That’s pretty much what happened after Inarius changed the worldstone.
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Watrous: Yes, if you can imagine a race of people who begin at their golden age essentially and then everything goes downhill from there. Anybody else has anything to add?Ĭhu: Valerie, I think you’ve done some work on how the nephalem felt when they started to become less powerful.
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That did influence different parts of the world that they came from especially, the most direct correlations from Bul-Kathos to the Barbarians. So they did each have, there were a bunch of different cultures, there is Bul-Kathos and all the other ancients. And angels and demons are very intelligent creatures in different ways. Bul-Kathos, I don’t think any of them were preliterate per se, because they were, it was a very strange childhood, but they were raised by angels and demons. They were technically brothers, but they developed along different lines.
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So if you think of Bul-Kathos versus other nephalem - they had very different cultures. As far as the actual details of the cultures, I’m gonna throw that back to …īoyarski: I’ll jump in here. As far as the multiple cultures go, they were around a long time ago, it’s hard to tell I know, and in some things it seem sit was really brief, but that was to angels and demons who were, at very least very long lived, if not completely immortal. Parker: Well, for starters at the grand temple when they realized that their powers were fading they were obviously scared enough to make deals, panic, hide out. I mean … This is one I feel like almost everybody on this panel probably has some good stuff to contribute, and I’m going to kick it to Justin to start, then invite the rest of these crazy folks to jump in. Kindreagan: Absolutely, that’s a great question. Demons, angels, magic, it’s sort of this awesome dark fantasy realization and so what I like to do a lot of times to draw inspiration from the world and stuff, our history and our beliefs, and then sort of change them or find what’s really interesting about them and then push them a little farther and see what that would be in a darker setting. It’s very similar to our world, but with some very specific differences. But in the creation of that universe there is definitely a … you know, I think there’s influences from all the major world religions.Ĭhu: I know, like, for my part, when I’m approaching, looking at a new culture, class or character, I really think of Diablo’s. The things that happen in the story are based on the kind of place that the Diablo Universe is. In terms of the particular narrative of the story, I think the universe has kinda taken on enough of a life of its own that the story that happens in that universe is really drawing upon the universe itself. For instance, the monks have a very different non Judeo-Christian take on the world. There’s certain themes that are pulled from lots of different religions.
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But I think there’s definitely a heavy world religion influence throughout. I mean, obviously the Diablo Universe relies heavily on Judeo-Christan symbols and icons and iconography and all of that. There’s the Diablo Universe as a whole and then there’s a particular story of Diablo III and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. Kindreagan: Well I think… There’s sort of two things.