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Diablo was imprisoned in a Horadric monastery that later became [[Tristram]], and immediately started trying to spread terror and corruption. A few hundred years later, he was strong enough to try and corrupt [[Leoric|King Leoric]]. The Lord of Terror invaded Leoric's dreams, attempting to corrupt and possess the King. Leoric was able to resist Diablo's presence, but he was driven mad by the ordeal.
Diablo had already drawn in [[Lazarus|Archbishop Lazarus]], Leoric's most trusted adviser, and with Lazarus whispering into his ear, the mad king turned on his own people, executing those who disobeyed him, ordering his army into a suicidal war against the friendly neighbouring and previously allied kingdom of [[Westmarch]], and finally purging most of the townspeople from Tristram when his son, [[AlbrecthAlbrecht|Prince Albrecht]], vanished. The horrible truth was that it was Lazarus himself who kidnapped the boy.
While Leoric was too strong for Diablo, Albrecht was not. The terror Albrecht felt in the tomb strengthened Diablo further, and he used Albrecht as his vessel. He inhabitated the body and warped it in a demonic shape.
If this was a permanent death of Diablo or not is unknown, but such an evil rarely dies easily.
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