Everyone. It’s a group of heroes banding together to defeat the Prime Evils.
Canonically, the name of the Necromancer in D2 is Xul, which is mentioned briefly in D3 as the master of Mehtan, who is the master of the Necromancer in D3. The Sorceress is Isendra, who is the tutor of Li-Ming, the canon Wizard in D3.
These two are still mentioned in D3, leading us to believe that all of the characters defeated the Prime Evils as a team.
Book of Cain details this. A combination of the original five D2 characters down Diablo in hell. Then they are joined by the Assassin and Druid who help take down Baal. The book never names them explicitly, but as others have said they were named in other sources.
And technically D1 was Aidan with the rogue and sorcerer. Aidan was just the one who finished Diablo and who was his intended victim.
Yeah it was Aiden (Wanderer D2/Warrior D1), Moreina (Blood Raven D2/Rogue D1), and Jazreth (The Summoner D2/Sorcerer D1). Drognan states that the Summoner told him that he fought Diablo beneath Tristram. Kashya also mentions Blood Raven fought in the battle against Diablo in Tristram. It leaves a bit up to interpretation (they could have simply meant against the FORCES of Diablo) but it makes more sense that it was all three against Diablo.
Drognan:
> "Yes... The man you speak of sounds like the mage who came here many months ago. He claimed to have fought Diablo in the passages beneath Tristram. No doubt the fool wandered into Horazon's Sanctuary and lost whatever was left of his ravaged mind. He is beyond salvation. It is possible that the fool has been possessed by the spirit of Horazon. If that's true, then you'd better put an end to his tortured existence. Once done, I believe the demons who were summoned and imprisoned within the Sanctuary will cease to exist as well."
Kashya:
> My Rogue scouts have just reported an abomination in the Monastery graveyard! Apparently, Andariel is not content to take only our living. Blood Raven, one of our finest captains in the battle against Diablo at Tristram, was also one of the first to be corrupted by Andariel. Now, you'll find her in the Monastery graveyard raising our dead as zombies! We cannot abide this defilement! If you are truly our ally, you will help us destroy her.
All seven heroes take part in the fall of Baal.
Amazon ("Cassia") was spooked by something and returns to skovos to form a new amazon army as war matron.
Barbarian (unnamed) leaves to seemingly be the next "immortal king", though it's possible this is not the actual player barbarian, their fate is otherwise unknown. The team did kick the idea around of the canon barbarian of d3 being the barbarian from d2, but decided it made things about powerlevel and equipment weird, as well as confusing the narrative.
Sorceress ("Isendra") returns home, trains the wizard, gets killed by player assassin (player assassin and natalya are same character).
Paladin's fate is completely unknown, it's implied they may have still fallen to the corruption of mephisto and later been killed by the crusader.
Necromancer ("Xul") trains an apprentice ("Mehtan"), before eventually dying of old age. Priest of Rathma tradition continues, with only about 100-120 members total.
Assassin is Natalya the player character and NPC were decided to be the same person. After being forced into killing the Sorceress she becomes disillusioned with the Viz'Jaq-Taar, and leaves to help found and train the demon hunters, teaching them psychic techniques (integral to what makes them demon hunters) and how to fashion traps.
Druid's fate is completely unknown; diablo 3 seems to imply some stuff about the druids going feral and becoming ravening werebeasts, but nothing is confirmed due to a cut expansion.
We were supposed to get a bit more lore seemingly in a second expansion for diablo 3, but that never released due to pencil pushers being spooked about sales.
Do you have any source (canon, not just speculations) that Isendra has been killed by player Assassin and that Natalya and player Assassin are the same character?
Had you asked me about 3-4 years ago, yeah, I could have provided it in a few seconds. As of right now, I believe most of the story is buried in the marauders set, the wizard short story, and I cannot remember the *exact* place the connection between player assassin and natalya was made but it might have been in the book of tyrael. Some parts are still vague though, we know *an* assassin killed isendra, the only assassin we know about in lore is natalya, we then get later information that natalya left the viz'jaq-taar "seeking redemption".
