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Years ago, when I first was playing D3: Reaper of Souls, and stumbled across the first of the "Path of Wisdom" tomes left by Malthael in the Pandemonium Fortress, it immediately gave me chills.

This group of lore books starts off innocuously ("I heard a sound, and did not know what it was...") and progresses from there to Malthael deciding that the only sensible thing to do is to commit genocide against the entire human race.

Malthael's path is essentially a dark mirror image of Tyrael's journey. The Archangel of Justice comes to the realization that the only way to truly serve justice is to make a choice, and that means he must cast off his angelic immortality and live among mortals. But Malthael is essentially addicted to certainty : ("I sought wisdom in the chalice, but there was none..."). And so when he realizes that the old order once held in place by the Worldstone is gone, and that the new axis of the world is human beings and their ability to choose, he is lost. Rather than making the same choice as Tyrael, and seeking wisdom as a mortal, he decides that the only "wise" thing to do is to remove the source of his discomfort, which means exterminating all of humanity.

It's a terrifying progression for the former Archangel of Wisdom, and, IMHO, one of the best, most interesting, and most tragic bits of lore in the history of the Diablo franchise. But I've always thought that the text as a whole was maybe a little flabby, and perhaps not quite in the right order. So here is my rewrite of the sequence- I hope you like it.