Diablo 3 The Book of Cain

I love infusing story into everything I make. I thought of the Book of Cain table as almost a sort of traveling memorial that the Artisans had taken with them from town to town. Many of his belongings are littered around it.
I also really enjoyed animating the pages turning, I like to think that some of Deckard's Horodric magic lives on in this book, and that the player gets to commune with him whilst identifying their loot!
You can't see it here in this gif, but in game the player stands in a channeling pose and the little golden motes of energy swirl out of the book and into their hands. I sort of thought of it like the spirit of Cain was channeling knowledge to them.

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