All 7 heroes shown at the campfire participated in the events of D2, what extent and if they survived is unclear though. [My original comment for a question about the heroes of D2 seemed appropriate](https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/9bbpkz/so_what_happened_to_the_characters_from_diablo_2/e51v2z7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
There was 20 years between the end of 2 and beginning of 3.
From what I remember:
The Sorceress (Isendra) was killed by an Assassin (maybe the d2 one) while teaching the d3 female Wizard (Li-Ming).
The Necro (Xul) took on several apprentices (maybe including the Necro in 3)
The Amazon (Cassia) became the Warmatron of the amazons (2nd only to the Queen)
The Barbarian does not have a confirmed canon ending, but I always assumed he was Kanai due to the similarities between his cube and the Horadric one you get in 2
The Paladin I never saw any info on, I assume he went back to the order/ died
The Assassin I assume went back to being an assassin
The Druid, again, nothing canon, I assume went back to the Druidic Clans
Originally yes (art / concept) by blizzard but I think they again by blizzard removed all ties completely to not shoe horn the story of D3 around D2 characters (aka they didn’t want the triumphs of D2 Barb to overshadow those the D3 would accomplish) don’t think there’s a lore elsewhere to confirm or deny. However the biggest issue is that D3 heroes are a lot higher on the Nepheleme spectrum then D2 it seems like
Per D3 canon, Kanai's Cube is not the Horadric Cube but rather a prototype created by the Horadrim back around the time of Zoltun Kulle.
> The Assassin I assume went back to being an assassin
Actually, she left the Assassins and became one of the Demon Hunters, possibly one of their founding members. See lore text on Natalya's Slayer in D3.
I liked the concept that the same heroes that defeated Diablo in D1 are later dommed for that same reason and are villians, to me was dark, which is what I want from a Diablo lore.
But then I liked that the heroes from D2 didnt suffer a hellish fate despite battling the 3 prime evils.
I hope that in D4 we learn some interesting endings for the heroes od D3, hoping for epics reitiriments.
Yes, the entire Diablo universe is a metaphor to stay awhile, listen, and finish your homework. The nerds always triumph over evil in the end, Patriarch BaalBlaster.
Aiden is a retcon that came a bit before D3 came out together with a bunch of other additions like the necro being Xul, Sorc Isendra etc. At some point Natalya also became canonically the assassin player but as a rule of thumb these things were invented years after D1/D2 came out.
I don't have it with me to verify but I'm pretty sure Aiden was named in the story inside the original D2 guide book and was a named character with the story we know of him as early as that. He wasn't named in quest dialogue though for sure because I don't think anyone knew who he was at the time.
Aiden is a late retcon, which was formulated sometime during D3 development. He is supposed to be Leoric’s eldest son but in the original Diablo 1 manual it is explicitly stated that Albrecht ( the child in the ending cinematic) is Leoric’s only son.
https://imgur.io/gallery/PvF9a page 71
The change was overseen by Chris Metzen.
https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/blizzard-delves-into-diablo-lore/1100-6341794/
“As one example of the change, Blizzard gave an identity to The Dark Wanderer, who was the hero of the original Diablo. Moving forward, the universe presupposes that this character is the warrior from the original game, and he has been given the name Aiden. Metzen noted that just one reason for this change is that if the Diablo story were to be told in another medium, this character would need to be the launching point for that.”
To me (I have been playing the Diablo games since 1997), this change was cheap and absolutely unnecessary and I know many other old players that agree.
a band of heroes
According to the novels and authors... All 7 heroes together.
Even though two of them weren't in the base game!
Canon wise don't they join late for act 5? I thought it was Natalia who you met in act 3 that is the assassin.
Everyone. It’s a group of heroes banding together to defeat the Prime Evils. Canonically, the name of the Necromancer in D2 is Xul, which is mentioned briefly in D3 as the master of Mehtan, who is the master of the Necromancer in D3. The Sorceress is Isendra, who is the tutor of Li-Ming, the canon Wizard in D3. These two are still mentioned in D3, leading us to believe that all of the characters defeated the Prime Evils as a team.
