Demons of the Burning Legion
Known demon races from the Twisting Nether:
Sources
The background, plot, and setting, like most
Blizzard games, is indebted to tabletop games such as
Warhammer Fantasy by
Games Workshop, and
Dungeons & Dragons from
Wizards of the Coast. The fantasy works of
J. R. R. Tolkien also served as a foundation; many of the races are patterned after Tolkien's, and placenames are often made to sound like
Sindarin, the predominant Elvish language used in
Lord of the Rings. However, large portions of the setting are drawn from modern-day sources and references, ranging from
Star Trek to the
Cthulhu Mythos, to
Thundercats to third-world proxy wars.
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