Uuu storytime with Rathma. I never expected this. Rathma's voice actor, Scott Whyte, is really amazing. He manages to be bland and soft in speech without sounding bored. I'd listen to him read cookbooks even a phonebook.
DUDE YES. i almost forgot about that completely. i love diablo lore. i still listen to all the stories that drop in dungeons. :P i think ill replay all the older games...
Wish we couldve gotten more of Rathma. Loved his character since I read the books as a kid, was super excited that we finally got to meet him. It would be cool if we could see the rest of the firstborn.
@@Nerfunkal 1. Demonsbane - Robert B Marks 2. Legacy of Blood - Richard Knaak 3. The Black Road - Richard Knaak 4. The Kingdom of Shadow - Richard Knaak 5. Moon of the Spider - Richard Knaak 6. The Sin War #1: Birthright - Richard Knaak 7. The Sin War #2: Scales of the Serpent - Richard Knaak 8. The Sin War #3: The Veiled Prophet - Richard Knaak 9. The Order - Nate Kenyon 10. Heroes Rise, Darkness Falls - this is collection of mini stories on the diablo 3 website from different authors 11. Storm of Light - Nate Kenyon 12. Morbed - Micky Neilson That just list of books. Also there are lore collections, like Warcraft chronicles, but here they named "Book of Cain/Tyrael/Adria/Lorath". And bunch of comic books - even this video description has a link to the new graphic novel
Truly I hope all this talk about transformation means that he is coming back one way or another, the Sin War characters are the biggest part of the lore, and now that Inarius and Lilith had the base game of D4 for themselves, I'd love it if we could delve into the lore of the Firstborn or the Edyrem...
I seem to recall Bul-Kathos appearing in the Sin War trilogy books, and that he was the very earth itself that humanity walked on. That would be very fun to see him make an appearance.
They Edyrem were pretty short lived, there isn't much more to say about them than reading The Sin Wars trilogy. They were just followers of Uldyssian, and they lost their powers and memories after Uldyssian sacrificed himself. Basically, if anyone ever became as power as Uldyssian, the entire world would be destroyed because that much power can't be controlled.
@cormacbevins9679 He did. He and the other Nephalem are still unaccounted for. Some are said to be dead, others worshipped as gods, and some simply vanished. Bul-Kathos seems to have an affinity for the earth, but he is not, in his own words, a master of the elements as Esu was. They say he sleeps under Mount Arreat, there's so much potential there.
I hope this means he'll be back in the future. I was pretty bumbed that they would kill off such an important character. I held out hope that being a Nephilem necromancer, he would just resurrect or become a constellation like Trag'oul. If I recall, it's been a few years since I've read "The Sin Wars", Trag'oul is "chained" the stars as the Dragon constellation, and there are others like him. Maybe after we take out Mephisto, things are gonna get cosmic.
@blaynegreiner9365 Exactly, I see no reason for the devs to drop this unless he's making a comeback in the next expansion. If they can rework Sorc Enchantments before then, I might decide to buy Vessel of Hatred.
After hearing this prophecy so many times and seeing what happened in the story so far and where it's going, it seems very likely that it still didn't happened... the desert jewel it mentions might actually be Lut Golein and the hatred's heart that is pierced might in fact be Mephisto's. Guess we'll see soon enough!
People can say what they want about necros being evil in various media outlets, I absolutely love how diablo breaks that mold and they're essentially the best of the heroes
4:41 Lillith is *definitely* my favorite character. "I do not seek to save, but to empower." It's so different than controlling, using, consuming, subjugating, seeking worship, etc. A unique motivation. It saddened me how many Diablo fans saw her as a stock villain who simply lied about her motivations (secretly being a stock villain). Makes me empathize with her plight, from wanting something different.
Even if she wanted something different, she went about it the same way Prime Evils did. She proved herself no better than her father. She had good intentions but went about it such a evil and twisted way that the wanderer and users were bound to oppose her. I wish she was more diplomatic and less culty/kill your children to save your children.
