In the world of Diablo - angels and demons fight for control in the Eternal Conflict.
Let’s just say the world isn't full of sunshine and
rainbows.
So stay awhile, and listen - I’m Jason with Curse here to shed some light on the history
of the Prime Evil.
So, if you’ve played through the Diablo franchise, you’re probably familiar with
the Seven Evils - they are the lords of Hell, but they
are split between Greater and Lesser Evils.
Diablo, the Lord of Terror.
Mephisto is the Lord of Hatred.
And Baal, the Lord of
Destruction.
These three demons are the Greater Evils.
Then you have the four Lesser Evils, Andariel - the Maiden of Anguish, Duriel - the Lord
of Pain, Belial - Lord of Lies, and Azmodan
- the Lord of Sin.
These seven demons represent all that is evil in the world and constantly struggle amongst
themselves, and against the forces of
Heaven in what is known as the Eternal Conflict.
But let’s take a step back.
Where did all of these major demons originate from?
Back in the beginning, there was a singular entity by the name of Anu.
It was the very first being in all of creation.
Anu was the sum
of all things, good and evil, light and dark, physical and mystical, joy and sadness.
However, within its mind, Anu reflected, and
desired a state of total purity and perfection.
In an effort to make this a reality, Anu purged all darkness and evil from itself.
This
darkness would come to coalesce into the being known as Tathamet - the first Prime Evil.
Over time, Anu would wage war against Tathamet, and neither entity could destroy the other.
But after millennia, they had spent
so much energy, that they began to wear down.
In the end, the energy expended would ignite an explosion so vast and terrible as
to birth the universe itself.
As their final terrible battle would draw to a close, their physical bodies would become
Heaven and Hell respectively.
But from the
darkness rose demons, and from the seven heads of Tathamet, the three strongest heads, spawned
the Great Evils, and the four
weaker heads, the Lesser Evils.
Now, Tathamet held the title of Prime Evil.
As all evil was united in a single direction, their power was equal to that of the forces
of
good.
However, upon Tathamet’s demise, it was impossible for any singular demon to force
the others to surrender to their will.
So major conflict arose, not just between Angels and Demons, but even between the Evils.
Diablo had always desired to be a
singular leader.
But he did not just want to rule over Hell, he also desired Heaven as his kingdom.
This had already cost the Evils
dearly, during the Fifth Battle of the Diamond Gates.
The forces of Evil had nearly overrun Heaven, until Diablo decided to turn on
his allies, craving all the power for himself.
Then, Sanctuary was discovered.
Inhabited by Nephalem, the spawn of both Angels and Demons, their potential power was
greater than the sum of their parts.
If Diablo, or the evils could bend Sanctuary to their side, it might spell the end for
the forces of
Heaven, and end the Eternal Conflict.
Diablo and the Greater Evils did not tell the Lesser Evils about the existence of such
a world.
The lesser evils were unhappy, and
desired to rule all of hell, and so forced a rebellion.
The four lesser evils had managed to banish the three greater evils out of Hell
during this time, and it became known as the Dark Exile.
Unlike their banished foes, they were unable to agree on a direction, and
ended up with a kind of civil war in Hell, with sides polarized to follow either Belial
or Azmodan.
During this time, Diablo and his brothers terrorized the world of man, until the Horadrim
sealed them away in soulstones.
This
only granted them a brief reprieve.
Eventually, Lazarus would free Diablo under orders from Mephisto.
Diablo was reborn after
destroying Leoric and his kingdom.
However, Diablo was always cunning.
He had laid plans to become the Prime Evil.
If a soulstone could hold one Evil, what if there
was a soulstone that could hold all of the Evils?
The Horadric mage Zholtun Kulle had devised such a device - the Black Soulstone.
Over the course of twenty or thirty years, Diablo’s plans had come to fruition.
His agent Adria had conceived a child with Diablo’s
possessed body.
The child - Leah - possessed immense latent power, and would be a perfect host.
Adria had also ensured that whenever one of the Great Evils had been slain, that their
essence would be collected, and prepared to
be contained in the Black Soulstone.
Once the Nephalem had slain the last two - Belial and Azmodan, the soulstone would contain
the essence of all seven.
Adria then turned the soulstone on her daughter, and Diablo found himself with the powers of
all his
brethren.
The Prime Evil lived once again.
Now, the Nephalem defeated the Prime Evil Diablo, and once again sealed his essence
into the Black Soulstone.
It was deemed too
corrupted to hold such an item in the High Heavens, and Tyrael and his Horadrim decided
to spirit it away to Sanctuary, and hide it
in a place forever hidden to the world.
Just as they were about to seal it away, the angel Malthael came.
He killed most of the
Horadrim, defeated the now-mortal Tyrael, and stole the soulstone.
Malthael desired to use the soulstone to absorb all demonic essence from Sanctuary.
This would kill all humans and Nephalem,
because they had been born of Angels and Demons.
So when the Nephalem arrived to defeat him, Malthael attempted to use the
soulstone as a weapon by absorbing the essence into himself.
He was eventually defeated, but his recklessness allowed Prime
Diablo to go free, still bearing the essence of the other six Evils.
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