The seven planes of the dota world explained
The seven planes of the dota world are not
as complicated as they may at first seem.
Once i realized that its literally just the
same as the seven planes of existence that
some people believe in IRL, it all got fairly
simple.
In esoteric cosmology, which is about as scientific
as zodiac signs, there is a theory that theres
seven different planes of existence. These
could also be described as dimensions, as
the inhabitants can communicate within the
plane, but usually cant overlap between them.
The first is the rocks and minerals of the
earth, the second is organic things like plants,
vitamins and for some reason fairies, the
third plane, or third dimension, is where
sentient things like humans and animals exist.
(you are here) The fourth plane is the astral
plane, also known as the spirit plane. You
can access it with your spirit while lucidly
dreaming and meet other spirits, ancestors,
spirit animals, aliens and succubi, apparently.
The fifth is where the super holy divine ascended
people went, like jesus and buddha, which
you can ascend to from the 4th plane. Some
describe the 4th plane as a school for the
fifth. The sixth plane hosts the laws of the
universe, you know scientific things like
time, magneticm and… the law of attraction...?
And lastly, the seventh plane is where the
creator is, and where your mind gets blown
because we are all one and the same, and only
each our small little feeble minded parts,
who together as a hivemind make up the huge
consciousness… or should i say… primordial
mind… Because when you think about these
planes a little bit, and when i say by a little
bit i mean for hours and hours, you start
to notice that its literally the seven planes
of the dota universe. The primordial plane,
the fundamental plane, the elemental plane,
the astral plane… it all makes sense now.
And on top of this, the seven hells may be
a literal reflection of the seven planes.
But the hell and demon video is a different
one, which will be released around halloween.
For now, lets focus on the seven planes, and
go through them one by one - starting with
the seventh.
The primordial plane is where elder titans
people reside, and where arc warden, the dire
and the radiant originate from. The dota worlds
genesis starts with the primordial mind, or
the one big shared conscioussness of everything,
exploding into many fragments during what
is called the schism. In the real world definition
of the seventh plane, this is where the creator
resides, and in the dota world, the titans
created the worlds within the realities the
loom of the weavers made. Our particular reality
and world is a very unique one, because skitskurr
the weaver wanted to rewrite the mesh of reality
instead of just maintaining it. This made
the guardians snip him out as punishment,
but instead weaver was happy, because it meant
he could make the reality the way he wanted.
He chose to weave with threads of conflict,
which may be why the dota universe is trapped
in this never ending cycle of the battle of
the ancients. The particular titan who made
our dota world, accidentally caused the schism,
which shattered the primordial mind, creating
the universe, the ancients, arc warden and
the fundamental forces of the universe. When
ET and Arc warden dies, they return to the
primordial plane, and they both wish to one
day achieve complete unity, and turn everything
back to the original primordial mind.
The fundamental forces of the universe that
ET created during the schism, is gravity,
electromagnetism, weak force and strong force.
Keeper of the light and chaos knight are also
light and darkness, and order and chaos - like
in the bible and greek myth creation stories
respectively. First there was darkness then
god created light, and in greek myth there
was first chaos and then there was order.
In the sixth plane IRL, the laws and rules
of the universe reside. And that is what the
fundamentals of dota is, just personified.
KOTL was also the one who created the suns.
When a fundamental dies, they return to the
fundamental plane. This sometimes includes
elder titan.
The elemental plane is in the IRL equivalent
where the divine and ascended beings like
jesus and buddha reside. In dota that means
all the gods, including the grecoroman ones
like mars and zeus, the celestial spirits
like ember and void spirit, the beast of all
worlds like spirit breaker, and maybe deieties
like selemene and the omniscience. The fifth
plane is where the spirits of the fourth plane
may ascend to. The terrene plane which the
battle of the ancients, artifact events and
underlords brawl takes place on, is only a
shadow of the elemental plane. Bear in mind,
we only know for certain that spirit breaker
is from this plane, its only my theory that
the celestial spirits and gods also reside
here. The spirits is my next video, so im
not going to talk about them too much here.
If its finished by the time you see this video,
it should pop up in the top right corner.
The astral plane is the plane of spirits,
souls and ghosts. Its where you go when hit
by E-blade or use ghost scepter, and its where
elder titans astral spirit is from. It may
be where kunkkas ghosts are taken from, and
basically anything green and ethereal and
ghosty or undead is probably linked to the
astral plane. Those who have somewhat mastered
it, like morhling and spectre, may freely
project between the astral plane and terrene
plane. In real life, people believe that through
lucid dreaming you can astrally project yourself
from the third to the fourth dimension. There
you can meet other astral travelers, or even
aliens.
The terrene plane is where 99% of the stories
from the dota games take place. every single
hero has the ability to access it, for various
reasons. wether its CK who can travel between
all dimensions, oracle who was cast out from
wherever hes from, spectre seeking to ascend
to the fifth plane, the fairies of the second
plane or the rocks of the first plane becoming
sentient. IRL the third plane is distinguished
from the second and first plane, by sentient
animals and poeple, which are protein based.
In dota the terrene plane is exactly that.
Every regular character whos not like timeless
or immortal or a demon or fairy is from the
terrene plane. They may be magically influenced
by the ancients, but they are still from the
third plane. Oglodis, trolls, humans, keen,
satyrs and centaurs are all 3rd dimensional,
and as such they dont have the ability to
travel to different planes of existence.
The fae realm is the second plane, which IRL
literally is the fairy plane. Or its defined
as where organic matter, plants, vitamins
and such reside, but it also mentions fairies.
Maybe the first person to think about the
planes, just in case someone were to actually
believe in his stories, included fairies so
no one would take it seriously. Except a lot
of poeple do, so it didnt work. But anyways,
in the dota world this is where puck and dark
willow is likely from, or at least their people
in the past. Undertree may be in the fae realm,
where the faerie dragons are born from the
buds of the tree. Dark willow, and probably
other fariries too, can move freely into the
fae realm, which is all around us. But because
its in a different plane, only fairies can
access it.
IRL, the first plane is where rocks, earth,
sand, minerals and crystals reign. In the
dota world i dont know for certain, but since
there is so many sentient earth heroes, it
made the most sense that they are all from
this plane. Earth shaker, sand king, tiny…
they all share the fact that they are sentient
and mineral based, who used to literally just
be sand or rocks or stone. And with earthshakers
arcana hinting at a new faction of rock boys,
its even more convincing to me.
Ok, so just to make it clear, this illustration
is only meant as a guideline, and its 100%
from my imagination. I have taken a lot of
conclusions based on comparing various dota
lore bits with 
the IRL theory of planes, and it can be interpreted
in MANY
different ways. The same with my hell, which
im currently researching. You can look at
the early draft now, but its still very unfinished.
If you know what seven hells the dota
hells may be inspired by from IRL, let me
know! Also id just
like to point out that i dont personally believe
in the seven planes, astrology and a seperation
between body and soul, but i respect those
who do. I think its a very… wholesome…
view to have, that we are all each our little
part of this one whole consciousness.
Treat others as you wish to be treated, and
have a wonderful day! PEACEE
