Would you be really pissed off if...

[Emperor Pan I]

If Diablo III needs a story, and if Diablo needs to return They will find a way I suppose.

 

[Vadriel]

I'm curious as to what the overall story is now...

The Worldstone is gone, and the 3 prime evils are banished. Do we go into hell and fight them again or what...definitely a lot of options here. At most, I don't think it says anywhere explicitly that they destroyed Diablo's soulstone. Baals probably died when Mount Arreat imploded.

Watch the post Act IV cutscene more closely. Diablo's soulstone was indeed destroyed.

And as I've said before, I'm pretty sure they'll be popping back into our realm. The worldstone no longer makes it harder for them to do so, and these crazy cultists are irrefutably obsessed with Diablo and have already shown themselves to have a fascination with summoning stuff out of the Burning Hells. They're probably going to sacrifice themselves and various villagers and whatnot to bring Big D back to our plane.

 

[Darkmatter]

Well, now that I think about it...the crater is in the teaser trailer I think, where all the demons are pouring out of. Maybe Tyrael didn't destroy it in time, and the gateway opened...

 

[Sogeking]

destroying the worldstone destroyed the mount areat and caused a mini maelstrom.

heres the d3 map:

 

[Renzokuken]

It's about Diablo's mum. She got pretty pissed off that we kept killing him and his bros. Stands to reason she got off the proverbial couch and wants to kick some mortal tail.

 

[Johnny]

It's about Diablo's mum. She got pretty pissed off that we kept killing him and his bros. Stands to reason she got off the proverbial couch and wants to kick some mortal tail.

Spoiler

Cain is Diablo's dad and Leah is his mom

 

[Glowy]

Considering The Burning Hells are basically the Underworld, I always assumed that slaying a demon sends them BACK to the Underworld. The reason Soulstones were used was to keep their power locked in a controllable place, but it ended up backfiring as they became more of an anchor and a reliable place from which to draw their power should they corrupt the holder and gain possession of the Soulstones.

Hence, the Soulstones were destroyed in order to get rid of that anchor and make it harder for the Prime Evils to remanifest in our world. Even if we slew their bodies, whoever held the Soulstones would be vulnerable to their trickery and run the risk of corruption...becoming their new ticket to appearing in our world. With the Soulstones gone and the mortal vessels killed, the Prime Evils had no real link to our realm and would have to find some other new way to manifest.

But then the Worldstone was corrupted by Baal, so that Tyrael had to destroy it. If I recall the cutscenes and dialogue properly, was the Worldstone not a sort of protective buttress against demonic intrusion? A separator between realms? I seem to remember something said about how with the Worldstone gone, the barriers between realms would fall and who knows what would happen.

If all that was indeed properly interpreted, I can see it as plenty possible for the Evils to break through into our realm provided they had a link on this side...namely the cultists that we've been shown in D3 so far. Apparently they're pretty obsessed with Diablo...the encyclopedia entry on the main site refers to their sacrificial ritual, in which they hammer spikes into their victim's spine...calling the spikes "the Teeth of Diablo." It's these "sacrificed" cultists that are the ones who transform into monsters and come after you if left alone long enough, as you can see in the concept art they have the three spikes in their spines.

A short summary of the far back history of diablo


Well the worldstone is what Inarius used to create sanctuary to shield it from the heavens and hell because he was tired of the war. So he and some angels and demons went to Sanc and they started interbreeding and that where the humans came from. Then lilith Inarius's demon an daughter of mephisto, G/f betrayed/killed everyone and tried to rule over Sac herself. Until Inarius with power from the worldstone banished her. The worldstone was altered at first by lilith to encourage the humans sleeping powers to manifest more quickly since after the angels and demons mated there offspring aka Nelphleum aka bul kathos,rathma and the other legendary set from d2 were spawned. But they started getting weaker threw generation until Uldyssian whom powers awoken threw liliths treachery altered the worldstone again to increase they humans power which gave born to necro's barb ect. But Diablo and other demons discovered Sanc along time ago but they kept quiet as not to bring the heavens and have Sanc turned into another battle as the demons want to use humans in there war against the angels. So the demons started a religion to infect people to there cause.

Well Tyreal discovered Sanc and was spying on Inaruis using the first amazon type human with power (who used basically every zon skill in the game in this book) to try to stop them and confuse them until the angels came to cleanse Sanc. Diablo, Mehp were in this series but never manifested but controlled from the background and rathma and tran'gol The celeistal beast one of many whom watched over the realm tried to prevent there war from spilling over onto Sanc.. aka necs role maintaining the balance.

In the end the humans led by uldyssian defeated Inarius and fought in the war against angels and demons before the High council of angels came to a truce with mehpisto that they should leave the humans alone (thanks to tyreal) as the angels wanted to kill humans for being an insult to there heritage and the demons wanted them for cannon fodder.

- The Sin War

Since then in the later series other demons found loopholes around the worldstone to get into sanc. And some humans became so in touch with there demon side aka bartuc the bloody (which is the coolest mother ****er in the series) almost pulled the world into darkness balancing in the demons favor.


So what I'm assuming is that there is going to be angel boss's in d3 as both angel and demon are enemies of the humans as they are only trying to keep Sanc from each other. Hopefully I will be able to kill tyreal in d3 because quite frankly he is a prick. And a nark


Hope that helps in some ways lol

 

[Darkmatter]

destroying the worldstone destroyed the mount areat and caused a mini maelstrom.

heres the d3 map:

It looks like it just cursed most of the northern lands held by whatevers left of the Barbarian clans.

 

[Glowy]

*looks at map in book*

*looks at that map*


OK something isn't right

 

[Sogeking]

mt arreat was destroyed?

 

[Emperor Pan I]

It looks like it just cursed most of the northern lands held by whatevers left of the Barbarian clans.

Warcraft III got two whole new continents between War II and War I.

Lore is expendible

 

[Renzokuken]

Lore is expendible

And Blizzard is the butcher.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

And Blizzard is the butcher.

Be glad it isn't an MMO, all the past stories are flushed down the toilet, like Warcraft's was.

 

[Sogeking]

well its not an mmo so they wont butcher it TOO much