• The Black King • A Servant's Journal There are 10 books to find in the group altogether, spread throughout the act, adding background information to many of the game's characters. Lots of tidbits about the lore. • Xiansai Chronicles, Richard A. Knaak Thanks so much! So I went to Barnes n Noble, only to find tons of books with two different Authors on diablo. • Larra's Diary • The Feared Hero, Act III • Electric Eel - Dark Cultist. If you activated all of them and the journal didn't drop, you can reload the game and try again as journals don't drop twice and you will eventually get it. When you first enter Leoric's Manor during the quest Trailing the Coven, you will be attacked by a large group of Cultists and some Demon Berserkers. 1. • Scabbard of Talic the Defender • Carrion Bat Found it in the southern highlands by accident and entered. Diablo lore books. Those are fun. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. • Great Conflict i am sure alot of that has been missed by many who visit this site, me being one of them. • Horazon's Journal • The Nature of the Soulstones, Aust I've recently become interested in more of the back story.. /r/Diablo is the greatest source for Diablo-related news and discussion on the Internet. They are also gorgeous. • A Love Letter Open up the pack after finding the first two and you should receive the third and final (somber) part of Morgan's journal. Right next to Vidar's feet is a box labeled "Captain Haile's Supply Chest" that can be opened to drop this journal. • New Tristram • Researching the Khazra • Leah's Journal (7 parts), Act I cont. SOE stands for "Standard of Entertainment." • Carrion Nest • The Kingdom of Shadow • Tristram Cathedral • Imp Diablo lore era. Once you've reached the Keep Depths 2 during the quest The Breached Keep, activating the "Find the breach in the Keep Depths" phase, return to the armory and check Leah's Belongings again to find part 15 in the series. The Diablo 3 era books on the other hand does. Books and writings are as common in Sanctuary as in any other world. I've played D1 D2 and D3 but realised I've only ever listened to a bit of the lore in D3. • Withermoth • Lacuni • Khazra • Sand Wasp • Lyndo's Journal The journal will drop out of thin air for you to collect. With the queen dispatched as a traitor, I may now devote myself fully to preparing the boy for the presence of my master...- Archbishop Lazarus. The vanquisher of Diablo finds himself taking refuge in a tavern from the blizzard. • Leah's Journal (parts 8-12) A lot of the lore was outlined there. • Enslaved Nightmare The Black Road. • On the Desolate Sands (3 parts) • Fallen Lunatic I've saved everything to my drive but seem to be getting stuck on book 12 for some reason. • Old Tristram Journal • Adenah's Jottings It informs the story and plot of the game.. 1259 Edit. Lore books are found in most areas of the game and describe that area, or add flavor text about it. • Demonic Hellflyer Witness the grizzly reenactment of the Queen's demise till its end and wait for the ghosts to disappear. • Spiderling Gravedigger's Log: On a skeleton in the Cemetery of the Forsaken. With an ever growing library of ideas that together sum up the Diablo Universe, inconsistencies are bound to happen, and as such, retcons will happen. Check back in the same spot you picked up Leah's 13th journal once you've started the quest Turning the Tide which takes place in the Stonefort area. The term “in-world” applies to Books/Tomes and simply means that even though some real person from our real life obviously wrote it, it’s meant to be made by a character in the world of Diablo. With diablo 3 coming, and being a huge long time fan, and player of both diablo 2, and diablo. Sadly, the writing in most of the books is absolute garbage if you are looking for anything other than cheesey pulp-style fantasy. Now, technically, you are supposed to locate this journal on. • Archivist I will raise an army of souls from these primitives and chain them to my invincible will.Yes, with these heathens at my command, the kingdoms of the world shall bow to the migh of... the Lord of Goats!I may have to work on the title a bit more.- Dark Cultist. Several similarly minor changes have taken place, and much of it explained as just errors by the individual authors of the books, as the author was an in-world scribe with his own knowledge and own motivations. • Reply from Cultist Grand Inquisitor Our summoners can retrieve the weapon at your command, and the enemy shall be none the wiser. 