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"Several of the [[NPC]]s, from both the original Diablo and Diablo 2" will also return according to [[Jay Wilson]].[http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=737946]
===Cinematic and Story Opening===
From what the Diablo 3 team has said about the state of the world at the start of the game, and from additional information included in the D3 cinematic teaser, this is the apparent state of the world. This summary incorporates some speculation.
After the conclusion of events in D2X, including the slaying of Baal, his vast armies remained a threat to the Barbarian lands even after Baal's death. Their threat was ended by the explosion of the Worldstone, which destroyed Mount Arreat, blasting Arreat Crater, an explosion that devastated the remainder of Baal's forces and ended their siege of a major Barbarian city.
The events of Diablo 3 pick up twenty years later, shortly after a fiery meteorite falls from the sky and crashes into the Tristram Cathedral, blasting a deep hole down into the catacombs below. The first setting of the game will be in Tristram, as the hero must descending into the depths below the Cathedral, defeating the reanimated Skeleton King along the way. Deckard Cain will be encountered in Tristram, and he will rejoin the quest as he did in Diablo 2.
Act Two takes place in the desert again, this time on the western side of the Twin Seas, across the ocean from Lut Gholein. The events of that act are set around [[Caldeum]], a mighty trading city now retreating into itself and allowing chaos and demons to spread across the desert.
Nothing is yet known about events in Act Three and beyond.
==Timeline==
