Galamathet the Behemoth by Cuttleboss

Galamathet was designed as an initiator with built in mobility that can play position 3 or 4, similar to Primal Beast, Spirit Breaker or Earth Spirit. He is a flexible caster initiator who tries to apply as much pressure as possible. He was designed to be fun to play and highly rewards making risky aggressive plays. The hero has the potential to be an annoying thorn on your enemy's side with his disruptive skillset that becomes more irritating as he keeps fighting. Blood Heat is an ability that is effective for pushing an advantage, but he maintains a lot of utility as a disabler and tank late game still, even if he is not as powerful as early on as he gets countered by dispels, Black King Bars, and Glimmer Capes.

Galamathet's gameplay is built around aggressive play. He can be played in an aggressive offlane who can make use of his Dash-Rend Combo or he can roam onto other lanes. He does benefit from some lane farm to help with some potential mana issues or to be a tanky frontliner. He has limited impact on a role that is higher than 3 due to lack of significant damage scaling.

His itemization is pretty flexible in general, being able to buy most of what a tanky position 3 or 4 can get.
Due to his negative status resistance, if he is not going for utility items like Force Staff or tanking aura items such as Pipe of Insight, he can prioritize debuff items such as Rod of Atos and Shiva's Guard or even possibly Scythe of Vyse to get the most value out of them.
He can also be a straightforward tank and is well suited for health regeneration amplification items such as Sange items as they boost his regeneration from Blood Heat. With tank builds, he is powerful as a frontline hero that has a big AOE presence like Tidehunter, while with utility or debuff builds he is suited as a far-back initiating hero like Earth Spirit.

Galamathet is not a very difficult hero. He can be very straightforward and hard to kill. There may be some challenges to execute some of his more powerful skill combos properly. As such he has a low skill floor and a medium skill ceiling.

General Stat Priorities:
High Priority: STR, HP, Magic Resistance, Spell Immunity, HP Regen, Mana Regen
Middle Priority: Mobility, Status Resistance, Evasion, Armor, Movespeed, Cast Range
Low Priority: AGI, Mana, INT, Attack Damage, Attack Speed, Spell Amplification, Lifesteal, Spell Lifesteal, Cooldown Reduction

Early Options: Orb of Venom, Soul Ring, Bracer, Wind Lace, Headdress, Buckler, Sage's Mask, Ring of Health, Magic Wand, Cloak, Chainmail, Fluffy Hat, Blight Stone, Orb Of Corrosion
Boots: Arcane Boots, Tranquil Boots, or Phase Boots

Itemization Choices:
Support Roaming Utility:
Drum of Endurance/ Boots of Bearing, Spirit Vessel, Solar Crest, Glimmer Cape, Aether Lens, Eul's Scepter of Divinity, Vladmir's Offering/ Wraith Pact, Lotus Orb
Frontline Tank:
Vanguard/ Crimson Guard, Mekansm/ Guardian Greaves, Kaya and Sange, Eternal Shroud, Pipe of Insight, Radiance, Heart of Tarrasque, Assault Cuirass, Shiva's Guard
Debuffs:
Rod of Atos/ Gleipnir, Heaven's Halberd, Orchid Malevolence/ Bloodthorn, Shiva's Guard, Ethereal Blade

General Late Game: Aghanim's Scepter, Abyssal Blade, Scythe of Vyse, Heart of Tarrasque, Assault Cuirass, Shiva's Guard, Wraith Pact, Overwhelming Blink, Arcane Blink

Mobility Items:
Blink Dagger, Shadow Blade/ Silver Edge as Inferno Dash may not be suited for all situations due to its clunky and imprecise control. It may be valuable to have a different mobility skill that is more precise than Inferno Dash. Initiating with a Blink/Invis Horrify may be more effective against certain foes. Due to Blood Heat's low aura AOE, Galamathet can also use Blink to get close to the ally he's trying to heal.
Other items to consider:
Black King Bar is worth considering if needed for the spell immunity. With BKB and his armor and regen boost from Blood Heat, Galamathet can be nigh unkillable for the duration.
Blade Mail due to having initiation and tankiness built in but low damage, BM can allow Galamathet to deal a bit of damage. Can also speed up this hero's slow farming with its passive damage return.
Aghanim's Shard improves Galamathet's disable and damage combo with an additional Rend. Also gives a work-around for enemies with Linken's Sphere or other spell block or reflection.
Refresher Orb due to the long cooldown of Blood Heat, this item has a lot of potential usefulness in very late game scenarios.

