I’m trying to find the Diablo meaning of the word Stygian. Any help on this would be appreciated.
Reasoning is this:
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Stygian stones were introduced to summon highest tier bosses.
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The Hellfire Hauberk item says it is a “Stygian” item.
I don’t know of any other “Stygian” item references than these 2 in game items.
My prior knowledge to the word Stygian is that it is related to The River Stix.
Which could indicate we have a relation to the end of days?
Maybe the secret quest is easier than we have made it.
3 items.
- Hellfire Hauberk
- ?
- ?
I could see a world where the lucky coin isn’t suppose to be thrown in the wishing well but instead used to cross the river stix. The lucky coin is ripped straight out of the river stix legend basically.
To those that don’t know you have to pay the ferryman a specific coin to cross.
If we are in hell already and we give the ferryman the coin to cross, we would re-enter the world of the living.
Or maybe the just needed something to call this new mat and just pulled something out of the air and said yea that’ll do. There doesn’t have to be some hidden meaning for everything.
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Been having to much fun doing the cow level. Don’t have time to worry about that name.
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Stygian pike refers to diablo 2 elite type spear
The word stygian is derived from the Greek styx (river of the underworld) and means gruesome, cold.
Its a river of the hell so nothing much to wonder about that i guess . Caronte is the guy who “helps” your condemned soul to cross it to go deep into the inner pits .
I think thats from Dante and “Divine Comedy” , Dante took a lot of Church and pre-Church legends about the Underworld (Hell) for his work .
Don’t overthink it, op.
Everything stygian in games most of the times is refering to something dark or related with death.
Like the stygian dolls in Diablo II. They were the skelly version of the fetish monsters.
You could say its just an embellished way of saying “dark”.
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Pretty sure it means toilet.
I just summoned UBER UBER UBER Duriel. 
Dude check out my post. I got these same fools in my post talking trash too. Wonder why blizzard allows it???
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The river Styx is where the word comes from etymologically, but its meaning isn’t necesarily related to it anymore.
The word can just mean “dark or gloomy” or even “hellish”. They probably just looked up “hellish” in a thesaurus 
en.wiktionary. org/wiki/stygian
(remove the space between wiktionary and org… Seems they patched out the workaround that allowed me to post copy-pastable links 
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Just like in D2 there was a “Phoenix” runeword (and the Assassin had a “Phoenix Strike” skill), but that doesn’t mean Phoenicia is canonically a place in Sanctuary
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Blizzard allows it because blizzard can legally do whatever they want on the forums.
You very well could be right and these “people” are just shills.
Expecting ethics is a fools game.
Expecting ethics from blizzard is brain dead.
The seasonal 4 fix was to add tyraels might so that resistances are now arbitrary numbers and every build must funnel tyraels might greater aspect rolled for max resistances otherwise you are just rolled by content.
the word stygian just brings fear to my brain because it reminds me of the exploding dolls in d2. no idea what it means or why it’s being used everywhere
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Thanks. I think it means a little more, it doesn’t simply mean dark. In the Diablo sense it also means connected to the “evil”
Outside of Diablo it represents the river stix
The stone was accidently discovered by a gold miner deep down in a cave. It’s hard work to supply Sanctuary with an endless demand of gold. Anyway, the miners name was Stygian and he was curious about what this stone could do.
Stygian took the stone to the local Sorcerer and after some experimentation they figured out it’s true purpose. To summon Tormented Bosses.
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