According to this: ... which can be found at the bottom of this page: http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/bestiary/darkcultists.xml ... it seems that Abd al-Hazir is gone missing. I have to wonder whether in the game when it is out, there maybe will be a quest to find and help al-Hazir? Personally I already wish such a quest, I wonder how he may look in-game. ... maybe he will look similar to the Archivist model...
seeing as how he appears very often on the site, i'd say hell appear in the game i'd wager that we will encounter him in a place with an arabic sounding name
If I remember correctly, then in Diablo 2, Loot Golain (Act 2) was quite Arabic. I'm not sure of Caldeum to be so Arabic though.
wait, so now we'll have two old guys asking us to stay a while and listen every time we come to town?
+ ?!?!?!?! Isn't the new wizard class from some far off Egypt-like land? We tend to be in areas that are homes of the respective hero classes. The dessert zone is very likely. Edit: We've also probably already seen a screenshot of it.... Haven't been following D3 much yet...
