Horadrim

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The Horadrim.

The Horadrim was a brotherhood of Mages formed by the Archangel Tyrael to combat the Three Prime Evils: Diablo, Mephisto and Baal on the mortal realm.


Background

The Horadrim was formed from the three major mage clans in the East by Tyrael to defeat the Three who were wrecking havoc in the mortal realm. The Horadrim received three Soulstones from Tyrael, which would be able to contain the demons once they had been defeated.


The sigil of the Horadrim.

The brotherhood defeated and captured Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred, in Kehjistan and imprisoned him beneath the Temple of Light in Kurast. The then peaceful Zakarum monks would then protect the Soulstone.


Diablo and Baal escaped Kehjistan, and went West over the sea to Aranoch. Baal took refuge inside the city of Lut Gholein for three days and then travelled North into the Aranoch desert a short distance, but was found by the Horadrim, who attacked him. Baal's greatest achievement here was that he managed to shatter the Soulstone meant to imprison him.


The Horadrim managed to subdue the Lord of Destruction, but the shattered stone could not contain the demon. The group realized they needed a mortal vessel to bind the demon within. The leader, and the greatest of the Horadrim, Tal Rasha, volunteered to wrestle with the demon for all eternity.


Jered Cain and the remaining Horadrim followed Diablo's wake of terror to the Western kingdom of Khanduras, where he was finally imprisoned within the remaining Soulstone after an epic battle. The Horadrim used the catacombs in their Tristram monastery to forever store the demon.


The threat was gone and as time passed the Horadrim's numbers dwindled, and the brotherhood forever gone. The only known descendant of the Brotherhood is a great grandson of Jered Cain, named Deckard Cain, a mere scholar with no experience in magic or battle.


Known Hierarchy

Initiate is one of the highest ranks a Horadrim mage can have. Known initiates include Tal Rasha as well as Jered Cain. [1]

Acolyte is a rank of some description we know not much of. Likely it's a much lower rank than Initiate.

Chief Librarian of the Horadrim is a pretty self-explanatory title, that might be parallel to "Accolyte" or "Initiate".


Known Tradition

The Horadrim used to mummify their highest mages, and infuse them with spells that would allow them to protect their tombs, even after death,[2] possibly using magic from the Priests of Rathma.

When Diablo travelled through Lut Gholein, he managed to corrupt one such mage, who terrorized the city. This was only possible since the ancient guardian spells had begun to unravel.


Known Members


Other Prominent Figures


Trivia

There's a song called The Horadrim, which is vaguely related to the Diablo Universe.

[Music : Aphazel / GroM - Lyrics : GroM]

I roamed the paths the obscure paths
that lead to the realms of chaos
I lowered myself into the abyss of hate
and ascended the peaks of destruction
and still I walk these putrid paths
seeking the spawn of eternal damnation
my soul`s been split like water on sand
and dry is the life I lead
for the powers I have are just a curse
that nibble away at my soul
for merely greed have I opened the gate
for the three to enter foretold
baal mephisto and sheitan are those who offered me valour
the unholy trinity the brothers of hell
who spread only sickening glamour
onwards I march to challenge all hell
and now i'm before the last seal
the red misty portal now opens before me
my mission reverse what i`ve done
and face the three the fearsome three
until victory is all that I have
my last battle cry is all to be heard
while I fight under a flaming sky
a dark curse now broads over the lands
that aimlessly await what is deemed
deemed to cast only suffering and death
to all who live and all who dream
for I am izual the fallen guardian
banned from the ancient horadrim
aeryel and tyrael my brothers now slayed
for that which my mind had possessed
dying and doomed I limp into the black
and the portal it seals behind me
for I was victorius but banished will be
due to that which I wished had not been
the evil unleashed on the world`s destiny
was reversed and the infernal crushed
three brothers of terror three angels of death
sworn to be risen again


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