Rise of Winterchill is a 5v5 AoS featuring original heroes, items, and gameplay. Successor to my older map DotA Outland, this is the eighth major publicly available version of RoW, and not the last.

Story:
After months of supposed inactivity, Rage Winterchill has amassed a rogue legion of demons, satyr, and undead to use in a fanatical strike against the Night Elves in an attempt to avenge Archimonde's death. After demolishing several elven outposts, he has stationed himself in the ruins of a former city, and is prepared to fight. The Elves are underprepared and doom lingers overhead; Can you turn the tides of the battle?

Features:
· Twenty completely original characters to fight with.
· Focus on abilities which take special aiming/timing, and reward skill.
· Very few stuns/complete disables which leave your character helpless.
· Stat-based abilities which improve over time, and based on item choices.

· Very progressive item systems, designed for ease of use:
· Clearly organised Marketplace interface (see screenshots below) with full information about effects stacking and recipe components.
· No overlapping 'orb abilities': everything works on every hero and with every other item.
· 'Recipe' items will auto-complete if you already have enough gold.
· Type -i itemname to buy an itemname, saves time on searching.

· Starting items with important tips for new players!
· Very active developer! Open to suggestions, etc.


Shortfalls:
· Not all of the heroes have a full skillset. Some abilities are fillers.
· The terrain is a bit shabby looking, though functional.
· No outstanding imbalance, but not enough testing has been done on this.

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Note! The correct filename should be: RoW_0.53a.wcx
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Patch notes for Rise of Winterchill 0.53a
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Rise of Winterchill 0.25a, archived on 15/02/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.30, archived on 15/02/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.30, archived on 15/02/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.30, archived on 21/03/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.35, archived on 20/04/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.40, archived on 02/08/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.45, archived on 12/12/08
Rise of Winterchill 0.48, archived on 20/04/09
Rise of Winterchill 0.50, archived on 21/04/09
Rise of Winterchill 0.50b, archived on 13/07/09