I'm a huge fan of Diablo's lore and was happy to see many of the characters from the original game show up in Diablo III. However, it doesn't seem like there are very many references to Diablo II characters besides the ones in the main questline. So far, I've found:
Warriv's corpse in a random event with a little lore book
But not very much else.
Are there other allusions and references to, or appearances of, Diablo II characters in Diablo III?
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This is what I've found:
- Mentions of the Evils, like Andy and Mephisto
- Deckard Cain, of course
- Tyrael
- Mentions that the heroes from Diablo II have gone mad
- Wirt's in the game, or at least his bell
- References to the "cow level"
- The mad king of tristram
- The dark wonderer from DII
- Andrea (gives you the den of evil quest in DII) (these are what i've found agian so far)
- A quest from a necromancer in act 2 that mentions he was trained by the necromancer hero in d2.
- Gharbads ghost gives you a quest.
- In old tristram griswolds shop sign can still be read.
