A new world/map has been haunting me the last couple of days and now i can sleep safe. Here is the Island of Skovos:

Bashiok:

It is Skovos, and I think this piece was something that Leonard showed and discussed at the WWI Lore and Environment Art panel.

It isn’t a location that you’ll visit in Diablo III, but the artwork is a good example of the work and thought going in to fleshing out the world of Sanctuary. It’s already a very complex world with a lot of locations and events, but a lot of it still isn’t visually or contextually realized. As we want to create the feeling of a world outside of your immediate view it’s important to create or expand upon the locations and stories of that world.

As we’re working to create Diablo III we’re also working to create a more visually complete Sanctuary.

It looks absolutely great, a heavy populated world, just what we need in D3. No more 10 house-20 NPC cities !

It is clear now, we will not be able to visit this island in DiabloIII (it would have been nice though) but these words bring me great comfort. We not know that the World will be huge and more dinamic than D2.

Keep up the good work Blizzard crew!

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