YMMV / DOTA: Dragon's Blood

• Catharsis Factor: Admit it. After a season of being shown all of two of her followers that weren't terrible people and the actions she undertook herself, that it wasn't immensely satisfying to see Selemene humiliated and beaten into the ground.
• Complete Monster: Terrorblade is a vicious, evil demon who collaborates with the Invoker to start a holy war from the followers of Selemene against the elves and create mass bloodshed to weaken the worship of Selemene. Terrorblade gleefully crafts conflict to murder the eldest dragons and steal their souls. Intending on destroying the world and recreating it in his image, Terrorblade plans to make a world of pure darkness and hellish torment for all living things.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • There has only been one episode with him in the spotlight so far, but Kaden's badass demeanor, cool looks and great battle against Slyrak has endeared him to the fanbase and made a lot of fans request for Kaden to become a playable hero in Dota 2. It probably helps that he is shown to use an actual ingame item, Force Boots, in the aforementioned battle.
  • Marci became popular enough to become a playable character in DOTA.
• He's Just Hiding: Fans prefer to believe that Lina survived her fight against Kashurra and whisked away by a sun-like figure like Phoenix off-screen, based on how her dead body was not displayed on screen, unlike Auroth and Marci.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: While both are villains, everyone should, by logic, consider Selemene a lesser evil compared to Terrorblade. But no. Turns out being unrepentantly responsible for your own child's death - because she refused to give you the worship you think you deserve - can go a long way into losing the audience's sympathy. It doesn't help that Terrorblade and his partner, the Invoker, are the epitome of Evil Is Cool.
• LGBT Fanbase: Davion, unsurprisingly, became a selling point of the series for gay fans, being a Hunky Mr. Fanservice, and immediately getting fanart from the Bara community.
• Magnificent Bastard: The Elf known as the Invoker was once a brilliant scholar who gained the affection of the goddess Selemene with whom he had a daughter. When his daughter died as a result of Selemene's pride and ego, the Invoker forms a pact with the demon Terrorblade, manipulating all events of the series and the theft of Selemene's sacred lotuses to initiate a war between Selemene's order and the rest of the region to weaken faith in Selemene. Ending in Selemene's defeat at Terrorblade's hands, the Invoker ends the first season imperiously gazing down at the defeated form of his former lover, his revenge complete at last.
• Moment of Awesome: The end of episode one: demonically possessed Uldorak Vs Slyrak, the Eldwyrm of fire! Who teams up with Davion! After a long, drawn out battle, the dragon knight and Fire Eldwyrm stand victorious… but in a moment for Terrorblade, Slyrak succumbs to his wounds that the daemon cased while possessing the corpse of the Earth Eldwurm and would have died and possibly have gotten his soul stolen if not for fussing with Davion.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Selemene crosses it in flashbacks when she decides to let her own daughter die because she refuses to worship her.
  • Kashurra crosses it when it's revealed that he orchestrated the deaths of Mirana's parents, and as such was also the cause of her exile.
  • Vahdrak vaporising the other eldwyrms. "I am the song that murders the world" indeed.
• Rooting for the Empire: Given everything that has been shown being done by or in the name of Selemene, is it any wonder fans actually cheered for the unapologetically evil Terrorblade when he beat her almost to death?
• Signature Scene: The infamous ending of Book 1 Chapter 7, where Selemene lets her daughter die of an otherwise incurable illness because she wanted her to be her mother instead of her goddess, is easily one of the most memorable scenes simply because of the sheer depravity of it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Vahdrak, the Chaos Eldwyrm, slays other four Eldwyrms (Aethrak, Byssrak, Orrak and Indrak, respectively the Eldwyrms of Air, Void, Light and Ion) in a single flash, and is in turn killed by the Invoker with similar ease. It's not hard to imagine both scenes being awesome battles, as the Eldwyrms don't even get to showcase their powers (albeit we do get a glimpse of a powerful Void Dragon with Kashurra in the final episode of the second season) and the scenes hardly convey the importance of five primordial forces of the universe suddenly dying, nor how powerful is for one to possess their souls.
  • Similarly, Lirrak, Eldwyrm of Water, is killed and has his soul taken by Terrorblade offscreen.

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