Entering the chapter…
The Lord of Terror
Where it all began. A lone hero arrives in the plague-struck town of Tristram and descends into the labyrinth beneath its cathedral — sixteen floors of deepening nightmare — to confront the Lord of Terror himself.
The town of Tristram is dying. Its king, Leoric, was driven mad and slain; his son lies in a coma; and something ancient stirs in the catacombs below the old cathedral. One hero answers the call and begins the long descent into darkness.
At the bottom waits Diablo, bound within a soulstone in the body of the boy-prince. The hero strikes him down and, in a fateful act of hubris, drives the soulstone into their own brow to contain the evil — becoming the Dark Wanderer, and carrying terror out into the world.