My gosh. This gave me some chills, haha. When Rathma began to read that prophecy, wow. I love the lore of the Diablo franchise and Blizzard constantly delivering cinematics and videos like this makes it even better.
Rathma was the first necromancer but he's not the only Ancient that represents a modern class, Bul-Kathos was also around during Rathmas time as well as other ancients. So... Not really lol.
@@phrozenliquidz Rathma and Bul-Kathos are both ancient figures, but Rathma predates Bul-Kathos. Rathma was one of the earliest beings in Sanctuary, born shortly after its creation while Bul-Kathos appeared much later, during the time when the Nephalem had already been established and their powers had diminished over generations.
For me as a lore lover, a return of the "lore books" from Diablo 1 would be amazing. Finding tomes in the dungeons and listening to the ancient stories were amazing to me as a kid, the voice acting was top notch too. D4's lore snippets about random characters found as loot drops are... meh.
If I do not know it was fictional. It was too hard to discerned it from our religions’s 11:32 books and lore-wise around the world that passed down for ages.
He shouldn't have died. As a Nephalem, he should have put up much more of a fight. Unless... he's not dead, and he's coming back. Though I wonder... the writers seemed eager to get rid of him, Lilith and Inarius, along with all the rest of Diablo III's lore.
I would love a stand alone prequel Diablo game. Or possibly an expansion where we go back in time to participate in the Sin War. I'm unsure how they'd wing it but giving more life to the sheer amount of ancient lore in the game would be awesome.
Please post more videos likes this, this was awesome, I heard it was Rathma too.. oh my oh my.. please please, please more lore videos like this. Love it!
Can someone explain to me wth is that balance they talk about? It makes no sense to me... balance is awakening the dead and exploding corpses? Necromancy? Im lost.
"The Balance is the even distribution of Light and Dark. Its essence is most significant to Sanctuary, but it goes beyond, to all of creation. A world where Dark rules will burn itself up. A world where Light commands will eventually stagnate. If either gained enough control of Sanctuary so that the other could not match it, then that would be the end of all things..." - Trag'Oul
Oh that voice! Phenomenal voice algorithms right up there with the greats like Tony Jay and Simon Templeman, what a talented voice actor, more lore vids like this! This is highly compelling and enjoyable 👍
I have a sentiment Rathma's playing 5D chess. His speech made me believe he is behind it and pushed Inarius and Lilith to kill each other, without being dragged into the divorce mess.
@@matheuskalil5680 I thought I remembered a bluepost around D3 release saying it wasn't considered canon, but i've just had a look and can't find anything, so maybe it always was canon and my old brain misremembered.
I dont get this, in game his role was so small, so diminshed and even worse are the lackluster interaction with him being a Necromancer, which was almost none, and now this brilliant piece of story telling
but...... since angels cant return as themselves but lesser/prime evils can return as themselves, can rathma come back? or is he gone...... for good? if he is actually gone but seems like blizzard is keeping him dead?
I would have appreciate a more "diablo-like" style for those (very welcomed) lore videos. I mean : it's clearly inspired of other games' narration (like Darkest Dungeon), inspired themselves by Diablo. But something got lost in the drifting process. Diablo lore bits (from 1 to 4, diablo 3 & immortal included) always had some kind of very atmospheric and dark visuals, only (and scarcely) ponctuated by ultra concise & evocative phrase to summarize & symbolize the story you had to get. Here, I feel it's a bit lost under 20 pages of filler text & blablabla, and kinda cute drawings, and I don't leave the video with any real powerful image or phrase in mind, but the very last text panel (much more diablo-like) A big chunk could have been a slowly burning genealogic tree, from top to bottom, with roots of successive guardians trying to distance the flames, side-struck by religious dark shadowy images of crucial moments that passes and fades into darkness, as a final jade glow of undeadness comes from the abyss, to the rescue of the burning tree, and for Rathma's will and purpose. Or other moody piece. Like Rathma silently recollecting its unspoken origin, for a very long moment, under a tree & family growing old and crumbling to dust and darkness before his slow gaze, as his future gloomily glows all around him. I don't know. I feel there's more justice to bring to those juicy lore videos, that's all xD
You know what I would love to see, how Lilith and Inairus came together. Because every SINGLE thing that we see with them is all about how they hate each other, how they don't get along and constantly needle each other. But we have never once actually seen them get along let alone love each other.
