I've been getting a lot of positive responses for digging out information out of the Diablo 3 Beta client, so here ya go, an fairly accurate sketch of the Act 1 storyline.
Enjoy!
"The Fallen Star" has made these fields uninhabitable! What was once a blooming green farmers paradise but has become a place of demons and despair! However there are still farmers that do not wish to leave their homes and crops. It is our duty to save/evacuate as many villagers as possible from these corrupted lands.
In the last section of the Fields of Misery you meet the Scoundrel. I can only presume he leads us to the Drowned Temple.
Leah: "Legend has it that within the Temple angels would come to impart their wisdom to the Nephalem."
And so your quest begins to obtain wisdom regarding the impending Demonic Apocalypse.
Once arrived at The Drowned Temple it is guarded by Alaric. He tells you; to enter this Temple you need 2 magical Beacons.
The Beacons can be found in the Crypt of the Ancients and the Warriors' Rest. Which are presumably located in the Festering Woods.
Alaric then mentions only a TRUE NEPHALEM can enter the Temple, which havn't been seen in thousands of years according to Leah.
Inside the Temple we meet Alarics' Brothers, the guardians of the Drowned Tempel.
The guardians seem to be lost in the battles of the past, and do not know the present. We will need to kill the guardians to proceed.
In the Drowned Temple I presume you do speak to an Angel, who explains what/who the Fallen Star is, and what this means for Sanctuary.
For an yet to be uncovered reason you travel to Worthams Chapel (By boat at New Tristram). Perhaps in order to reach Leorics Manor.
Eventually leading up to Highlands Crossing, where you meet a Khazra Shaman. He asks you to find a magical staff.
The Khazra (a feral goatman race) are barricading a narrow passageway between The Northern Highlands and Leorics Hunting Grounds. We will need to find a staff located on a kart in The Southern Highlands and give it to the Khazran Shaman to secure our passage.
When the player has passed the blockade you will have reached Leorics Hunting Grounds, the source of all goat men. You will need to stop The Khazra from summoning their brethren.
Eventually you will reach Leorics Mansion
I believe that cultists are located within Leorics Manor, in the Halls of Agony to be exact. The cultists seem to be performing dark rituals to summon a mighty demon. However, the summoning requires fresh blood, bones and flesh. The supply of villagers used to come from The Highlands and The Fields of Misery. However most of the villagers have fled from the goatmen, and we have saved the villagers in the Fields of Misery.
By doing so we disrupted the summoning. It is our job to find this demon and slay him. This demon is rumored to be Azmodan, the endboss of Act 1.
The act finishes in New Tristram. Where you depart to Caldeum.
I will update this post as soon as I get new information regarding the storyline.
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The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t...
Whyyy, whyyyy, why do you do that to poor Zero, making me read spoiler threads?
Just kidding, when I see all those screenshots loading (and the huge spoiler tag in the thread name), I press "end" on my keyboard and scroll back looking for replies that violate the rules, hoping nobody says anything that will spoil the game for me.
I'm sure the screenshots are amazing, I'm just not looking at them for now
haha Zero. I checked out the pictures but forced myself not to read a single word. I don't want to know any of the plot / quests until I see them myself
Cool, a tip though: Add the [spoiler] tag to all the images at least. Not only to avoid people accidently looking through, but also to reduce the loadtimes. I have great internet, but it's still annoying to load pages with lots of images.
Whyyy, whyyyy, why do you do that to poor Zero, making me read spoiler threads?
Just kidding, when I see all those screenshots loading (and the huge spoiler tag in the thread name), I press "end" on my keyboard and scroll back looking for replies that violate the rules, hoping nobody says anything that will spoil the game for me.
I'm sure the screenshots are amazing, I'm just not looking at them for now
Hehe, I know what you mean. I just couldn't resist looking it all up.
However, I didn't include any part with the Black Doulstone. I do know where it would fit in though.
The true story is still anyone's guess. I just took some bits of pieces that I could find and put them together
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The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t...
Cool, a tip though: Add the [spoiler] tag to all the images at least. Not only to avoid people accidently looking through, but also to reduce the loadtimes. I have great internet, but it's still annoying to load pages with lots of images.
maybe if you see [spoiler] in topic dont enter 1 if you dont wanna see anything?
whatever you do in that topic is related to the spoiler some1 put in there .. so im not gonna put spoiler on my comment just because you dont wanna see what the spoiler is but still you wanna read comments about it
either your just spamming with useless posts in topics you have no say in or i have no idea whats your reason to come here is
anyway .. pictures are nice im looking forward to 1st act .. looks like theres gonna be some big terrains to discover ;]
Hey, hey there. Nice to hear from you. Read my post again and understand my intentions please? I'm not bitching about getting spoiled, I looked at the images intentionally.
