DC Comics Hank Kanalz revealed a 5-issues comic book mini-series titled Diablo: Sword of Justice will be introduced in 2012.
Diablo: Sword of Justice is written by Erin Williams and artwork by Joseph Lacroix.
It features a kid named Jacob who has visions of a prophecy.
Everyone knows that Tyrael threw his sword toward the corrupted Worldstone to destroy it at the end of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Tyrael disappeared and he was never seen after this point. Tyrael’s sword will be calling to a human kid to serve as the avatar of Justice on Sanctuary. It has the ingredients of a great Diablo story. The story has Barbarians and elements of demonic corruption.
I will attempt to gather more details from Hank over the next weeks or months. Clearance might take a while: NDA.
DIABLO (UNTITLED NOVEL)
I started writing down a transcript of the panel, and now that I got to listen more carefully I just realized during the Gallery Books line-up talk the Diablo book Chris Metzen was talking about IS NOT Diablo III: Book of Cain. He was actually talking about a brand-new novel:
A couple of other things, the title is sketchy but we are doing a Diablo book that's coming up umm that essentially -- ugh how do I say this without getting in trouble, uh -- very significant amount of time has passed between the last Diablo expansion (Diablo II: Lord of Destruction) and the game that we are currently working on (Diablo III), so the book that is coming out which features Deckard Cain is going to bridge the gap between Diablo games past and what we are currently developing and it's coming really-really cool, pretty dark.
It gets into the lore of the Horadrim, kinda the group that originally put Diablo down.
Richard A. Knaak told me at New York Comic Con 2009 that there would be new Diablo novels by other authors other than himself. Seems we are finally going to see some of those novels (plural-- hmm).
DIABLO III: BOOK OF CAIN (Source Book)
Chris Metzen: 13:04 - "Another really cool project we are working on with a brother named Flint Deeley[sp?] is a source book for the Diablo universe. It's been many years since we published a Diablo game. There's a lot of weird stuff floating out there in the internet and wikis and things like that, so we wanted the opportunity to really create a product -- it's essentially Deckard Cain's journal ... I think we are calling it the Book of Cain ... where over the course of his adventures, his archaeology, and studying of the manuscripts over the years he's put together a compendium of what makes the Diablo universe the Diablo universe."
13:34 - "We are highlighting Heaven and Hell, the people that lives there, the realms of Heaven and Hell, the history of Sanctuary, the lands of Sanctuary, highlighting maybe the classes that have been playable in the games up to this point, notable people in history and pretty much trying to create a fairly tight compendium of all Diablo lore and you know one nice edition. So with any luck, that book will pop around whenever the game comes out and will be a very useful tool in getting back up on what's up with the Diablo universe. So that's something we are very very excited about and working on rapidly and intensely right now.
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Everyone knows that Tyrael threw his sword toward the corrupted Worldstone to destroy it at the end of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Tyrael disappeared and he was never seen after this point. Tyrael’s sword will be calling to a human kid to serve as the avatar of Justice on Sanctuary. It has the ingredients of a great Diablo story. The story has Barbarians and elements of demonic corruption.
Sounds interesting. We know now that won't be the story for D3
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Welcome. Added the transcript of the Gallery Books panel (new Diablo novel based on the Horadrim), and the transcript of Diablo III: Book of Cain (Insight Editions).
Needs frontpage. New book, new authors for even more books, comic. Awesome.
Agreed, needs front page so more people see
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If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
I need more lore now, why must they make us wait for more lore. On another note looking at release times it seems the Book if Cain is going to come out at launch. This comic is going to start after the game is out, most likely,I'm wondering if they are considering patched content to be related to this comic.
I need more lore now, why must they make us wait for more lore. On another note looking at release times it seems the Book if Cain is going to come out at launch. This comic is going to start after the game is out, most likely,I'm wondering if they are considering patched content to be related to this comic.
Transcript
Chris Metzen: "So with any luck, that book will pop around whenever the game comes out and will be a very useful tool in getting back up on what’s up with the Diablo universe. So that’s something we are very very excited about and working on rapidly and intensely right now."
DC Comics Hank Kanalz revealed a 5-issues comic book mini-series titled Diablo: Sword of Justice will be introduced in 2012.
Diablo: Sword of Justice is written by Erin Williams and artwork by Joseph Lacroix.
It features a kid named Jacob who has visions of a prophecy.
Everyone knows that Tyrael threw his sword toward the corrupted Worldstone to destroy it at the end of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Tyrael disappeared and he was never seen after this point. Tyrael’s sword will be calling to a human kid to serve as the avatar of Justice on Sanctuary. It has the ingredients of a great Diablo story. The story has Barbarians and elements of demonic corruption.
I will attempt to gather more details from Hank over the next weeks or months. Clearance might take a while: NDA.
DIABLO (UNTITLED NOVEL)
I started writing down a transcript of the panel, and now that I got to listen more carefully I just realized during the Gallery Books line-up talk the Diablo book Chris Metzen was talking about IS NOT Diablo III: Book of Cain. He was actually talking about a brand-new novel:
Richard A. Knaak told me at New York Comic Con 2009 that there would be new Diablo novels by other authors other than himself. Seems we are finally going to see some of those novels (plural-- hmm).
DIABLO III: BOOK OF CAIN (Source Book)
Chris Metzen: 13:04 - "Another really cool project we are working on with a brother named Flint Deeley[sp?] is a source book for the Diablo universe. It's been many years since we published a Diablo game. There's a lot of weird stuff floating out there in the internet and wikis and things like that, so we wanted the opportunity to really create a product -- it's essentially Deckard Cain's journal ... I think we are calling it the Book of Cain ... where over the course of his adventures, his archaeology, and studying of the manuscripts over the years he's put together a compendium of what makes the Diablo universe the Diablo universe."
13:34 - "We are highlighting Heaven and Hell, the people that lives there, the realms of Heaven and Hell, the history of Sanctuary, the lands of Sanctuary, highlighting maybe the classes that have been playable in the games up to this point, notable people in history and pretty much trying to create a fairly tight compendium of all Diablo lore and you know one nice edition. So with any luck, that book will pop around whenever the game comes out and will be a very useful tool in getting back up on what's up with the Diablo universe. So that's something we are very very excited about and working on rapidly and intensely right now.
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If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
Sounds interesting. We know now that won't be the story for D3
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Visions of a prophecy sounds redundant for some reason lol.
Anyway, thanks for the news, good job.
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"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
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I think he meant it was redundant because "visions" already sounds prophetic.
But yes, that too.
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Agreed, needs front page so more people see
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
Transcript
Chris Metzen: "So with any luck, that book will pop around whenever the game comes out and will be a very useful tool in getting back up on what’s up with the Diablo universe. So that’s something we are very very excited about and working on rapidly and intensely right now."
http://www.blizzplanet.com