I was reading the Diablo 3 Wiki, and it was really interesting. I may read the Diablo trilogy which looks to be quite interesting.

Anyways, here's why I am wondering if Blizzard may not even know their own lore:

Sanctuary is a basically Earth in Diablo. It's where all humans live. Heaven and Hell both fought over Sanctuary; neither ever managed to succeed in taking it. Eventually, like-minded angels and demons gathered with Inarius at Sanctuary, where Inarius created the World Stone (which shielded Sanctuary from the heavens and hells, where like-minded angels and demons who were fed up with heaven and hell could live peacefully together). Humans are "nephalems". Nephalems are the byproduct of angels and demons getting together and doing the nasty. Anyways, a byproduct of the creation of Sanctuary (or something like that), was Trang'Oul. Trang'Oul went unnoticed by Inarius (the brother of Tyrael), and taught some of the first Nephalems the art of necromancy. Trang'Oul comes close to a god-like state of power, but it's uncertain where he really stands... and it's unclear what he's doing (I don't know). It would be cool to see Trang'Oul in D3.

Now, here's some important information: The World Stone was altered by Inarius in an attempt to reduce the power of the nephalems. The first generation of Nephalems (one of which made by the pairing of the angel Inarius and demon Lilith) was more powerful than both of them, and they fought over being the favorite of their child. Ultimately the power of the nephalems brought Inarius to alter the worldstone to reduce the power of nephalems generation by generation. Lilith also slayed all the other angels and demons in Sanctuary (something like that).

Anyways, Trang'Oul is the major nasty powerful dragon who goes to the trouble of teaching Nephalems the art of necromacy. He is basically some big badass who helped the nephalems gain power and champion their world as heroes. And that's what Diablo is all about: The people (nephalems) fighting to champion evil (or any opposing force) which might threaten their existence. Necromacy is one of the first arts taught to them in order to give them power. In fact, the later generations of Nephalems had to be taught or coaxed into learning/attaining their powers (unlike the previous generations which just inherently could do magic and have power), so necromacy is one of the arts which is important to be taught.

So anyways, I think because of how important necromacy is in Diablo... I wonder why instead of a necromancer, we have a god damn witch doctor instead.

There's lots of cool lore to Diablo, an actual story line... and Blizzard is messing it up... maybe?

This post was edited by Canadian_Man on Apr 23 2011 01:50am

they said in one of those panels that the necro was done so well in D2, why revisit it. They said it was like theyve reached the top of the mountain for necro so anything more would be climbing back down

Did they really say this? That's quite sad to hear if that's true. Because they are revisiting the Barbarian, and revisiting the sorcerer. I certainly hope they revisit the necromancer. There's so much more that could be done. So many ideas.

withdoctor bassicly necro?? didnt read so might not even do anything with it

If you like Diablo... you should read. There's a lot to it.

maybe ill look it up tomorrow but youtube it. its there 100%

Well that and Witch Doctor pretty much has some of the aspects of a necromancer.
I don't know that much though, I wasn't interested in Necromancers at all, I was more of a jump in a big pile of monster with a melee class and go berserk.

wait expenssion :-)

World of Warcraft stole the NECROMANCER.... SHIIIIT WOW!!!

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