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Maraxiform
Maraxiform Lore
About
Associated With
Heroes Clinkz minimap icon Clinkz
Races Demons
Places The Hoven
Seven Hells
Characters Sutherex
▶️ Demon fire shall cover these lands.
Clinkz on how he plans to use Maraxiform's last breath

Maraxiform is a demon in the lore of Dota 2.

Biography[]

Clinkz minimap icon Clinkz, the Bone Fletcher
At the base of the Bleeding Hills stretches a thousand-league wood, a place called the Hoven, where black pools gather the tarry blood of the uplands, and the king-mage Sutherex sits in benevolent rule. Once a sworn protector of the Hoven lands, Clinkz earned a reputation for his skill with a bow. In the three-hundredth year of the king-mage, the demon Maraxiform rose from Sixth Hell to lay claim to the forest. In response, the king-mage decreed an unbreakable spell: to any who slew the demon would be granted Life Without End.

Unaware of the spell, Clinkz waded into battle, defending his lands against the demon's fiery onslaught. Clinkz drove Maraxiform back to the gates of Sixth Hell itself, where on that fiery threshold the two locked in a mortal conflict. Grievously wounded, the demon let out a blast of Hellfire as Clinkz loosed his final arrow. The arrow struck the demon true as Hellfire poured out across the land, lighting the black pools and burning Clinkz alive at the instant of the demon's death. Thus, the mage's spell took effect at the very moment of the archer's conflagration, preserving him in this unholy state, leaving him a being of bones and rage, caught in the very act of dying, carrying Hell's breath with him on his journey into eternity.

Personality and Mannerisms[]

Relationships[]

Heroes[]

Clinkz minimap icon Clinkz is renowned for saving the Hoven from Maraxiform when he slew the demon in battle, but this noble deed has given him an eternity of torment by the demon's last breath.[1]

  • Even though Maraxiform was slain, the demon still lurks in the Sixth Hell, always dragging down Clinkz when he dies. Yet Clinkz evades him every time,[2] but a time will come when his loss will beget his doom as he despairs when he sees a hole to the sixth level of Hell yawn wide for him.[3]
  • Clinkz compliments his outstanding archery skills with the power of Maraxiform's soulfire, imbuing some of his abilities with agonizing flames.
    • Each Frosthaven Searing Arrows icon Searing Arrow is dipped in the reservoir of his tortured soul where Maraxiform's fire burns eternal.[4] Clinkz reserves these arrows for those who threaten the Hoven.[5]
    • To perform his Skeleton Walk icon Skeleton Walk, Clinkz cloaks himself with the Hellfire of Maraxiform. A puff of smoke followed a burst of flame, and the archer walks with the wind.[6][7]
    • Clinkz would not have his Burning Army icon Burning Army were it not for the demon putting him on the brink of death.[8] His army may consist of fallen beings who resemble Maraxiform.[9]
  • Maraxiform's decapitated head makes a fine bow that Clinkz uses to share with the demon a witness to the indignities of his eternal suffering.[10]


Grimstroke minimap icon Grimstroke appreciates what Maraxiform did to Clinkz, believing his tortured existence is the demon's best work of art. He regrets his decision to end him and his suffering.[11]

Nyx Assassin minimap icon Nyx Assassin seems to know Maraxiform and the fate the demon reserves for Clinkz in death.[12]

Aware of Maraxiform's final deed, Shadow Demon minimap icon Shadow Demon thinks that the demon “botched the job” for some reason.[13] This may imply the following speculation:

  • Perhaps Maraxiform worked for the Shadow Demon in his Second Dominion, which involved mastering the material plane. Maybe this is why Maraxiform tried to claim the Hoven.
  • It's possible the job that Maraxiform botched is what the demon did to Clinkz's form when Maraxiform made him FUBAR when the demon's fire reduced him to a skeleton.

Characters[]

Sutherex learned Maraxiform's invasion of the Hoven and responded to the threat by attempting to rally defenders via decreeing a spell of immortality as a motivation and a reward to those who kill the demon. Clinkz unwittingly earned the spell, which combined with Maraxiform's last breath to preserve him as the Hellfire torments him forever.[1]

World[]

Maraxiform rose to the Hoven from a gate to the Sixth Hell with the intention of claiming the forest. This demon attacked the arboreal kingdom until Clinkz battled the beast in mortal combat, driven back to the threshold of the fiery gates, where this demon died to his last arrow, but not without letting out one last blast of Hellfire that incinerated Clinkz and ignited the Hoven's tar pools.[1]

Other Characteristics[]

Abode[]

Maraxiform is a demon of the sixth level of the Seven Hells, whence he rises from into the mortal plane through fiery gates.[1]

Powers[]

As a demon, Maraxiform had the natural ability to breathe Hellfire. Hellfire can cremate lesser beings in mere seconds[1] and is eternal with its ability to burn and torture the soul.[14][15]

Besides a power over Hellfire, Maraxiform must've had the other general powers of a demon, such as the heat of Hell in their veins and an immortal rage.

An interesting thing to notice is that Maraxiform had this power to travel to the mortal plane from the Sixth Hell through fiery gates, something that only the Demon Lords are capable of doing with their explicit access to this plane.[16] This implies that Maraxiform must've been a very powerful demon, unless someone else helped the demon enter this world...

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Clinkz's biography.
  2. Clinkz response: ▶️ Once again, I slip Maraxiform's grasp.
  3. Clinkz response: ▶️ A hole to Sixth Hell opens wide!
  4. Searing Arrows lore: Clinkz simply lights his arrows from his flaming essence for quite the destructive effect.
  5. Maraxiform's Ire description.
  6. Skeleton Walk lore: With a burst of fire and puff of smoke, the Bone Fletcher was nowhere to be seen.
  7. Clinkz response: ▶️ u Flames hide from sight.
  8. Burning Army lore: Existing on the brink of life and death, Clinkz has learned to temporarily bridge the gap between the two.
  9. Maraxiform's Fallen
  10. Maraxiform's Fate description.
  11. Grimstroke response: ▶️ r I take no pleasure in destroying Maraxiform's greatest work of art.
  12. Nyx Assassin response: ▶️ Your demon takes you.
  13. Shadow Demon response: ▶️ The demon that made Clinkz botched the job if you ask me.
  14. Claszian Apostasy response: ▶️ r Here burns the endless pyre of Clinkz.
  15. Exile Unveiled response: ▶️ r Interesting. He's motionless...but the fire keeps burning.
  16. Shadow Demon's biography: Among the sovereign demons with explicit access to this world, Doom scarcely bothers with the affairs of Noninfernals and Lesser Spectral Consorts, while Shadow Fiend passes through almost exclusively on collecting expeditions. The Shadow Demon, however, has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the material plane...
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