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  • The Hierarchy, otherwise known as the Twilight Council

The twilight council is a protoss building, which serves as a meeting point for representatives of the Daelaam.

The Tal'darim stole the design of the twilight council, changing its architecture to be more intimidating and somber.[1]

Game Structure[]

Researched Abilities and Upgrades[]

Charge SC2 Icon1
Charge

The zealot charges towards a target enemy unit or structure, boosting its speed to 8.47 for the duration. The zealot must have clear ground pathing to their target to reach it. Also increases the zealot's normal movement speed to 4.725

Usage
Hotkey C
Range 4
Duration 2.5 seconds
Cooldown 7 seconds
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey C
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 100seconds
ve

Stalkers instantly teleport over short distances. This allows stalkers to strike from unexpected quarters, catch fleeing foes, or escape unfavorable encounters.

Usage
Hotkey B
Range 8
Cooldown 7 seconds
Notes

Blink requires line-of-sight. Distance is not reduced when bypassing terrain obstacles, including cliffs from both directions. The effects of Fungal Growth prevents Blinking.

Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey B
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 121seconds
ve
ResonatingGlaivesOrange SC2 Game1
Resonating Glaives

Increase the attack speed of the Adept by 45%.

Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey A
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 100seconds
ve

Building Upgrades[]

  • +1 armor to shields per level.
Acquisition
Purchased from Forge
Hotkey S
Level 1
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 121.6seconds
Level 2
Cost 200 Minerals 200 Vespene gas 144.6seconds
Required Twilight council
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 167.9seconds
Required Twilight council
ve

Co-op Missions[]

Protoss commanders can research additional upgrades for their units at the twilight council when playing in the Co-op Missions mode of Legacy of the Void.[2] Alarak builds a "death council" instead of a twilight council, a variant of the building with identical stats and position in the tech tree, but with a Tal'darim skin instead of the standard one.

Artanis Upgrades[]

Researches[]
Charge SC2 Icon1
Charge

Intercepts enemy ground units and increases movement speed by 3. Can be set to autocast.
Passive: Also increases the movement speed of Zealots from 2.75 to 3.

Valorous Inspirator: Increases the Charge's bonus movement speed from 3 to 6

Usage
Hotkey C
Range 4
Duration 3.5 seconds
Cooldown 10seconds
Mastery: -0.15seconds per Energy Regeneration and Ability Cooldown reduction mastery point. Down to a minimum 5.5 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey C
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
Whirlwind SC2-LotV Icon1
Whirlwind

The Zealot spins in place, dealing a total of 35 damage over 3 seconds to nearby enemy ground units (within range 1.5). Can be set to autocast.

Valorous Inspirator: Increases the Whirlwind total damage from 35 to 70.

Usage
Hotkey E
Range 1.5
Duration 3 seconds
Cooldown 10 seconds
Mastery: -0.15 seconds per Energy Regeneration and Ability Cooldown reduction mastery point. Down to a minimum 5.5 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Artanis Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 90seconds
ve
SingularityCharge SC2-LotV Icon1
Singularity Charge

Increases dragoon attack range by 2.

Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
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Trillic Compression Systems

Increases the dragoon's maximum HP by 20. Allows for shield regeneration in combat and increases shield regeneration rate from 2 to 4.

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Artanis Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 90seconds
ve
Purchases[]
SC2 ProShields
Protoss Plasma Shields

Increases the shield armor of all protoss units and structures.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Forge
Hotkey A
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Shield armor: 1
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 2
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 3
ve

Vorazun Upgrades[]

Researches[]
Charge SC2 Icon1
Charge

Intercepts enemy ground units and increases movement speed by 3. Can be set to autocast.
Passive: Also increases the movement speed of Zealots from 2.75 to 3.

Usage
Hotkey C
Range 4
Duration 3.5 seconds
Cooldown 10 seconds
Notes

At level 4, replaced by Shadow Charge.

