Changes

A number of Barbarians started roving the lands outside the Steppes, prepared for war and seeking information regarding the activities of the [[Prime Evil]]s. This lead to During the concluding events that transpired in [[of ''Diablo II]], which had the once proud Barbarians see their homelands destroyed and their culture collapse after the destruction : Lord of the [[Worldstone]] and Mt. Arreat.  In his personal historyDestruction'', the male Barbarian found in [[Diablo III]] characters defeated {{iw|Baal Baal}}, only to learn from [[Tyrael]] that the Worldstone had been corrupted and would have to be destroyed. The destruction of the Worldstone caused a shockwave so powerful it blasted Mount Arreat to rubble, destroying the remainder of Baal's army in the process, thus saving the Barbarian lands from its invasion. However the Barbarians found their sacred Mt. Arreat laid to complete waste, and the duty that had been theirs for generations was therefore broken.

More than the physical damage, the events detailed in {{wl|[http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Act_Five Act Five of Diablo II]}} devastated the Barbarian culture. The Barbarians gained their identity and cultural pride from protecting the Worldstone within Mount Arreat. To see it defiled by Baal and his minions, and then destroyed, tore out the heart of these proud people. They abandoned their homeland and became nomadic, wandering the lands of [[Sanctuary]] and pitching themselves into battle after battle in an effort to forget the pain of their shattered homeland.

She appears ===Male Barbarian's Backstory=== [[File:Barb-male-story.jpg|thumb|400px|Barbarian story changes?]]The male Barbarian was initially-planned as a returning character. Literally, the D3 barbarian was the same individual as the D2 barbarian, returning to fight evil twenty years later. This story innovation was brought into doubt in November 2010, as Bashiok reported.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/male-barbarian-aged-experienced-no-more/] <blue>There were talks shortly after BlizzCon about this and I believe the idea to give the male barbarian a unique story as compared to the female gender is now in question. It’s very likely to be much younger than simplified, the male; barbarian would not be unique, and would no longer be spelled out as the barbarian from Diablo II.</blue> This information has not been further updated, and no more details were shared about why the developers would want to make this change. It would clearly save them a lot of work writing different dialogues for the male and female Barbarians, but the images wemale Barb would differ from everyone else also. He would have memories of battling [[Mephisto]], [[Diablo]], and [[Baal]]. He've seen she seems s ventured to the [[Burning Hells]]. He's met [[Deckard Cain]] and [[Tyrael]]. He knows why and how the [[Worldstone]] was destroyed, etc.  Though little is known about the [[story]] of Diablo III, it's clear that a lot of those past events will be somewhere referenced in the same age range as most game, and various NPCs, monsters, and other characters will return. Besides being a lot of work to write different dialogues for the male Barbarian in all those instances, it's possible that some of the game's plot twists and turns wouldn't work. Events might simply not make sense for the male Barbarian, since he would/should have so much more information than the other heroes9 gender/class individuals. This, more than inconvenience/extra work, might be the motivation behind Blizzard's apparent decision to retcon the male Barbarian him into another noob.