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Last month Neveriah and myself proudly slowed you our first diablo lore video and the response
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Thank you all so so much for your kind comments and delicious feedback.
With that in mind we invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy the story of
the eternal conflict...
"From the very moment of the existence, the High Heavens and the Burning Hells clashed
in the Great Conflict, an apocalyptic war for dominion over all creation."
The following knowledge is taken from a surviving fragment of one of the scrolls of the Church
of Zakarum.
In it, an unknown scribe tells of events which took place millennia before the founding of
the church.
However- Deckard Cain, for example, believed that the tales came from earlier and unknown
sources.
The Scroll describes a war fought by agents of light and order against creatures of chaos
and shadow.
In other words: forces of both the high heavens and the burning hells.
Living in the High Heavens we have the Angels, which are also known as The Seraphim, are
the living embodiments of Anu.
Their bodies are a manifestation of light and sound.
Angels are dedicated to the ideals of order and are created- or rather 'born' within the
Crystal Arch through a process that is known as „the Light-Song“.
The amount of Angels that can be born however, is finite.
Depending on the amount of living angels, a new one can only rise if another has died.
Reason for this is that the Crystal Arch, which was once literally a part of ANU, does
not have infinite power and therefore the amount of angels that can be birthed through
the light-song process is limited.
Angels tune and draw their power from the Crystal Arch.
Youve said that the crystal arch is the heart of heaven, tell me about it.
IT is older then time itself and over the eons this hsining realm took shape around
it.
IT thrums with living light and sound that courses through the very fabric of the silver
city.
The angels are birthed from it as well?
Yes like musical notes in a grand chores.
Angels are the manifestation of the archs intrinsinc harmony.
The truly expression of this harmony are my brethren, the archangels.
It seems that this harmony was broken long ago.
Yes, but hope has returned and as you mortals are fond of saying; it is not over yet.
Demons, on the other hand, also known as Hellspawn, are the opposite of Angels and are beings
of shadow and chaos.
They are spawned from the black Abyss, which is an even more mysterious process than the
Lightsong that gives birth to the Angels.
Demons do not have one particular appearance and come in all shapes, forms and sizes.
Although they are all horrific creatures and are recognized for their various crotesque
looks.
Unlike Angels, Demons are physical beings, made out of flesh, blood and bones.
Once a demon is slain, their souls are reborn in Hell to spawn a new one.
In Time, the lords of hell and the angels of heaven met and clashed.
This war was most commonly fought within the realm of Pandemonium.
They did not fight to simply destroy each other however, according to one of the earliest
necromancers, the angels and demons battled over control of one essential object: the
heart of creation – also known as the Worldstone.
Whoever possessed this ancient relic, the eye of ANU, had the power to create worlds.
The battle raged everlasting, unending, and would therefore come to be known as the eternal
conflict.
It is believed that control of this stone, and in turn the pandemonium fortress, changed
hands many times over the eons.
Oral history tells us that the Worldstone „allowed the side that possessed it to alter
reality and create life and worlds almost without restriction.“
Furthermore; „angels used the stone to build worlds of perfect order in line with their
ideals of justice, hope, wisdom, fate and valor“, whereas demons used the stone to
„create mysterious and complex engines of annihilation and worlds of destruction, terror,
and hatred.
However, these worlds created by angels and demons never flourished.
They were inherently flawed and doomed to wither and die.“
It is written in the book of Long Shadows that the eternal conflict, also known as 'the
great conflict',- shall continue on forever across countless planes of existence, until
further mysteries, unknown even to the angels and the demons, shall reveal themselves.
At times, the war would even reach Heaven and Hell itself.
The Diamond Gates of the High Heavens were assailed at least five times, but the gates
themselves were never breached.
Likewise, angels assaulted Hell, but to no fruition.
HAs heaven or hell ever been close to victory in the eternal conflict?
We thought we had lost everything at the fith battle at the diamond gates.
The prime evils and their legions crashed against the very entrance of heaven itself.
But one of my most trusted lieutenants iswald turned them back.
Still the day might have been lost had the demon lords not fallen to fighting amognst
themselves.
So confident of their impending victory, they turned on eachother over the spoils they had
yet to win.
I shudder to think waht the demon lord might accomplish should they ever stop betraying
eachother.
Such is the nature of evil.
One such assault was made against Mephisto himself in his very own realm of hatred, and
another against the Hellforge, where Izual was lost.
But while the Great Conflict burned hotter and longer than any of the stars in the sky,
neither side could gain dominion over the other for long.
Both factions sought some way to turn the tides of the war to their favor.
And although at times it felt like one side was winning, neither could ever keep the upper
hand for long.
