Diablo Lore | The TRAGIC Fate of Diablo 1's Three Heroes

[@Complication84]

All the mighty Diablo heroes fall to darkness just being in the mere presence of Hell and the Prime Evils. Neyrelle travels across the entire world with her buddy Mephisto, has a few nightmares, and is totally fine afterwards.

[@thomask5434]

Lets be fair, story is still going,

[@darkbendover]

she's underage.

[@YesThatWasa]

Across the entire world? It was like that scene in Nacho Libre "How did you find me?" "I could see the boat from the cinematic from the town"

[@SamJulesGillians]

I was saying this to my friend not too long ago. If we want to reach we can say Neyrelle might be tough because there is no world stone.

[@thatotherdan9984]

@SamJulesGillians maybe but lore states that the nephalem got weaker over time due to the world stone. 20 years after its destruction doesn't seem like enough time for the blood lines of the average person to get so powerful, they can shrug off the Lord of hates influence.

[@Csnooblet]

Free that caged dog! He needs fresh meat

[@Hammerite]

One of the main reasons Leoric went fully mad was because Diablo attempted to possess him but failed.

[@loatheburger]

Correct! I went into the full lore of what happened to Tristram directly leading up to the events of Diablo 1 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opu0gn6Mds9jrpY I didnt want to go too much into the story of Leoric and Lazarus in this video because of how much detail there is - doubling its runtime :P

[@edwardmarshall2035]

"Unfortunately the world of Tristram and Sanctuary is nihilistic, bleak, and hopeless." Imprisoned fluff boy - "I too know the dark infinite abyss."

[@loatheburger]

@@edwardmarshall2035 😂🤣

[@Rakshiir]

If you consider how most Heroes from the earlier games had a pretty dark fate after their heroic deeds, the influence of Mephisto in D4 seems more like a small inconvenience. Or they want to tell us that Neyrelle is actually stronger then every single one of those characters that canonically defeated one or more prime evils and several strong demon commanders. This is just my personal opinion but... I really dislike that. I also dislike the writers having such a love for characters who lose an arm and still are just as good (or better) compared to most people. Those things simply don`t make much sense to me in terms of realism and (in case of the corruption) lore.

[@michaelanderson2166]

Def Leopard lost an arm, and was killing it.

[@rossato2109]

I liked how Diablo II aproached the story of the rogue and the mage but the warrior retcon on Diablo III was BS. The whole point of the king going mad is because his only heir was taken.

[@filipvadas7602]

This is honestly a huge thing missing from most of D3 & D4. Good prevails in the end, but evil always survives. The fact that the original protagonist trio suffered fates worse than death just by coming into contact with a Greater Evil is *insanely bleak* and sets the tone of the game's setting brilliantly. All the while not completely overpowering the human capacity to strive and survive amidst so much darkness that's at the centre of the story, the potential to stare into the abyss and not immediately go insane is a uniquely human trait. Hell, the Wanderer fought a losing battle and resisted Diablo's influence up until there literally was no trace of humanity left in him.

[@Knuspermonster]

Free the fluffy boi :O Justice for the fluff

[@thrice5560]

HEY! let that pupper out of jail

[@loatheburger]

He was tussling with his brother and needed to chill out

[@SonySteals]

I never liked retconing Warrior as Aiden because it feels like a stretch. Other two work great because nobody fiddled with their past making them unnecessarily important lore-wise. Aiden fighting his skeletal (?) father and Lazarus in d1 without any commentary blows the illusion away. You just feel it’s uncomfortably fake. Blizz should have made him an ex-footman in king’s army or prince’s childhood friend etc. Turning him into a son and a brother makes this story too personal to pretend it’s holding up.

[@loatheburger]

I felt that too with both Aiden and Adria. Replaying it recently the lack of commentary takes you out of it. But Diablo 1 had crosses and symbols from Christianity so not all retcons are bad I suppose

[@dragula131]

I think it actually makes really good sense lore wise. The returning Prince coming to slay the enemy that abducts his brother and attempted to possess his father which drove him insane while he was gone and had possessed his father's closest advisor. Who wouldn't be coming for revenge on that. That makes more sense than the rogue and mage together

[@moseslalmuanpuia8988]

Well at least it took them a long time to do so. In diablo 2 it still didn't really retcon anything. It only mentioned diablo possessed the hero of the first game. It was only in diablo 3 that they went wild with the retcon. That game was when the franchise started to lose it's identity anyway.

