Blizzard Outlines The History Of Diablo In New Sanctuary Timeline
The Diablo series has been around for a long time, with its first game released way back in 1996, and since then, it’s gone on to spawn multiple sequels, with the newest entry Diablo VI just a few months away. With so much lore and bits of story surrounding the game, it can be tricky to remember what has happened in previous titles.
Thankfully, the Diablo Twitter account has come to the rescue today and shared a small and concise timeline laying out the major events that have happened in the world of Diablo and its setting Sanctuary.
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“A Brief History of Sanctuary” details Diablo’s Eternal ConflictThe official Diablo Twitter posted four images that detail the key moments in the game’s history, starting with the formation of Heaven and Hell. These two entities began an unending war against one another called the Eternal Conflict, which saw them slaughter each other in constant battle. Amid the chaos, an archangel named Inarius is captured and meets the demon Lilith. The two would eventually fall in love and vowed to escape the Eternal Conflict they both saw as unjust, leading to the creation of Sanctuary and the Nephalem.
From there, it jumps to the year 964, the first recorded moment in the world’s history, and details other critical moments in the history of Diablo, including the appearance of the Lesser Evils, the banishment of the Prime Evils, Diablo, Ball, and Mephisto to Sanctuary, and the formation of the Horadrim to fight the Prime Evils. It then also details each of the games in the series and their crucial story moments, such as Diablo’s defeat in Diablo I, the breaking of the Worldstone, all the way up until now with Liltith
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