The undead are one of the three major types of monsters encountered in the Diablo series.
Undead enemies make a reappearance in Diablo IV. The Drowned are a new type of undead enemy.
The Drowned are undead which emerge from Sanctuary’s coastlines to drag their victims to a watery grave. They currently dominate the entire coastline of Scosglen.
The Drowned have always been a threat to Sanctuary. They come from bodies washing ashore (such as from ships lost at sea), bloating in the midday sun. After the first moonless night, after all other omens have passed, the Drowned will appear. When they attack, they infect the shores like a disease, and with them comes a thick brackish fog that encroaches in from the shoreline. Every time they attack, there’s the unyielding tolling of bells, a reminder to the living that the Drowned were rallying and coming for them. They have also been observed to carry strange idols during their attacks.
The Drowned appear to have existed for quite awhile. They hoard the spoils of their raids in their hoards beneath the sea. These contain the relics of long-lost cultures.
By the Reign of Enmity, the Drowned had not been seen in generations, and most didn’t believe they existed. Nevertheless, they did remain in the cultural zeitgeist, as they were regarded as “terrors” that existed in the night that would come to kidnap people. Villagers would tell their children that if they didn’t behave, the Drowned would come and take them.
Unfortunately for the people of Sanctuary, the Drowned were real, and came to dominate the entire coast of Scosglen.
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