Story line for diablo 3

Mephisto · Post by **Mephisto** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:32 pm

The only problem is a story line
it would have to be a good one
the connection to the second from the 1st was how diablo was reborn in the hero from the 1st game. Problem is diablo and both his brothers are well and truly dead. I think perhaps it could be something to do with the world stone. Like a large fragment of it being used to put the world back to normal (like tyrael - the angle - said how the destruction of the world stone would eventuraly cause the world to eventuraly fall into destruction as well).
And the erection of the new stone caused many portals to open into many worlds! 1 of them oblivion. diablo could crawl out withered and seek help.
He could go back into hell through an ancient portal that was made underneath mephistos prison (the 1 you go through in diablo2) and slowly regain power in some evil Necropolis in hell.............

Don't know realy what do all you guys think?

Mephisto

Ùltima · Post by **Ùltima** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:04 am

Well,

Tyreals exact words were that he has to destroy the worldstone before the powers of hell take root.
However, it would be the only way to ensure mankinds survival. But that act would have consequences even he could not foresee.

So my guess would be that the angels would turn evil because of this and all evil would turn bad, so that you'd eventually become an agent of hell, fighting the forces of heaven or something the like and Tyreal being one of the act bosses and eventually god would be the ultimate boss or something.

But that wouldn't work, since if that were the case, a lot of christian people would feel offended cause you have to kill god at the end of the game, it would surely be banned out of the US at least.

Cathad · Post by **Cathad** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:50 am

Lol

really I dont think that there is a suitable story line for diablo 3...ies tyrael did say consequences even he could not foresee...but what more is out there to destroy....i think it will be a farm making and wedding diablo 3...as u will settle down and have a happy ending

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~June~ · Post by **~June~** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:20 am

I would guess it more like Tyrael becomes corrupted, eventually becoming evil and then falls (bad angels don't stay in heaven bud). Then Tyrael becomes the new main bad guy in hell.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:49 am

Ùltima wrote:Well,
But that wouldn't work, since if that were the case, a lot of christian people would feel offended cause you have to kill god at the end of the game, it would surely be banned out of the US at least.

Yes, that's possibility, but in truth I don't see any reason for that since the god-system in Diablo world is quite different from Christian one. For example, in Diablo there are several head devils, Diablo, Mephisto and Bhaal. In Christianity there is only Devil.

But the end could be a different. Why killing god should be the only possible end? Why not such end where after fighting your way through heaven you get turned by god and you will end up killing the evil ones, of course after fighting through the hell. That would offer longer game, as well possibilities to some interesting quests and events...

Videospirit · Post by **Videospirit** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:56 pm

Isn't there still one lesser evil unnacounted for? I guess he'd be in charge now.

Mandalorianx · Post by **Mandalorianx** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:24 am

Mephisto wrote:The only problem is a story line
it would have to be a good one
the connection to the second from the 1st was how diablo was reborn in the hero from the 1st game. Problem is diablo and both his brothers are well and truly dead. I think perhaps it could be something to do with the world stone. Like a large fragment of it being used to put the world back to normal (like tyrael - the angle - said how the destruction of the world stone would eventuraly cause the world to eventuraly fall into destruction as well).
And the erection of the new stone caused many portals to open into many worlds! 1 of them oblivion. diablo could crawl out withered and seek help.
He could go back into hell through an ancient portal that was made underneath mephistos prison (the 1 you go through in diablo2) and slowly regain power in some evil Necropolis in hell.............

Don't know realy what do all you guys think?

Mephisto

sounds good.....

Sain · Post by **Sain** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:34 pm

wat about diablo having a kid, but the angel guy turning evil, great. maybe u cud fight him right before u fight the son of hell were he does this "Yes, yes, you are the one to save Heaven and Earth from Hell." speach.

Chaoskitten · Post by **Chaoskitten** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:49 pm

Tyrael has been the big bad all along

There are lots of references to tyrael operating behind the scenes throughout diablo 2, for example giving the prime evils' soulstones to the horadrim, having your character kill izual for his disobedience in attacking the hellforge, and being forbidden to act directly in the struggle between mortals & hell. Angelic heroes do fall - its a popular blizzard theme from warcraft 3's Arthas to the original diablo heroes - & part of what makes the whole diablo story so cool. I think in destroying the worldstone tyrael destroyed the barrier that separated heaven from hell, betraying heaven in essence. So yeah, he's earned his horns

Personally I'd like to see wirt in heaven - he did supply you with all the awesome weapons that helped you kill the nasties after all, maybe he was an angel in disguise - and maybe see cain in hell for the failure of his wisdom, he didn't see through tyrael's manipulation at all. The organisation the assassins worked for might form part of the story too.

