The fate of Diablo(and his soulstone)

Droezd · 22-04-2008, 16:14

In a teaser trailer for Diablo 2, found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVv41NarVP4,
you see the Dark Wanderer sitting at the back of a wagon talking about what has happened since he left Tristram. He is holding Diablo's soulstone in his hands, but the trailer ends with him throwing it away and leaving it in the mud.
When next you see it, it is embedded in the forehead of Diablo, when you fight him in the game.
If he needed it, why did he throw it away?
My thought is that it's not the same stone. I don't think that you have destroyed Diablo nor his soulstone. Maybe he got his hands on another stone, the stone that you see smashed in the cinematic, in order to pretend to die, but actually live on. This could explain him being i Diablo 3.
I don't know if the trailer is considered canon, however, but in any case, let me know what you think

Droezd

(Also, if this has already been covered on the forum, I apologise.)

skyjuice · 22-04-2008, 17:27

Diablo's soulstone wasn't destroyed.

Alot of people assume that the cutscene at end of act 4 when the narrator (marius?) says the SOULSTONE at hellforge was destroyed it was actually Mephisto's. (Mephy dropped his stone at durance 3 remember?)

Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

Diablo and Baal are simply killed by the PC, whatever happened to their soulstones, only Blizzard can think of.

SmittySixTen · 22-04-2008, 17:36

We see both (Diablo's and Mephisto's smash. Also, he says stones.

sirwhere · 22-04-2008, 17:37

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Originally Posted by skyjuice

Diablo's soulstone wasn't destroyed.

Alot of people assume that the cutscene at end of act 4 when the narrator (marius?) says the SOULSTONE at hellforge was destroyed it was actually Mephisto's. (Mephy dropped his stone at durance 3 remember?)

Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

Diablo and Baal are simply killed by the PC, whatever happened to their soulstones, only Blizzard can think of.

Of course it's Diablo's soulstone destroyed at the cutscene. Mephisto's was already destroyed by YOU in the forge quest

skyjuice · 22-04-2008, 18:03

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Originally Posted by sirwhere

Of course it's Diablo's soulstone destroyed at the cutscene. Mephisto's was already destroyed by YOU in the forge quest

I just rewatched that cutscene. There was no mention of soulstoneS. The PC destroyed the soul stone at hellforge, and that was what the cutscene is about. You smashing meph's soul stone!

Droezd · 22-04-2008, 18:17

I just watched the Epilogie for Diablo 2 and I quote: "I heard later that he was defeated, and the soulstone(s) were destroyed at hellforge. All except one." You see the hammer strike down twice. The first stone bluish or purple and the second one red. Two soulstones are destroyed. Mephisto's AND Diablo's.

Angel_of_Wrath · 22-04-2008, 18:26

Hmmm, I don't think I've ever seen this... but a 10 year gap might do that to a person..

It is possible that the Diablo stone smashed in the D2 epilogue was a false stone, but I dont think this trailer is real lore. It seems really weird that the wanderer could drop the stone, after he drove it into his forehead at the end of D1. Doesn't make sense. Why was he holding it?

prion · 22-04-2008, 18:32

that was his anni

hmm actually.....it could have been another shard, since Lazarus released Diablo by smashing the stone.

So maybe Diablo possesed the body of the Hero completely, trapped the Hero's soul in that shard, and then chucked him in the mud!

NASE · 22-04-2008, 18:34

If you are the master of the underworld, you call pull a stone out of your head and hold it in your hands.

sirwhere · 22-04-2008, 18:50

the soulstone that's left is BAAL's

my guess is that the hordes of hell will emerge from the destroyed worldstone keep and we, the heroes, have to go deep inside hell itself to slay the root of all evil (whatever that might be - probably the developer's head.. lol).

Expect thus an MMORPG with every human player joining in the quest to rid the world of demons once and for all.