I have a theory for 12,403rd world iterations in Dota Anime…

So the creator of the Dota Anime show mentioned that there was actual meaning behind how they came to this number on the world iteration that anime took place. I tried looking up different things and finally came to below conclusion.

So this number is something involving the number of matches played in Dota 2 game as invoker hero. I tried to validate my theory by going to Open dota API explorer where I tried to write some SQL queries and come up with the actual count and here is the breakdown of the query:

SELECT
count(*) 
FROM player_matches pm,matches m
where pm.match_id = m.match_id
and m.start_time <= 1616610600
and hero_id=74
and game_mode = 2
and leaver_status=0

The above query should give you a number 13274 which is as close I could get. I only counted matches played before the Dota Book 1 release date (Mar 25-2021) as it could be the next match which invoker was playing? I don't know, but here is something for you all geeks to look into.