# Diablo Paladins, a history Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lore-watch-podcast-4788/diablo-paladins-a-history Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lore-watch-podcast-4788/diablo-paladins-a-history.md Podcast: [Lore Watch Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lore-watch-podcast-4788) Published: 2025-12-17T16:45:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/lore-watch/episodes/lwp-397 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6556539150cd070012089193/e/69410db380257c9e352e8792/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lore-watch-podcast-4788/episodes/diablo-paladins-a-history Duration seconds: 3609 ## Resource Since Paladins were announced as the next class to join the roster in  Diablo 4  in its next expansion  Lord of Hatred  -- and already playable with preorder -- Matt and Joe sat down this week to chat about both, but mostly Paladins and their history within the franchise. First, they dive into the place of Paladins within the franchise as contrasted by other classes. Blizzard seems to be cribbing heavily from  Diablo 2 , with almost all the classes from that game now available in  D4 . They touch on Paladins from  D2 , their famous fall, and how that led to the Crusaders from  Diablo 3. The story we see in the cinematic also has our Paladin facing off against Mephisto while he inhabits Akarat's body, which he possessed at the end of the previous expansion,  Vessel of Hatred . Akarat being one of the founders of the faith the Paladin belongs to, this is a deeply interesting contrast -- as well as a personal religious crisis in the making.   If you enjoy the show, please support us on Patreon , where you can get these episodes early and ad-free! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lore-watch-podcast-4788/episodes/diablo-paladins-a-history/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/lore-watch-podcast-4788/diablo-paladins-a-history.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.