Lore video: ++
Talks more about Trag'oul and Rathma: +++
Is narrated by Rathma himself: +++++++++
You are missing a whole world of points, my dear.
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Uuu storytime with Rathma. I never expected this.
Rathma's voice actor, Scott Whyte, is really amazing. He manages to be bland and soft in speech without sounding bored. I'd listen to him read cookbooks even a phonebook.
A voice that unites a Sanctuary and a graveyard alike.
@@Diablo Please bring Rathma back! Killing him off screen was not something he deserved.
@@ManOzzY Maybe he'll come back as a ghost or something. He proved to be very persistent in the Sin War.
@@Diablo, more like idiots and THEIR fate with those undeserving of it.
Blizzard supports the CCP though
Diablo 4 really needs a Lore Codex/Journal
100 % agree
I miss the lore entries from Diablo III.
DUDE YES. i almost forgot about that completely. i love diablo lore.
i still listen to all the stories that drop in dungeons. :P
i think ill replay all the older games...
Wish we couldve gotten more of Rathma. Loved his character since I read the books as a kid, was super excited that we finally got to meet him. It would be cool if we could see the rest of the firstborn.
There's books!?!
@@Nerfunkalyes, the sin war trilogy. Covers Uldyssian & the sin wars, with quite a bit of Rathma.
@@Nerfunkal
1. Demonsbane - Robert B Marks
2. Legacy of Blood - Richard Knaak
3. The Black Road - Richard Knaak
4. The Kingdom of Shadow - Richard Knaak
5. Moon of the Spider - Richard Knaak
6. The Sin War #1: Birthright - Richard Knaak
7. The Sin War #2: Scales of the Serpent - Richard Knaak
8. The Sin War #3: The Veiled Prophet - Richard Knaak
9. The Order - Nate Kenyon
10. Heroes Rise, Darkness Falls - this is collection of mini stories on the diablo 3 website from different authors
11. Storm of Light - Nate Kenyon
12. Morbed - Micky Neilson
That just list of books. Also there are lore collections, like Warcraft chronicles, but here they named "Book of Cain/Tyrael/Adria/Lorath". And bunch of comic books - even this video description has a link to the new graphic novel
dope.
@@dimonstools My favourite part of Morbed was-
Ah, you know the rest of the joke...
I wish you guys would post more lore videos. The lore videos that were posted right before d4 released were so good.
Truly I hope all this talk about transformation means that he is coming back one way or another, the Sin War characters are the biggest part of the lore, and now that Inarius and Lilith had the base game of D4 for themselves, I'd love it if we could delve into the lore of the Firstborn or the Edyrem...
I seem to recall Bul-Kathos appearing in the Sin War trilogy books, and that he was the very earth itself that humanity walked on. That would be very fun to see him make an appearance.
They Edyrem were pretty short lived, there isn't much more to say about them than reading The Sin Wars trilogy. They were just followers of Uldyssian, and they lost their powers and memories after Uldyssian sacrificed himself. Basically, if anyone ever became as power as Uldyssian, the entire world would be destroyed because that much power can't be controlled.
@cormacbevins9679 He did. He and the other Nephalem are still unaccounted for. Some are said to be dead, others worshipped as gods, and some simply vanished. Bul-Kathos seems to have an affinity for the earth, but he is not, in his own words, a master of the elements as Esu was. They say he sleeps under Mount Arreat, there's so much potential there.
Scott Whyte nailed this!
Thank you! ❤
*It's crazy that the lore of Rathma (in the Diablo universe) goes ALL the way back to the year 2000. Almost 1/4 of a century.*
We need more of these.