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey C
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
ShadowCharge SC2-LotV Icon1
Shadow Charge

Intercepts enemy ground units and increases movement speed. Briefly cloaks the Centurion and allows it to move through other units. Can be set to autocast.

Passive: Increases the movement speed of Centurions from 2.75 to 3.

Usage
Hotkey C
Range Min:0.6
Max:4
Duration 3.5 seconds
Cooldown 10 seconds
Notes

Move speed multiplier during the charge: 6.8

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Vorazun Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
Darkcoil SC2-LotV Icon1
Darkcoil

Upon attacking an enemy, the centurion stuns nearby visible ground enemies for a brief time. Massive/Heroic/Unstoppable units instead have their attack and movement speeds halved for the duration. Grants 100 shields for 10 seconds.

Withering Siphon: Darkcoil affects Massive/Heroic/Unstoppable units and causes enemy units to lose 5 hit points every 0.25 second, up to a maximum of 50. This effect cannot kill.

Usage
Hotkey C
Range 1
Duration 2.5 seconds
Cooldown 10 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Vorazun Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
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Blink

Teleports the Stalker to a nearby target location.

Usage
Hotkey B
Range 8
Cooldown 8 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
PhaseReactor SC2 Icon
Phase Reactor

After using Blink, the stalker rapidly regenerates 80 shields over five seconds. Cloaks the stalker for five seconds.

Usage
Passive
Duration 5 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Vorazun Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey C
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 90seconds
Required Research Blink
ve
Purchases[]
SC2 ProShields
Protoss Plasma Shields

Increases the shield armor of all protoss units and structures.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Forge
Hotkey A
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Shield armor: 1
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 2
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 3
ve

Karax Upgrades[]

Researches[]
Charge SC2 Icon1
Charge

Intercepts enemy ground units and increases movement speed by 3. Can be set to autocast.
Passive: Also increases the movement speed of Sentinels from 2.75 to 3.

Usage
Hotkey C
Range 4
Duration 3.5 seconds
Cooldown 10 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey C
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
Reconstruction SC2-LotV Icon1
Reconstruction

Destroyed sentinels rebuild themselves to full health.

Usage
Passive
Duration 5 seconds
Cooldown 120 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Karax Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey E
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 90seconds
ve
Reclamation SC2 Icon1
Reclamation

Energizers can take control of enemy mechanical units for a period of time. When the control period ends, the enemy unit is destroyed.

Usage
Hotkey R
Cost 50 Energy
Range 9
Duration 120 seconds
Cooldown 120 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Karax Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey B
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 120seconds
ve
RapidRecharging SC2 Icon1
Rapid Recharging

Energizers and shield batteries have +200% energy regeneration.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Karax Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey S
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 90seconds
ve
Purchases[]
SC2 ProShields
Protoss Plasma Shields

Increases the shield armor of all protoss units and structures.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Forge
Hotkey A
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Shield armor: 1
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 2
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 3
ve

Alarak Upgrades (Death Council)[]

Researches[]
SC2 Alarak AC - SoulAugmentation
Soul Augmentation

Supplicants gain +25 shields.

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Alarak Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Death council
Hotkey D
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 90seconds
ve
SC2 Alarak AC - BloodShields
Blood Shields

Supplicants shields take less damage from enemy units. (This increases the armor on the shields by +2.)

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available
Acquisition
Purchased from Death council
Hotkey C
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
Blink SC2 UseAble1
Phase Blink

Teleports the Slayer to a nearby target location. After using Phase Blink, the Slayer's next attack within 8 seconds will deal double damage.