Infares · Post by **Infares** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:23 pm

There's so many untied threads left for this story, keep in mind that Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal weren't destroyed, they were just banished and permanently denied a way to manifest in the mortal plane, they're still "alive" and "well".

There's the possibility of trying to overlap hell with earth a la Magic: The Gathering's Rath Cycle, and lest we forget, while the 3 brothers are surely evil, it's not like they invented the concept. There were and are evil men, independent of their influence, who could try to bring hell to earth for their own ends (and of course pay the ultimate price for their stupidity).

If the events in Diablo 2 proved anything, humans are in fact the most powerful race in the cosmos, regardless of whatever else happens or what anyone else thinks (even if most of that power comes from being able to drink potions!). Any illusion of superiority in the minds of the 3 brothers should have been handily disproved as their souls spiraled back to the confines of their own plane at the hands of a human.

blade810 · Post by **blade810** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:34 pm

i can just see the opening seqance now it has terial half dead on the ground with a a big stab wound looking thing right over his heart and he starts by saying "It was the biggest mistake i could ever make" and then it go's on to say how when he destroied the world stone god cast him out of heaven and he was angrey and mad so he took what was left of Mephisto's soul stone and brought him back to life and as soon as mephisto was ressurected he stabs terial through the heart with is big blad hand type things (really long fingure i guess) and any ways after that happens it go's back to terial on the ground and he says somthing like "I was a fool" then it go's right into a title screen or somthing that says DIABLO LORD OF HATE

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:20 pm

Honestly, whatever the story may be if the game is even thought of, destroying the world stones at the end of the game in D2 was just a dumb thing to do in general.

They may not have directly said it in game, but just from the name, "World Stone" it seems like it'd be a magic artifact that's basically existing so it can keep parts of the world together.

So, a theory arises. If there were two world stones in diablo 2, meaning multiple ones, that means there is a chance for more.

Thus where the story can come in. The world is about to be destroyed because two of the # stones have been destroyed, maybe it's 4 stones total for hemispheres or something I dunno, and now the only way to stop it is to venture into new land and unknown territory and find the remaining world stones so that mages may be able to make two more to restore the balance.

Just a logical thought that blizzard could potentially use, but I highly doubt it considering the lack of story they ever really include. What they produce in quality gameplay and character options, they lack in plotlines and story elements, which is why even though I enjoy the game Diablo 2, I don't respect many of the members at Blizzard.

shadow16 · Post by **shadow16** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:16 pm

The aspect of a third diablo makes me blood crazy, but its taken so long that even if they came out with one, it may be to late for me...but the possibilities mentioned so far are all interesting!!Btw, i would love to kill god at the end, lmao...no offense god. Or maybe just break jesus' legs so he cant show off on the water.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:52 pm

My Suggestion

Maybe like the burning pits of Hell may actually start to merge with Earth since the destruction of the WorldStone and start to form an evil artifact thats infests Earth slowly and the Archangels must stop it before it fully infects the Earth.

Except.........

This Time you can choose Chaos or Order

Chaos is Evil

Order is Good

tombc · Post by **tombc** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:34 am

Videospirit wrote:Isn't there still one lesser evil unnacounted for? I guess he'd be in charge now.

There are two lesser evils that play a very small, if unnoticeable part in the original titles Diablo I and II. Azmodan, the Lord of Sin and Belial, the Lord of Lies. I'm guessing Blizzard will pick these babies out to play a major part in the next storyline, with a bit of ressurection of the prime evils to spice things up.

Although the ressurection of say Diablo through the destruction of the worldstone, or the introduction of the lord of lies via Diablo's death would be lame cop-outs for a new title.

fedenet89 · Post by **fedenet89** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:34 pm

About the World Stone

For those who don´t know now the World Stone was created to nullify the powers of the Nephalem. Here goes the story: Long time ago there was an angel who wanted to be adored, and there was a demon(Lilith daughter of Mephisto and mother of Andariel who wanted power, both of them had angels/demos that accompanied them, well,Lilith and the angel got ¨married¨, and the demos and angels went to a new plane(guest what, phisical plane) and bread hybrids(the nephalem), this nephalem where realy powerfull, Lilith wanted them as an army, but the angel(which I don´t remember the name, but was high ranked than Tyrael) only wanted adoration, so Lilith destroyed all the demons and angels, and left the nephalem(IIRC because she could´t destroy them), so the angel created the World Stone, to nullify the nephalem´s powers. The nephalem slowly lost their powers, and became the humans that inhabit sanctuary.