That ending was cold.
i need MORE rathma content like this is my favourite character in the entire series
I hope this means he'll be back in the future. I was pretty bumbed that they would kill off such an important character. I held out hope that being a Nephilem necromancer, he would just resurrect or become a constellation like Trag'oul. If I recall, it's been a few years since I've read "The Sin Wars", Trag'oul is "chained" the stars as the Dragon constellation, and there are others like him. Maybe after we take out Mephisto, things are gonna get cosmic.
Well, he did say that death is just a new beginning in and of itself. It's a foundational tenet of The Balance.
@blaynegreiner9365 Exactly, I see no reason for the devs to drop this unless he's making a comeback in the next expansion. If they can rework Sorc Enchantments before then, I might decide to buy Vessel of Hatred.
Maybe he will come to us as a ghost and give us missions and guide us along the way.
@@PhoenixMatrix8idk about reworks but I saw today that sorc is supposed to get big buffs
The way they used some of the Diablo Tarot cards artwork. Nice
After hearing this prophecy so many times and seeing what happened in the story so far and where it's going, it seems very likely that it still didn't happened... the desert jewel it mentions might actually be Lut Golein and the hatred's heart that is pierced might in fact be Mephisto's. Guess we'll see soon enough!
I just love these lore videos so much. You guys need to make shows and movies!
This was so beautiful! And so beautifully narrated too! Thank you!
In honor of Rathma and Trag'oul. I shall level a Necromancer in S4.
People can say what they want about necros being evil in various media outlets, I absolutely love how diablo breaks that mold and they're essentially the best of the heroes
The Diablo lore is the best of all games ❤❤❤❤❤
yeah, but the own Diablo is not mentioned in any moment in the lore, how much the Angiris council, Lilith, Inarius and Mephisto =(
Nah
💯 Love it!
I agree, it is truly incredible
yeah relax
Love these lore videos keep them up!
4:41 Lillith is *definitely* my favorite character. "I do not seek to save, but to empower."
It's so different than controlling, using, consuming, subjugating, seeking worship, etc.
A unique motivation.
It saddened me how many Diablo fans saw her as a stock villain who simply lied about her motivations (secretly being a stock villain).
Makes me empathize with her plight, from wanting something different.
Even if she wanted something different, she went about it the same way Prime Evils did. She proved herself no better than her father. She had good intentions but went about it such a evil and twisted way that the wanderer and users were bound to oppose her. I wish she was more diplomatic and less culty/kill your children to save your children.
I still wish they did not kill Rathma. He had so much quest potential especially for necromancers.
He'll be back soon.master of life and death.
My gosh. This gave me some chills, haha. When Rathma began to read that prophecy, wow. I love the lore of the Diablo franchise and Blizzard constantly delivering cinematics and videos like this makes it even better.
Mortals must be warned of our unholy history ⚔
my copy of Legends of the Necromancer - Rathma is out for delivery right now! so hyped!
Soon the secrets of death itself shall be at thy beck and call! Happy reading, human. 📚 💀
@@Diablo will this be available as e-book at some point tho :
@@Melaz An ebbok would be amazing, I can have the diablo comics anywhere.
Honest to Lilith, these lore vignettes are just *chefs kiss*
The lore/story is what makes Diablo games better than any other ARPG! This is what you should develop further.
another interesting lore video. great visuals, great audio, thanks
Informative beauty. As a fan of Diablo since its beginning: Thank you.
So i can say Necromancer is the very first class in the world of diablo
necros are the canon main character
Rathma was the first necromancer but he's not the only Ancient that represents a modern class, Bul-Kathos was also around during Rathmas time as well as other ancients. So... Not really lol.
@@phrozenliquidz Rathma and Bul-Kathos are both ancient figures, but Rathma predates Bul-Kathos. Rathma was one of the earliest beings in Sanctuary, born shortly after its creation while Bul-Kathos appeared much later, during the time when the Nephalem had already been established and their powers had diminished over generations.
