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'''Abd al-Hazir''' is a lore enthusiast and adventurer, scribing about a lot of his experiences in the world of [[Sanctuary]]. He is used as a tool for [[Blizzard]] to describe Diablo lore on the official Diablo III webpage.
==Background==
Not much many specifics are known about Abd al-Hazir, but he seems to originate from [[Caldeum]], a city he very much likes. Nothing is known of his family, but he has a variety of travelling traveling friends, and contacts within the [[mage clan]]s of [[Kehjistan]], so he's likely from a well to do background.
This is an introductory line from the famous [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir]]:
::"Abd al-Hazir is a renowned gentleman, historian, and scholar. He has recently taken up the unprecedented task of investigating, researching, and compiling information about the unique locales and denizens of our world."
On his travels, he has among other things travelled the [[Tardein wastes]] (desert close to [[Caldeum]]) and met [[Franklin Burroughs]], the [[Dune Thresher]]-hunter, he has travelled deep into the [[Kehjistan]] jungles meeting the ancient [[Witch Doctor]]s, he has travelled West to [[Khanduras]], seeing [[New Tristram]] and all kinds of horror, he has travelled north to the [[Barbarian]] homelands, finding [[Arreat Crater]] where the proud [[Mount Arreat]] once stood.
His last report to the editorial team in [[Caldeum]] was done a few months ago, after discovering [[Dark Cultist]]s in Khanduras.
===Flux Revelation=Literary Inspiration==On 25 November 2009, [[Bashiok]] made a comment in a blue post [http://diabloBlizzard has often included homages to H.incgamersP.com/blog/commentsLovecraft in their game worlds and fiction, and Abd al-Hazir seems fairly obviously inspired by/bashiok-based on-act-3-and/] regarding [[canon]] information and [[retcon]]s. Flux meanwhile hinted at the similarity to the "mad arabArab" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred Abdul Alhazred] from HP Lovecraftcredited with writing the fictional ''Necronomicon''s booksaround which much of the world lore in his writing orbited. This could very well be ==Who Writes the inspiration for the name as well.Journal Entries?==
In August 2010 [[Bashiok]] revealed that most of Abd al-Hazir's updates have been written by Lead World Designer [[Leonard Boyarsky]].
::I believe Leonard has written the majority of the updates, but I know our creative development team has chipped in. [[Mike Chu]] wrote the [[Archivist]] entry. Potentially others.