In my opinion, if the World Stone was destroyed, all the humans would regain they powers, since they all are half demon, half angel. But if Tyrael didn´t had destroyed it, all the humas would be corrupted by Baal.

Caden · Post by **Caden** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:12 pm

Might I ask where you heard that the worldstone was used to suppress the powers of the nephalem?

fedenet89 · Post by **fedenet89** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:52 pm

Here, I left the interesting part in the post

If you haven’t read Diablo: The Sin War trilogy by Richard A. Knaak, I recommend you to do so now. The sin war, is an event in the past of Tristam that took place three thousand years ago — according to the Diablo 1 game manual. The novel explores what happened then, but as Knaak said, retconning some of it to fit upcoming diablo games.

Inarius - a former commander of the High Heavens - becomes a rogue angel tired of the eternal war against the Burning Hells. He swayed other angels with him and departed the High Heavens to seek their own destiny. Angel Inarius contacted demons who also wished to end the conflict and together formed a third faction of rogue angels and rogue demons. Inarius created Sanctuary, and the worldstone was built with the purpose to cloak the existence of Sanctuary from the High Heavens and the Burning Hells.

Angel Inarius and Demon Lilith fell in love. The progeny of both angel and demon were known as the nephalem, who inhabited Sanctuary under the rule of Inarius. Lilith is the character introduced by Blizzard Entertainment in Diablo II patch 1.11 — a character with deeper story than anyone thought. She is the daughter of Mephisto and also the catalyst that caused the Sin War.

Lilith betrayed Inarius and took the children, the nephalem, to empower her agenda during the Sin War. However, Inarius put an end to the conflict and the Worldstone was modified to depower the children. For as long as the Worldstone stood, no entity from the High Heaven or the Burning Hells would be able to know the existence of Sanctuary, nor able to enter it. And the children would remain depowered.

However, through Lucion — another son of Mephisto, Diablo knew of the existence of Sanctuary. Thus, Angel Izual revealed the Prime Evils the secrets of the Soulstones and planned their own exile, becoming trapped by the soulstones. Now that Tyrael destroyed the Worldstone, the children are no longer depowered. This shall trigger the rise of the nephalem and powerful entities.

Here is the full article: Starcraft 2 News Community @ StarcraftTwo.com Diablo 3 at BlizzCon 2007?

I hope this is a good info

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:53 pm

Ok, Nephilim was a place, not a species, and the only three known creatures of the Nephilim were the barbarian guardians at the Arreat Summit. The worldstone was not used to nullify their powers, this is not true, and logically it would make no sense. The three barbarians' motives were to guard people from getting to the worldstone. If it nullified the barbarians' powers, they would instead want to destroy it.

But lets hypothetically say it did nullify their powers and they were trying to guard evil people from getting into the worldstone keep. This would also make illogical sense, how do they defend against anything with no powers. In the game they weren't just using basic barbarian tricks, two of them had whirlwind for starters, and they had excessively high amounts of damage; in short they were easily supernatural when your character fights them.

EDIT: Ok, so you're basing this argument off of the Sin War Trilogy which is a fanfic to diablo and has no constitution or merit to the exposition of the game.

fedenet89 · Post by **fedenet89** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:09 pm

answer

First of all, I will base my answers (from this part of the disscution only) in the fanfic, because the game doesn´t give a logical explanation. If you have a better explanation that the one of the fanfic, I will be glady to hear(read) it.

Ok, Nephilim was a place, not a species, and the only three known creatures of the Nephilim were the barbarian guardians at the Arreat Summit. The worldstone was not used to nullify their powers, this is not true, and logically it would make no sense. The three barbarians' motives were to guard people from getting to the worldstone. If it nullified the barbarians' powers, they would instead want to destroy it.

Here I leave you something from Wikipedia: Nephilim are beings who appear in the Hebrew Bible, specifically in the Book of Genesis, and are also mentioned in other Biblical texts and in some non-canonical Jewish writings. Genesis Chapter 6, verses 1 through 4 describe the origin of the Nephilim
Full article here: Nephilim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When you read the book in the altar, the first thig that says is: ¨We are the SPIRITS of the Nephalem...¨. If you want to find a twist to this, you could say that because they are spirits they are not affected by the world stone restriction. EVERITHING has a twist specially when giving an explanation of something that is fictional.

As I said on the top, its like Tyrael apears in hell and tells you to stop Baal from corrupting the biggest paperweight in world without an explanation of why you should stop him.