As someone who’s just starting to get into Diablo, seeing these explanations and origins of characters and places mentioned in game is a feeling like nothing else.
He forgets how easy religions are to start. A whole branch of Christianity was founded because some guy kept failing at guessing the second coming of Christ.
And while I was playing Diablo 3 listening to you I and you started to speak about Lam Esen, I got the Envious Blade which explained Lam Esen's nature of the blade.
This series is awesome. Might I suggest more pictures relevant to the topic at hand be used throughout the episodes. Those really help cement what is being discussed. Thanks and keep up the great stuff!
This was an excellent episode. There was a TON of great, in depth, and most importantly obscure lore in this video. You can really see the amount of research and work that went into the making of the video. It must have been a pain to script it so that it flowed so well from topic to topic. Well done!
I know throughout the lore series Rhykker jokes about how quickly people in Sanctuary forgot about all the bad stuff that happened (religion was a hoax, summoning demons is bad, wars didn solve anything, etc etc). But Ill be damn if that doesnt sound like humanity in the past 10,000 years. Not sure if this is just poor writing where Blizzard cant keep track of what they wrote a decade ago, or if its pure genius writing on the duality of mankind.
I think it's both. This is lore made by late 90s game devs who played a lot of DND. They probably weren't thinking their game was going to become the monster of a franchise it is now so they threw random lore where they thought it stuck best at. This was before video game story writing was put to the same standard as high budget movies. I guess it was lightning in a bottle as well.
@@DragonSlayerCommentariesHQ The first 2 Diablo games had a hell of a lot of lore for ARPGs. Even the first game that was basically just one long dungeon crawl set up a lot of stuff, a bunch of content with lore related stuff was cut that ended up in Diablo 2.
@@mediumvillain I think you are both right. And also blizzard north went away after 2. And even in 1, one of the creators said with the cutscenes, they had 0 control. That they were a bit shocked with what they got at the release of 1. Lots of cooks in the diablo lore kitchen, so to speak. Seems like it all kinda worked out for the best...all factors combined. Except diablo 3. Lore was good. Game was MEH.
Downloaded Diablo 4 yesterday. I played Diablo 3 for a couple years, but nome of the games that preceded it. This lore series is pretty nifty and interesting.
Im so glad to discover ur channel Though im late but never bored with ur diablo content. Im a 90s kid were diablo1 are so famous but i was not playing it though i love its graphics
1:30 They most likely all reatreated to Ishtar and said as a coalition: "We can't defend all libraries, but here we make our stand!" And so the united clans (without the devastated jungle mages that later fall to Mephi) won the day in Ishtar... while all other libraries burned. Because even a few hundred mages can incinerate some armies and humans aren't idiots. Burn what you can, leave Ishtar alone.
About to watch now..still biggest mystery for me about Akkarat is the crusader AFK line where he says something about heading east and gathering people in the west ( or something along those line)
Oh my god you are awesome! Giving such a good lore description and sparkling it with such great jokes! I'm so glad I found your channel (ironicly thanks to D-Immortal apocalypse) :D
Really enjoying your continued mastery of presentation on these as I go through the playlist. Excellent marks on storytelling, style, and knowledge. This is lore I've always been curious about but never had the patience to read or listen to in the in game texts and user manuals.
@@ScorchHellfire Technically yes. But his descendants include the entirty of both the Jew and Arab races. God promised Abraham that his children would be like "grains of sand" and "as numerous as the stars."
@@Soulslayer612 Yes, I'm aware. Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob had 12 sons by 4 wives (despite most Christians wanting to pretend polygamy wasn't a biblical practice condoned by God) that became the progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel (though there were technically 14 groups). And, funnily enough, Ishmael directly had 12 sons of his own.
Props for good content, good storytelling, incredible details etc., alittle dry humour but that's kind of a charm 😄 But man, your editor's periodic and perfectly timed pronounciation-corrections has got me in cramps 🤣
After playing Diablo 2 Median XL (mod) it's so cool to understand the stories of the in-game bosses like Uldyssian, Akarat, Lilith etc. I wonder when Kabraxis comes up because that was a pretty enjoyable boss in the mod.
Kabraxis is a demon that was summoned (and banished) multiple times into Sanctuary by the Vizjerei. The angel Yaerius tried to bring the tenets of Zakarum to humanity during the Sin War, but Kabraxis prevented him from doing so. I considered including Kabraxis in the video, but he didn't make the final cut :(
Yo you and raxxanterax are the best diablo channels, filthy Casual is good too, I'm new to the scene so if there's anyone else I should be watching lemme know
And thus the series has stopped. Forever immortalized in y-... wait oh... immortal. *Ignore this, RU-vid just decided not to show me part 9, because logic*
so interesting question with the fact that the mage's were able to keep their memories of angels and demons why did they only look to enslave demons and not angels as well? possibly not a possibility but still worth looking into. any fan theories on this?
If only certain mages remembered the climax of the sin war and magi tomes and lore destroyed, was Lam one of those that remembered? Or since he was an ancient sage, was he there when the angels and demons invaded?
Oh burning hells Rhykker! I seen a Spanish ad that had diablo (from 3) on the cover but it was from netflix. It looked the old pic of adria's lore book was in the ad too. Have you heard anything about this?
9:36 Of the two, I'd say the guy who wanted to enslave demons is more correct, but I would personally summon demons, kill them, and use their souls as magic batteries
I don't have nothing to say. This comment is just for statistics :P I think that videos like this, can be usefull where we are witing for D4 :) I am waiting for more..meybe something about Ureh?