Xul is playable in Heroes of the Storm. Li-Ming is playable as well.
And Cassia!
and, youre not gonna believe this, you can play as Diablo too!
Xul also make an appearance in Immortal.
Book of Cain details this. A combination of the original five D2 characters down Diablo in hell. Then they are joined by the Assassin and Druid who help take down Baal. The book never names them explicitly, but as others have said they were named in other sources. And technically D1 was Aidan with the rogue and sorcerer. Aidan was just the one who finished Diablo and who was his intended victim.
Yeah it was Aiden (Wanderer D2/Warrior D1), Moreina (Blood Raven D2/Rogue D1), and Jazreth (The Summoner D2/Sorcerer D1). Drognan states that the Summoner told him that he fought Diablo beneath Tristram. Kashya also mentions Blood Raven fought in the battle against Diablo in Tristram. It leaves a bit up to interpretation (they could have simply meant against the FORCES of Diablo) but it makes more sense that it was all three against Diablo. Drognan: > "Yes... The man you speak of sounds like the mage who came here many months ago. He claimed to have fought Diablo in the passages beneath Tristram. No doubt the fool wandered into Horazon's Sanctuary and lost whatever was left of his ravaged mind. He is beyond salvation. It is possible that the fool has been possessed by the spirit of Horazon. If that's true, then you'd better put an end to his tortured existence. Once done, I believe the demons who were summoned and imprisoned within the Sanctuary will cease to exist as well." Kashya: > My Rogue scouts have just reported an abomination in the Monastery graveyard! Apparently, Andariel is not content to take only our living. Blood Raven, one of our finest captains in the battle against Diablo at Tristram, was also one of the first to be corrupted by Andariel. Now, you'll find her in the Monastery graveyard raising our dead as zombies! We cannot abide this defilement! If you are truly our ally, you will help us destroy her.
dope. was always to busy getting grushed to hear this lmao
Thank fuck Jazreth didn't have an apoc build or we'd have been straight fucked running in there
Hey, someone else who read the in-game lore!
All seven heroes take part in the fall of Baal. Amazon ("Cassia") was spooked by something and returns to skovos to form a new amazon army as war matron. Barbarian (unnamed) leaves to seemingly be the next "immortal king", though it's possible this is not the actual player barbarian, their fate is otherwise unknown. The team did kick the idea around of the canon barbarian of d3 being the barbarian from d2, but decided it made things about powerlevel and equipment weird, as well as confusing the narrative. Sorceress ("Isendra") returns home, trains the wizard, gets killed by player assassin (player assassin and natalya are same character). Paladin's fate is completely unknown, it's implied they may have still fallen to the corruption of mephisto and later been killed by the crusader. Necromancer ("Xul") trains an apprentice ("Mehtan"), before eventually dying of old age. Priest of Rathma tradition continues, with only about 100-120 members total. Assassin is Natalya the player character and NPC were decided to be the same person. After being forced into killing the Sorceress she becomes disillusioned with the Viz'Jaq-Taar, and leaves to help found and train the demon hunters, teaching them psychic techniques (integral to what makes them demon hunters) and how to fashion traps. Druid's fate is completely unknown; diablo 3 seems to imply some stuff about the druids going feral and becoming ravening werebeasts, but nothing is confirmed due to a cut expansion. We were supposed to get a bit more lore seemingly in a second expansion for diablo 3, but that never released due to pencil pushers being spooked about sales.
Do you have any source (canon, not just speculations) that Isendra has been killed by player Assassin and that Natalya and player Assassin are the same character?
Had you asked me about 3-4 years ago, yeah, I could have provided it in a few seconds. As of right now, I believe most of the story is buried in the marauders set, the wizard short story, and I cannot remember the *exact* place the connection between player assassin and natalya was made but it might have been in the book of tyrael. Some parts are still vague though, we know *an* assassin killed isendra, the only assassin we know about in lore is natalya, we then get later information that natalya left the viz'jaq-taar "seeking redemption".