What I was suggesting was to add spoiler tags to reduce load time for all these images (+ the additional bonus of people clicking the thread and seeing the images without wanting to, for example: mods who must moderate the thread), which I clearly stated.
That way you can open them up one at a time which will help people with slow internet (even my 100mbit takes some time for threads like this). I was not directing this to you so I'm not sure why you take offense. It wasn't even not criticism in the first place.. just a suggestion.
It looks beautiful and yet it feels so much like Diablo. The colors are wonderful in the different areas. They really emphasize the grittiness and the taint in the world. It's like Blizz first made a standard forest and then decided to kill everything living in it and spill some buckets of grey and brown on top on just the right places.
Loving every bit of it. Can't wait to go around those spaces.
Enjoy!
"The Fallen Star" has made these fields uninhabitable! What was once a blooming green farmers paradise but has become a place of demons and despair! However there are still farmers that do not wish to leave their homes and crops. It is our duty to save/evacuate as many villagers as possible from these corrupted lands.
In the last section of the Fields of Misery you meet the Scoundrel. I can only presume he leads us to the Drowned Temple.
Leah: "Legend has it that within the Temple angels would come to impart their wisdom to the Nephalem."
And so your quest begins to obtain wisdom regarding the impending Demonic Apocalypse.
Once arrived at The Drowned Temple it is guarded by Alaric. He tells you; to enter this Temple you need 2 magical Beacons.
The Beacons can be found in the Crypt of the Ancients and the Warriors' Rest. Which are presumably located in the Festering Woods.
Alaric then mentions only a TRUE NEPHALEM can enter the Temple, which havn't been seen in thousands of years according to Leah.
Inside the Temple we meet Alarics' Brothers, the guardians of the Drowned Tempel.
The guardians seem to be lost in the battles of the past, and do not know the present. We will need to kill the guardians to proceed.
In the Drowned Temple I presume you do speak to an Angel, who explains what/who the Fallen Star is, and what this means for Sanctuary.
For an yet to be uncovered reason you travel to Worthams Chapel (By boat at New Tristram). Perhaps in order to reach Leorics Manor.
Eventually leading up to Highlands Crossing, where you meet a Khazra Shaman. He asks you to find a magical staff.
The Khazra (a feral goatman race) are barricading a narrow passageway between The Northern Highlands and Leorics Hunting Grounds. We will need to find a staff located on a kart in The Southern Highlands and give it to the Khazran Shaman to secure our passage.
When the player has passed the blockade you will have reached Leorics Hunting Grounds, the source of all goat men. You will need to stop The Khazra from summoning their brethren.
Eventually you will reach Leorics Mansion
I believe that cultists are located within Leorics Manor, in the Halls of Agony to be exact. The cultists seem to be performing dark rituals to summon a mighty demon. However, the summoning requires fresh blood, bones and flesh. The supply of villagers used to come from The Highlands and The Fields of Misery. However most of the villagers have fled from the goatmen, and we have saved the villagers in the Fields of Misery.
By doing so we disrupted the summoning. It is our job to find this demon and slay him. This demon is rumored to be Azmodan, the endboss of Act 1.
The act finishes in New Tristram. Where you depart to Caldeum.
I will update this post as soon as I get new information regarding the storyline.
Just kidding, when I see all those screenshots loading (and the huge spoiler tag in the thread name), I press "end" on my keyboard and scroll back looking for replies that violate the rules, hoping nobody says anything that will spoil the game for me.
I'm sure the screenshots are amazing, I'm just not looking at them for now
Just a single shaman from what I could find.
Hehe, I know what you mean. I just couldn't resist looking it all up.
However, I didn't include any part with the Black Doulstone. I do know where it would fit in though.
The true story is still anyone's guess. I just took some bits of pieces that I could find and put them together
Hey, hey there. Nice to hear from you. Read my post again and understand my intentions please? I'm not bitching about getting spoiled, I looked at the images intentionally.
What I was suggesting was to add spoiler tags to reduce load time for all these images (+ the additional bonus of people clicking the thread and seeing the images without wanting to, for example: mods who must moderate the thread), which I clearly stated.
That way you can open them up one at a time which will help people with slow internet (even my 100mbit takes some time for threads like this). I was not directing this to you so I'm not sure why you take offense. It wasn't even not criticism in the first place.. just a suggestion.
Verity out.
Loving every bit of it. Can't wait to go around those spaces.
Ha. Bagstone.
this one: 85301194ce