Diablo
ALL PRAISES TO DIABLO - LORD OF TERROR AND SURVIVOR OF THE DARK EXILE. WHEN HE AWAKENED FROM HIS LONG SLUMBER, MY LORD AND MASTER SPOKE TO ME OF SECRETS THAT FEW MORTALS KNOW. HE TOLD ME THE KINGDOMS OF THE HIGH HEAVENS AND THE PITS OF THE BURNING HELLS ENGAGE IN AN ETERNAL WAR. HE REVEALED THE POWERS THAT HAVE BROUGHT THIS DISCORD TO THE REALMS OF MAN. MY LORD HAS NAMED THE BATTLE FOR THIS WORLD AND ALL WHO EXIST HERE THE SIN WAR.
GLORY AND APPROBATION TO DIABLO - LORD OF TERROR AND LEADER OF THE THREE. MY LORD SPOKE TO ME OF HIS TWO BROTHERS, MEPHISTO AND BALL, WHO WERE BANISHED TO THIS WORLD LONG AGO. MY LORD WISHES TO BIDE HIS TIME AND HARNESS HIS AWESOME POWER SO THAT HE MAY FREE HIS CAPTIVE BROTHERS FROM THEIR TOMBS BENEATH THE SANDS OF THE EAST. ONCE MY LORD RELEASES HIS BROTHERS, THE SIN WAR WILL ONCE AGAIN KNOW THE FURY OF THE THREE.
HAIL AND SACRIFICE TO DIABLO - LORD OF TERROR AND DESTROYER OF SOULS. WHEN I AWOKE MY MASTER FROM HIS SLEEP, HE ATTEMPTED TO POSSESS A MORTAL'S FORM. DIABLO ATTEMPTED TO CLAIM THE BODY OF KING LEORIC, BUT MY MASTER WAS TOO WEAK FROM HIS IMPRISONMENT. MY LORD REQUIRED A SIMPLE AND INNOCENT ANCHOR TO THIS WORLD, AND SO FOUND THE BOY ALBRECHT TO BE PERFECT FOR THE TASK. WHILE THE GOOD KING LEORIC WAS LEFT MADDENED BY DIABLO'S UNSUCCESSFUL POSSESSION, I KIDNAPPED HIS SON ALBRECHT AND BROUGHT HIM BEFORE MY MASTER. I NOW AWAIT BE REWARDED WHEN HE AT LAST EMERGES AS THE LORD OF THIS WORLD.