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.
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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 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
- Jered Cain - Initiate of the Horadrim, lead the attack on Diablo
- Deckard Cain - Descendant of the Brotherhood, not an actual member
- Nor Tiraj - Acolyte who's journal describes the capture of Diablo, 200 years ago.
- Tal Rasha - Initiate and leader of the Horadrim, and sacrificed himself to capture Baal in Tal Rasha's Tomb
- Vischar Orous - Chief Librarian of the Horadrim, member of the Vizjerei and the Zharesh Covenant
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
