[[File:Adria-avatar.png|thumb|160px|Adria's in-game avatar.]]
''Adria the Witch''' is an [[NPC]] and quest-giving character deeply involved in the story of Diablo 3. While apparently friendly and helpful in her role as [[Leah]]'s long-lost mother, Adria harbors a secret agenda that leads up to the biggest plot twist of the story. '''''Spoiler details below.'''''
Adria was first [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Adria introduced in Diablo 1], where she was an NPC merchant who sold potions, spellbooks, and various sorcerer items. She was not seen in Diablo II, but returns in Diablo III. She is not a merchant this time, but a story-teller and quest-giver who assists in the battles against the Prime Evils in Acts 2 and 3, before springing her big surprise leading up to Act 4.
==Background==
''Adria''' is the Witch merchant from [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Adria Diablo 1]. She sold and bought potions, scrolls and staves. She also recharged staves with their magical charges. She was not in Diablo 2, having fled [[New Tristram| Tristram]] in anticipation of the attack on the village.
==Diablo 3 Betrayal==
* '''''Spoiler warning.'''''
[[Image:adria.jpg|right|thumb|Adria the Witch returns from Diablo 1]]
Adria is the mother of [[Leah]], who was adopted by [[Deckard Cain]] after Adria's supposed death.
As for what Adria had been doing since 's betrayal, the final plot event leading up to Act Four and the events reborn, Prime Evil version of Diablo I before "his" largely-successful assault upon the [[High Heavens]]. <youtube>1H4fXKA_otg</youtube> [[Image:adria.jpg|thumb|300px|Adria concept art.]]Adria assists in the destruction of Belial and Azmodan in Acts 2 and 3, teaching Leah to trap their souls in the [[Black Soulstone]]. The big plot twist is that Adria has spent twenty years working towards that goal in her apparent deathplan to betray humanity on behalf of Diablo, beyond the Lord of Terror. Thus at the end of Act Three, after Leah traps Azmodan's essence in the Black Soulstone, Adria sacrifices numerous guards of the keep and betrays her fleeing own daughter, magically overpowering Leah and forcing Diablo's essence into Leah's body as his host. The other Demon Lords in the Black Soulstone are incorporated as well, giving Diablo all of their powers and transforming him into the Prime Evil, a demonic force powerful enough to assault and triumph over all the forces of the High Heavens. '''Diablo I revised history:''' While Adria posed as a helpful NPC during events in Diablo I, she was secretly the co-leader (with [[Magda]] of an evil coven of Cultists devoted to Diablo and the service of evil. After the defeat of Diablo in that game she visited the hero ([[metcon]]ed in Diablo 3 from an anonymous warrior to [[Aidan]]) while he was going insane and transforming into the [[Dark Wanderer]] while trying to contain the essence of Diablo in his [[soulstone]]. Adria slept with Aidan before he truly became the Dark Wanderer and fled Tristram , conceiving a child ([[Leah]]) who was outwardly human but contained seeds of Diablo's dark presence within. After giving birth to Leah, Adria left her with Cain and abandoned Tristram as well, vanishing to spend twenty years preparing the ground for Diablo's eventual return as the [[Prime Evil]]. Thus Adria effectively bred Diablo's future host body, and Diablo effectively inhabited his own daughter when he took possession of Leah for his largely-successful assault upon the desert jewel [[High Heavens]] in Act Four of Diablo III. ==Adria in Reaper of Souls== * '''''Spoiler warning.''''' Adria's story role in [[CaldeumRoS]]is not yet fully-known, are currently unknownbut she is known from datamining to be a major quest boss in the form of a huge [[Succubus]].
== Diablo 3 ==
In Diablo 3 the Hero finds out that Leah is Adria's estranged daughter, whose father is later found out to be [[Aidan]]. The Hero along with Leah rescue Adria in act 2 - after which she helps the Hero throughout specific portions of the act as well as teaching Leah to control her "power". Adria helps both Leah and the hero trap [[Belial]]'s and [[Azmodan]]'s soul in the [[Black Soulstone]]. When the hero returns from slaying Azmodan in act 3 Adria unleashes the power of the blackstone upon Leah revealing that as Aidan was possesed by [[Diablo]] when Leah was conceived- Leah is not only Aidan's daughter but also Diablo's. This is revealed to all be part of Diablo's plan.
Leah was to simply act as a form for Diablo's soul to inhabit. Adria then disappears through a portal on Diablo's instruction not to be seen again in the standalone version of Diablo 3.
==Lore==
* [[Adria's Journal]] (required for [[A Quick Study]] achievement).
* [[Zoltun Kulle (lore)]] (required for [[Judge of Character]] achievement).
* [[Zoltun Kulle (lore)]] (requried for [[Judge of Character]] achievement).
==Gallery==
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File:Adria-hut1.jpg|Adria's hut as seen in Act One.
File:Adria-game1.jpg|Adria in Bastion's Keep in Act Three.
File:Gozturr-the-torturer2.jpg|[[Goz'turr the Torturer]] interrogating [[Adria]] on the [[Unexpected Allies]] quest
File:Adria-cosplay1.jpg|Adria [[cosplay]].
</gallery>
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