Historian of Tristram is a campaign achievement to read all the World lore books in Act I of Diablo III.
Throughout players' travels across Sanctuary, they will find journal entries, scrolls, diaries, notes and letters written by people both known and unknown. They often record thoughts and feelings of events that occurred in the past, oftentimes even before the time of Diablo I. They will usually be found at random within certain areas or at a certain spot of the game world, and usually refer to some historical event tied to that general area. Every single one has been voice recorded, which can be heard anytime the player wishes, which convey the mood and emotional state of the author at the time of writing.
The Hanging Tree[]
Location: The Weeping Hollow, the book drops from a skeleton that spawns underneath a tree with three bodies hanging from it.
See the article above for more information on the spawn location.
"The cold ground welcomes the foul bodies of these cruel men. They sought to prolong their lives through forbidden magic at great and cruel cost to others. Their evil fed on itself until it consumed them all and they found themselves at the end of a hangman's rope."
Tristram Magistrate
Gravedigger's Log[]
Location: Cemetery of the Forsaken, found on the Gravedigger's Bones.
"When King Leoric came to court, he brought many nobles with him. And nobles, oddly enough, want noble crypts. So I showed up with my shovel, thinking to make an easy profit by digging a few holes. Ha! There's no stopping their demands around here! Now I eat, sleep and breathe dirt, it seems..."
Darris the Gravedigger
Tristram Fields[]
Location: Fields of Misery
"The Tristram Fields are fair lands, fertile and temperate. Superstitious farmers kept away from them for quite a while after the fall of Old Tristram, but time has persuaded them to abandon these ridiculous notions and take up the hoe and plow once more. Now they supply crops to both New Tristram and Wortham"
Khazra Heads Wanted[]
Location: The Highlands, both South & North, drops from Decaying Corpses.
"The local Khazra tribes have become a serious threat. They attack caravans and are moving into areas where they haven't been seen before. We need you to take care of this problem for us. We'll pay twenty-five gold pieces for every Khazra head you bring back"
New Tristram Official
Researching the Khazra[]
Location: The Highlands, both South & North, drops from Decaying Corpses.
"My loutish companions have no curiosity about the Khazra; they are only interested in the bounty on their heads. But I am convinced the Khazra can be communicated with. It is dangerous, to be sure, but it is a risk I am willing to take"
Belard the Scholar
The Khazra Massacre[]
Location: The Highlands, both South & North, drops from Decaying Corpses.
"Everyone is dead. Belard, that damned fool, was killed, trying to communicate with the khazra. And then the cultists showed up. As soon as I saw them, I ran. I wanted no part in their dark magic. I heard the screams of my companions, but there was nothing I could do to help"
Osman the Hunter
The Highlands[]
Location: Southern Highlands, inside a Lost Chest.
"Though New Tristram and the fields surrounding it have been resetted over the years, the Highlands remain empty save for the crumbling ruins of Leoric's old outposts. The king built more than one watchtower in his paranoia but now they cannot even ward away goatmen and wild beasts. A tragedy, really"
Torn Letter[]
Location: Caverns of Araneae, found inside a Dusty Leather Satchel.
"Chancellor Eamon, it is of the utmost importance that we secure my manor from the traitorous rabble in Tristram. The caves to the east are too close to my land! They must be blocked — completely obstructed. I believe the archbishop Lazarus has magically bound some arachnids of late. They may serve us well..."
Torn Letter's Response[]
Location: Caverns of Araneae, found inside a Dusty Leather Satchel.
With great pain, I must admit that our king is no longer able to separate reason from madness. He orders the caverns to be filled with the archbishop's monstrous creations and will hear nothing else. Perhaps the legendary ancients themselves once dwelled there... but now we must desecrate their ruins"
New Tristram[]
Location: Slaughtered Calf Inn, found on the table near the entrance.
"For many years, villagers were too afraid to settle near the ruins of the cursed town Tristram. But as time went by, adventurers arrived to loot the old cathedral, and their business was profitable enough that New Tristram sprang up to accommodate them. Fewer travelers visit now, though, and the town is mostly populated by craftsmen and farmers."
Traveler's Journal[]
Location: Old Tristram Road, on an Adventurer's Corpse.
"While exploring a cave with hopes of finding hidden treasure, I came upon a most grisly sight - a heap of dead bodies. Unbelieveably, as I was searching them for any items of value, they began to rise! I must tell them of this in New Tristram before it's too late."
Theren the Traveler
Warriv's Journal[]
Location: Old Tristram Road, found on the corpse of Warriv, near his burning caravan.
"I return to Khanduras after twenty years, the burden of countless failures and tragedies heaped upon my shoulders. Am I being punished for helping that stranger hunt the Dark Wanderer? I always thought Deckard Cain half a madman, but perhaps...he was right. Perhaps he can banish the shadow hanging over my life"
Tomb Robber's Journal[]
Location: Crypt of the Ancients, on the corpse of a dead Crypt Robber.
"We were so sure we could beat whatever traps the ancients had laid for the tomb robbers, but the dead bodies of my friends testify to the folly of our arrogance. I will be dead soon as well. Our greed was our downfall..."
Tomb Robber
The Last Stand of the Ancients[]
Location: The Drowned Temple
"Our enemies are legion, but they will not take us without a fight. We must hold them here while the keys to the holy temple are hidden away from their leader, the fiend Nereza. Resolve must not falter, though we will surely die to the last man!"
The Drowned Temple[]
Location: The Drowned Temple
"The Worldstone has been changed. Our children are born weak and suffer short lives. The demon Nereza promised to restore their power but instead turned them into misshapen creatures and sent them to war against us. We may die, but not before she is sent back to the Burning Hells"
Warrior's Rest[]
Location: Warrior's Rest, found on a Warrior's Skeleton.
"Alaric says that our people can survive the coming battle, but I saw the truth in his eyes. Why did he order me to guard the Beacon of Honor? Those shambling things are slaughtering my people in the forest above, and there is nothing I can do to stop it!"
Old Tristram Journal[]
Location: Found in the lockboxes which spawn in random locations in either Old Tristram Road or The Old Ruins.
"The rumors of torture and worse grow every day. What has happened to Tristram and its king? I once thought Leoric a great man, but it seems I was deceived. We all were. He sends our meager army against Westmarch on the morrow. What will become of us?"
Villager Despina