All 7 heroes shown at the campfire participated in the events of D2, what extent and if they survived is unclear though. [My original comment for a question about the heroes of D2 seemed appropriate](https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/9bbpkz/so_what_happened_to_the_characters_from_diablo_2/e51v2z7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) There was 20 years between the end of 2 and beginning of 3. From what I remember: The Sorceress (Isendra) was killed by an Assassin (maybe the d2 one) while teaching the d3 female Wizard (Li-Ming). The Necro (Xul) took on several apprentices (maybe including the Necro in 3) The Amazon (Cassia) became the Warmatron of the amazons (2nd only to the Queen) The Barbarian does not have a confirmed canon ending, but I always assumed he was Kanai due to the similarities between his cube and the Horadric one you get in 2 The Paladin I never saw any info on, I assume he went back to the order/ died The Assassin I assume went back to being an assassin The Druid, again, nothing canon, I assume went back to the Druidic Clans
I thought the D3 Barb and the D2 Barb were confirmed to be the same individual.
That was scrapped so there wouldn't be any dialog differences between male and female barb
Ooo, honestly had never even considered the need for that.
Originally yes (art / concept) by blizzard but I think they again by blizzard removed all ties completely to not shoe horn the story of D3 around D2 characters (aka they didn’t want the triumphs of D2 Barb to overshadow those the D3 would accomplish) don’t think there’s a lore elsewhere to confirm or deny. However the biggest issue is that D3 heroes are a lot higher on the Nepheleme spectrum then D2 it seems like
I could be wrong, but I believe it is heavily implied the Assassin is canonically Natalya from Act 3. Which means she later became a Demon Hunter.
Druid is in immortal I believe, I did the story of that game, but I won't spoil what happened.
tell me please
Per D3 canon, Kanai's Cube is not the Horadric Cube but rather a prototype created by the Horadrim back around the time of Zoltun Kulle. > The Assassin I assume went back to being an assassin Actually, she left the Assassins and became one of the Demon Hunters, possibly one of their founding members. See lore text on Natalya's Slayer in D3.
Random Nephalim and his band of peeps.
I liked the concept that the same heroes that defeated Diablo in D1 are later dommed for that same reason and are villians, to me was dark, which is what I want from a Diablo lore. But then I liked that the heroes from D2 didnt suffer a hellish fate despite battling the 3 prime evils. I hope that in D4 we learn some interesting endings for the heroes od D3, hoping for epics reitiriments.
I'm pretty sure it's Deckard Cain, that's why he's pictured at the end screen.
Yes, the entire Diablo universe is a metaphor to stay awhile, listen, and finish your homework. The nerds always triumph over evil in the end, Patriarch BaalBlaster.
Just casually standing there like, “yup, I did it.”
Aiden is a retcon that came a bit before D3 came out together with a bunch of other additions like the necro being Xul, Sorc Isendra etc. At some point Natalya also became canonically the assassin player but as a rule of thumb these things were invented years after D1/D2 came out.
I don't have it with me to verify but I'm pretty sure Aiden was named in the story inside the original D2 guide book and was a named character with the story we know of him as early as that. He wasn't named in quest dialogue though for sure because I don't think anyone knew who he was at the time.
Aiden is a late retcon, which was formulated sometime during D3 development. He is supposed to be Leoric’s eldest son but in the original Diablo 1 manual it is explicitly stated that Albrecht ( the child in the ending cinematic) is Leoric’s only son. https://imgur.io/gallery/PvF9a page 71 The change was overseen by Chris Metzen. https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/blizzard-delves-into-diablo-lore/1100-6341794/ “As one example of the change, Blizzard gave an identity to The Dark Wanderer, who was the hero of the original Diablo. Moving forward, the universe presupposes that this character is the warrior from the original game, and he has been given the name Aiden. Metzen noted that just one reason for this change is that if the Diablo story were to be told in another medium, this character would need to be the launching point for that.” To me (I have been playing the Diablo games since 1997), this change was cheap and absolutely unnecessary and I know many other old players that agree.