[@MalzraAirwynn]

@@dragula131 It's not that the story doesn't make sense in a vacuum. It's that if you play Diablo 1 none of this is commented upon and it feels weird. Where as the added backstory for the other two is general enough it still fits with Diablo 1. It also kind of gives the warrior 'main character syndrome' over the other playable characters with this personal backstory while the other two just sort of show up for less personal reasons.

[@dragula131]

​@@MalzraAirwynn I do get that, I'm not saying it was the right call by Blizzard but I'm sure back then when the first one came out they didn't expect it to be the hit, then people started wondering things when the second one was released and then they just said screw it by 3. Which is when it kinda started losing the luster imo. Still played it but damned if 2 and LoD wasn't so much better than 3 and 4 together

[@player9195]

I like these character lore videos knowing what happen to them.

[@loatheburger]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@xelthiavice4276]

poor doggo locked up...

[@alexandercolengelo8418]

Now the Diablo 2 heroes :D

[@loatheburger]

Added to the backlog!

[@bongbongGAMING7878]

I think most of D2 heroes end up the same way as D1 heroes except for Xul, Cassia and the Barbarian with no name.

[@goatsplitter]

👀 what?? I never considered or knew what happened to the D2 heroes. I know the d1 ones but man all this time never put together or learned what happened. Man I need to know now

[@brosiii2558]

​@@bongbongGAMING7878and that fact makes me crazy for so long. I really liked Xul and the Barb too..

[@theanti-hypemonitor9079]

god i love diablo lore dude. i played through d1 d2 and d3 countless times. its so fucking epic man.

[@markcarloestabillo5461]

Already well known what happened to the diablo 1 heroes because they are bosses in 2.

[@DedHedZed]

The booklet that came with this was amazing.

[@zombeepixel133]

Great video! I had no idea the sorcerer and the rogue were in D2 as well!

[@omgdyls]

Please do Diablo 2 heroes next please 😁

[@southc4463]

This is better Diablo content than anything blizz has done lately. Thanks blizz

[@loatheburger]

@@southc4463 high praise! Thank you

[@helloidharbl6753]

Blizzard died long ago.

[@teddychu1177]

@@helloidharbl6753 They lost their Acti-vision for good games...

[@carlito5224]

​@teddychu1177 I seen what you did there 😉

[@arikun3586]

Diablo 2 was my childhood. I would like to know what happened to those heroes too. Awesome video!

[@loatheburger]

You bet! I’ll get into them next.

[@JoybuzzerX]

Same

[@moseslalmuanpuia8988]

I once read a puzzling article on horazon. It stated that he felt guilty for jazreth's plight and did what he could do to help him out of obligation. That sounded so uncharacteristic I couldn't understand it.

[@Doosie0124]

TLDR; Blood raven. Horazon, Diablo.

[@KimPossibleShockwave]

There's more to the story about Blood Raven, according to the developers. Basically, she brought back a ton of artifacts, and while Akara agreed that they were to be used/would be useful for the Sisters, she also believed in studying and understanding them first before putting them into general use. Moreina, spurred on by what she'd seen in Tristram, disagreed and believed the Sisters didn't have the time, since they were woefully underprepared for Hell. This caused a minor scism in the Sisters between those who took Moreina's side and Akara's, but there were no open conflicts at the time; just very vocal disagreements. Eventually though, Akara's fears were pretty much true, and Moreina's corruption basically started from the stuff she brought back. Andariel corrupted her and the others through the artifacts, and rest is history. Edit: It's also unclear whether the Summoner was Jazreth adopting the moniker of Horazon or if Horazon's spirit itself took over Jazreth's body.

[@loatheburger]

Thanks for the context on Blood Raven! Good to know Regarding Jazreth, I want to believe it's the former as according to the Horadric Vault books (cant remember which one specifically), Horazon was more or less a good guy and lead the battle against his brother to stop using demons in battle

[@johngohchuanheng3417]

I was thinking about the soulstone and the vessel thingy In diablo immortal , destroying the shard corrupta the person overtime , in d3 we destroy malthael ... so it corrupts the Nephilim?

[@alexandersnider734]

I'm sure the video is great but I'm really just hoping that Samoyed in the background does a full 90 degree head tilt

[@alexandersnider734]

No head tilts :( alas I will have to resort to my Samoyed for my daily dose

[@loatheburger]

Ill have to say ‘Park?!’ For him to do that - but then he goes nuts 🤣

[@dytra_io]

I feel very lucky to watch this video because I literaly searched 'diablo lore' in yt and found out this video just uploaded 13 hours ago

[@loatheburger]

@@dytra_io awesome!

