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'''New Tristram''' is one of the [[town]]s in [[Diablo III]]. It's a wretched, rotting corpse of a town, grown up on the ruins of the old Tristram that blossomed during past ages, but has now fallen back into decay.
Tristram will be the starting town in [[Diablo III]].[http://www.diablowiki.net/WWI_2008:_D3_Lore_and_Environmental_Art_Panel]
==Description==
Tristram is a shell of its former self, with some burned down buildings still not removed. A "New Tristram" grew from the shell of the old one, built on the adventurers who seeked the treasures of the [[Tristram Cathedral|Cathedral]], but when they left, the new town also lost it's soul.
The wilderness surrounding Tristram is beautiful with lush fields and picturesque rivers. [http://www.diablowiki.net/Writings_of_Abd_al-Hazir:_Entry_no._0020] It's located fairly close to the fishing village called [[Wortham]].
==Background==
A few years after the erection of the monastery, the town of [[Tristram]] was founded around it and people prospered with the [[Prime Evils]] out of the picture. Unfortunately, with no quests left to undertake, the Horadrim's numbers slowly dwindled, and 200 years later, they are legends that are forgotten by most, the monastery long since abandoned.
===King Leoric and Diablo===
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<td>[[File:Mon-leoric2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|King [[Leoric]]'s madness.]]</td>
<td>[[File:Prince Albrecht's Corruption.jpg|thumb|240px|Prince [[Albrecht]]'s corruption.]]</td>
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It was at this time that the Eastern lord [[Leoric]] came to Tristram and declared himself king, and converting the old, long-unused [[Tristram Cathedral|Horadric monastery]] to a [[Zakarum]] cathedral. He was betrayed by his advisor, Archbishop [[Lazarus]], who secretly released [[Diablo]] deep within the monastery catacombs.
When Lachdanan, captain of King Leoric's army, returned, Leoric had gone even more mad by the loss of his only son and Lachdanan had no choice but to kill his king. The fallen monarch cursed Lachdanan and his followers with his dying breath. Not long afterwards, Lachdanan and the king's guards were attacked by Leoric, resurrected as the [[Skeleton King]], as they attempted to bury him. ===Blizzcon 2008The Lone Hero===[[ImageFile:Tristram3sOriginal_Tristram1.jpgpng|thumb|right|400px|New [[Diablo I]] layout of Tristram starting point, with expansion (the player has reached the Hell levels).]]Tristram was Many adventurers disappear down into the starting point catacombs in search for treasure, glory or both. Archbishop [[Lazarus]] then lead a group of villagers into the playable demo at Blizzconcathedral and abandoned them to a bloodthirsty [[butcher]] demon. From this point, people began fleeing Tristram in October 2008droves. If they had not left during the king's madness, they left now. There was no town to speak Only a small number of; just villagers stayed and saw a very small camp lone hero arrive and defeat the fetid butcher demon. This hero was one [[Deckard Cain]] befriended, and with only two NPCshis guidance, he ventured further down into the maze and no merchantsdefeated the [[Skeleton King]] as well as killing Lazarus. From there players proceeded The hero traversed all the way into [[Buning Hells|Hell]] and defeated [[Diablo]]. Unfortunately for the hero, as well as everyone else, the fog-shrouded ruins of Tristramhero foolishly thinks he can contain Diablo within himself, battling undead every step of and sinks the way[[Soulstone]] within his own flesh. ===The setting was described in some detail in a Dark Wanderer===[[httpFile://wwwTristram.diiijpg|thumb|right|400px|Tristram of [[Diablo II]].net/blog/comments/blizzcon-demo-discussion/ gameplay report] by Flux]Despite his noble intentions, his valiant spirit quickly succumbed to [[Diablo]]'s corruption and he became the [[Dark Wanderer]]. He left Tristram behind shortly before legions of foul demons attacked and destroyed the town and its inhabitants: Killing some, raising them as [[skeleton]]s, or possessing them, making them as demons, like poor [[Griswold]].
Cain blamed himself that he did not foresee this, and travelled East with the heroes to save [[Sanctuary]].
===New Tristram===[[File:As for Tristram2.jpg|thumb|right|400px|New Tristram in all its glory.]]After the town was burned to the geographyground, it’s not recognizable as "New Tristram" grew around the same town from D1, but it’s clearly inspired by itancient monastery. The whole ruined new town is much larger than in previous gameshas been around for several years, but that’s understandable since it’s been 20 years and the town was destroyed and rebuilt (and exact date of its founding is now being destroyed again). There are about 15 or 20 ruined structures clustered in the center of the map. One has a broken wooden sign that hovers as “Griswold’s Fine Weapons” if you point at it. No sign of Griswold or any other recognizable NPCs thoughunclear.
