Diablo3 Story background (D3故事背景含译文)转载
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction ended with the third and final Prime Evil slain and the Archangel Tyrael destroying the precious World Stone that had been corrupted by Baal. Here's where the story may go, but first, the background.
History: The Sin War
* Spoiler Warning: This contains plot details from The Sin War trilogy by Richard Knaak.
Since the beginning of time, the angels of the High Heavens and the demons of the Burning Hells have endlessly warred for dominion over all existence in what is referred to as The Great Conflict. The motivation of the battles are unclear, as the sides seek only to conquer each other. This dilutes the sense of good and evil, though later events show demons to be ruthless and cruel. Neither side has ever fully crushed the forces of the other, and it is a struggle bound to last through all time.
Eventually, dissent grew in members of both sides of the eternal battle. Demons and angels who questioned the incessant chaos banded together and created an entirely new plane of existence, which they named Sanctuary. This crudely designed world, a jumbled mix of climates, was quite literally a sanctuary away from the eternal war of the High Heavens and Burning Hells. The existence of this new world was kept secret from the battling forces, who would only destroy it or use it for the purposes of the war.
Along with the creation of Sanctuary, the race of humans was created by the Angel Inarius and Demoness Lilith. They were the star-crossed lovers from two planes of existence. Humans were literally their mutual creation, so the blood of angels and demons flowed through the bodies of humanity.
Inarius and Lilith disagreed on the future of humans. Lilith desired to create superior beings by awakening the powers of both angels and demons in humanity referred to as the nephalem. The nephalem could, then, overtake the Heavens and Hells and end the eternal war. Inarius cared only to keep Sanctuary secret and distinct from the other cosmic planes, and banished Lilith to the Endless Void to prevent her from awakening the nephalem, which would alert the High Heavens and Burning Hells to Sanctuary's threat.
Lilith, cunning as the temptress demoness was, found a way to return to Sanctuary and continued her efforts. Centuries later, following the defeat of Baal at the World Stone, she would restore the Prime Evils, Duriel, and Izual to the mortal realm through the Dark Summoning referred to as the Pandemonium.
As The Great Conflict came to a standstill, at least the Burning Hells became aware of Sanctuary and sent servents of the Prime Evils to corrupt mortal souls and establish reign over the realm. These servents included Mephisto - Lord of Hatred's son Lucion, Diablo - Lord of Terror's favored demon , and Baal - Lord of Destruction's mindless demon Gulag. Lucion, the brother of Lilith, created the three Triad religions of the Temple, worshipping fake gods Mefis (God of Love), Dialo (God of Determination), and Bala (God of Creation), seeking to thus reign over humanity and use it for the purposes of the Prime Evils.
The Angel Inarius, who remained in Sanctuary, created the Cathetral of Light, a competing religion that was more represenative of the High Heavens. This was, in part, a response to the Temple and also to maintain his sense of ownership of Sanctuary. Inarius took the guise of a human as The Prophet of the Cathedral of Light.
The religions of the Temple and Cathedral spread throughout Sanctuary and gained legions of followers.
Many years later, in the town of Seram, Lilith found a host to awaken the nephalem. She chose the strong and simple farmer Uldyssian Ul-Diomed, the son of Diomedes who had suffered terrible losses as his family died from disease, save for his brother Mendeln. The demoness awakened abilities in Uldyssian likened to magic, allowing him to heal and fight beyond any means imagineable to a mere human and led him on a quest to supposedly free the world of the Cathedral and Temple. However, along the way Uldyssian was made aware of Lilith's true demonic nature by her brother Lucion. He escaped Lilith's grasp for a time and slayed Lucion.
Further details of The Sin War await, but details from the established story line in previous Diablo games follows.
Meanwhile, a civil war raged in Hell as the Lesser Evils Azmodan and Belial forged together armies to overthrow the rule of the Prime Evils. They were unhappy with the plot to corrupt the mortal realm, wishing to return to The Great Conflict with their fierce strategy to overtake the High Heavens. The plan was to banish the Prime Evils to Sanctuary, causing chaos and terror to shift the legions of angels to focus on protecting the mortal realm, leaving the High Heavens vulnerable to attack. Azmodan and Belial succeeded in banishing the Prime Evils to Sanctuary, but turned on each other, once again causing a lasting civil war in the Burning Hells.
Sanctuary soon descended into chaos as the Prime Evils reaked havok on the mortal realm. Those who would not directly follow them were turned on their bretheren through their demonic forces, causing civil wars throughout the land. The Lord of Terror, Hate, and Destruction sought only to cause pain and suffering.
The Archangel Tyrael gathered together a secret order of sorcerers named the Horadrim to hunt down and imprison the Prime Evils for all eternity. The magi came from various mage clans in the East, surrounding the kingdom of Kehjan. They were able to capture Baal and Mephisto and bind them into artifacts referred to as Soulstones, and buried them deep beneath the deserts of the East.
