SOURCES & CREDITS.

Deadlore is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with Valve. Deadlock, its characters, game text, and artwork are the property of Valve.

Hero lore and abilities

Biographies and descriptions come from Valve’s English game localization, preserved by SteamDatabase’s GameTracking-Deadlock. Yamato’s biography ships in Japanese, and the English behind her Translate button is the official May 2024 translation recorded by the Deadlock Wiki. Base ability data uses Iain Fox’s Deadlock Data API, captured October 23, 2026. The roster includes all 44 heroes released by October 25, 2026; release status was checked against Valve’s City Never Sleeps update and its Steam announcements.

Voice lines

The Oracle’s files quote Valve’s voice line text, preserved by SteamDatabase’s GameTracking-Deadlock, as of October 30, 2026, typos included. Where a line now only says “Speaks Japanese”, its English comes from the same file on January 22, 2026, and is marked. A line shows that a character said it, not that it’s true. Everything around the quotes is in our own words. The Deadlock Wiki helped us find where to look, and gave us the Curiosity Dealer’s name. Yamato’s pick lines have no English from Valve, so the Japanese and fan translations shown for them come from the wiki’s voice lines page under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are labelled as fan translations.

Artwork

Hero portraits and ability icons are Valve game assets distributed through Deadlock.io’s extracted asset collection. The original city artwork was preserved from the supplied Deadlore Figma design. The skyline, printed textures, six-character artwork, city-location images, lane skylines, the six “Meet the locals” posters, and the location shots inside the home page’s postcard lettering come from Valve’s official City Never Sleeps page. Baba, Violet and Nurse Harrow portrait cards are sourced through the Deadlock Wiki.

Abrams, Lady Geist, Haze, and Ivy renders come from The Deadlock Wiki. Abrams’ render was uploaded by Gammaton32. All underlying character art belongs to Valve; no open commercial license is claimed.

Hero art and ability clips

Full hero art comes from the Deadlock Wiki, and ability clips from the Deadlock API asset archive, both retrieved November 2, 2026. They are Valve game assets, and clips may show an older version of an ability. Clips exist for only some abilities. Ability stats, spirit scaling and upgrades come from the same API, and upgrade costs from the Deadlock Wiki, both retrieved November 2, 2026.

Typography

Jost is locally hosted under the SIL Open Font License. Valve Pulp, the display face, and VALVE Oracle, the home page’s heading face, are sourced from Valve’s official City Never Sleeps page and remain Valve’s property. The stacked wordmark follows the original Figma design.

Community board

Headcanons on the home page are written by visitors and belong to their authors. The board was started with a post by Thicc Rhombus on Steam Community (April 15, 2026), quoted with credit and a link to the original.

About this archive

Game data was retrieved on October 25, 2026. This is a dated snapshot, not a live balance guide. In-game descriptions are preserved with game-specific formatting converted to readable text. Editorial introductions are written for this archive.