For me as a lore lover, a return of the "lore books" from Diablo 1 would be amazing. Finding tomes in the dungeons and listening to the ancient stories were amazing to me as a kid, the voice acting was top notch too. D4's lore snippets about random characters found as loot drops are... meh.
The lore of this universe is beautiful. Rathma the first Introvert.❤
I wish Rathma could have been d4s Deckard Cain. It would have made so much more sense
Exactly, considering he was around since the very beginning he had loads and loads of stories and knowledge.
Rathma and Lilith was what made D4’s story interesting for me. Inarius on the other hand….
If I do not know it was fictional. It was too hard to discerned it from our religions’s 11:32 books and lore-wise around the world that passed down for ages.
Nice to have a bit more clarification of Rathma and how he became the founder of Necromancers....the lore was a bit vague up to this point
I highly recommend to each one who liked this story, read the trilogy The Sin war books for the bigger picture. Its amazing.
I hope we can interact with Rathma more in some way. Obviously he is dead, but he would continue to serve the Cycle and the Balance.
Maybe talk with his ghost and getting missions from him.
He shouldn't have died.
As a Nephalem, he should have put up much more of a fight.
Unless... he's not dead, and he's coming back. Though I wonder... the writers seemed eager to get rid of him, Lilith and Inarius, along with all the rest of Diablo III's lore.
I would love a stand alone prequel Diablo game. Or possibly an expansion where we go back in time to participate in the Sin War. I'm unsure how they'd wing it but giving more life to the sheer amount of ancient lore in the game would be awesome.
THISSSSSSS.
Rathma was done so dirty in Diablo 4 >.
Agreed
Then something in the dark says, _"I will cleanse this wilderness."_
Little things like these are awesome. Build the world of diabli from multiple avenues and give it care.
I wish more of this stuff was in the game with reason to seek it out. Maybe a lore codex with rewards similar to the monster codex in Diablo Immortal?
That's an amazing idea.
I want this energy in the game itself. It’s so good!
Lambs feasting on wolves…. Foreshadowing Mephisto’s demise?
Please post more videos likes this, this was awesome, I heard it was Rathma too.. oh my oh my.. please please, please more lore videos like this. Love it!
"latent power" "birthright" They REALLY don't want to say the word nephalem do they....
Can someone explain to me wth is that balance they talk about? It makes no sense to me... balance is awakening the dead and exploding corpses? Necromancy? Im lost.
"The Balance is the even distribution of Light and Dark. Its essence is most significant to Sanctuary, but it goes beyond, to all of creation. A world where Dark rules will burn itself up. A world where Light commands will eventually stagnate. If either gained enough control of Sanctuary so that the other could not match it, then that would be the end of all things..."
- Trag'Oul
Oh that voice! Phenomenal voice algorithms right up there with the greats like Tony Jay and Simon Templeman, what a talented voice actor, more lore vids like this! This is highly compelling and enjoyable 👍
Thank you ❤
Lore videos always go hard
The only thing missing now is the spear of light.
We need more videos like this
Give the creative team responsible for this a raise! I got goosebumps
Great video, I demand another!
How many people noticed the Starcraft music at 0:40?
It's from Diablo II.
yall have such great lore id wish it would transfer over to gameplay and world building
lore content for Diablo, this bring me joy!
These lore videos incredible!! We need a TV series!!!
If there was a Diablo 4 lore audio book narrated by Lorath's VA i'd buy it asap
I wonder why they decided to release this. Maybe the expansion story will have some sort of connection to Rathma.
I have a sentiment Rathma's playing 5D chess. His speech made me believe he is behind it and pushed Inarius and Lilith to kill each other, without being dragged into the divorce mess.
Are we recanonising The Sin War? Big W.
Was it ever non canon?
@@matheuskalil5680 I thought I remembered a bluepost around D3 release saying it wasn't considered canon, but i've just had a look and can't find anything, so maybe it always was canon and my old brain misremembered.