For many years, the continued search for the last of the Three continued, as Diablo evaded their attempts. In the lands of what would become Khanduras they finally captured Diablo and buried his Soulstone in the caves near the river Talsande. The Horadrim construted a monastery nearby to keep close watch over the constrained demon and passed on its secrets for generations until the order all but slipped out of existence. From then, the game of Diablo I begins...
Diablo 3: Disruption
The World Stone, corrupted by Baal in his conquest of the Barbarian Highlands, was shattered by the Archangel Tyrael after a champion slayed the last living Prime Evil. The Stone, once protected by the spirits of the strongest warriors of Sanctuary to preserve the separation between Sanctuary, Hell, and Heaven, has been destroyed to prevent its use for evil as a gateway to and from Hell.
The realities of Sanctuary, Heaven, and Hell begin to collide and merge as the World Stone no longer preserves and protects them. Mt. Arreat violently erupts, causing chaos and terror as the tribes in the surrounding lands attempt to flee.
The land of Sanctuary begins to literally splinter, as the continent experiences dramatic geographic shifts. The continents violently expand as regions of Heaven and Hell hemorrhage in various areas of Sanctuary. This begins with the Barbarian Highlands, the region immediately surrounding Mt. Arreat, and extends beyond to Scosglen, Kehjistan, Ensteig, Westmarch, Khanduras, and the desert of Aranoch. Previously unvisited areas of Sanctuary will be added to the series, namely the vast lands to the east of Kehjistan.
Unfortunately for the humans who by no intention wander into the merged regions of Heaven, their existence is short-lived. The reality of Heaven cannot sustain the human form and thus any humans to venture in perish.
Human society grows unstable and begins to crumble as well. Ten years following the end of the World Stone, the kingdom of Khanduras collapses as Westmarch is flooded with bands of demons seemingly under no ultimate master. The warriors of the West and the mages of the East band together with the remaining barbarians and necromancers to survive the continuous onslaught.
Meanwhile, the two remaining Lesser Evils -- Azmodan (Lord of Sin) and Belial (Lord of Lies) have escaped from Hell into Sanctuary and taken refuge in Scosglen, the land far north of the jungles of Kehjistan known for the Druids. Together they are building vast armies of fiendish minions to overtake the Merged Realms, and begin attacking the surrounding areas.
The leaders of the Druids, who are usually secretive and reclusive, send out a call for help throughout Sanctuary, only to find that chaos is rampant everywhere. Once they receive word from the united forces, the remainder of the Druids flee to join them.
