.
      • Weaver can pick up or drop items without breaking invisibility.
      • The invisibility breaks upon in the following conditions
        • Upon its attack point.
        • Upon its abilities' cast point.
        • Upon a successful attack.

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  • The following components can only affect the same enemy units once per cast.
    • The magical spell damage.
    • FACET NOTES
      The movement speed slow.
    • SHARD NOTES
      weaver_geminate_attack_mark
      • Applies the debuff on all affected enemy units.
      • Upon breaking invisibility, Geminate Attack procs on all debuff-affected enemy units within the radius.

Interactions: Ability Draft

Requires drafting Geminate Attack for its corresponding component to work.

The Geminate Attack procs for Shukuchi marks applied by the allied hero as well.

modifier_weaver_shukuchi

Shukuchi: Invisible and doing damage to units passed through.

MODIFIER_STATE_UNSLOWABLE
MODIFIER_STATE_INVISIBLE
MODIFIER_STATE_NO_UNIT_COLLISION
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_INVISIBILITY_LEVEL

modifier_weaver_geminate_attack_mark

When Weaver's Geminate Attack procs, this unit will also be attacked with a secondary attack.

modifier_weaver_shukuchi_slow

Skitterstep: Slowed by x%.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE

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  • SHARD NOTES
    Directly use Geminate Attack's ability values, it does nothing if Geminate Attack is not learned upon cast.

• 
  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The magical spell damage.
    2. The weaver_geminate_attack_mark debuff.
    3. FACET NOTES
       The weaver_shukuchi_slow debuff.

Geminate Attack

E

E

Geminate Attack

▶️

Ability

Autocast / Active Attack Modifier

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Instant Attacks / Physical

Allows Weaver to dispatch more than one attack at once.

Cast Animation: 0.55 + 0.36

Cast Range:  425

Effect Delay: 0.25

Number of Extra Attacks: 1 ( 2)

Attack Damage Bonus: 20/35/50/65 ( 90/105/120/135)

Buff Duration: 0.03

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Enemy units with the Shukuchi mark are attacked with a secondary Geminate Attack upon Weaver revealing itself.

Search Radius: ( 1200)

Effect Delay: ( 0.2)

Geminate Attack Instance: ( 1)

9/7/5/3

Skitskurr's relationship with time is somewhat variable, causing his actions to be witnessed — and felt — more than once.

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  • Geminate Attack is an active attack modifier, and has the following properties:
    • EXPR
      CastRange = HeroAtkRange
    • Affected by attack range sources of the same range-type as the caster.
  • Both Autocast and an active cast uses Weaver's current attack range.
    • Has Autocast on by default.

• The ability has two main componets:
  • 
    • 
      • Applies the following buffs on that grants the unique bonus attack damage bonus upon Weaver's attack point:
        • weaver_geminate_attack
        • weaver_geminate_attack_bonus
    • 
      • The ability effects are applied as follows on the attacked enemy unit:
        1. Weaver's attack instance.
        2. 0.25 seconds after launching the attack projectile, Geminate Attack procs.
           • Can proc on the following units:
             • Buildings
             • Couriers
             • Ward-type units.
           • Cannot proc on the following units:
             • Allied units.
             • Observer and Sentry Wards.
        3. Applies 1 ( 2) extra attacks utilizing the instant attack mechanic on the attacked enemy unit.
  • 
    • The extra attack component has the following properties:
      • Has Global attack range.
      • If the initial attack instance kills the enemy unit before Geminate Attack procs, the extra attacks are still released, attacking the dead enemy unit.
    • 
      • Procs any attack modifiers and on-cast effects as per normal.
      • Do not have True Strike.
      • Not affected by disarm sources.
      • Does not break the following invisibility sources:
        • Disguise
        • Solitary Disguise

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• SHARD NOTES
  weaver_geminate_attack_mark
  • Breaking Shukuchi's invisibility in any way now procs Geminate Attack 0.2 seconds after, on all enemy units affected by the Shukuchi debuff within the search radius.
    • The extra attacks procs on all enemy targets with the debuff, regardless of source.
    • The ability upgrade works independently of Geminate Attack, and regardless of the ability's cooldown.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

Non-functional.

However, the ability is always toggled .

Interactions: Spell Steal

Cannot acquire active attack modifiers.

Interactions: Ability Draft

Utilizes the caster's current attack range while Autocast is active, manual cast utilizes the ability's current cast range.

Geminate Attack procs for allied Shukuchi marks as well.

modifier_weaver_geminate_attack

Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK

modifier_weaver_geminate_attack_manager

Hidden Modifier

• For melee units, if the enemy target is 350 range farther than the attacker's range, the attack will miss regardless.

Time Lapse

R

T

Time Lapse

▶️

Ability

No / Unit

Affects

Self / Allied Heroes

Weaver warps backward to whatever position it was in a few seconds earlier — regaining both health and mana values from that time.

