The [[D3 TEam]] has disowned plot and world events from some of the early Diablo products, and done fairly extensive [[retcon]]ing to even the plot developments of the earlier games themselves. This was necessary since the world story, as presented in Diablo I (and to a lesser extent in Diablo II) was largely invented as the game was being made. The creators didn't give a lot of thought to the larger world fiction, carried over a lot of real world material (the [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-iii-should-have-pentagrams/ heavy Christian influence ] on Sanctuary's art and decoration), and didn't plan out the story very far ahead.