Post by DSkillz on Mar 27, 2014 2:04:52 GMT
Diablo (Blizzard)
Al'Diabalos, the Lord of Terror, known more commonly as Diablo, is the titular character and arch-villain of the Diablo game series. He is also the youngest and most powerful of the three Prime Evils. He has been voiced by by Bill Roper and later by J. B. Blanc.
Diablo and his elder brothers Mephisto and Baal ruled over Hell as a sovereign triumvirate until overthrown by the Lesser Evils Azmodan and Belial, who banished the Prime Evils to the mortal world of Sanctuary. However, Diablo's game manual implies that the "Dark Exile", as this became known, was in fact intended by the Prime Evils in order to corrupt the mortal world personally. A mage order known as the Horadrim was formed to hunt down the Prime Evils and remove their corruptive influence from the world of men. Diablo was the last of the Prime Evils to be captured by the Horadrim, and his red Soulstone was buried in a series of caverns over which a monastery was built, which later became the Cathedral of Tristram.
Diablo remained imprisoned for two centuries prior to the events of the first game, until his Soulstone was shattered by the Archbishop Lazarus, the corrupted advisor to King Leoric. At first attempting to take control of Leoric, only to find a portion of the king's soul denying him full control, Diablo took possession of Leoric's young son Albrecht as his mortal vessel. He was defeated by a group of mortal heroes - the warrior Prince Aidan, the rogue captain Blood Raven, and an unnamed Vizjerei sorcerer - in his lair in the depths of the labyrinth. Aidan plunged Diablo's Soulstone into his forehead in an effort to contain the Lord of Terror, but was consumed utterly by him.
In Diablo II, Diablo - in the guise of the Dark Wanderer - travelled eastward to locate his brother Baal, whose Soulstone was embedded in the chest of the Horadric mage Tal Rasha and buried in a tomb beneath the desert, and (with the unwitting aid of his travelling companion Marius) released the Lord of Destruction from his prison, before continuing to the Temple of Light in Kurast to reunite with his eldest brother Mephisto. Diablo joined his brothers in opening a gateway into the Burning Hells, whereupon the Lord of Terror took on his true form and stepped through the gate as a harbinger of the Prime Evils' return to Hell. A group of heroes who had tracked Diablo's path eastward confronted him in his inner sanctum and defeated him, destroying his and Mephisto's Soulstones at the Hellforge to ensure (unsuccessfully, as it later turns out) that the two Prime Evils would not return to the mortal world again.
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Diablo and his elder brothers Mephisto and Baal ruled over Hell as a sovereign triumvirate until overthrown by the Lesser Evils Azmodan and Belial, who banished the Prime Evils to the mortal world of Sanctuary. However, Diablo's game manual implies that the "Dark Exile", as this became known, was in fact intended by the Prime Evils in order to corrupt the mortal world personally. A mage order known as the Horadrim was formed to hunt down the Prime Evils and remove their corruptive influence from the world of men. Diablo was the last of the Prime Evils to be captured by the Horadrim, and his red Soulstone was buried in a series of caverns over which a monastery was built, which later became the Cathedral of Tristram.
Diablo remained imprisoned for two centuries prior to the events of the first game, until his Soulstone was shattered by the Archbishop Lazarus, the corrupted advisor to King Leoric. At first attempting to take control of Leoric, only to find a portion of the king's soul denying him full control, Diablo took possession of Leoric's young son Albrecht as his mortal vessel. He was defeated by a group of mortal heroes - the warrior Prince Aidan, the rogue captain Blood Raven, and an unnamed Vizjerei sorcerer - in his lair in the depths of the labyrinth. Aidan plunged Diablo's Soulstone into his forehead in an effort to contain the Lord of Terror, but was consumed utterly by him.
In Diablo II, Diablo - in the guise of the Dark Wanderer - travelled eastward to locate his brother Baal, whose Soulstone was embedded in the chest of the Horadric mage Tal Rasha and buried in a tomb beneath the desert, and (with the unwitting aid of his travelling companion Marius) released the Lord of Destruction from his prison, before continuing to the Temple of Light in Kurast to reunite with his eldest brother Mephisto. Diablo joined his brothers in opening a gateway into the Burning Hells, whereupon the Lord of Terror took on his true form and stepped through the gate as a harbinger of the Prime Evils' return to Hell. A group of heroes who had tracked Diablo's path eastward confronted him in his inner sanctum and defeated him, destroying his and Mephisto's Soulstones at the Hellforge to ensure (unsuccessfully, as it later turns out) that the two Prime Evils would not return to the mortal world again.
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Wikipedia
Diablo Wiki
Copyright Owner/Official Site
Blizzard Entertainment
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