Neutral Items:
Level 1: Seeds of Serenity*, Occult Bracelet* Arcane Ring, Trusty Shovel, Tumbler's Toy
Level 2: Bullwhip*, Dragon Scale, Pupil's Gift, Philosopher's Stone, Vambrace
Level 3: Ogre Seal Totem*, Blast Rig*, Ceremonial Robe*, Cloak Of Flames*, Elven Tunic, Quickening Charm, Titan Sliver
Level 4: Ascetic's Cap*, Trickster Cloak*, Havoc Hammer*, Flicker, Spell Prism, Timeless Relic
Level 5: Arcanist's Armor*, Ex Machina*, Fallen Sky*, Giant's Ring*, Force Boots, Book of the Dead, Apex
*Denotes an extra useful neutral item

For skill learning, Galamathet will choose his first skill based on what he needs.
If he's going to try to kill at lane with a partner and possibly roam, he'll get Inferno Dash at 1, if he's trying to kill with a higher damage partner, he can go Rend and if someone is trying to kill him early on he can learn Horrify to save himself.

Either way, every spell is good for a value point by level 3. Galamathet's skillbuild is flexible and how you build him is dependent on your goals.
If you want to be a better initiator and disabler, max Inferno Dash
If you want to be a better ganker and single target disabler max Rend
If you want to be a more disruptive teamfighter for longer battles, consider maxing Horrify, though it is generally the least useful to max first.
Blood Heat should be taken whenever possible, as it is the hero's signature skill, unlocks his potential of his spells, and it gets a lot stronger every level. There is no reason not to get it.

Attribute Bonuses: Galamathet has a decent option to put points into bonus stats over additional levels in Horrify, since most of Horrify's value as a disruption spell is gained at level 1.


Talent Choices:

Level 10: Mana Regen vs Inferno Dash Fire Trail duration. Mana Regen allows Galamathet to cast his spells whenever he needs and with it you are much more likely to have mana for Blood Heat for fights. The Fire trail is a farming tool that can be used to farm jungles and lanes better, as it makes Inferno Dash more akin to Firefly.

Level 15: Rend Damage vs Fear Slow Instead of Speed Up. The Rend damage is just a damage boost to his most damaging spell which can be welcome, especially with Shard and Scepter. The Fear slow is the better disable, making it less reliant on comboing with Rend to be useful.

Level 20: Blood Heat Cooldown vs Spell Immune Inferno Dash. Blood Heat Cooldown reduction would allow more fighting, which can be useful if your team composition is dependent on it to teamfight. You can alternatively focus on making Inferno Dash into a good escape skill (and a more reliable skill in teamfights).

Level 25: Blood Heat Armor vs Blood Heat Aura AOE. This talent choice is either focused on pure tanking for Galamathet or improving the range of your healing which can be a big deal if your allies need to stand far from you. Both are very useful depending on the situation.

Ideal Allies:

Tanky Aggressive Heroes:
Heroes that benefit from his health regeneration aura and also likely serve as good laning partners for getting a lot of kills.

Disablers/Strong Debuffs:
Heroes that get a big boost from up to -56% status resist to let them disable enemies for very long. AOE heroes are extra good because Horrify makes it easy to land big stuns.

Backline Damage Dealers:
Galamathet stands in the front or initiates on targets, but he tanks damage and is very good at being a distraction while strong backline damage dealers do their stuff. With a Blink he can also save them using Horrify on whoever jumps on them.

Regen Amplification:
Increases effectiveness of Blood Heat's regeneration aura.

Good Against:

Damage over Time:
Blood Heat's regeneration aura counters DoT skills, making them far more survivable, and Galamathet is excellent with a lot of Aura items that counter DoTs normally too.

Non-BKB Cores:
Galamathet is weak to spell immunity but also very strong against heroes that are not suited for it. They will struggle against his massive amount of crowd control between his multiple AOE disables and chain-root.

Mobile Heroes:
Galamathet has strong chain disabling and with his ult combined with Rend he can apply very long roots to enemy cores. Due to Inferno Dash it is not hard for him to get close to these mobile heroes too.

Dangerous Channeling Spells:
Galamathet's Horrify is a powerful AOE interrupt that with Blood Heat can be used multiple times in a teamfight, and Inferno Dash is also a good counter for a lot of these spells too. This makes Galamathet one of the best channeling disruption heroes in teamfights. This can be countered by juking, Glimmer Cape or Spell Immunity.

Worst Enemies:

Anti-Regeneration:
Severely limits the effectiveness of Blood Heat on Galamathet and allies.

Anti-Tank:
These heroes cut through his huge health pool very easily, so his skills as a tank are lost or used against him.

Dispel, Invisibility, and Spell Immunity:
Prevents Galamathet from using his powerful debuffs properly, and Horrify does not hit invisible units.

Status Resistance:
Heroes that gain status resistance can nullify Galamathet's main power with Horrify, but also can reduce Rend's duration and overall damage (unlike what status resist does for most abilities). Anyone who gets Sange items fit here too.

