Oblivion Knight

An Oblivion Knight

Oblivion Knights (a.k.a. Undead Horrors) are undead soldiers used by the Burning Hells.

Lore

Oblivion Knights can be divided into fighters and mages:

Undead Fighters

The souls of the most corrupt,ruthless, hate-filled, and aggressive mortal warriors to die in mortal wars often come to reside in Hell. Forged in the fires of eternal punishment, some of these spirits are reborn as cruel shadows of their former glory. Clad in demon-forged armor and wielding arcane weapons of destruction, they roam the gateway to Hell in search of those who would invade their sinister domain. These warriors are famed for their ability to slice their opponents into bloody ribbons with grotesque efficiency.

Undead Mages

A full third of Oblivion Knights are mages. Like their brutish counterparts, these minions of Hell are comprised of the most mendacious and merciless Sorcerers and Necromancers slain in the Mage Clan Wars. Their thirst for power followed them to the grave and was easily manipulated by the Prime Evils when creating these dark mages. Wielding the same powers in Hell as they did in the mortal realm, they pose a fatal threat to even the most experienced adventurer.

In-game

An Oblivion Knight

Oblivion Knights are a group consisting of the blade-wielding Doom Knights, the versatile Abyss Knights and the spell-casting Oblivion Knights themselves.

The Abyss Knights can throw elemental bolts to their target and also use Bone Armor.

The Oblivion Knights can throw elemental bolts to their target like the Abyss Knights and also use spells that are normally used by Necromancers like Bone Spirit and Curses (Decrepify, Lower Resist, Weaken, Life Tap, Amplify Damage).

Oblivion Knights (spellcasters) are not affected by the Barbarian Taunt skill.

Statistics

Oblivion Knights (Variant) can be found in Chaos Sanctuary leading Doom Knights.

Oblivion Knight

Property	Normal	Nightmare	Hell
Type	Undead	Undead	Undead
Act(s) found in	4	4	4
Monster Level	30	58	85
Experience	863	22358	107509
Health points	174–229	1531–1914	5564–9273
Damage 1	13–29	28–64	57–129
Attack Rating 1	284	1814	5452
Damage 2	13–29	28–64	57–129
Attack Rating 2	284	1814	5452
Defense	192	910	1898
% to Block	29	29	29
Damage Resist	0	0	33
Magic Resist	0	0	25
Fire Resist	60	60	60
Cold Resist	60	80	180
Lightning Resist	60	60	60
Poison Resist	60	60	75
Drain Effectiveness	100	75	33
Immunities	—	—	Cold
Chill Effectiveness	50	33	25
Walk/Run Speed	8	7
Group/Minion Size	1–2	2–4

Uniques

• Lord De Seis

Notes

The magic balls they throw are in reality different than any other in the game, as they are enchanted skulls of different shapes or way of travel (like spinning). The magical one is called "SkullUnholy" in the files and is even more different as it's shown as three enchanted skulls.

Fire Skull

Cold Skull

Poison Skull

Magic Skull(s)

Development

This page contains obsolete content This article contains information that is no longer relevant to gameplay.

• Since patch 1.13, Oblivion Knights in the Chaos Sanctuary can no longer cast the Iron Maiden curse.
• They have the Bestow skill assigned in the files with which they would heal their Doom Knights, but unlike Greater Mummy their AI never used it in any versions.
• Oblivion Knights have unused color palettes in the files, one is bloody in color and the second is gray.
• Both Abyss and Oblivion Knight have an unused rising from the ground animation that shows them with a red aura, it's unknown if it would be summon or teleport animation.
• The Knights have unused pauldron-less sprites.
  

  Unused color palettes

  

  Abyss Knight rising

  

  Oblivion Knight rising

  

  No-pauldrons sprite

Trivia

This section contains facts and trivia relevant to this article.

• Arreat Summit lore states that Oblivion Knights were forged from the souls of those in the Sin War, while To Hell and Back uses the more general term of "mortal wars." The former claim is likely null, as post-Diablo II, the Sin War was retconned to be a distinct event rather than a continuous one, as prior lore established.

• To Hell and Back labels Oblivion Knights as demons rather than undead.

References

Oblivion Knight

Doom Knight • Abyss Knight • Oblivion Knight