Difference between revisions of "Sanctuary"

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The World Map of Sanctuary.

Sanctuary is the name of the realm of man in the Diablo Universe. It is not the only realm, but it it the world in which the Diablo games take place.

Sanctuary Calendar

This is a list of known date names and numbers from the Sanctuary Calendar. Based on journals made by Deckard Cain and Elder Aust of Haggorath in the year 1265, during the war with the Prime Evils. From Deckard Cain's notes, it looks like months are about as long as our own world's, and they obviously have both their own month names as well as week day names.

It is unknown exactly how many days are in a month, how many months there are (but we can make a guess), how many days there are in a week, if weeks/months/years length vary (like Earth's "Leap Year") and many other details.

1265 Anno Khejistani
- Montath
  - 3rd - Lauds
  - 4th - Sext
  - 5th - Vespers
  - 7th - Matins

Unknown months

1265 Anno Khejistani
- Jerharan
  - 15th
- Damhar
  - 1st
  - 12th
  - 20th
  - 27th
- Ratham
  - 1st
  - 21st
- Esunar
  - 6th
  - 18th
  - 20th
1266 Anno Khejistani
- Kathon
  - 2nd
  - 28th
- Solmoneth
  - 11th
- Montath
  - 1st
- Ostara
  - 4th
- Vasan
  - 2nd
  - 10th

Sources

Worth noting is that these two sources would be more or less compatible if it were not for the fact that Aust is talking about events in 1265 and Deckard Cain talks about 1266. As Deckard Cain's Journal is more recently released from Blizzard, it's probably safe to say that this is the "canon" lore.

Sanctuary Languages

As most fantasy worlds, Sanctuary consists of cultures that shares different social traits. For now, the only thing that is known about these is that there is a mutual understanding of languages between the continents, and whether this is due to the fact that people speak multiple languages through their culture, of if there is a "common" language that everyone shares is unknown. Players as well as characters and NPCs in the world travel to either site of their globe, and can still communicate with people.

Names are more socially inspired though, and country names such as "Westmarch", and town names such as Tristram, has a clear "Western" reference from our world, as does the architecture. Deckard Cain, is a character name from a person of the west, while "Abd al-Hazir" is the name of a character from the flourishing East. If everyone shares a "common" language, they still seem to retain their own cultural names.

The only known specifically mentioned language is the Umbaru people's tounge from the Teganze area of the Torajan jungles [1].

References

Writings of Abd al-Hazir: Entry no. 0009

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 ===Sources===
+Worth noting is that these two sources would be more or less compatible if it were not for the fact that Aust is talking about events in 1265 and Deckard Cain talks about 1266. As Deckard Cain's Journal is more recently released from Blizzard, it's probably safe to say that this is the "canon" lore.
 * [[Journal of Elder Aust of Haggorath]]
 * [[Deckard Cain's Journal]]
 ==Sanctuary Languages==