In fact, it’s possible that Lilith defeats Diablo herself. While Diablo may play a minor role in the upcoming game, everything we’ve seen so far presents Lilith as the main antagonist. but will he be a major antagonist of the game, as he has been in the last three? Will we have a chance to kill Diablo for good?Įvidence suggests that’s unlikely. Diablo could be in Sanctuary during Diablo 4. So we know there’s a portal to the Burning Hells from Sanctuary… which means it’s possible that the Lord of Terror will step through it. Since we have everything from serene ocean cliffsides to the gaping maw of Hell itself, what does that mean for the bestiary?Īnd the Diablo 4 release date trailer, above, literally takes place in hell, as Inarius confronts Lilith. A small tidbit in a 2020 developer blog talking about the vast world of Sanctuary suggests that Diablo may have opportunity to escape: But was Diablo released back into Sanctuary? The Burning Hells? Or did he return to the Black Abyss? Per Blizzard’s official story guide, Malthael’s defeat at the end of Diablo 3 released all of the souls he consumed - including Diablo’s. The fact that he managed to bounce back does make one wonder - is he our Big Bad in D4?ĭiablo, from a lore perspective, is available for a fight. First as the final boss in Diablo, and then as the Act 4 boss in both Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 (making Diablo the final boss before expansions).
We defeat Diablo in the Silver Spire of the High Heavens (and the Realm of Terror, as noted earlier) and return his essence into the Black Soulstone.ĭiablo is the main antagonist in all three Diablo games. But instead of locking the Evils away, Adria stabs Leah with the now-filled Black Soulstone to rebirth Diablo as the Prime Evil, with the powers of all seven Lords of Hell. The player unwittingly helps Adria, obtaining the Black Soulstone as the supposed key to defeating defeating Azmodan and Belial, the last remaining Lords of Hell, and containing the essences of all the Evils in this single, powerful Soulstone. Twenty years after his defeat, in Diablo 3, Diablo’s servant Adria has been traveling Sanctuary to collect demonic essences of the slain Great Evils. Without the soulstone trapping him, Diablo returned to the Black Abyss (the Void) and left a bit of his demonic essence in Sanctuary. Unfortunately, Diablo rapidly begin corrupting him.Īiden does not linger in Tristram and heads east under the new guise of the Dark Wanderer, seeking a way to truly contain Diablo… but it’s already too late. We spend the bulk of D2 in pursuit of the Dark Wanderer, fighting Diablo as the Act 4 boss at his seat within the Chaos Sanctuary and eventually destroying his soulstone. Aidan then seats the gem in his own skull in an attempt to contain the Lord of Terror. D1 ends with the victorious warrior (Albrecht’s older brother Aidan, Leoric’s heir) slaying Diablo and removing the soulstone fragment from the demon’s forehead, revealing Albrecht’s dead body. Diablo’s original attempts to possess King Leoric failed, leading him to use Leoric’s younger son Albrecht as his vessel - and the one we fight as the game’s final boss. Players are first introduced to Diablo during Diablo 1, when Archbishop Lazarus releases him from the soulstone hidden in the Tristram Cathedral. He rules over the Realm of Terror in the Burning Hells, which players of Diablo 3 are ported to during their Act 4 fight against the Prime Evil himself. Like his siblings, Diablo spawned from one of the seven heads of the dragon Tathamet - the original Prime Evil, cast off from Anu, who sought a state of total purity. If you prefer to avoid all Diablo 4 spoilers until the game’s release on June 6, might I recommend our entire backlog of weekly cuteness? Or perhaps some Diablo lore.īut for now, let’s dig into the story of Diablo, and what - if any - role he might play in Diablo 4.ĭiablo - more formally Al’Diabolos, Lord of Terror - is one of the three Prime Evils, the most powerful demon lords of the Burning Hells. Will Diablo raise his ugly mug in D4, or will the game focus on Lilith’s rampages throughout Sanctuary?įair warning, reader: There are some story spoilers ahead. We’ve had minimal news about the Lord of Terror in the information released about the game so far. You would think a Diablo game would have to include the franchise’s titular character, but Diablo 4, with its focus on Lilith and Inarius, could be different.
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