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[[Image:Mon-diablo.jpg|frame|left]]Diablo is the act boss of [[Act Four]], and must defeated to complete the [[Quests_Act_Four#Quest_Three:_Terror.27s_End|Terror's End quest]]. This quest ends the game in ''Diablo II'', and enables access to Act Five in ''Diablo II: Lord of Destruction''. Diablo is found in the Chaos Sanctuary. He appears in the center of the large pentagram after the five seals have been opened and the three seal bosses have been killed or moved out of the Chaos Sanctuary.
Diablo is the Lord of Terror, and the youngest of the three [[{{iw|Prime_Evils Prime Evil]] }} brothers. The pursuit of him and long battle to destroy his soul stone figures prominently in the game story and the lore in the game manuals for ''Diablo'' and ''Diablo II''.
Like many of the monsters in Diablo II, Diablo was a lot harder in earlier versions of the game. Prior to v1.08, his Firestorm (ground fire) attack could insta-kill virtually any character who took it point blank, since there were so many overlapping pixels of flame at melee range. Maximum fire resistance was essential, along with fire absorption, and digging in for a long toe-to-toe slugfest with Diablo was almost sure suicide. Hit and run tactics had to be employed, in those days.
==Lore==
Diablo spent two centuries slowly working to corrupt the {{iw|Soulstone Soulstone}} that imprisoned him. In time, he was able to extend his influence into the surrounding area and corrupt both {{iw|King_Leoric King Leoric}}and his archbishop, {{iw|Lazarus Lazarus}}. The King proved too strong to fully control, so the Demon took possession of his son, {{iw|Prince_Albrecht Prince Albrecht}}. Diablo then began to shape an outpost of [[Hell]] within the catacombs that ran beneath the town of {{iw|Tristram Tristram}}. By spreading terror into the surrounding countryside, the [[Demon]] was able to attract many heroes who came to cleanse the land of evil. By the time the strongest of these heroes reached this goal, though, he had become fully influenced by the will of Diablo. In his twisted state, this adventurer believed that the only way to fully control the Demon was to plunge the shard of the Soulstone into his own head. This, of course, was exactly what Diablo had planned as the Demon now had an even stronger body to use to find his brothers and complete his ultimate plan...
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