Diablo 4 Skeleton Lord – Tomb Lord

Skeleton Lord(Tomb Lord) Diablo IV

The Skeleton Lord was conceived as art first, with the design team subsequently using the art as inspiration for his fight. At BlizzCon 2019, it was called the “Tomb Lord.”

The Skeleton Lord is a creature made of fused skeleton and body parts, with sinew and blood connecting it together. It is a master of necromancy.

The Skeleton Lord is an undead monster in Diablo IV, apparently as a boss. He summons skeletons and bone walls, while leveraging a giant staff that impacts the ground, creating a shower of exploding bone shards that blind the player.

Diablo 4 Skeleton Lord

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Boss of Skeletons & Resurrection

The Tomb Lord is a heavily-armored skeleton found in the Vault of the Forgotten (region unknown). He’s much larger than the player character model and wields a disc-shaped mace. In addition, his tomb is filled with melted candles, skulls, and bones, of which, the Tomb Lord can resurrect into skeleton monsters to fight alongside him.

“The Tomb Lord is a master of necromantic magic and bone.”

Bone storm & bone wall attacks

Blizzard says that along with spawning numerous skeletons to help him in battle, the Tomb Lord has two special attacks: bone storms and bone walls.

“He can resurrect his skeletal minions, create walls of bones and shatter them, and spin his magic into a storm of bone that can blind you.”

For the bone storm, the Tomb Lord gathers surrounding bones with a tornado-like wind and traps the player in it.

Diablo 4 Bone Storm

Tomb Lord gathering bones to make a bone storm attack

For the bone wall, the Tomb Lord constructs a jagged, tall bone wall around himself to block the player. During this time, the player can be damaged by spawned skeletons and/or bone storms. The wall can then be shattered to inflict more damage.

Diablo 4 Bone Wall

Tomb Lord protecting himself with a bone wall

Tomb Lord gameplay footage

During 2021’s BlizzConline, Blizzard shared gameplay footage of the newly announced Rogue class and two other players battling the Tomb Lord boss :

A Rogue and two other players battle the Tomb Lord

Trivia

  • The Skeleton Lord appears similar to the Skeleton King from previous games. Both wield staves/maces, both summon skeletons, and both are lords/monarchs.

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