The Last Stand of the Ancients is a tome in the Act I of Diablo III. It is needed to complete the achievement Historian of Tristram and can be found within the Drowned Temple. It reads as follows: 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! Edric