Are Diablo heroes in HotS canon heroes in Diablo? A few question for Diablo fans.
This might be more of a question for Diablo forums, but still.
Like, are the following heroes: Sonya female Barbarian, Li-Ming female Wizard, Kharazim male Monk, Nazeebo male Witch Doctor, Valla female Demon Hunter, Johanna female Crusader, Xul male Necromancer. Canon heroes in D3?
Is there a canon hero in D3 or is it D2 again with all heroes forming a team with common goals?
I know Valla is mentioned in D3 and will appear in Immortal. Could she be the canon hero?
I know it was sad that D2 and D3 Barbarian are the same guy, but I also read that the idea was scrapped. So if Sonya is canon could she be his daughter? Are we in D3 when choosing the gender of a Barbarian choosing between father and daughter? (male barb being in his mid-late 50s or even early 60s, and female being in her 20s)Also worth mentioning that Sonya was playable in D4 demo while male Barb was much younger than his D3 counterpart.
In similar way is Cassia the canon Amazon from D2? Or even is Xul a canon Necromancer in D2? In a similar way to the Barb could D2 and D3 Necromancer canonically be the same person, both being Xul?
Though as a tribute to Valla they added a legendary item much later on in Reaper of Souls which says it belonged to the legendary demon hunter Valla who still fights in a distant realm (so the name came from HotS, not D3 lore).
Iâve often wondered this about Cassia specifically. Iâm only familiar with D3, and I find her being a Diablo hero odd. I assume sheâs from D2, but I canât be for sure. I keep trying to rationalize her class for D3 and Iâm drawing a blank.
Thanks. So does that mean that Necromancer in D2 and Necromancer in D3 are two different persons? I mean obviousely they could be different gender, but cannonically.
Ming and Valla have short stories that indicate they are the ones that went after the falling star and are thus the nephilim involved in the events of D3. Other character short stories shape some of the setting and context of the world at the time of D3, but those characters arenât necessarily the ones who went after the star (notable in the cases of the monk, witch doctor and crusader stories)
Johanna, not Anajin, stirred up some players back at the time because they were all âzomg, sheâs not the named crusader qq,qq,qqâ as it never occurred to them to connect stories that spelled out characters going after the star, or the distinction that crusaders take on the name of their forebearer, so âjohannaâ may be the characterâs actual name, or it may be the crusader name.
Johanna has D3 items named after her (as do Li-ming and Valla), so sheâs pretty much cemented as a character there; Sonya doesnât have that sort of nod and may just be a reference to âRed Sonyaâ as some have hoped more Barbarian characters get added to HotS.
Kharazim and Nazeebo are in a similar boat in being ânephilimâ and thus representations of the character classes from the events of D3. Story-wise, D3âs narrative is ambiguous on singular or plural for how many are actually involved in the full extent of the âplotâ so itâs less thereâs a complete âcanonâ as later games tend to define previous ones.
D2 was particular that those events were cleared by a âgroup of heroesâ of which we know of Xul and Cassia from HotS, Isendra from Li-mingâs story, to a lesser degree we know âofâ the assassin (also from Li-ming) but the paladin, druid and d2 barb are unknowns at present.