Storyline

Book I

Since the beginning of time, light and darkness have fought each other.

As most people know, conflict between good and evil has been going on even before civilization. The forces of Light and Darkness have engaged in an eternal war : The Great conflict. The Forces of light were the Angels of the High Heavens. They fought with righteous and justice. The Forces of Darkness included all the demonic denizens of hell. They have fought vigorously, but neither side ever took control for long.

The greatest of the light side, one by the name of Izual, led a fierce attack upon the Hellforge. His job was to destroy a dark demonblade Shadowfang. Unfortunately, he fail. His failure proved that there was no way one can defeat the other if the other has the home-court advantage.

I'm not sure whether this is the shadowfang but you have got to agree that it is a cool picture.

Centuries past with no one taking possession over the other for long. This is when man can about. With the development of man, both sides remained still, waiting to see which side man will join. man will be the decider.

Angels and demons disguised themselves as men in order to persuade them to join one side. This is known as the sin war. over time, the forces of darkness discovered that mortals responded better to force rather the persuasion. So they started to attack the humans. When the angels saw this, they were furious, so they took the battle to the mortal realm. Few men actually witnessed the battles. The ones who did took sides but the war was still even. man did not take one side over the other.

Horazon the summoner and his brother, Bartuc, were members of the Eastern mage-clan known as the Vizjerei. They had a lot of knowledge of the demons and used it against them. Eventually, Bartuc, the brother of Horazon took side with darkness due to the fact that he was granted exceptional strength and longevity. he fought against the light and eventually his own brother.

The dark forces also had an inner conflict. There were seven Great Evils or major leaders. The lesser four of the seven were:

Duriel, the lord of Pain

Andariel, the maiden of anguish

Belial, the lord of lies

Azmodan, the lord of sins

The prime evils or greater evils formed a triumvirate. They ruled over the lesser evils. Their names are:

Mephisto, the lord of hatred

Baal, the lord of destruction

Diablo, the lord of terror

The eldest of the three, Diablo, had the most kills in battle against the light. Because of the ascension of man, the three prime evils concentrated most of their powers in persuading man to join their side. They realized that man was the key to winning the great conflict.

Diablo, Lord of Terror.

The lesser evils thought that the prime evils were afraid of continue battling against the light. Two of them, Azmodan and Belial, devised a plan to win over the humans, destroy the prime evils and win the great conflict. They fought against the prime evils first and annihilated them. weakened and bodiless, the prime evils were banished to the mortal realm. now, Azmodan and Belial have control over the dark side but they quickly started to argue over which of them held the higher authority. They then started a civil war against each other to this day...

now, the prime evils are in the mortal realm. They wander in the world of man feeding off their lusts and leaving behind chaos.They turned father against son and started petty wars. Eventually, a secretive order of mortal magi led by Arch-Angel Tyrael, hunted the three prime evils. This order was called the Order of Horadrim. They successfully captured Mephisto and Baal in powerful artifacts called soulstones. But Diablo was still at large.

The Horadrim used soulstones to capture the Evils.

The Horadrim constructed a great monastery to house the soulstones.

Eventually, Diablo was contained in the last of the soulstones by a monk named Jered Cain. They buried the soulstone within a secluded cave near the river of Talsande, in Khanduras. near the cave, the Horadrim constructed a great monastery to safeguard the Soulstones. AS ages past, the Horadrim constructed catacombs beneath the monastery to house the earthly remains of the martyrs of their order.

Generations passed and the order of Horadrim slowly diminished. in time, they just disappeared and the great Monastery fell to ruins. Cities and towns were built near the ruins of the monastery but no one knew the dark, secret passageways the stretched into the cold earth beneath it.