Diablo 3 – 5 Short Stories

And The Heavens Shall Tremble…

Labeled as the most anticipated game of the year, here you’ll find short stories of the 5 characters behind the game. Launched almost a month ago and being played by millions of players worldwide, these stories would serve as a great addition to the gameplay, getting deeper into the details on how your favorite character(s) grow into the universe of Diablo. Happy reading and happy gaming!

Hatred and Discipline (Demon Hunter)

by Micky Neilson

Valla smelled the rotting dead from a mile away.

The air was warm despite the clouds that blanketed Khanduras as the demon hunter arrived in what was left of Holbrook-once a tiny, struggling farm community, now a deserted ghost town. Or so it seemed; the heavy stench of putrification suggested that the residents were still present, just not among the living…

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Hatred and Discipline – 11 pages (HTML), 32 pages, 477 KB (PDF)

Wayfarer (Barbarian)

by Cameron Dayton

His dead sister came at sundown. Always at sundown.

As the sky bruised and the shadows grew long into night, he stood to watch the sun disappear behind the mountains. This was when the whispered sound of the evening breeze would crumble into the slow, shuffling rasp of feet. Her feet… cold and white, frayed tendon and cracked bone worn bare over countless miles of frost-rimmed rock. It did not matter how far Kehr had traveled that day, how many rivers he had forded or cliffs he had scaled. She came at sundown…

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Wayfarer – 7 pages (HTML), 30 pages, 561 KB (PDF)

Unyielding (Monk)

by Matt Burns

“When the ill wind blows, the tree that bends will break.”

Zhota could not silence Akyev’s parting words. They had dogged his every step for the past weeks. By day, the memory of his master’s voice was only a whisper, but when night came, it reached a fever pitch.

Tonight was the same… Tonight he knew he would be tested again…

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Unyielding – 8 pages (HTML), 22 pages, 531 KB (PDF)

Doubtwalker (Witch Doctor)

by Jason Bischoff

The war began at sunrise, as it always did.

Benu and ten other witch doctors from the Clan of the Seven Stones stalked into the heart of the Teganze as swift and silent as panthers. Only the faint rattle of bone and iron charms dangling from their tribal masks warned of their presence. Striped in white, yellow, and red paint and decorated in bright bokai feathers, their bodies blended with the vibrant jungle around them…

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Doubtwalker – 7 pages (HTML), 33 pages, 494 KB (PDF)

Firefly (Wizard)

by Michael Chu

I ask your forgiveness, for there is much to speak of the wizard, and I am the only one who can tell all there is of her story. This is my burden, as is what awaits after. The ending is no great mystery. It is written in the shattered stones and broken walls that surround us, and whispered in the rumors that tumble from every mouth.

But on the subject of magic, nothing is so simple, and be certain that what you may have seen and heard is not the whole tale…

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Firefly – 10 pages (HTML), 31 pages, 434 KB (PDF)