[ULTIMATE SPOILERS] Just Saw the Cinematics. What's left for the expansion?

[Brokenstorm]

You've been warned







The meteor is Tyrael, he fell from the Heaven because he renounced his "angelhood" by ripping out his wings. We rescue him just after the Skeleton King and from there on he traveled with the heroes.


Cain dies at the end of Act 1 from wounds he received earlier and Leah decides to continue his work.

Then we go to Caldeum and find Adria who has the Black Soulstone and we defeat Belial and trap his soul in the Black Soulstone.

Then Leah has a vision of Azmodan invading Sanctuary from the remain of Mount Arreat, so we travel to the Bastion Keep and defeat Azmodan and also trap his soul in the Black Soulstone.

So the Black Soulstone now contained all the Prime and Lesser Evils, it was then that Adria betrayed us and used the Black Soulstone on Leah to awaken Diablo as the Prime Evil, from the seed he had left in Leah.

Diablo attacks the High Heaven killing Imperius and wrecking the place. We rescue Auriel and Itherael and go on to defeat Diablo.

Tyrael takes the place of the archangel of wisdom as a mortal. The End?



So what's left? Obviously Mathael is M.I.A. and there may be a connection between Adria and Lilith.
Beside those two, who could appear in the expansion?

Metzen also hinted that he may want to "redeem" Leah. I hope not we don't need to repeat SC2's story (which was lame).

[raveharu]

I remembered someone quoted that Blizzard said everything was going as planned by the Prime evils.

The ending movies seemed a little off, there are bits and pieces missing so we'll have to play the game to find out.

Like what happened to the black soulstone, was it destroyed or does it still exist?

I'm also guessing the prime evils made use of us to entrapped both azmodan and belial into the stone.

How do you know we rescued the other council members?

[ancalagon]

I remembered someone quoted that Blizzard said everything was going as planned by the Prime evils.

The ending movies seemed a little off, there are bits and pieces missing so we'll have to play the game to find out.

Like what happened to the black soulstone, was it destroyed or does it still exist?

I'm also guessing the prime evils made use of us to entrapped both azmodan and belial into the stone.

How do you know we rescued the other council members?

Tyrael narrates it in the ending cinematic ... 'and the heroes saved the archangels of fate and hope...' no mention of wisdom tho (malthael)

[Loriku]

If you watch Diablo when he falls and fades away a piece of him is still intact (the soulstone maybe?) and falls back to sanctuary...also if you watch the making of Diablo 3 they actually hint at wanting to revisit certain things http://www.twitch.tv/incgamers_clan they're all on there.

Raveharu, in the cinematic it tells you that you rescue those 2 archangels :) x

[Loriku]

Tyrael narrates it in the ending cinematic ... 'and the heroes saved the archangels of fate and hope...' no mention of wisdom tho (malthael)

Since tyrael becomes wisdom then i think malthael is gone....maybe

[ancalagon]

You've been warned







The meteor is Tyrael, he fell from the Heaven because he renounced his "angelhood" by ripping out his wings. We rescue him just after the Skeleton King and from there on he traveled with the heroes.


Cain dies at the end of Act 1 from wounds he received earlier and Leah decides to continue his work.

Then we go to Caldeum and find Adria who has the Black Soulstone and we defeat Belial and trap his soul in the Black Soulstone.

Then Leah has a vision of Azmodan invading Sanctuary from the remain of Mount Arreat, so we travel to the Bastion Keep and defeat Azmodan and also trap his soul in the Black Soulstone.

So the Black Soulstone now contained all the Prime and Lesser Evils, it was then that Adria betrayed us and used the Black Soulstone on Leah to awaken Diablo as the Prime Evil, from the seed he had left in Leah.

Diablo attacks the High Heaven killing Imperius and wrecking the place. We rescue Auriel and Itherael and go on to defeat Diablo.

Tyrael takes the place of the archangel of wisdom as a mortal. The End?



So what's left? Obviously Mathael is M.I.A. and there may be a connection between Adria and Lilith.
Beside those two, who could appear in the expansion?

