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Call me unoriginal, but I think that no one can hold a candle to Tyraels pure epicness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyta80a5wc

What's your favorite though?

Yeah, definitely hard to not be a monster-big Tyrael fan, he's badass from the name on down.

I'm a big fan of Cain, he's always been in the games and I love his scholarly obsessing, toiling away in thick tomes year after year by candlelight trying to save the world and no one ever seems to believe him.

Also a big fan of Farnham -- they did a nice job with him, balancing how the horrors of the cathedral wrecked him and turned him into a slobbering drunk while also making him so freaking hilarious.

Mephisto, hands down. Though I do really like Hratli and his gallows humor.

Mines actually Bartuc, the Warlord of Blood. Great power always comes at a cost. The other is Lachdanan, honorable even through death, now if only he makes good on his promise of finding a way to help you. More Lachdanan please!

I like the stories of Nihlathak and Lazarus. Both men who were once good and both corrupted in different ways. Their downfalls are really interesting and the fact that you get to learn their stories as you move along and then ultimately confront them...it's really great. I've written lots about it on this forum.

Man there are a lot of good choices but id have to go with Cain or the Dark Wanderer or Griswold

I love the story about the Dark Wanderer. its mystical and not like other game stories. besides that king leoric got a pretty badass story aswell.

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I like Zayl. If it has to be from a game,

Wasn't D2's Necromancer supposedly Zayl?

Actually, come to think of it, the tale of Aidan, Leoric and the others of that family is strangely elegant in its tragedy. The sins of the father are passed down from one to the next to the next. I mean, we're dealing with three generations in the lives of a cursed family. That one retcon behind the Dark Wanderer's identity was pretty moving. That sort of ennobles the Dark Wanderer in my view.

Zayl is definitely not the D2 necro, though it's been speculated / hinted superficially (to my knowledge) that he could be making a cameo in D3. He's definitely a fun character.

I agree about the Aiden retcon, and it obviously also neatly plays into all the hints that Leah is going to play a huge role in D3, with some clear reverberations from the fact that she was conceived by a Diablo-infested Aiden and Adria. Lineage (like the cursed family as well) always seems to play a central role in the Diablo lore.

Tyrael hands down. There is no one even close to surpassing him as my favorite character, though Diablo himself would be second. I always preferred the series more for it's cosmological entities than its humans.

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Wasn't D2's Necromancer supposedly Zayl?

No but Karybdus was supposedly loosely based on the D2 necro according to Knaak in an interview we did with him some years ago here on Dfans.

Gheed wasn't my favorite, but definitely a memorable prick.

Im a big fan of Garhbald, He always gave me a laugh and made those early levels enjoyable

As far as depth of character goes I'd have to say Marius was the best character. He was the most conflicted character who felt intense guilt at his cowardice when he didn't go to hell forge in D2 to break Bael's soulstone.

Farnham.

I like the story of the angiris council as a whole and specifically what we have herd of Aurial (Hope) although Itherael(Fate) and Malthael(Wisdom) are close behind.
Lachdanan Is probably my favorite Human.

I'm a huge fan of Baal.

I just love the evil bastard.

I find Linarian to be the most intriguing character for me so far. He is the origin for the order of necromancy (well technically through exposure to Trag'Oul) and I would love to hear more about his fate since The Sin War.

edit: AKA Rathma