The player unwittingly helps Adria with her plans, obtaining the Black Soulstone as the supposed key to defeating the two remaining Lords of Hell and defeating Azmodan and Belial to store all seven essences.

Twenty years after his defeat, Diablo’s servant Adria is going around Sanctuary to collect these demonic essences from 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. We spend the bulk of D2 in pursuit of the Dark Wanderer, fighting him as the Act 4 boss at his seat within the Chaos Sanctuary and eventually destroying his soulstone. Diablo 2‘s opening cinematic contains these events, narrated by Aidan. Aidan then seats the gem in his own as an attempt to control the Lord of Terror.Īfter he adopts the soulstone, the corrupting Aidan does not linger in Tristram and heads east under the new guise of the Dark Wanderer. D1 ends with the victorious warrior (Albrecht’s older brother Aidan, heir of Leoric) slaying Diablo and removing the soulstone fragment from the demon’s forehead, revealing Albrecht’s dead body. His original attempts to possess Leoric failed, leading him to use Leoric’s younger son Albrecht as his vessel who we fight as the game’s final boss. We, as players, are first introduced to Diablo during Diablo 1, released by Archbishop Lazarus 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. Will Diablo raise his ugly mug in D4, or will our focus be on Lilith’s rampages throughout Sanctuary?ĭiablo - more formally Al’Diabolos, Lord of Terror - is one of the three Prime Evils, the most powerful demon lords of the Burning Hells. To be honest, we haven’t seen or heard any news about the Lord of Terror in what has been released so far by Diablo 4‘s team. It seems like it should be a “duh” moment, right? A Diablo game should have the titular character.

Diablo 4 panel