Metzen also hinted that he may want to "redeem" Leah. I hope not we don't need to repeat SC2's story (which was lame).


so obvious questions would be:-

(1) what happened to malthael (tyrael takes his place but where is he?)
(2) how did the soulstone come to contain baal, mephisto, andariel and duriel? how did adria become corrupt and where did the black soulstone come from in the first place? and what happens to it? i read in the book of cain it was created by zoltun kulle but how did it end in adrias hands?
(3) redeel leah? lol shes dead no?!?! how was sc 2's story then?? (not into sc)
(4) Bosses for expansion could include lilith, lucion, inarius, bartuc, horazon ...

[Brokenstorm]

so obvious questions would be:-

(1) what happened to malthael (tyrael takes his place but where is he?)
(2) how did the soulstone come to contain baal, mephisto, andariel and duriel? how did adria become corrupt and where did the black soulstone come from in the first place? and what happens to it? i read in the book of cain it was created by zoltun kulle but how did it end in adrias hands?
(3) redeel leah? lol shes dead no?!?! how was sc 2's story then?? (not into sc)
(4) Bosses for expansion could include lilith, lucion, inarius, bartuc, horazon ...


1. The only hint we have is from the prophecy
"And, at the End of Days, Wisdom shall be lost..."

2. Adria must have gotten hold of it after giving birth to Leah. She probably found it in one of Zultun Kulle's archives. How she managed to trap all the other Evils in it though, that I have no idea.

3. Redeem Leah in a similar way as Jim Raynor "saves" Sarah Kerrigan from the Zerg corruption.

4. Lilith: maybe, she may have escaped from the Void (again)
Lucion: Dead
Inarius: maybe, he may still be imprisoned in the Burning Hells
Bartuc: dead/may live on through his armor
Horazon: dead/may live on through his arcane Santuary
Mathael: probably

[ancalagon]

1. The only hint we have is from the prophecy
"And, at the End of Days, Wisdom shall be lost..."

2. Adria must have gotten hold of it after giving birth to Leah. She probably found it in one of Zultun Kulle's archives. How she managed to trap all the other Evils in it though, that I have no idea.

3. Redeem Leah in a similar way as Jim Raynor "saves" Sarah Kerrigan from the Zerg corruption.

4. Lilith: maybe, she may have escaped from the Void (again)
Lucion: Dead
Inarius: maybe, he may still be imprisoned in the Burning Hells
Bartuc: dead/may live on through his armor
Horazon: dead/may live on through his arcane Santuary
Mathael: probably

Or maybe im thinking we take it from zoltun kulle and give it to her cuz she says only she knows how to use it or something.

How do you know horazon is dead? D2 summoner was an imposter, the vizjerei mage from D1. Lucion might have been just temporarily banished back to hell or 'erased' from just sanctuary by uldyssian, he might still come back. Same for lilith, she came back once.

I'm overall interested in the whole zoltun kulle / adria / black soulstone / how all the souls came into the bss thing, i think we will get explanation ingame...

edit: also i think ingame or in the book The Order, we will learn of the 'killing' of kulle and who accomplished it, the book of cain seems to leave his story very brief and open ended.

[demasked]

I'm hoping for either Lilith, Mathael, or Tathamet the 7 headed dragon of evil (resurrected would be pretty sweet, though doubtful).

Perhaps Adria (who you find out is really lilith) uses the black soulstone and somehow gets the essence of Andariel and Duriel and then uses it in hell to awaken Tathamet. The heroes would then be following her to hell and the lairs of Andariel/Duriel in hopes of stopping her.

That or Adria is serving a greater master (lilith maybe) and gives the soulstone to that person who then resurrects Tathamet.

Would be awesome :)

[ancalagon]

I'm hoping for either Lilith, Mathael, or Tathamet the 7 headed dragon of evil (resurrected would be pretty sweet, though doubtful).

Perhaps Adria (who you find out is really lilith) uses the black soulstone and somehow gets the essence of Andariel and Duriel and then uses it in hell to awaken Tathamet. The heroes would then be following her to hell and the lairs of Andariel/Duriel in hopes of stopping her.

That or Adria is serving a greater master (lilith maybe) and gives the soulstone to that person who then resurrects Tathamet.

Would be awesome :)

Well tathamet was the 7 prime evils before he was slain and broken up into 7 lesser evils, essentially leahblo in d3 becomes tathamet when adria unleashes the bss on leah

[Loriku]

Well tathamet was the 7 prime evils before he was slain and broken up into 7 lesser evils, essentially leahblo in d3 becomes tathamet when adria unleashes the bss on leah

3 Prime evils and 4 lesser, I read somewhere though that Tathamet can't manifest because Onu can't manifest, who knows, whatever the expansions will be im sure they'll be epic :). Same as I said though, there is a piece from Diablo that falls back to sanctuary, watch the ending cinematic closely :)

[Brokenstorm]

Yes, you can see the Black Soulstone falling at the end. I just hope they don't twist it so that Leah's soul end up inside it and that somehow you are able to bring her back.

[Valhauros]

I think Cain's death was crappy, he should have survived longer and get killed by Leah. I also didn't like the transformed Tyrael and his baldness; he seemed to lack the serenity of a superior being, and although that may have been a reflection of the change... Anyway, regarding the potential of the expansion...

- No more Leah please; such bland character and dull design. She doesn't deserve any more screen time.
- Opening of the heavens for the populace, allowing it so share its knowledge (Most likely City Hub).
- Return of D2's characters and their involvement in their home regions.
- The reforming or reorganization of Caldeum and whatever it means for Sanctuary.
- Whatever is left of the Zakarum religion.
- Horazon and/or The Arcane Sanctuary (insight into the overall structure of the realm).

[demasked]

Does the Black Soul Stone really have all the 7 evils inside?

I thought it would only have Azmodan and Belial inside. Or did Adria (by herself or with someone else helping) gather the other prime/lesser evils inside the black soul stone between d2 and d3 and just needed some help in getting to Belial/Azmodan.

Basically Diablo was awakened by using the black soul stone which only had Belial/Azmodan. Maybe Diablo gets sucked into the black soul stone after dying which would make bringing back tathamet back that much easier.

[Alexcstrassa]

Does the Black Soul Stone really have all the 7 evils inside?

I thought it would only have Azmodan and Belial inside. Or did Adria (by herself or with someone else helping) gather the other prime/lesser evils inside the black soul stone between d2 and d3 and just needed some help in getting to Belial/Azmodan.

Basically Diablo was awakened by using the black soul stone which only had Belial/Azmodan. Maybe Diablo gets sucked into the black soul stone after dying which would make bringing back tathamet back that much easier.

The book of Cain mentions that all the Evils constantly contend with one another, looking to gain the upper hand over each other. I interpreted it as: since Mephisto, Baal, Andariel, Duriel, Azmodan and Belial were were already vanquished, Diablo no longer had to compete with any of them for control over the forces of Hell. So apparently, he is now free to wield the powers of all seven.

[ancalagon]

Does the Black Soul Stone really have all the 7 evils inside?

I thought it would only have Azmodan and Belial inside. Or did Adria (by herself or with someone else helping) gather the other prime/lesser evils inside the black soul stone between d2 and d3 and just needed some help in getting to Belial/Azmodan.

Basically Diablo was awakened by using the black soul stone which only had Belial/Azmodan. Maybe Diablo gets sucked into the black soul stone after dying which would make bringing back tathamet back that much easier.

tathamet coming back wouldnt make much sense, would contradict the book of cain and would be another weak and pathetic story direction choice. why is everyone obsessed with some stupid dragon? *sigh* Id far prefer to see inarius, lilith, lucion, malthael gone evil, some rogue vizjerei who finds bartucs armor, or heck something original like some evil ancient nephalem returns as the worldstone has been shattered and it used to dampen their powers but not anymore etc

[acceleration turkey]

what's left for the expansion? reziarfg, of course.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080819101420/diablo/images/thumb/2/24/Reziarfg-large.jpg/404px-Reziarfg-large.jpg

[Aweus]

So what's left? Obviously Mathael is M.I.A. and there may be a connection between Adria and Lilith.
Beside those two, who could appear in the expansion?

Metzen also hinted that he may want to "redeem" Leah. I hope not we don't need to repeat SC2's story (which was lame).
Malthael simply missing without a word (if that is the case, we still didnt seen the full game) would be a HUGE hole in the plot and I am pretty sure that if he is indeed "missing" it is intended for future story buildup. Expansion? Quite possible. As for Adria, perhaps my mind plays tricks on me but wasnt there some data/speculations suggesting that she dies during D3? If not, you will see her again for sure, considering what she did.

As a matter of fact I am bit surprised that they already served us THE Prime Evil right now. Leahblo is supposed to be one. Also it is kind of surprising that Tyrael claims that Diablo is now destroyed FOREVER. What does that exactly mean? Wasnt he already destroyed "forever" during D2? It was later stated that you cant really kill the prime evils. Banish for a while at best. So why now again we hear about "forever" and how does this relate to future expansion? Need more data.

As for Leah I am not sure if what Metzen ment by redemption would mean bring he back alive and carry her on arms towards the sun. I think it would relate more to her soul being there trapped somewhere and helping that soul to get free would be one of the "checkpoint" objectives in the expansion. I doubt they would make Leah the primary goal of expansion unless her character is still greatly important for general story. Which I think is not. She served her main purpose in Diablo 3 when she became a host for Diablo. But still, giving her soul a chance for peace and redemption would not hurt and many people would like to see that. I can assure you Leah already got many "fans". I read posts with people upset about her fate in D3. Same as some people are upset about Cain's deah. Cain was obviously with us since ancient times of D1, loosing him now can be sad. And Leah? Well, she is just a hot chick. Saving hot chicks is one of prime occupations of gamers since Donkey Kong :thumbup:

[Justinchavez]

At blizzcon lore panel Chris Metzen says that Malthael will play a role in the ongoing story of diablo 3

[acceleration turkey]

http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Malthael

based on malthael's sickle weapons, the prefix "mal" in his name, and the fact that "When Sanctuary (http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Sanctuary) was discovered, he abstained from the vote to decide its fate, claiming that at the end of all things only he will prevail," he seems to be primed to turn evil.

added to the fact tyrael has now taken his place as wisdom in the angiris council, it seems like blizzard is setting malthael up to return as a villain in expansions. he will be angered that tyrael took his place, that tyrael shed his angelic characteristics, and also took his spot on the council. would also be angry that tyrael helped leah, who ended up killing imperius and destroying much of heaven.

"The Archangel of Wisdom. Male. Gaunt figure whose robes and breastplate are black. Malthael is the voice of reason and conciliatory within the Council, respected by all the others. Although formerly one of the brightest of all Archangels, constantly pondering the Universe and the truth of reality, upon Inarius (http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Inarius)'s theft of the Worldstone, the "heart" of reality, Malthael's character began to darken, which eventually leads to his becoming a very grim figure among the Angels."

more "good-turns-bad" plot twists from blizzard being set up. the question would be whether the player would face just malthael, or whether malthael would somehow resurrect the prime evils and cooperate with them to satisfy some strange soon-to-be-retconned agenda.

[Ragingpwner]

Just my .02 from a fan that enjoys Diablo. I haven't read the Book of Cain or anything outside of the games(storyline/cinematics)

As far as "expansion content"

1) Immediately the disappearance of Malthael raised an eyebrow. Even in writing outside of video game story line, the sudden disappearance of a character(of such importance, even though we as the "player" haven't gotten to see it through d1-d3) usually means a significant change in them and how they impact the story line. So I think like everyone's been saying "good turned evil" will definitely be a possibility. The other possibility is that he took a leave of absence in search of knowledge(wisdom) of how to defeat whatever comes next. Why wouldn't he tell anyone especially the council of what he was doing? I don't know but to me that would be the more interesting of the two, that is instead of the age old "good turned bad" it's something else, especially when we're all anticipating he's gone evil.

2) I don't know about or care about Tathamet, I've killed enough internet dragons playing WoW, however I think a monstrous beast of absolute pure evil would be pretty intense(like bigger than Arreat when Azmodan shatters it). Also with this "being" coming back into existence, I think we'd see the return of Inarius and Illith thus allowing more "fresh" story. However, from what I saw in the end cinematic it was the black soulstone that fell back to Sanctuary upon defeating Diablo. If we assume that us as players/mortals defeated azmodan/belial(and all the rest, mephisto/baal/andarial/duriel etc) I'm also in agreement that on the fall Diablo's soul went into the soulstone. This is now a black soulstone with all seven of the evils(4 lesser 3 prime) in it. This is a catalyst for something which I think will come into play in the expansion. The only people (to my knowledge) that either know about it, or its power are you as the hero, leah, adria, and the angels. So I think assuming Adria's character doesn't die in d3 she will somehow get her hands on it, and use it for "something". I don't think or believe it will be releasing the evils from it, but rather using its power for something. They can only repeat the cycle of "soulstone this evil, it gets loose, defeat the evil, soulstone, repeat before it gets boring, and while that's the main theme throughout diablo, I feel like blizzard is trying(repeat: trying) to introduce depth(which is ironic because I think d3 franchise is one of the most in depth story lines of all of their franchises) to the story thus the introduction of Leah as a character that is supposed to represent hope.

3) I think Leah as a character will make a return somehow, whether through us redeeming/resurrecting her, or some other device. Now with Deckard Cain gone, the hero is in need of someone to show them the way and accompany them, I think Leah will fit that role quite well. However, after everything that happened I think the Leah we knew, won't be the one that comes back, but rather a darker twisted husk of a soul after having Diablo possess her. However, this will give her insight into the plan of the Prime Evils(and how best to aid the hero in stopping it).


4) Despite it looking quite dire, I don't believe Imperius dies from his wounds inflicted by Diablo. Even if he did, I find it odd in terms of story that you(mortals) can kill prime evils, but they just eventually come back. So if you reverse it and have a death of an angel of such importance, that they can't come back. Otherwise it would seem the odds are in favor of the forces of evil because once an angel is killed they're actually dead. Like in the Wrath animation clip, Imperius "kills" Diablo and he just comes back, so for it to be reversed and Imperius unable to come back would seem like a major **** up in the rules of the story. I do however believe that we'll see Imperius return much more for wrath than valor when he does come back. I don't believe the animation short was intended to fulfill the line of "Valor shall turn to Wrath", I think we have yet to experience the wrath of Imperius. I would argue that Imperius holds Tyrael responsible for Diablo reaching his "shining heaven" and defiling it. Also this ties into my Malthael one, if Malthael is going down the road of "good turned bad" or is even on the fence, I feel like Imperius would convince him to join his cause, implying that the Angiris Council is tainted by the actions of Tyrael(blasphemy when he ripped off his wings etc).

Idk, some stuff I was thinking about, when I wrote it I rambled on a bit. No TL:DR version sorry ^^

[Srikandi]

I'll tell you, there are some areas I'd love to see in the expansion(s). Particularly the home areas of the various player characters of D2 and D3. Hope we get to go to some of those places.

Also like to fight more Angels. Get tired of fighting demons :)

[Philos]

I think we will defeat the other Sin-demons, like Cydaea and Ghom... But, before I need to clear Act3 and Act4 to see really if there exists seven of such monsters or not.

[ancalagon]

There's a lot left for the expansion. First the things that are obvious and have been either hinted at or even confirmed are:

-black abyss (probably to rescue leah to provide invaluable information or something)
-malthael
-imperius (diablo didnt kill him, just wounded him)
- lanzuul / minion (concept art for these 2 seemed pretty final, just left out of initial release, possibly one of Azmodans other lieutenants)
- those 3 demons in azmodan trailer
- mystic / enchanting
- charms and talisman
- more gems
- ureh
- skovos isles

And what I'd like to see:-

- Lilith
- Lucion
- Horazon
- Bartuc
- Inarius
- Necromancer city
- Scosglen
- Xiansai
- Ivgorod
- Viz Jun, Gea Kul, Kurast rebuilt

[Sass]

Ureh is the biggest one I'd like to see expanded on. We heard whispers, and ever since, I'd been loving the concept.


Horazon & Bartuc...I'd personally love a whole mini game based on his reign :P

[Zagreus]

Ureh is my bet for a location.

As for bosses, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Lilith and/or Inarius. Both were rocking multiple pieces of new art in the Book of Cain. The only other characters to get that much new art other than characters new to DIII were the Butcher and the Skeleton King, and we all saw where that lead. :3

[Mage Slayer]

Lilith and Inarius for sure. Plus settling unfinished business with Adria.

[Sass]

Actually, with Imperious' solemn threat to us, I'd love to kinda repay the notion. ;)

[Neinball]

Tyrael has a few expansion hooks if you talk with him right before fighting Diablo. I missed the fact the he had things to say the first two times I played through mainly because there is a bug that displays two Tyrael's and one of them you can't interact with so I never even noticed the other one with speech options.

He explains that Malthael has not taken the disappearance of the Worldstone well and just left the Angiris council without any warning and that no one knows where he is. Tyrael's thoughts are that he must be wondering the endless, empty halls of the Pandemonium Fortress seeking answers to his questions.

Another dialogue with Tyrael is about how he and the player agree that they will stop at nothing to redeem Leah's soul and ensure she finds peace after vanquishing Diablo.

[jamesisbest]

What I expect to see in the first expansion:

Adria as a boss + more pointless trash talk from a boss until you reach them. There is no way you are just going to forget her ultimate betrayal.

Redemption of Leah (as cringeworthy as it is Blizzard probably will implement it).

Malthael. His disappearance and darkening demeanor means he is likely questioning Heaven's role in the universe. This sparks interest. Fighting an angel would be fun (Izual doesn't really count since he becomes demonic). I was quite disappointed that you don't get to fight Inarius in the game. That was quite a let down.

Another 2 or 3 of Azmodan's Lieutenants. Perhaps Greed's lair as a secret area.

[marshmallow]

For the last expansion Lilith coming back to reclaim her children could be fun. Maybe Inarius can come along for the ride too.

[eltfreak]

In my first play through, I played with the enchantress. When I was closing Diablo's hell portals, she said something like, "I wonder why Imperius doesn't close the portals to Hell himself?".

I expect Imperius to have a big role in the expansion.

[GoldenredDragon]

Imperius wants the eternal conflict to continue. He is valor. And valor can only prove itself when there is battle. Otherwise, he bores himself to death in heaven. Valor turns to Pride, as Wisdom is lost.

G.R.D. (Definitely Imperius. Oh wait, he's "dead"...)

[chenw]

That is still a loose end. There are a few things that the game plot fails to provide a proper conclusion:

1. Fate of Adria; after she opens her red portal at the end of act 3, she is never heard from again. Where has she gone?

2. Fate of Crystal Arch: yes, Diablo would have, at the very least, damaged it, but are there any permanent effects to Angels and Archangels? We don't know, we have absolutely no idea what happens to even the Angiris Council, apart from the fact that Tyrael has returned to that council while being the sole mortal in the Council (at least he claims to have anyway). Therefore the fate of every single angel in heaven is still a very big question mark. If angels were indeed all killed because Diablo got to the Crystal Arch, then it'd be amazing how fragile heaven actually is. I would not be surprised if Imperius survived, having seen what a single Nephalem could lead to (IE Heaven in ruins), leads an army of Angels and invade Sanctuary to eradicate all 'Nephalems'. Would be fun to see an expansions where instead of fighting demons and having angels as allies, you now fight angels with demons as allies.

3. Fate of the Black Soul Stone : this one is possibly the most obvious, Diablo's 'corpse' was allowed to simply be thrown away from heaven down to Sanctuary (at least that's what the Fallen Star would suggest, one falls from Heaven to sanctuary literally), rather than simply be destroyed and end the existence of the Prime Evil for once and for all (although there may be reasons for that, for something to be perceived as good, you need something else that is perceived as evil). Maybe Adria would notice that the Prime Evil could still be resurrected as long as the Black Soulstone still was in tact. Perhaps the plot would involve chasing down the whereabouts of the Soul Stone, find Adria has taken it to hell to find a suitable body for it (possibly one made from the remnant blood of all of the evils that make up the Prime Evil), one which would make the Prime Evil rival that of the original Prime Evil in legends in terms of power. You confront and kill her, but only to find the soul stone is very nearly reincarnated. Leaving with no choice, you bring the soul stone to Hell forge, shatter it into 7 pieces, and now fight the 7 Evils individually (Diablo, Mephisto, Baal, Andariel, Duriel, Belial and Azmodan). The 7 evils defeated reunites the Black Soulstone, and as the final showdown, defeat the now weakened true Prime Evil, and shatter the Black Soulstone into million pieces, eradicating Hell leadership forever.

4. The fate of the 7 Heroes from D2. The only one we know is Barbarian, and the Necromancer is mentioned, but as far as I know none of the other 5 are.

[Sass]

It's a cliff hanger because we have 2 more games on the way. D2C ended with a cliffhanger of Baal getting the stone and burning Marius' prison, but no conclusion until LOD came, which was STILL a cliffhanger.


Stories have suspense. It's part of writing. I believe loose ends aren't a bad thing at this point of the game life because we have so much more content on the way.

[fmulder]

It's a cliff hanger because we have 2 more games on the way. D2C ended with a cliffhanger of Baal getting the stone and burning Marius' prison, but no conclusion until LOD came, which was STILL a cliffhanger.


Stories have suspense. It's part of writing. I believe loose ends aren't a bad thing at this point of the game life because we have so much more content on the way.

I agree, not a big fan of cliffhangers myself.

[The Rockman]

A few things that some of you seem to of forgotten.
1) Adria is working for Big D as is revealed at end of act 3.
2) in act 2 when the black soul stone is made whole you see Adria put the souls of all the Greater Evils we destroyed in D2 including Diablo into it, this is what Diablo wants to happen.
3) When Diablo takes over leah it because Adria has tranfered the souls of all the evils into her.
Also it not really Diablo its Diablo in control of a reborn Prime Evil or Tathamet, he states it as well in the act 4 opening cinematic when he fights the angel.

For the expansion there's crazy angels Adria and the Black soulstone, and the minor evils (that is the ones who where not part of Tathamet).

[Puckineh]

personally i want to smack around Inarius. he created sanctuary, got all pissy when the nephalem came into power, teamed with demons before, voted to erase sanctuary.

I was hoping i would get to battle him in D3 and im still hoping i get the chance in the expansion

[RedMandrake]

I felt there was a gap in the end about Imperius. We don't know that he is dead so how does he feel towards the Nephalem now and about him not being the hero. Tyrael gets a lesson out of all this, his character seem to progress at the end by sitting for wisdom, as does the Nephalem, but Imperius seem to become less powerful. Maybe it is indeed that his valor turns to pride through his arrogance but also in the short animation where he "kills" Diablo I got the feeling that he was in conflict within him, so maybe he becomes corrupt and is also somehow responsible for the dissapearance of Malthael... Just brainstorming

[Buffinator]

I know how about all the monsters from all the games come back at the end and try kill the hero.

[The Rockman]

Does the Black Soul Stone really have all the 7 evils inside?

I thought it would only have Azmodan and Belial inside. Or did Adria (by herself or with someone else helping) gather the other prime/lesser evils inside the black soul stone between d2 and d3 and just needed some help in getting to Belial/Azmodan.

Basically Diablo was awakened by using the black soul stone which only had Belial/Azmodan. Maybe Diablo gets sucked into the black soul stone after dying which would make bringing back tathamet back that much easier.

Its does have all 7 evils in it, if you played attention you would of seen 5 Souls being inserted in it when it was made whole, as for how by some mumbojumbo magic that Big D told Adria to do. The Black soul stone etc is all part of Diablo plan to remake Tathamet aka the Prime Evil with himself as the controlling entity. As for Tathamet not being able to materialize that only applies to the plane of Sanctuary, theres no restriction on the plane of Heaven. He manages to do it by using Leah body as protection during the few seconds he on Sanctuary.

As for the expansion well heres my thoughts.
1: Adria we have got to find and kill her (TBH she is the most evil of all of Diablo characters).
2: Malthael what happened to him.
3: The Black-soul Stone we saw it fall (I think) but what happened to it and the Evils souls, possible that Big D and co could all come back again...
4: Since there stuff said by Tyrael about redeeming Leah soul might see more stuff relating to her unless it just refers to destroying Diablo's physical body.

[viljarast]

3: The Black-soul Stone we saw it fall (I think) but what happened to it and the Evils souls, possible that Big D and co could all come back again...


Maybe the soulstone fell into pieces as it fell from the High Heavens and the player has to look for the shards and destroy them one by one before Adria gets to them.

I personally would love some Inarius, Lilith and sweet Nephalem-action.

[Mage Slayer]

The more I think about it, the more I realise Lillith/Inarius should be Diablo 4, not an expansion. Our grandkids will love it.

[Brokenstorm]

If the soulstone fell, it didn't fall to sanctuary but to Pandemonium.
Remember who is roaming the halls of the Pandemonium Forteress.
Yeah you pretty much have your expansion right there.

Mathael finds it, realize what it is and that the world can't survive without balance, you can pretty much guess what will happen next.

[CarsV]

If the soulstone fell, it didn't fall to sanctuary but to Pandemonium.
Remember who is roaming the halls of the Pandemonium Forteress.
Yeah you pretty much have your expansion right there.

Mathael finds it, realize what it is and that the world can't survive without balance, you can pretty much guess what will happen next.

Yeah, I felt the in-game text implied there's a future for Mathael in an expansion. Also, don't forget who else is still "roaming" out there, somebody who tried to put an end to the Nephalem before it became fashionable. Inarius. Got a feeling Mathael rescues/releases Inarius. Tyrael even implies in the game something like "look at what evil did to Zulton Kulle and Leoric. The more you fight evil, the more it drives you mad". And... Inarius has had oodles of time to be driven/corrupted into madness.

Imperius fits in there somewhere. Either he is corrupted by his wound or he willingly infects himself with the black soulstone. Not sure.

[Nachee]

First we'll have to look for the soulstone to destroy it.

Imperius will kill the angels that help you while on heaven, vanish Tyrael and then build an angelic army to destroy humanity while blaming it of the almost destruction of heaven. This will be all orchestrated by Mathael who will have been working with Adria and Diablo for a while now.

So basically first you'll need to fight adria while both searching for the soulstone, then Imperius, who deserves it cause he was quite a dick during the whole time he appeared and then we'll have to go make an ashtray out of Mathael's skull, or whatever it is angels have.


EDIT: Regardless on how "I just invented whatever story I would like to see". Imperius will most definitely be an enemy, he was still moving when we go to fight Diablo which shows that though weakened, he was still alive. During the whole game he was a dick and before he falled he was just about to battle us, the fact that no cinematic or anything showed him being regretful of his dickishness and thanking us for saving the high heavens leaves him in the position in which he was about to go all berserk on us.

Bring it on Imperius you suck.

[metarox]

I definitely think we will need to find the black soulstone and Adria in an expansion. Malthael could be the angel that trained the enchantress if you listen closely to her dialog stuff. He knew it was coming and prepared someone for this task or at least help with the task. But I think the next big vilain in line is Imperius which hates humans with a passion and without needing to worry about hell anymore, may just be the one to try and kill humanity since Tyrael is mortal and less of a problem to him now (his vote saved us last time).

They said that this timeline of Diablo would end with Diablo 3 so if there is a Diablo 4 it will be in the past somewhere, hoping for the eternal conflict or something alike.

[yangfeng]

The ending movies seemed a little off, there are bits and pieces missing so we'll have to play the game to find out.





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