11 comments. • Librarius Ex Horadrim This is of course also a perfect way for Blizzard to keep most of the material “real” in terms of retcons and “canon” facts. • Torn Letter Leah's Journals in Act III can be found in the armory room, where Leah and Adria are working on containing the spirits of the crystal. Found this old thread, might be a good read... https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3w8hlz/diablo_books_order/, Thanks! This book has a great amount of lore and detail for any Diablo fanatic. However, Diablo is able to strip away the king's sanity, and over time, Leoric descends into madness. Tomes are ancient books spread i dark and dangerous places with surprisingly little useful information (considering they are each a whole book). Many areas of the game have multiple books, which are labeled with the number after the title, such as "The Fall of the Barbarians: Part One," a five book series found in the Keep in Act 3. • The Seven Lords of Hell • Prophecies of the Final Day • A Summoner's Journal • The Imperial Guard's Orders • Steel Tome, • Tale of the Horadrim The soldier can be found just about anywhere, but will always be on the first level of the Keep Depths. All lore books can be listened to while the action continues, and can also be read in text form by accessing the in-game Journal. It's a shame, I liked Knaak but I also didn't read anything by him since I tortured myself with Sin War (I didn't even read the 3rd book). Lore books can be found in the world, and are triggered automatically by first encountering a new type of monster. Thanks to: Steve, Eric, SjantenHG, and Tuana for help in finding and confirming this information. All of a sudden, King Leoric was no longer a Northern Lord and he no longer ruled for decades in Tristram. After clearing out the group, you will find this journal strewn about amongst the loot and corpses. • Warrior's Rest • Mira's Letter to Haedrig • Andariel, the Maiden of Anguish • Tomb Robber's Journal The two primary sources of these books are from the Diablo I Manual, Diablo II Manual and Tomes. I need more bodies! • The Black Road • Unburied These can often overlap; there are many installments to read in Leah's Journal through Acts 1-3, and these journal entries flesh out the ongoing story and supplement the actual conversations with Leah and the other NPCs. This of course makes sense from our real world point of view, as it would be a terrible waste of man hours to write a multitude of books that often overlap just to give some backstory to the game anyway. • Sin War Less interesting facts like specific years or months will fall aside to more interesting ideas such as fitting a multitude of creative works together as a cohesive whole. But I've searched the place from top to bottom 3 times at least, destroying everything and getting every corpse to flip over, but there was no sign of the Villager's Journal. It informs the story and plot of the game.. • Morlu • Lacuni, Act I cont. In-world lore books are only found if a particular character has not before "read" that particular book. • The Promises of Fezuul al-Kazaar • Wood Wraith Robert B. • Despina's Journal • Fallen Giant JavaScript is disabled. • Quill Fiend • Demonic Hell Bearer Words have flowed from their mouths like blood from a wound! • Siegebreaker Assault Beast • Spider Queen • Borderlands The Hanging Tree: Drops after you trigger an event at a tree w/ people being hung (random spawn in the Weeping Hollow, and random chance to get the event, even if you find the tree).A horde of skeletons will spawn after breaking the coffin if you have the correct spawn. • Archangel Itherael, the Aspect of Fate • The Creation of Sanctuary (4 parts), Act I • Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred You'd best come up with something, or it's your hide we'll be flaying.- Grand Inquisitor. • The Veiled Prophet, Needing Sorted: The Great Conflict • The Sin War • The Dark Exile • The Binding of the Three • The Lands of Khanduras • The Awakening • The Darkening of Tristram • The Fall of the Black King • The Reign of Diablo • The Black Soulstone. Books and writings are as common in Sanctuary as in any other world. • Spider • Ghom's Log • Unburied You can probably still grab the journal after this point, but this is the earliest time it becomes available. • Archangel Tyrael, the Aspect of Justice • Dark Vessel Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow , the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.