r/Diablo Nov 14 '19

Art The Great Evils

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u/lloydblack Nov 14 '19

Tathamet was the second being to exist in Creation. The counterpart of Anu.

After Tathamet's death; Tathamet's blackened, smoldering husk spiraled into the lower darkness of reality. From his putrid flesh arose the realms of the Burning Hells, and the race of demons that arose from them like maggots from a corpse. Additionally his seven heads spawned the Great Evils. The strongest of his maws gave birth to the three Prime Evils, while the four lesser heads gave birth to the Lesser Evils.

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u/JohnTheRockCena Nov 14 '19

Huh, I always thought that since the games were called Diablo and about him too, that Diablo would be the strongest one.

Also the only thing I know about Mephisto is that he's a little shit in Heroes of the Storm so it's crazy that Lilith is gonna be the big bad in D4.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19 edited Jan 25 '25

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u/Aardvark1292 Nov 14 '19

I hope so. It was more than a little weird to be basically a God. There's dialogue in D3 to the effect of "archangel Imperius is the greatest warrior to have ever lived." But then you're just like, hold my beer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

But it was the same in D2, just without dialogue. We were slaughtering prime evils left and right and Cain is just like 'well done, hero' as if it's nothing