Gather ‘round to hear the arduous journey to become a Paladin in this rousing new tale.
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I have 0 interest in reading this.
You don’t have to, you can watch and listen to it.
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The Akarat version of this was solid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JcKIvreyz8
Sincerely, this reads like a rough draft. There’s no sinew, the plot points are disconnected. There’s not really any character development - she just “is” one thing, then she attends school, and then she just “is” this other thing. She says:
I wondered if I had misunderstood the stories my grandmother had told me,
What stories? 
or the lessons the Wardens taught.
What lessons?
The reader has no clue. But we’re seeing things from her perspective, right? You wouldn’t know it here. A writer gets inside the head of the character to find what’s worth expressing. Did those stories & lessons leave an impression on her? Sure sounds like they ‘clicked’ right at the moment she discovered who she was. We didn’t have time to flesh them out in 2-3 panels & 6 lines of dialogue?
Minor discrepancies add to this. She’s walking away from the village as a child. Is she afraid? Does she feel guilty? It’s as if one writer started this, and another writer picked it up, and they forgot to fill in that crucial detail. She then vaguely receives inspiration from… stories in a book (since the grandmother was superfluous - the writers didn’t have time to flesh her out). She then confronts the same demon type that attacked her village before. Ok, cool, she’s suddenly… brave(?). Idk - we’re not actually told what motivated her to leave earlier. So an easier explanation is, she was always in the mood to stab something, but this time she happens to have a sword. [1]
Prove me wrong.[2]
Then she says:
I dispensed justice as I would’ve liked to receive myself.
What happened to her when she was living rough? Was she harshly punished for something understandable? Did she steal food to stay alive? Missed opportunity.
It reads & sounds like a rough draft that was rushed to publication because hard deadlines had passed. You really should fire the business grads, or keep them far, far away from the ‘creative stuff’. Tell them “It’s ready when it’s ready.” Rod isn’t around anymore - he can’t yell at you.
Also, the fact that yet another ‘Paladin’ stabs something once… is really a kick in the butt. ↩︎
Her retrospective “I was no longer the frightened girl…” doesn’t solve this. It’s still a narrative gap. ↩︎
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Dear devs, turning in over 2k infernal shard in IH and receiving only 250 obductite feels bad.
And I am in WT4.
What is this? Infernal Hordeflation or something?
I’ll check it out, thanks for the lore
How was it? Let us know.
Well that was kinda bad, they can tell better stories without HR in the room
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It seemed very basic like a children’s story to me (kind of insulting like we’re all at a 3rd grade reading level) as there wasn’t much going on in that story at all. Pretty sure there are other comics out there that tell it with a bit more depth and development.
Was her grandmother part of the Wardens of Light or the old orders, or did I miss that somehow? Who was leading the Wardens of Light, or is it just some band of nomad Paladins? No backstory as to their origins either even if it was brief. And it was just big evil monsters roaming around all the time and nothing else. No Mephisto in there at all? No Diablo? Could be literally any story we’re talking about here from any IP of any studio.
You can do way better than this Blizzard. I mean you have access to Hollywood writers I’d say hire them and use their talent to help you out.
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i see.
another Yasuke in the game.
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Up until now, game-related lore presentations have been quite well done. Up until now.
(Because of my interest in the absolute basics of story-telling, I persevered and made it to the 46 second mark before giving up, but then happily one of those Cat TV videos caught my attention. It was 10 hours long. I put it on repeat. Cat Thing insisted. Chubby-cheeked squirrels and flitty birds chasing after hand-scattered seeds and meal, what’s not to enjoy?)
Someone tell me does Neyrelle die?
Lie to me if you have to.
Im already having awesome fun with my Brandish “perma-arbiter-evading” Paladin.
I protect the people in the name of… 
THE HOLY BANANA 
Palidan:
- looks good
- the ultimate ed. armor is really good looking (my blonde mustache palidan never takes it off)
- the brandish 360° returning skill is the most fun skill i used
DIV Palidan good. 666 out of 6 points 
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Proof is 1 year ago:
We probably shouldn’t extrapolate much from it, since afaik the narrative of VoH was mid (with silly plot holes that expand on vanilla’s plot holes)… so this little comic should have no bearing on LoH narrative. Still, a missed opportunity at proper character development.
Also, they should completely ignore the ‘incel’ commentary. There’s nothing objectionable about a ‘female’ warrior arc, including the color of her skin. The people who complain about that stuff have a starved imagination no developer should pay attention to (for the same reason they should quarantine the business grads: maximum revenue shouldn’t be the concern of creatives, esp if the company has big money).
But mid writing is mid writing. Only tell a story if it begs to be heard… not because of a deadline.
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