It’s unlikely that New Tristram was the only such place established during the period in which the Triune Greater Evils of Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal were no longer active. When this process started is as yet unclear but it was in swing for long enough for a town to be constructed entirely on the back of the trade, and it was profitable long enough for the town to still be in existence in 1285, some twenty-one years after old Tristram itself fell into horror and ruin. The town was established entirely to profit from the flood of treasure-seekers and adventurers who descended as far into the old ruins of Tristram and the Cathedral as they could, stripping them bare of any loot they could find. One reason we already knew this was the very existence of New Tristram. There were still monsters and demons to fight, as well as treasures to be looted from ancient and more recent sites. So what has been established for the years before Diablo 3? What kind of world was Sanctuary in that period?

Jacob and Shanar, who appear in Sword of Justice and Storm of Light, are both active adventurers during this time period - Jacob was even mentioned during the Diablo Immortal reveal at BlizzCon. For example, Mishka who is the center of the short story Unyielding was born in 1275 AK, ten years before Diablo 3 and thus at the exact center of the time period covered by Immortal. While we didn’t know a lot about what was going on then before Diablo Immortal, there was some tie-in media that has dealt with that time period before now. That’s a twenty year gap, and it’s in that gap that Diablo Immortal is set, starting some five years after the destruction of the Worldstone. But what you didn’t see was the aftermath, because Lord of Destruction ends in 1265 AK (Ano Kehjistani, named for the founding of Kehjistan) and Diablo 3 starts in 1285 AK. If you played Diablo 2 and its expansion, Lord of Destruction, then you saw the end of the established world order with the destruction of the Worldstone.

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