The original concept for Orphea came from the artist Oscar Vega. The major challenges the Art Design team faced were Orphea needed to feel familiar, she needed to be unique, and she needed to be awesome. So they spent basically the 2018, between four web comics and even the Dark Nexus-themed event, to build her whole story and introduce her throughout the year. The developers were extremely attracted to the phrase “the Raven Lord’s daughter”, and began to design a hero based on the concept. These are the roots of Heroes, and where Orphea came from. Although Heroes is a game that brings different Blizzard heroes together, it still has some non-traditional fantasy ideas like the Raven Lord and Lady of Thorns. Creating a Nexus-born hero was a challenge for the developers, but it would be an important step in making HoTS more compelling as a standalone game. So it felt like this was the best time for them to go back to their roots and introduce a Nexus-born hero. In 2018 the developers knew that they would be bringing their final Blizzard universe ( Warcraft) into the Nexus with the Alterac Pass Battleground and had a huge lineup of highly requested heroes that were being added to the game as well. Orphea is a Ranged Assassin who dances around her enemies while using spells to empower her attacks.Ībilities See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels. He disappeared back to his tower, his daughter declaring that she would never stop fighting him. In the midst of battle, they engaged in telepathic communication, the Raven Lord explaining that there had to be order, that without it, everything would be lost. The two came to blows, and while he declared himself to be beyond Orphea's powers of "dead magic," she managed to strike his singularity. Īfter returning to Raven Court, Orphea confronted her father outside his tower. Vowing to stop her father from hurting anyone else, she chose to rise up against him and become a hero in the Nexus. Later Orphea witnessed her father defeating the Lady of Thorns and causing the fall of King's Crest. Raena calls on her greatest allies from across the lands and marches with them forward to battle the Raven Lord and his champions in Alterac Pass. They come to Raena the Lady of Thorns and Realm Lord of Dragon Shire, for help and warn her about the danger coming. Deckard Cain and Orphea team up to find a solution for the Dark Nexus threat raised by the Raven Lord. Orphea joins the clash and helps Cain defeating the knights. While Deckard Cain wanders around the forests of Dragon Shire, he is attacked by those knights. Later her father sends out Knights to find her. Oberon promised Orphea not to tap into this power, but he broke this promise, pushing Orphea away. Orphea's mother left the family early in Orphea's life, fearing what would happen if her father Oberon, Raven Lord, tapped into the Dark Nexus. Orphea's upbringing was lonely, but she found comfort and connection with ancestral magic.