The Brutal Lord's design by Moyack and colors by Erwtenpeller. (Link to art has gone dead, original design from 2006)

Warcraft III model by Tarrasque


Personality:
Galamathet's behavior resembles the other demons of the story, especially the eviler more chaotic ones. His personality is brutal and sadistic, taking intense pleasure in suffering of others, the destruction caused by destroying buildings, and killing creeps suggesting his behavior is very much that of a bully. He is also very egocentric and a social Darwinist, prone to calling things weak and saying that only the strong deserve joy and the weak deserve subjugation. His personality is on the surface, not that different than the other demon characters. On occasion he will speak in Ozkavosh towards his fellow demons. Despite this, is not as stupid as he seems, like he notices that Earthshaker and Spirit Breaker share a general appearance with him and considers they may all be connected. He also sometimes ponders the idea of freedom, and if killing for pleasure really is his meaning of life.

Interactions with Other Heroes:
Galamathet is disliked by all the demons, and he hates them too, especially Shadow Fiend, Shadow Demon, and Doom. They respect him to an extent but still do not hesitate to rub it in his face when they defeat him. Terrorblade and Lion, being badasses, are not even remotely afraid of him and consider him an annoying pest. Galamathet respects large characters like Magnus, Undying, and Tidehunter for their massive size and offers to join them in some destruction and in a similar vein sees Tiny as a bit of a brother who will grow large and powerful. Galamathet does think that the Primal Beast is too unintelligent to even want to connect with. Ironically Galamathet finds the other social Darwinist, Troll Warlord unbearable. He and Chaos Knight have respect for each other's power. Spirit Breaker and Earthshaker he will call his brothers in power and be disappointed if he has to kill them (due to his bull-like design, he is likely some kind of offshoot of them).

Lore Strength, Classification, and Comparison:
Gender: Male
Age: Thousands of years old, close to the same age as heroes like Shadow Fiend and Doom.
Classification: Demon Beast
Powers and Abilities: Demon Physiology (Superhuman Strength, speed, durability) with an emphasis on strength, Fire Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Healing Magic, Regeneration
Stamina: Near-Limitless (Broke out of Foulfell and defeats entire armies on his own)
Intelligence: Average (While sentient, he is not intelligent and has rather simple motivations and fighting style, and in his lore was comfortable being manipulated if it meant he could fight strong enemies. He should be very skilled in combat given his age and number of fights he has been in.)
Comparable Power Scales: Similar to other large and powerful multi-dimensional beings, like demons
Spirit Breaker, Shadow Fiend, Underlord

Voice Sample:
Based on Killer Croc from the Arkham Games, voiced by Steve Blum (who also voices Grimstroke). Galamathet sounds like a beast and carries the sounds of growling whenever he talks. Play Video Play Video
Equipment Slots (6) and Default:
Head: Galamathet's Head
Armor: Galamathet's Chestplate
Shoulders: Galamathet's Spikes
Arms: Galamathet's Bracers
Weapon: None (can be used for stuff like Axes and Hammers. Would change animations as Galamathet by default only uses his hands and fists to strike foes)
Taunt: None

Set ideas: None

Standalone item: Flayed Twins Axe Axe Design by Joris Van Hugten
Weapon: Flayed Twins Axe
Rarity Mythical
The flayed twins had many ways to get their blood offerings. Some of their larger followers used special axes to cleave more flesh. Many of these items end up in demon armories, where Galamathet got it.

A powerful two handed axe that changes animations, as Galamathet normally moves with both arms to help walk and punches enemies. As this is a giant two handed Axe he uses it for attacking and he walks with it in a less wild manner than he does normally as you would with an axe.

This cosmetic also changes the Rend icon.
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Standalone Item: Crimson Chestplate
Armor: Crimson Chestplate

Based on the Crimson Guard item, it is the Crimson Guard that is worn on Galamathet's chest. If Galamathet owns a Crimson Guard the item will give a slight shield aura around his chest area.
Galamathet claims the armor meant to face the Year Beast and leads the charge against all.


Relative Size Comparison:

Thank you for reading my concept. If you enjoyed it, you may enjoy some of my other concepts below:

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Pyotr, The Portal Keeper -The Agility Support that controls Mobility and Teleportation-

Additional Reading:

Check out the original forum version of Galamathet here, to see how he has changed

Some other changes the hero concept has had over time:


Credits:
Galamathet's design is a character named "Brutal Lord" by Moyack. Colors above done by Erwtenpeller. Warcraft III model by Tarrasque
Flayed Twins Axe Design by Joris Van Hugten

Icons created by the talented artists at TheHiveWorkshop:
Inferno Dash Icon by Zbc
Launch Icon by CrazyRussian
Horrify Icon by Darkfang
Rend Icon by Praytic
Rending Hand Icon by Edge45
Blood Heat Icon by Marcos DAB
Rend Icon with Cosmetic Flayed Twins Axe by ~Nightmare