Usage
Hotkey B
Range 8
Cooldown 8 seconds
Notes

Damage
Weapon Upgrade: 2 (+2 vs Armored)
Basic: 26 (+10 vs Armored)
Level 1: 28 (+12 vs Armored)
Level 2: 30 (+14 vs Armored)
Level 3: 32 (+16 vs Armored)

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Death council
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
SC2 Alarak AC - PhasingArmor
Phasing Armor

The slayer becomes immune to damage for 2 seconds after taking damage. Cannot occur more than once every 5 seconds

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Alarak Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Death council
Hotkey D
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 90seconds
ve
Purchases[]
SC2 ProShields
Protoss Plasma Shields

Increases the shield armor of all protoss units and structures.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Forge
Hotkey A
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Shield armor: 1
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Death council
Effect Shield armor: 2
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Death council
Effect Shield armor: 3
ve

Fenix Upgrades[]

Researches[]
Charge SC2 Icon1
Charge

Intercepts enemy ground units and increases movement speed by 3. Can be set to autocast.
Passive: Also increases the movement speed of Legionnaires from 2.75 to 3.

Usage
Hotkey C
Range 4
Duration 3.5 seconds
Cooldown 10 seconds
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey C
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
CoopAdeptShade SC2 Game1
Psionic Projection

Adepts and Talis attacks can now summon an invulnerable Shade that will attack enemies for a short time.

Usage
Passive
Duration 5 seconds
Cooldown 5 seconds
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey B
Cost 50 Minerals 50 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
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Empowered Blades

Kaldalis attacks deal 9 (+1 per level) area damage.

Tactical Data Web: Empowered Blades deal an additional 4.5 damage for each networked Legionnaire (up to 30 damage, summary 39 (+1 per level)).

Network Administrator: Increases the Empowered Blades damage per each networked Legionnaire from 4.5 to 13.5 (up from 30 damage to 90 damage, summary from 39 to 99 (+1 per level)).

Usage
Passive
Range 0.25
Notes

Empowered Blades affects on primary target (including Tactical Data Web and Network Administrator buffs).

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Fenix Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Hotkey D
Cost 50 Minerals 50 Vespene gas 60seconds
Required Download Kaldalis A.I. Personality upgrade
ve
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Debilitation System

Talis' Ricochet Glaive bounces an additional 8 times and causes every unit hit by Ricochet Glaive to take an additional +5 damage for 5 seconds.

Usage
Hotkey E
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Fenix Level 4
Acquisition
Purchased from Twilight council
Cost 50 Minerals 50 Vespene gas 60seconds
Required Download Talis A.I. Personality upgrade
ve
Purchases[]
OperationalEfficiency SC2 Button1
Operational Efficiency

Production and tech structures no longer have tech requirements, have their mineral costs reduced by 50%, and have their gas costs reduced by 100%.

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Fenix Level 10
ve
SC2 ProShields
Protoss Plasma Shields

Increases the shield armor of all protoss units and structures.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Forge
Hotkey A
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Shield armor: 1
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 2
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Twilight council
Effect Shield armor: 3
ve

Development[]

The following section contains information from a previous version of StarCraft II which is no longer valid.
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Development render

The twilight council was initially built as a placeholder tech building to visually signify the tech path chosen by a protoss player. The three diamonds had glyphs which would appear depicting the robotic, high templar or stargate high-end technology. The role overlapped the buildings which already signified those technology unlocks (the stargate, robotics facility and templar archives) so the function was changed so the building unlocks unit abilities instead. As one of the later protoss structures developed in the game, the twilight council features more white surface detail to break up the prodominant gold/teamcolor treatment that had been used on the other protoss structures.[3]

Removed Upgrades[]

Charge SC2-LotV Icon1
Shield Upgrade

Increases the adept's shields by 50.

Acquisition
Hotkey S
ve

Achievements[]

WarpInTime SC2 Icon1 Warp In Time
Points

10 Achievement SC2 Game1

Criteria

Warp in a twilight council during the first 275 seconds of a Melee game.

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Gallery[]

References[]

  1. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void. Collections Tab: Skins. October 17, 2016
  2. 2015-10-08, LotV Data Hidden in Patch, accessed via map editor. StarCraft Legacy, accessed on 2015-10-08
  3. 2011-03-19, SC2: Protoss Twilight Council. Deviantart, accessed on 2011-03-19
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