Neither affects current ability cooldowns nor gold and experience.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.53

Lapse Time: 5

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Enables casting on allied heroes, applying most Time Lapse effects on the unit-targeted allied hero.

70/55/40 ( 40)

150/75/0

If Skitskurr does not deem the current reality of the world to fit his desires, he simply crawls back in time to right what was wronged.

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• Has the following targeting functionalities:
  • 
    • Does not cancel shift-queue commands.
    • The ability effects are applied as follows:
      1. Issues a stop order once Weaver teleports back to the lapsed time coordinnates, this affects the following things:
         • Interrupts Weaver's channeling abilities upon cast.
         • Effectively cancels the ability's cast backswing.
      2. Sets Weaver's health and mana to the lapsed time value, prior its death.
         • Neither utilizes heal nor mana restore. Hence, this does not proc on-cast effects.
         • Does not kill Weaver upon cast after respawning.
      • SCEPTER NOTES
        The aformentioned death-related mechanics do not apply to an allied Time Lapse cast.
  • 
    • SCEPTER NOTES
      Enables Time Lapse casting on allied heroes, and changes the ability targeting functionality from non-targeted to unit-targeted.
      • When unit-targeted, applies all ability effects on the unit-targeted allied hero, except the stop order.
        • Disable Help on Weaver prevents Time Lapse from affecting the allied hero.
        • Considers clones and illusions as heroes, creep-heroes as creeps.
      • 
        • Doubletap casts the ability on Weaver akin to a non-targeted cast.
        • When Weaver is invulnerable, it cannot utilize doubletap to self-cast.

modifier_weaver_timelapse

Hidden modifier

Recent Matches

Main Article: Weaver/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Jun 05, 2025 - 14:00 CST	Qualifier		TI2025 CN OQ#2			0 : 1
Jun 05, 2025 - 14:00 CST	Qualifier		TI2025 CN OQ#2			1 : 0
Jun 04, 2025 - 22:15 PET	Qualifier		EWC 2025 SA OQ			0 : 1
Jun 04, 2025 - 20:15 PET	Tier 4		LatAm Fem League			1 : 0
Jun 04, 2025 - 20:10 PET	Tier 4		LatAm Fem League			0 : 1

The International

• Weaver has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
  • 2011

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38c
(2025-03-27)

• Beetles are now destroyed if the host unit becomes invulnerable .

7.38b
(2025-03-05)

• Increased The Swarm debuff interval from 1.15/1/0.85/0.7 to 1.2/1.05/0.9/0.75.

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Beetle
  • Increased hero hit count from 3/3/4/4 to 3/4/4/5.
  • Increased non-hero hit count from 6/6/8/8 to 6/7/8/9.

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.

Weaver's Relics	Voice Lines
Kills On Swarmed Heroes Shukuchi Kills Time Lapse Kills Near Death Time Lapses Double Shukuchis Swarm Damage Spells Blocked With Linkens Damage While Invisible Physical Damage Triple Kills Mega Kill Streak Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Hehehhehah! ▶️ The pattern is complete.
	Silver	▶️ You thought you had me, didn't you? ▶️ I'm sensing a pattern here.
	Gold	▶️ There's a snag in your plans. ▶️ A pattern repeats.
	Platinum	▶️ A feast for my beetles.
	Master	▶️ Ho, snap!
	Grandmaster	▶️ Shuttle and loom, I weave your doom.

Trivia

• Geminate Attack is frequently misread as "Germinate Attack". To geminate is to double, coming from the Latin word for twin (as in Gemini).
• Shukuchi is a Japanese term for rapid movement, or teleportation. The ability's name is a reference to an ability of the same name of a character named Soujiro from the anime Rurouni Kenshin.
• Weaver draws many inspirations from a character of the same name in the novel, Perdido Street Station.
• Time Lapse icon may also be a reference to the box art of the movie Alien 3, considering that Sigourney Weaver has the lead role in the film.

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • Weaver uses the model of the Nerubian Queen, a big neutral creep.
    • In DotA, Weaver's full title is Nerubian Weaver. It was shortened to just Weaver in Dota 2, removing any affiliation with the Nerubian, a race within the Warcraft universe.
    • His name in DotA is Anub'Seran, a custom name inspired by the names of other Nerubians from the Warcraft universe. As such, it could not be used in Dota 2, since the "Anub" suffix appears to be something like a title or rank within the Nerubian race.
  • Geminate Attack is based on the Orb of Lightning, which originally has a chance to trigger a Purge on attack. The chance aspect was replaced with a cooldown, and the Purge aspect was replaced with Searing Arrows, with its damage set to 0.
  • Shukuchi is based on the Blademaster's Wind Walk.
  • Weaver's old ability, Urna Swarm, was identical to the Crypt Lord's Carrion Beetles.
  • The Beetles used the same model as Weaver's attack projectiles, which are a group of small bugs flying around.

Gallery

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  Model

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  Concept art

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  Envisioning Weaver Loading Screen

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead