sectoid
01-07-2009, 04:26
Sorry if someone has already thought of these ideas before, I can't keep up with the forum these days.
But here and there always come these posts of "what if cain is evil?" and recently there was one about him being the greatest evil of all, the father of the 3 prime evils or such.
Well, I do not agree with these lines, but I concede the point that that whole cage thing is really strange. This together with the idea of a yet greater evil got me thinking, so, come along with me (please take into account the fact that I've not read the books yet, so contradict me if needed):
1) A greater evil than Diablo?? He's the major character / star of the series and has his name as the game title. A yet greater evil would imply that the series would continue (as Blizzard already mentioned it will) with another name, which I find absurd. Diablo WILL remain as the baddest *** around, in my opinion.
2) Yeah but how will they go forward with the series then, if this "arc" of Sanctuary will end with D3? And how can Diablo continue to be the final boss, but introducing new other bosses?
3) What came to my mind is this: WHAT IF Diablo's real plan from the very beginning is TO KILL HIS BROTHERS AND TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF HELL, so that with the combined powers of Hell under one single command, he can finally conquer Sanctuary and then the Heavens?
4) He couldn't best his brothers alone, so he needed outside help (Sanctuary's). But maybe he wasn't even thinking of this before finding Sanctuary. Again, WHAT IF Cain, as one of the Horadrim (not last, mind you), purposedly or accidentally got in touch with Diablo somehow, and agreed to, was forced to, or even proposed, this kind of plan? To be able to go on, sooner or later he had to kill every other Horadrim.
5) Cain could be the one who first let demons come to Sanctuary.
6) These are also plausible reasons for him being spared (both in D2 and D3's catacombs), living for so long, and driving heroes perfectly into Diablo's plans in the previous games.
7) And what about that end of the Sanctuary Arc? What I think is that Sanctuary WILL BE DESTROYED in D3. Just as Baal and Mephisto (to be replaced by new bosses). Some heroes (Barbarian?) and/or characters(Leah?) may escape to another realm somehow, to start another resistance / rebellion :P. I don't know about Heaven, but with the destruction of Sanctuary, Heaven and Hell may continue forever stuck in war and so they have to turn to other realms than Sanctuary (they´ll discover about them in D3) for help.
8) Or Sanctuary and Heaven may be conquered or destroyed (less probable because religious people would be pissed) and so Hell turns its ugly beasts toward other realms.
9) Cain may really be good after all (or at the end if what I thought about him turns out right) and so he would die to make it possible for some people (heroes, Leah) to escape into other realms.
So, what do you think? Pretty far along we've come, haven't we? Right or wrong, it doesn't matter: it's fun to conceive lore for this game and hear what you all think of it. Personally I would be fine with something as this, should it be presented in a dramatic way as D1 and D2 were (for me at least they were, specially because of the narrators's voice acting). But if it turns out true, I'll be sad, 'cause I like surprises :thumbup:
I hope it's something even better!!
But here and there always come these posts of "what if cain is evil?" and recently there was one about him being the greatest evil of all, the father of the 3 prime evils or such.
Well, I do not agree with these lines, but I concede the point that that whole cage thing is really strange. This together with the idea of a yet greater evil got me thinking, so, come along with me (please take into account the fact that I've not read the books yet, so contradict me if needed):
1) A greater evil than Diablo?? He's the major character / star of the series and has his name as the game title. A yet greater evil would imply that the series would continue (as Blizzard already mentioned it will) with another name, which I find absurd. Diablo WILL remain as the baddest *** around, in my opinion.
2) Yeah but how will they go forward with the series then, if this "arc" of Sanctuary will end with D3? And how can Diablo continue to be the final boss, but introducing new other bosses?
3) What came to my mind is this: WHAT IF Diablo's real plan from the very beginning is TO KILL HIS BROTHERS AND TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF HELL, so that with the combined powers of Hell under one single command, he can finally conquer Sanctuary and then the Heavens?
4) He couldn't best his brothers alone, so he needed outside help (Sanctuary's). But maybe he wasn't even thinking of this before finding Sanctuary. Again, WHAT IF Cain, as one of the Horadrim (not last, mind you), purposedly or accidentally got in touch with Diablo somehow, and agreed to, was forced to, or even proposed, this kind of plan? To be able to go on, sooner or later he had to kill every other Horadrim.
5) Cain could be the one who first let demons come to Sanctuary.
6) These are also plausible reasons for him being spared (both in D2 and D3's catacombs), living for so long, and driving heroes perfectly into Diablo's plans in the previous games.
7) And what about that end of the Sanctuary Arc? What I think is that Sanctuary WILL BE DESTROYED in D3. Just as Baal and Mephisto (to be replaced by new bosses). Some heroes (Barbarian?) and/or characters(Leah?) may escape to another realm somehow, to start another resistance / rebellion :P. I don't know about Heaven, but with the destruction of Sanctuary, Heaven and Hell may continue forever stuck in war and so they have to turn to other realms than Sanctuary (they´ll discover about them in D3) for help.
8) Or Sanctuary and Heaven may be conquered or destroyed (less probable because religious people would be pissed) and so Hell turns its ugly beasts toward other realms.
9) Cain may really be good after all (or at the end if what I thought about him turns out right) and so he would die to make it possible for some people (heroes, Leah) to escape into other realms.
So, what do you think? Pretty far along we've come, haven't we? Right or wrong, it doesn't matter: it's fun to conceive lore for this game and hear what you all think of it. Personally I would be fine with something as this, should it be presented in a dramatic way as D1 and D2 were (for me at least they were, specially because of the narrators's voice acting). But if it turns out true, I'll be sad, 'cause I like surprises :thumbup:
I hope it's something even better!!