subject: The Story Line From Diablo 2 [print this page] Diablo 2 storyline starts exactly from the point where it was left in the original game. Right after the unnamed hero defeated the Lord of the Terror, he moved the demons soul stone into his forehead. The Sanctuary was covered by blood because it was an eternal fight between Angiris Council, that represent the Heavens and the Prime Evils hoards, that represents, of course, the Hells.
The move that the hero made wasnt that smart because this was exactly what Diablo wanted. The Lord of Terror has become stronger and gained a lot more new abilities.
At the start of the Diablo 2, the player is let to know that he will have to fight the Evil Hoards and to try to establish peace in the Sanctuary. He will also have to try and find the causes that provoked this disaster. As the first step he will have to talk with the corrupted warrior, none other than the unnamed hero of the original game. He will tell to the player that, to establish the order again, he will have to find and destroy Diablo.
In his mission, the player will have to pass trough 4 acts and complicated missions. He will need to fight with hoards of evil spirits at every step and he will have to discover some dungeons and outside environments. The Prime evils are represented by ugly monsters that posses magical skills and unlimited powers. In order to defeat them, the player will need to craft and improve better equipment and to grow a lot of levels. The monsters will try to kill the new hero every time they will see him.
Before he will be able to fight Diablo he will first need to fight against two of the ex- leaders of the Hells. One is Baal, the Lord of Destruction, and the other is Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred. They are experts in corruption and the player will learn from them how to resist this. This experience will teach him how to stay out of troubles and will test his abilities. In Diablo 3 the story will continue with the Baals leading over the Sanctuary and the corruption of the World stone.
Not only the endless fights have a good reason to happen, but every race has its own story. When he begins, every player can choose his class. To help their choices, Diablo 2 designers have made some specific characteristics for each of the races. For example, the barbarians have a huge ego and think that they will be the ones to decide the way the battles final results. During the Inquisition, the Paladins fight for the evil forces but now they have decided to repair their mistake and to join the Heavens part. All other races from Sanctuary blame them and dont have trust in their actions. The last who decided to join the battle was the magical races, the sorceress, who have taken the battle level to a new and mystical point, tilling the balance pretty much.
