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Warriors were not found in ''Diablo II'', though Barbarians and Paladins could be seen as upgraded, specialized versions of the character. By the official game fiction though, the Warrior was the character who defeated Diablo at the end of the first game, and drove the soulstone into his head. His end was a tragic one, for he was corrupted by Diablo's malignant influence and became [[The Dark Wanderer]], before finally succumbing entirely to the Lord of Terror and perishing with him at the conclusion of Act Four. | Warriors were not found in ''Diablo II'', though Barbarians and Paladins could be seen as upgraded, specialized versions of the character. By the official game fiction though, the Warrior was the character who defeated Diablo at the end of the first game, and drove the soulstone into his head. His end was a tragic one, for he was corrupted by Diablo's malignant influence and became [[The Dark Wanderer]], before finally succumbing entirely to the Lord of Terror and perishing with him at the conclusion of Act Four. | ||
Diablo 3 further {{iw|Metcon Metconned}} the warrior, turning him from an anonymous male into King Leoric's eldest son, named Aiden. This change added more drama and pathos to the entire sage of the Dark Wanderer, and to Leoric's doomed family. It's interesting to consider how Diablo I would have felt different if that idea had been present; the Warrior would have been looking for not just the kidnapped prince, but his brother, and during the course of action would have had to kill his father's reanimated skeleton, and ultimately pry the soulstone out of the forehead of his own kid brother, who he'd just killed in the form of Diablo. | |||
Furthermore, Aiden slept with Adria the Witch before he left Tristram in the Dark Wanderer form, and that child became Leah, who was ultimately possessed and destroyed by Diablo's spirit in Diablo III, thus perpetuating the curse on the Leoric family line. | |||