Without going into even more of a lore hole than we already have, let me simply say that Lilith killed the Angels and Demons before they could kill the her children, the Nephalem. This was not an idea Lilith was prepared to accept. This was because Inarius was the one linked to the Worldstone, and so could use its power against the Nephalem. They went to Inarius and petitioned him to, well, kill off their various godlike children. In their reaching out to the cosmos with unknowing hands, these Titanic beings threated to catch the eye of the Angels or Demons, drawing attention onto Sanctuary and bringing the Eternal Conflict to the refuge world created specifically to hide from just that. These Nephalem walked the world of Sanctuary with heavy footfalls, and their Demonic and Angelic forebears beheld them with fear. And these children of the self-exiled were quickly revealed to be mighty indeed. Other Angels and Demons followed suit, whether out of boredom or actual affection is never really discussed. So Lilith seduced Inarius, and in so doing, bore him a child - the infant Linarian, who would become known better as Rathma, first of the Necromancers. Neither Angels nor Demons could win the continuous warfare, but what about beings who were both? It turns out that Lilith’s plan for Sanctuary was for the world to serve as a creche, a place for her to take the next step in her plan. We learn more as we play through the Diablo games and especially if we happen to be nerdy enough to read the tie-in media like the Sin War Trilogy. It’s the only playable race in the game series. When you play a Diablo game, you play as a Human. Lilith is a loving, if somewhat dangerous, mother For them, the whole plan was to use the Worldstone, create a Sanctuary, and hide forever from the war that would never end. That pocket world, inhabited by the rebel Angels and dissenting Demons, became known as Sanctuary because most of them saw it as a refuge from the Eternal Conflict. She and Inarius each lured dissenters from their respective sides of the war together into one and attacked the Pandemonium Fortress, ‘stealing’ the Worldstone by using its power to create a pocket reality and hiding the powerful artifact of the time before Heaven and Hell existed within said pocket world. Upon meeting Inarius, an Angel who shared her view of the conflict’s futility, Lilith could see a way to end the war once and for all, in the only way that wars tend to be ended - with a victor. The Eternal Conflict, as both sides called it, was only Eternal because both sides refused to understand how pointless it all was. They kept repeating the same cycle over and over again. One side would take it, then hold it, then the other side would storm the Fortress and take it back.Īfter centuries upon centuries, Lilith had decided that this was madness. It dissolved into a quagmire of trading the Pandemonium Fortress that held the Worldstone back between the Demons and the Angels. She watched as the hosts of Heaven and Hell clashed repeatedly, neither side ever holding a true advantage. Our shade of gray in this scenario requires a bit of a trek through Diablo lore to set up.Įons ago, Lilith - a powerful Demon and the daughter of Mephisto, the Prime Evil of Hatred and one of the three most powerful Demons in existence - decided that the war between Angels and Demons was pointless. What makes us doubt that Lilith is the bad guy There will be spoilers for the first Act of Diablo 4 in this post. But there’s certainly room for nuance here, and it has to be said that so far, out of every villain that the Diablo series has ever had, this is the first one with not only a somewhat sympathetic point of view but also some really good points about the state of affairs in Sanctuary up to this point. This isn’t to say that Lilith is a good being, or that the things she does are always beneficial to everyone involved. The problem is, if you’re playing the game, it can really feel like there’s another candidate for the game’s villain. Lilith is the villain because, frankly, Blizzard says she is. Lilith is the villain because there’s an achievement for killing her. Lilith is the protagonist we find ourselves in the position of trying to foil. Lilith is the villain because she’s the being whose plans kick off the whole game. Strictly speaking, the question, “is Lilith the villain of Diablo 4?” can be answered, “yes.”
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