![]() ![]() While Inarius is a rebel who turned against the Angiris Council, by the time of the events in D4, he’s also potentially the only real source of the Holy Light that the Paladins might well have access to. Seeing soldiers with the Zakarum symbol marching into Hell and Inarius using the Holy Light on their behalf makes a kind of sense - we’re told that the Heavens have turned their back on Sanctuary. The presence of the Zakarum in Hell in the latest Diablo 4 trailer While technically still part of the faith, Westmarch tended to value its independence both from Kehjistand and the Zakarum Order as a political entity, and thus felt the impact of Mephisto’s corruption far less keenly. Some Paladins abandoned the Zakarum before that and joined with the Knights of Westmarch, who were themselves Paladins who had abandoned Kehjistand for the Western nation. The Hands of Zakarum, for example, were seen as corrupted after the events of Diablo 2, as were the other devout servants of the Que-Hagan Sankekur, who was literally possessed by Mephisto himself. ![]() The fallout of this corruption becoming known was that the Paladins of Zakarum saw many of their orders dissolved. In time, this allowed Mephisto to corrupt the church itself and draw many into his service. As a result, the Soulstone containing Mephisto was laid to rest underneath Travincal, a temple complex nearly as large as the city of Kurast, capital of Kehjistan. The Zakarum faith eventually aided the Horadrim Order with its goal to capture and imprison the three Demon Lords Mephisto, Baal, and Diablo, who had been exiled to Sanctuary during a revolt in Hell called the Dark Exile. So the faith needed protectors, and those men and women who answered the call became the first Paladins of Zakarum, able to channel the Holy Light that Akarat taught was within every mortal soul.įall of the Zakarum, engineered by Mephisto During the growth of that faith following the Mage Wars and the Sin War, when the people of Kehjistan grew tired of chaos and magic and sought a new path, Akarat’s teachings found fertile ground in their discontent with those that summoned Demons and destroyed fertile land with their terrible curses and rains of fire.Īs Zakarum grew, however, the faith soon discovered that it had enemies, many of them powerful - the aforementioned Demon summoners who refused to let such power slip from their grasp, those that sought to prevent the Zakarum from growing in influence among the Kehjistani, and the cults that were often created by Demons who’d killed their summoners and began working to corrupt the world. This faith was rooted in Akarat’s teachings that all Humans possess a link to the Holy Light, and could choose to believe in and behave as stewards of that Light. Zakarum was the name for the faith itself, and Akarat the name of the ascetic Monk who founded it. So who were these soldiers? Where have they been? It’s been decades since the events of Diablo 2 - what role do these Paladins have in the shattered, nearly destroyed world we’ll be exploring in Diablo 4? But as to the fate of the orders that once served the Zakarum - and even the ones that broke away from the main Zakarum faith and headed to join the Knights of Westmarch, such as the Order of Paladins - we have heard little. ![]() In Diablo 3, as a consequence of that disgrace, we saw the Templars as a secretive splinter sect, as well as the Crusaders who broke away from the Zakarum before that corruption was uncovered to the world. We haven’t seen any of the Paladin orders of the Zakarum faith since the revelation of the Church of Zakarum’s corruption in Diablo 2. Based on those Zakarum symbols, it’s likely that Diablo 4 will bring us the return of the Paladins. The latest Diablo 4 trailer features an army backed by Inarius, marching into Hell with shields bearing the symbol of the Zakarum, the religious organization from Diablo 2 which was corrupted by the Demon Lord Mephisto. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |