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Diablo: Tales from the Horadric Library Hardcover – October 18, 2022
Horror’s darkest authors throw open the doors to the Horadric Library, inviting Diablo fans a glimpse into the terrors that lurk beneath the world of Sanctuary.
While the Eternal Conflict rages forever onward, horror and superstition of a purely Sanctuary variety still prey on the hearts of its people. In a time long since forgotten, the Horadric Order was tasked with recording local legends, cautionary tales, and stories of the most twisted horror, in the hope that some innocents might be saved by their knowledge. Now, the vaults are open. Direct from the Diablo development team and horror’s preeminent minds comes Tales from the Horadric Library, a short story collection exploring the deepest, darkest corners of Sanctuary, and the evils that lurk there.
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People don’t read books.
Hence the lack of replies.
I’ll probably pick up a copy however.
I might actually get this one.
I have most of the Diablo books, and I may very well get this one. Any novels that’ll expand the lore and/or offer some type of insight to what we’ll be seeing in Diablo 4 is usually on my to-get list.
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have you considered audiobook, blizzard?
preferably read by the voice-actor in the first diablo 4 gameplay video.
It is likely Blizzard will release more Diablo books leading up to Diablo 4 release. In which case this only tells us that D4 is coming within a few years.
But eh, maybe this book is meant to coincide with Diablo Immortal release? 
I have never read a Diablo book, but read plenty of the Warcraft books. They usually tend to be quite bad. Albeit better than the in-game story, so at least there is that.
I don’t think Diablo 4 would unexpectedly be out at 2022, but 2023 first or second quarter seems likely.
It’s possible, but I imagine that the book would have a connection to Deckard Cain, considering he’s alive during the events of Diablo Immortal.
That said, it’s highly likely that the book would have some insight on both Diablo 4 and Immortal.
Yup. Have all the Diablo books and will get this one too.
Well DI takes place in between 2 and 3 so he better be alive.
I was wondering when you’ll put this info out. 
Also I would like to have all the books, but back then I barely could afford to pay rent, let alone buy those books. 
Retcon incoming. Some demon shapeshifter replaces Cain in D:I, and the guy killed in D3 is the shapeshifter.
God I hope not.
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After this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Tyrael’s sword hit Deckard Cain in the head after the erupting explosion in Worldstone chamber and kill him to split a timeline in Diablo Immortal. His death in Diablo 3 was one of the very cheesy ways of getting him out of the way.
There were speculations about Deckard Cain being the Belial when Diablo 3 classic first released, however fans were quick to denounce that. It’d be such a good plot twist but I guess they don’t wanna do that. That means either Cain died way before the events of Diablo 3 or he died by being lost in the old Cathedral where Belial replaced him.
I still believe, scrapped expansion pack content; the second one we never get to play as a story, was about chasing Belial at Act 6 since he escaped his fate and Diablo failed to be the Prime Evil itself afterall. A trickster demon lord appearing at Act 2 can’t be a coincidence.
How would you rate the quality of the read? I’m not looking for Shakespeare but sometimes in universe novels can be unreadable.
For the most parts, the novels are pretty readable. The only parts that may be a bit difficult to understand imo, would be sections where either pov shifts to a non-human and/or said being is speaking. You see a bit of this in the sin wars trilogy, but beyond that, the novels are very much readable imo.
I always thought it would have been a great twist that DC was a demon impersonating a human. It would make sense with all his intimate knowledge of demons and such, all the trouble he’s been through, and had had a scratch.
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It would certainly explain how he survived being blasted down the cathedral by the falling star (aka Tyrael).
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I was thinking along the lines of say the 40K universe. Some of the novels are flat out outstanding. The writing is top notch. Some are midling, which is fine for some junk food scifi.
Some are so poorly written that to me they are unreadable. Not so much in sentence structure or POV choice but just pure trash written for people…actually I have no idea who they would be written for. The average 12 year old should shun them.
Ah I see now. That’s a bit harder to say, since personally I didn’t have much issue with any of the novels that I had read, and in fact enjoyed some of them (My favorite being the Storm of Light novel). However, I know others (mostly Diablo 2 fans, which would include some friends of mine) who disliked the sin wars trilogy due to a variety of reasons, one reason being that the trilogy established the Nephalems as being somewhat akin to demi-gods with nearly unlimited potential that was perhaps bordering omnipotence.
But all in all, I certainly enjoyed them.
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Why he got out from danger without a scratch is actually explained in the third game. Diablo needed him to raise Leah for the next vessel while Adria worked to mark demon lord vessels. For example; if you don’t save Deckard Cain in Diablo 2, third quest of Act 1, he will get out by himself but charge you a fee for identifying items. He is just the last member of Horadrim, an elderly order for chasing Prime Evils. He couldn’t get away from there by passing hordes of monsters unless someone or something let him through.
According to the content I saw from scrapped expansion pack and some drawings, we supposedly killed the Belial’s servant at his third phase of the combat. However, his soul got drawn into the Black Soulstone, that only means one thing; Belial tricked Adria and she marked the wrong vessel. At least that’s what I believe to be revealed if there was a second expansion to start with…
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