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===The Sin War Novels===
Unlike the earlier Diablo Novels, which were free-standing pieces not directly connected to the story of any of the games, The Sin War trilogy was written to explain and expound expand on the history of the land of Sanctuary and the Angels, Demons, and Humans who frequent it. These books were a collaboration between Blizzard's head lore guy [[Chris Metzen]] and the novelist [[Richard Knaak]].[http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/diablo_the_sin_war_trilogy___public_qa_with_richard_a_knaak]
::''How much of the book is creation of yours, and how involved is Chris Metzen behind the canon storyline of Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy? Do you think the ramifications of this book impact in the storyline of Diablo 3 the game?
How tightly the story developments in the various novels will tie into the plot of Diablo 3 is not yet known, but they are part of the same storyline. The events in the recent series of books (The Sin War Trilogy) took place thousands of years before the "current" events of Diablo 3, so the connection isn't direct. It likely will be for future Diablo Novels, though. [[Leonard Boyarsky]] spoke on this in an October 2009 interview. [http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Diablo-III-The-Lore-of-the-World-An-Interview-with-Leonard-Boyarsky/page2]
::'''''Hellforge:'''Speaking of background lore and all that, to what extent will the books from Richard Knaak’s Knaak's Sin War Trilogy be a part Diablo III’s III's storyline/setting. I mean, are you guys taking anything from it at all?
::Leonard Boyarsky: Well, nothing specific. It happened 3,000 years before the events of the Diablo games, but it is... it was our attempt to really kind of get out there – you know, with some of the history of the world and kind of codify the lore to a certain degree. It’s It's been awhile since I read them. I’ve I've actually read all of them, and I helped during the process of them.
::Chris Metzen worked closely with him to make sure that his vision for what the Sin War was all about was really put forward there so the history is – maybe some of the particulars might not be exactly the way they end up being presented, but as far as the overall details and the overall thrust of the story, that’s that's lore... our core lore, I guess. And we’re we're – I don’t don't know if we’ll we'll refer to them specifically, but that’s that's definitely like background into what we’re we're doing if that makes any sense.
Bashiok addressed the state of the canon in the forum post in January 2011, in which he addressed an error on the first version of the [[world map]], and their plans to address it. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablos-evolving-historical-canon/]
<blue>The Sin War trilogy was really the beginning of what is now considered canon for the lore of the series. While the previous books certainly have a lot of great stories, information, and even bits and pieces that may indeed hold true in the series as it is now, they aren’t aren't held as canon and thus the events in them may not always hold true moving forward.</blue>
