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{{iw|[[Sescheron Sescheron}} ]] was the capital city of the Barbarians. The people of [[Harrogath ]] "lost contact" with it just before they were sieged by [[Baal]], Baal who threw a huge army at it in the Act 5 cinematics trailer, and it . It's possible the city was probably destroyed like this since Baal later made it to Harrogath, and it took both ancient wards and the intervention of the main character at his strongest to stop this last stronghold being destroyed by Baal's surviving forces. Alternatively, the siege on the barbarian lands were held mainly to keep Harrogath isolated, and the [[demon]]s were swiftly killed off after Baal had been defeated.
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==Harrogath==
The best known of these cities is probably {{iw|[[Harrogath Harrogath}}]], which was a town at the foot of [[Mount Arreat]] forming one of the last barriers of defence. It was the safe [[town]] area of {{iw|Act_5 Act 5}}, and withstood the host of [[Baal]] when the elders (except {{iw|Nihlathak Nihlathak}}) sacrificed themselves casting a forbidden druid spell which blocked [[demon]]ic energies from entering. However, it was later destroyed in the powers unleashed by the shattering of the [[Worldstone]].
One confusing aspect of the destruction of Harrogath, is that even though it was apparently destroyed by the Worldstone, at the end of Diablo 2 you can go back and talk to the people about it. They seem relatively happy about the outcome, although there is more than a little confusion about the imminent destruction of the Worldstone:
==Sescheron==
==Bastion's Keep==
[[Bastion's_Keep|Bastion's Keep]] was added to the game as part of the Diablo 3 lore, and according to the map it's on what's (as of the start of [[Diablo 3]]) the south coast between the mountains and the [[Sharvel_Wastes|Sharvel Wastes ]]. [[Abd al-Hazir]] visited it and calls it "ancient", but he also says he didn't see any barbarians [[Barbarian]]s there.
==ImplicationsSpeculation==
All the great Barbarian cities seem to have been abandoned. At first it seems probable that Baal's armies, combined with the power unleashed in the shattering of the Worldstone destroyed the cities, but there is at least one other possibility, as Abd al-Hazir reports on his search for Barbarian warriors:
