Soon Aidan discovered the truth - through the corruption of Archbishop Lazarus, Diablo, the Lord of Terror and one of the three Greater Evils of the Burning Hells, had driven his father mad in an attempt to possess him. By the time Aidan returned, his mother and father were dead, the latter slain by Lachdanan - his own former Captain of the Guard - and his brother Albrecht missing. Khanduras’ army was routed by Westmarch and scattered, returning to the royal seat in the abandoned abbey at Tristram in disarray. He executed his wife Asylla and fell prey to paranoia. While Aidan was gone, Leoric’s madness only grew. Aidan found himself pressed into service, a standard bearer for the royal family in this quixotic war Leoric insisted upon. As the nominal heir to his father, he trained in swordplay, but the surprising declaration of war upon neighboring - and far more powerful - Westmarch shocked the whole court. While the words of Archbishop Lazarus filled his father’s ears, Aidan was tutored by Deckard Cain, who was secretly one of the last remaining Horadrim.Īs Lazurus’s whispers slowly poisoned Leoric’s mind, Aidan grew to adulthood. Aidan accompanied his parents from Kehjistan to the somewhat backward nation of Khanduras when his father Leoric became king. One was Albrecht, the younger son, and the elder of the two was Aidan. Okay, so who exactly is the Dark Wanderer? Strap in, because it gets pretty crazy.īefore the events of the original Diablo, there were two princes in Khanduras, born to Queen Asylla and King Leoric. Seriously, this is the last spoiler warning we’re going to give you. So we’re going to start talking about who he is, what he wants, and what he’s doing, but only after I give you a wicked great honking spoiler warning for Diablo 2. Well, he is many things, and telling you about any of them is a wicked great honking spoiler for Diablo 2: Resurrected. If you’re playing Diablo 2: Resurrected you may be wondering who the Dark Wanderer that Marius mentions in the opening cinematic is.
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