[@porungadaddy9053]

They did a really good job at making Bloodraven such a boss with badass importance to the story

[@ryuno2097]

I never knew the warrior was actually a prince and was related to King Leoric and boy. I've always thought the warrior was a adventurer from Tristram and came back home after a mission. Ogden's speech to the warrior @7:46 makes sense now.

[@loatheburger]

One thing to note is that the warrior being a Prince and related to Leoric was RetCon’d in Diablo 3

[@cristianponcea1660]

great stuff

[@loatheburger]

Glad you liked it!

[@Walle8707]

The tragic thing is the fate of Diablo itself. The first to rounds were great but for no. 3 and 4 it was only downhill

[@CatEnthusiast-gr3cv]

I heard they got regular jobs with PTO and pension.

[@Sykroid]

The Dark Wanderer did promise new jobs

[@thegamebrewery8129]

Rogue > Bloodraven in act 1 Aidan > Diablo in act 4 Mage > The summoner in act 2

[@beewell1600]

i dont know if the lore was changed...but if the main character is the son of King Leoric, he wouldnt say the line "Rest well Leoric, ill find your son"...on fact the wounded guys monologue was "The Archbishop Lazarus, he led s down here to finbd the lost prince"...therefore there was Leorics son there, the warriors doesnt react to any of it

[@CatEnthusiast-gr3cv]

Your arms puzzle me.

[@loatheburger]

Leave my arm fat alone 🥹

[@chapilim]

what happened to Irina, Kormac and Lingndon?_?

[@BrodyHarris-r9l]

The d3 companions?

[@MinecraftFanGoesD3]

Lyndon is the Leader of a bandit Camp in hawezar in d4

[@chapilim]

@@BrodyHarris-r9l yes

[@chapilim]

@@MinecraftFanGoesD3 WTF o.o

[@adammellinger7105]

Backwater is the town, do all the side quests. Lyndon runs that town. Youll see him :)​@chapilim

[@tiffles3890]

I mean sure they needed to do it to set up the story for later games, but if you really think about it, it's just incredulous. Leave aside the fuckery of putting a malevolent demon inside yourself, what could possibly make someone who wasn't suicidal (presumably) to shove a half foot long jagged crystal spike into their own skull?

[@idianictus6688]

Now tell us what happened with heroes from D2 please.

[@loatheburger]

Coming up boss

[@3lgat097]

Yeah dont hate on Hellfire. It wasnt space aliens it was insects and demons.

[@velveetablumpkin9946]

I love this series. It’s like having a big daddy bear telling a bedtime story.

[@hige1234]

what a cute bear.

[@John3.36]

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -- John 3:16 KJV

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I never got this deep about the lore in Diablo

[@loatheburger]

Welcome to the rabbit hole

[@joshuagraham2843]

Torchlight has similar story from diablo 1 and 2

[@Nvoy123]

If i didnt see you talk I woulda thought this was voiced by A.I.

[@loatheburger]

thanks?

[@Nvoy123]

@loatheburger the sound felt like it was skipping a frame or something so it sounded slightly robotic

[@ricflair4052]

what happened to D2 heroes after defeating the 3 prime?

[@loatheburger]

that's the topic of an upcoming video

[@tiffles3890]

Free the floofer.

[@MattsoooN]

Why the dog in a cage? Poor dog.

[@loatheburger]

I have 2 and they sometimes get into it with each other. They regulate and calm down in the crate which is why I need to use it

[@sirravhim]

Couldn't enjoy the video because you caged a dog instead of cared for it

[@loatheburger]

never heard of crate training?

[@limhaoming]

Your sing song style of narration is off putting. I think you are trying too hard resulting in this unnatural sounding cadence and intonation. I gave up watching the video half way through. Sorry.

[@pattibena]

Naurrr DISAGREE. Tuned in cause the narration isn’t another nerd w/a flat tone talking

[@Emanon...]

Who gives a fuck? It's the same story in every single game. Big bad dies, some mortal releases a new big bad curse, rinse and repeat. It's boring as hell.

[@qjustblessed1]

Amazing video King keep up the great work!🤜🏽🤛🏽🫡

[@loatheburger]

Thanks brother!

[@dylanwillis5165]

If you are home let the dang dog out!

[@loatheburger]

I have 2 and when they get heated they need to be separated to cool down - the crate helps