The recently released Diablo 4, the latest installment of the action RPG series published by Blizzard Entertainment, captured the dark, bleak feel of the first two Diablo games; full of demonic monsters, fast-paced factions, and haunted heroes. Gamers who haven’t played any Diablo games before Diablo 4, however, might be confused by its in-depth lore, the relationship with its primary antagonist, Lilith; and who groups like the Nephalem are.
Among the many video game franchises Blizzard has published – Warcraft, StarCraft, Overwatch, and so on – Diablo is perhaps the most sinister in tone, full of imagery related to corruption, death, apocalypse, and demon lords in all their ram-horned, bat-winged glory. Each installment of Diablo typically features a fantasy protagonist trying to stop a demonic invasion into the world of humanity, carving their way through dungeons of undead horror, mutated monstrosities, twisted cultists, and infernal devils. As of Diablo 4, however, the many narrowly thwarted apocalypses have taken their toll on a world once meant to be a sanctuary.
Through gameplay interaction with NPCs and Blizzard’s infamously crisp cinematics, though, players can learn how the world of humanity in Diablo 4 was originally created by a rogue angel named Inarius and a rogue Demon named Lilith, made to be a refuge from the eternal war and bestowed with the name Sanctuary as a result. When Inarius and Lilith were both banished from the world they created (only to make their dramatic returns in the opening act of Diablo 4), it was inherited by mortal beings who were neither angels nor devils.
Nephalem, an old term used to refer to the offspring of human and angel parents, is used in the Diablo games to denote beings who are born from or directly descended from unions of Inarius and Lilith, or the angels/demons who helped them create Sanctuary. These half-angel, half-demon beings were the ancestors of modern humanity, albeit larger, long-lived, and capable of surpassing their progenitors in power. Despite Diablo 3’s plot revolving around the return of the Nephalem and a gradual ascendance of humanity beyond their mortal state, Nephalem are largely absent from Diablo 4. The most noteworthy Nephalem character is the patron saint of Diablo 4 Necromancer Builds known as Rathma.
In the cosmology of the Diablo games, the Prime Evil are demon lords of peerless power and malevolence. There are 3 total Prime Evils – Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred, Baal, Lord of Destruction, and Diablo, the Lord of Terror and namesake of the dark fantasy action RPG franchise. In their prime, these Demon Lords led the forces of hell against the forces of heaven and sought to corrupt and turn humanity to their side when they learned about the existence of Sanctuary. In time, though, the Prime Evils were betrayed by the lesser demon lords who followed them, their bodies destroyed and their spirits trapped within artifacts called Soulstones.
2023-06-12 07:30:05
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