What happened here is now as with most of the [[Diablo Legend]], something dismissed out of hand by most citizens of the world. People think of the [[undead]] monstrosities, demonic possession and the monarchy driven to lunacy to be part of a peculiar mould upon the bread or perhaps a fouling of the water. It was just an unfortunate event that people went mad.
[[Deckard Cain]] has returned to Tristram, looking for clues on what the [[demon]]s and [[angel]]s are up to.
There's a lot of concept art of Tristram, but it's not clear how much was just for background information or reference. The New Tristram so far seen in the game has been a zombie-infested ruins; if there's more of a town waiting to be discovered in the final game, we've not seen in-game evidence of it yet.
Numerous screens have shown New Tristram, but only the ruined, monster-infested portion of the town. The [[BlizzCon 2008]] demo build started in a very small encampment just outside of New Tristram, but there were no NPC [[merchant]]s available. It's assumed that the New Tristram we'll see in the final game will be larger and have various merchants and [[quest]]-giving [[NPC]]s, but this is just conjecture.
===Tristram's Layout===
This was also addressed by Flux in a comment on his BlizzCon gameplay report[http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcon-demo-discussion/]:
::''As for the geography, it's not recognizable as the same town from [[Diablo I|D1]], but it's clearly inspired by it. The whole ruined town is much larger than in previous games, but that's understandable since it's been 20 years and the town was destroyed and rebuilt (and is now being destroyed again). There are about 15 or 20 ruined structures clustered in the center of the map. One has a broken wooden sign that hovers as "Griswold's Fine Weapons" if you point at it. No sign of [[Griswold]] or any other recognizable [[NPC]]s though.''
::''The basic landmarks remain; the monastery is still to the top left of town, with a graveyard beside it (lots of [[zombie]]s burrow up out of the earth if you enter and hang around there). The biggest change is that the left side of town, about where the creek was between town and Wirt, has become a deep gorge that provides an impassible boundary to that side of the level. [[Adria]]'s island and the creeks on the right side of the map aren't there anymore. Instead there are lots of ruined houses scattered over in that direction, and to the far right you find a few lightly forested areas with wide paths through them. Two other landmarks are along the left side of town, by the gorge. The well within which the little girl's ghost is trapped, and further north a spooky, Halloween tree out of which a bunch of zombies moaningly-emerge, if you remain in the vicinity.''
::''It's hard to estimate size since the path you take through the area is so winding; there aren't any straight roads and the houses and boulders and dead trees are scattered everywhere. But I'd say the whole area is maybe 6 or 8x the size of {{iw|Tristram Tristram in D2}}. I think it was a non-random area; possibly the ruins and other town elements change around slightly from game to game, but the overall size and shape remained the same in each game I played.''
===Diablo III Description===
Tristram was the starting point for the playable demo at Blizzcon, in October 2008. There was no town to speak of; just a very small camp with only two [[NPC]]s, and no [[merchant]]s. From there players proceeded into the fog-shrouded ruins of [[Tristram Cathedral]], battling [[undead]] every step of the way. The setting was described in some detail in a [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcon-demo-discussion/ gameplay report] by Flux:
::''The mood continued as soon as a player moved out into the ruins of Tristram. The scenery was dark and oppressive, and no, the screenshots don't at all do it justice. The floating, partially transparent mist looks so much better in the game than in the screenshots, where it just makes things look smudged and blurry. The black, gnarled trees, clusters of crows that flew away when the player got close enough to trigger them, dozens of ruined, blasted houses you could run through, bodies lying here and there, and small bunches of zombies to rout gave the area a great, creepy, doomed mood.''
==References==
* [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcon-demo-discussion/ Flux's gameplay report]
* [[Timeline]]
* [http://www.diablowiki.net/WWI_2008:_D3_Lore_and_Environmental_Art_Panel WWI 2008 Lore & Art Panel]
* [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcon-demo-discussion/ BlizzCon Demo Discussion]
* [http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/environments/tristram.xml Blizzard's official lore page - New Tristram]
* [http://www.diii.net/gallery/showgallery.php?si=tristram&x=0&y=0&limit=&thumbsonly=0&perpage=18&cat=546&ppuser=&thumbcheck=0&page=1&sortby=&sorttime=&way=&cat=546 Diii.net's screenshot gallery]
* [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir: Entry no. 0020|Abd al-Hazir entry no. 20 - Gnarled Walkers]]
* [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir: Entry no. 0017|Abd al-Hazir entry no. 17 - Tristram Cathedral]]
* [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir: Entry no. 0016|Abd al-Hazir entry no. 16 - New Tristram]]
* [[Diablo I Manual]]
* [[Diablo II Manual]]
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