You enter the picture again as a hero or heroine set to rid the land of its demonic plague, just as it appears that all hope may be lost.
暗黑破坏神2:毁灭之王结束时,第三个也是最后一个大恶魔(BAAL)被消灭,大天使泰瑞尔破坏了被巴尔污染的珍贵的世界之石。下面是故事可能的后续，但首先，我们需要了解一些背景知识。
历史：原罪战争
提醒：这其中包含了理查德-纳克所写的原罪战争三步曲的部分细节
自时间的开端以来，高阶天堂的天使和燃烧地狱的恶魔就为了统治一切存在而陷入了无尽的战争，这场战争被称为大混乱。战争最初的起因并不清楚，双方只是一心想着征服彼此。这冲淡了善良和邪恶的概念，尽管之后的一些事件证明恶魔是无情而残酷的。两方都没能完全击跨对手，这场战争伴随着时间将一直进行下去。
最终，永恒之战双方的内部都产生了分歧。质疑这无休止混乱的恶魔和天使聚集在一起，创造了一个全新的物质平面，被他们称为庇护所。这个设计粗糙的世界是个各种气候混杂的地方，却也是名副其实远离天堂和地狱永恒战争的庇护所。这个新世界存在的秘密被守护着不为战争者所知，因为一旦他们得知这个地方，他们不是将之毁灭便是将它用于战争。
在庇护所被创造的同时，天使印那瑞斯和恶魔莉莉斯也创造了人类种族。他们是跨越两界的恋人，而人类是他们共同的创造物，因此天使和恶魔的血液共同流淌在人类的体内。
印那瑞斯和莉莉斯对于人类的未来有不同的看法。莉莉斯想要通过同时唤醒人类体内天使和恶魔的力量来创造一种被称为NEPHALEM的更高级的存在。NEPHALEM可以接管天堂和地狱，结束这场战争。印瑞那斯只关心如何保守庇护所的秘密，使其独立与其他物质层面，于是他将莉莉斯放逐到了ENDLESS VOID，以阻止她唤醒NEPHALEM使天堂和地狱警觉到庇护所的威胁。
正如其他女恶魔一般狡猾的莉莉斯找到了回到庇护所的方法，继续她的努力。几个世纪后，当巴尔在世界之石被击败，她将把大恶魔们、都瑞尔和依祖通过名为PANDERMONIOUM的黑暗召唤术唤回到人类世界。
当大混乱暂时停止时，至少燃烧地狱已经意识到庇护所的存在，并派出大恶魔的仆人去污染人类灵魂，并建立一个王朝统治那个国度。这些仆人包括：仇恨之王墨非斯托的儿子鲁西安，恐惧之王DIABLO所宠爱的恶魔以及毁灭之王巴尔的傀儡度拉格。作为莉莉斯的兄弟，鲁西安创立了三位一体宗教的神庙，信奉伪神梅非斯（爱之神），迪阿罗（决心之神）和巴拉（创造之神），从而试图以此统治人类来为大恶魔们服务。
留在庇护所的天使印那瑞斯创造了光之大教堂，代表高阶天堂的力量。这在某种程度上是对神庙的回应，也为了使他相信维持庇护所仍在他控制之下。印那瑞斯本人伪装成一个人类，作为光之大教堂先知。
神庙和大教堂两大宗教传遍整个庇护所，获得了大群追随者。
很多年以后，在塞拉亩镇，莉莉斯找到了一个唤醒NEPHALEM的躯体。她选择了强壮而单纯的农民尤迪西安-乌尔-迪奥姆德，他是迪奥姆德家长子，全家除了他弟弟曼德因之外全部死于传染病。女恶魔唤醒了迪奥姆德体内的魔法力量，使他得以用超过人类想象的方式治疗和战斗，并引导他踏上将人类从大教堂和神庙中解放出来的旅途。然而，在旅途中，莉莉斯的兄弟鲁西安使尤迪西安意识到莉莉斯的恶魔本性。一段时间内他逃离了莉莉斯的掌控，杀死了鲁西安。
关于原罪战争的进一步细节尚未得知，DIABLO游戏的故事主线中透露的线索如下：
与此同时，一场内战在地狱爆发。次级恶魔阿滋蒙丹和贝利亚共同打造了一支军队来颠覆大恶魔的统治。他们不乐于去污染人类世界，一心只想着回到大混乱，用暴烈的手段夺取高阶天堂。他们计划把大恶魔们放逐到庇护所，产生混乱和恐惧使天使军团致力于保护人类世界，而使得高阶天堂防守脆弱。阿滋蒙丹和贝利亚成功将大恶魔们放逐到了庇护所，但他们很快自相残杀，引起了燃烧地狱又一场内战。
由于大恶魔们行走在人类世界中，庇护所陷入混乱。那些不愿意跟随他们的人被他们用恶魔力量变为同类，内战席卷了整个大陆。恐惧之王、仇恨之王和毁灭之王尽情播撒痛苦和苦难。
大天使泰瑞尔集结了一个名为赫达瑞姆的秘密男巫组织，追捕并永远囚禁大恶魔。这些巫师来自Kejhan王国周围不同的东方部落，他们抓住了巴尔、墨非斯托，把他们囚禁在一种称为灵魂之石的保护中，并深埋在东方沙漠中。
很多年以来，寻求第三个大恶魔的旅途不断继续，因为DIABLO多次成功逃脱了他们的追捕。在往后将成为Khanduras的地方，他们终于抓住了DIABLO，并将他的灵魂之石埋在塔桑德河旁的洞穴中。赫达瑞姆人在附近建了一个修道院监视被囚禁的恶魔，并将这个秘密一直流传下去直到消亡。从那时起，DIABLO1的游戏开始了......
DIABLO3： 中断
在巴尔征服野蛮人高地战斗中，世界之石被污染。在一位英雄击杀了三大恶魔中最后活着的巴尔后，泰瑞尔粉碎了世界之石。曾经由庇护所最强战士的英灵所守护的阻隔庇护所、地狱和天堂的世界之石被毁坏以防止恶魔将之用作通往地狱的大门。
没有了世界之石的保存和守护，庇护所、天堂和地狱开始碰撞与合并。亚瑞特山剧烈爆发，周围部落在逃离中产生很多混乱和恐惧。
庇护所的大地开始分裂，大陆产生的戏剧性的地质变化。由于天堂和地狱出现在庇护所的各个地方，整个大陆开始剧烈扩张。扩张开始于环绕着亚瑞特山脉的野蛮人高地，并扩展到Scosglen, Kehjistan, Ensteig, Westmarch, Khanduras, 和Aranoch沙漠。过去庇护所未被访问的地区将出现，被称为Kehjistan东部的广阔土地。
对于不幸误入新出现的天堂地区的人来说，他们的存在是短在的。天堂无法维持人类形态，因此人类在那会消亡。
人类社会变得不稳定，开始崩溃。在世界之石毁灭后的10年，Khanduras王国灭亡了，Westmarch充满了看似没有主人的恶魔。西部的战士和东部的法师联合了残存的野蛮人和亡灵巫师，以便能够在这场屠杀中生存下来。
与此同时，两个次级恶魔 -- 阿滋蒙丹（罪恶之王）和贝利亚（谎言之王）已经从地狱逃到了庇护所，在Scosglen避难。地处kehjista森林遥远北方的Scosglen是德鲁伊所在地。两个恶魔联合起来召集了大量凶恶的随从，试图占据出现的国度，开始向周围地区发起攻击。
一直孤僻隐秘的德鲁伊长老向整个庇护所发出了求助的呼声，却发现混乱四处横行。当他们接到联军的消息时，他们的残存者逃走加入了联军。
你将以一个英雄或女英雄加入战局，当希望已经渺茫之时，将土地从恶魔手中解救出来。
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