Humans are important because of the fantastic power trapped within the species (as descendants of an ancient angel-demon union) that both sides of the Eternal Conflict wish to use as a final solution to the war. Humans are important to angels, but not as hash marks on some celestial scoreboard, where the righteous ascend to heaven and the wicked descend to hell in order to prove one philosophy stronger than the other, as in much mythology derived from Judeo-Christian traditions. Not the Necronomicon – the Book of Cain! (click to enlarge)

Unfortunately for humans, Empathy and Kindliness are not on that list.

Diablo's angels are fierce warriors, pure expressions of Hope and Justice and Order and all of the other qualities that demons lack. Why would they act in such a way? Angels in Diablo are not fat babies with wings and harps, or kindly spirits watching over mortals and trying to guide them toward wisdom and happiness. Their contribution to that dire struggle was not to aid humans against the demonic onslaught, but to abstain entirely – only to vote on whether to exterminate humanity afterwards anyway. The forces of the High Heavens didn't even know of humanity's existence, or that of the mortal world Sanctuary, until the Sin War of antiquity. The relationship between angels and humans in Diablo is hardly that of shepherds guarding their flock. This article, I just spent three hours reading accounts of majorĬharacters and events in the Diablo fiction, written in-character as a 'Aren't the angels on the side of humanity in our struggle against the Prime Evils?' The answer, surprisingly, is 'no.' Be warned that what follows here is a serious dive down an intensely Having made my way through an advance copy of the upcoming Book of Cain, an official Blizzard release that details (the latest version of) the Diablo franchise's lore, I'm left with one question: Will we be taking the fight not just to the Burning Hells, but to the High Heavens as well?

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