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'''Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow''' is a story based in the Diablo Universe. The events of the book are not told in Diablo 1 nor Diablo II and its expansion. However, the novel is considered canon. Diablo III will do justice to all the novels and their lore. The cinematic intro of Diablo III shown at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals 2008 in Paris showed a ruined city resting on the wall of a mountain. The ruined statues came to life suddenly. This meant Blizzard was hinting players will visit the ruins of Ureh in Mountain Nymyr. These locations only appear in The Kingdom of Shadow by writer Richard A. Knaak.
==Story==
Captain Kentril Dumon and his group of mercenaries traveled through the jungles of Kehjistan. Moving toward where screams could be heard, they found Hargo within the maw of a huge serpentine creature with tentacles. After a long attempt to pull the tentacle beast to shore with ropes and nets around its horns, one of the two archers stroke its eye, and the creature reeled in pain back to the waters. Captain Dumon shot one of the archer's bows and stroke Hargo in the chest with an arrow. Better to die a quick death than to be tormented as the creature feasted on him. Three of their men had died in this journey. One of them to the poisons of giant spiders.
As the men marched to the camp, Kentril looked back to discover a light in one of the towers of the ruins. Then another, and another. The ruins had come to life. A crumbled tower he had seen before, was now restored to its former position and alight. The ruins were no more. They were before the Ureh of golden age.
==References==
* [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780743426923&itm=5&afsrc=1&lkid=J14955628&pubid=K95257&byo=1 Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow]