It's also important to note, that only a few angels and demons have ever questioned their
purpose in the Eternal Conflict.
Fewer still have acted upon it.
With the exception of the angel Inarius, who was an adviser on the Angiris Council, and
the Demoness Lilith, queen of the succubi and daugther of Mephisto.
They developed feelings for each other and wanted to excape the Great Conflict.
We will get into more Details about all this in another Video, talk more about the effects
of their different ideas and actions.
What is important for now, though, is that eventually Inarius seized the Worldstone and
together with Lilith and other renegade angels and demons that tired of the endless war,
they created Sanctuary as a world of their own,- away from the Eternal Conflict.
Within the game, for example in diablo 3, there are many items that are linked to the
story of diablo.
Such as the famous Inarius set for Necromancers.
Underneath some of those set-items, you can read the following lore pieces:
Chest Item: „Few angels have ever willingly abandoned the High Heavens.
From the moment Inarius created Sanctuary, he knew that he would never be welcome again
in the land of his birth.“
Gloves Item: „Inarius would stop at nothing to end the war between angels and demons.“
The bonding between angels and demons then gave birth to the ancient nephalem.
A very powerful new race.
So powerful in fact, that after a time, Inarius shifted and attuned the worldstone in a way
that would lead to the fading of the nephalems powers,- until all that was left were mere
humans.
I would hear more of the creation of our world.
To escape the eternal conflict, a group of renegade angels aand demons came together
and created a hidden paradise for themselves.
They called this world sanctuary.
Eventually they co mingled, they gave birth to mankind.
Thats why you have both good and evil within you and the power of both realms as your birthright.
The power of your nephalem ancestors were so terrifying to their parents that they tuned
the world stone to weaken them.
They knew they had unleashed something unimaginable upon creation.
After the worldstone was gone, much confusion spread through the Burning Hells and the High
Heavens.
The center of all things they fought over.... had vanished.
At first, both sides suspected the other.
But in time they realized that the truth was something different.
Eventually the forces of Hell learned about Sanctuary, the mortal realm, during a time
that is now known as „The Sin War“.
Not wanting to attract Heaven's attention, they worked in secret to try and corrupt humanity
via the Triune cult, reasoning that their potential would allow them to finally break
the deadlock in the Great Conflict.
They were opposed by Inarius however, who ruled over Sanctuary via the Cathedral of
Light.
And so Inarius and his followers fought a dangerous, secret, plotting war against the
forces of Hell on Sanctuary.
After countless ages and many events leading up to a certain situation on the mortal realm,
a situation that deserves its own video to go into details, either way after countless
ages...Tyrael- the archangel of justice, intervened due to actions that were done to Inarius on
Sanctuary.
In doing so, Tyrael called forth hundreds of angels of the high heavens which then descended
upon the mortal realm.
This did not remain unnoticed and led to the ground erupting as the Burning Hells joined
the Battle as well.
And so... the Eternal Conflict raged on the world of man.
Resulting in a fight that was now not only between the angels and demons but also the
humans and in turn, the Nephalem.
Tell me more of the eternal conflict.
Sicne time immemorial the forces of heaven and hell have fought over control of the sacred
world stone until the day it was stolen by renegade s and used to forge your world.
Since then, the ofrces of hell became more itnerested in corrupting mankind then facing
us on the field of battle.
They sought to use us as weapons.
They knew that mankind would tip the balance of power forever and very clearly, you have.
It was only due to the powers of Uldyssian, the most powerful Nephalem at the time and
important character in the re-awakening of the Nephalem during the sin war, that the
battle on Sanctuary was stopped and put on a halt.
Uldyssian released an immense amount of energy from within and sent back the angels as well
as the demonic forces before then sacrificing himself to save humanity.
This sacrifice drove both armies back and resealed humanity's potential.
After the heaven's voted to spare sanctuary and leave the humans alone, a truce was reached
with the Burning Hells; both factions would respect Sanctuary's right to exist.
However, the Prime Evils had no intention of honoring the truce....
Within Diablo 1, The Great Conflict is a tome that can be found in a labyrinth.
It details the nature of the Eternal Conflict and reads as follows:
„Take heed and bear witness to the truths that lie herein, for they are the last legacy
of the Horadrim.
There is a war that rages on even now, beyond the fields that we know – between the Utopian
Kingdoms and the High Heavens and the Chaotic Pits of the Burning Hells.
This war is known as the Great Conflict, and it has raged and burned longer than any of
the stars in the sky.
Neither side ever gains sway for long as the forces of Light and Darkness constantly vie
for control over all creation.“
And there ends the story of the eternal conflict, but of course this is the realm of diablo
and many more stories are left to be told.
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