Colon is my favorite lore character together with Prostate.
So the prophecy foretold: Dik must open the gate to Kolon to reach Prostateh, only then there will be balance.
🤣
Could we have an animated series on this universe? 😊😊
I dont get this, in game his role was so small, so diminshed and even worse are the lackluster interaction with him being a Necromancer, which was almost none, and now this brilliant piece of story telling
Yeah but you're forgetting Diablo 1-3
Amazing lore video.
Love these lore videos, they are amazing
I would totally watch a Diablo anime series.
but...... since angels cant return as themselves but lesser/prime evils can return as themselves, can rathma come back? or is he gone...... for good? if he is actually gone but seems like blizzard is keeping him dead?
I would have appreciate a more "diablo-like" style for those (very welcomed) lore videos.
I mean : it's clearly inspired of other games' narration (like Darkest Dungeon), inspired themselves by Diablo.
But something got lost in the drifting process.
Diablo lore bits (from 1 to 4, diablo 3 & immortal included) always had some kind of very atmospheric and dark visuals, only (and scarcely) ponctuated by ultra concise & evocative phrase to summarize & symbolize the story you had to get.
Here, I feel it's a bit lost under 20 pages of filler text & blablabla, and kinda cute drawings, and I don't leave the video with any real powerful image or phrase in mind, but the very last text panel (much more diablo-like)
A big chunk could have been a slowly burning genealogic tree, from top to bottom, with roots of successive guardians trying to distance the flames, side-struck by religious dark shadowy images of crucial moments that passes and fades into darkness, as a final jade glow of undeadness comes from the abyss, to the rescue of the burning tree, and for Rathma's will and purpose.
Or other moody piece.
Like Rathma silently recollecting its unspoken origin, for a very long moment, under a tree & family growing old and crumbling to dust and darkness before his slow gaze, as his future gloomily glows all around him.
I don't know.
I feel there's more justice to bring to those juicy lore videos, that's all xD
He is part angel and demon so technically he should be able to come back
I saw a serpent coiling in the fires of The Eternal Conflict
So my question is... why is this not in the game?
Yup they need a movie. They did one for Warcraft.
but it was trash
@@Pap3rLane yeah it wasn’t great lol
I think a series like Castlevania would be better
is the flower a lily(lilith?)
Yup, also known as the flower for the dead. What a nice touch.
Is this the final retcon or is there more to come?
i have so many questions...il start with the first one: where is Diablo???
Facts.
He is expected to return at some point based on the events of Reaper Of Souls. It’s likely that he’ll come back in a future expansion…
We need more of this… ❤❤
We need more novels by nate Kenyon !
make a series .. a really good series... its such a strong a huge world...
Thank you for this
The original necromancer is not dead. Not a chance.
man, this is amazing!!
You know what I would love to see, how Lilith and Inairus came together. Because every SINGLE thing that we see with them is all about how they hate each other, how they don't get along and constantly needle each other. But we have never once actually seen them get along let alone love each other.
I think there was some lore in d3 about them. How she captured him and how they both confided to each other how they were tired of the war.
Give us more of this and the book of lorath
That is great. Thanks for providing this.
Ya but when is the next update for d2r tho?
That D2 music at the start ❤
The prophecy hasn’t come to pass, he saw his own corpse, could we see Rathma being resurrected
Make up a lore playlist please D
this animation is incredible - great job, so joy to watch this journey and life of first born. Make more of those - perfect art work
I do NOT believe Rathma is dead........................
this .... was really awesome!
It will be nice to hear him talk about his death lol
Now that was awesome
Weren't they called nephalem? 5:50
For some reason, they don't want to use that word anymore
Inarius leveled up just one skill and keeps spamming that.
Wow! Just wow...
THX for story ❤
Season 5 seems like it will be all about rathma 😮
That would be interesting.
I think this video advertises The legend of the necromancer comic.
OK so I recon that the one who is going to be freed is Diablo, (of course) but let's hope more fun stuff comes along.
More of this please!!! :D