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We know that:
1. The Prime Evils lived in hell.
2. They forged a plan to be banished into Sanctuary by Azmodan and Belial. So that they could take over the mortal realm.
3. The Horadrim along with Tyreal imprisoned them in the soulstones which were made to contain them.
This leads to my point, since the stones was destroyed, would'nt that just set them free again? Perhaps releasing them back into hell?
Thats what my logic tells me anyway.
This would mean that with the world stone destroyed, everyone from hell can walk into Sanctuary. And who is in Hell?
Well, after we kill Andariel Cain says that she have been banished back to the burning hells. I assume the same thing happens to Duriel, and i would say that it also supports that The Greater Evils were put back there aswell.
This means that in hell we got:
Andariel, Duriel, Azmodan, Belial, Mephisto, Baal and Diablo. And probably Lilith also.
And they are free to walk into Sanctuary now.
Yes, that's about it.
Except there may be something new.
The Worldstone may have a lingering effect even after it was destroyed. Perhaps the stronger demons can only now, after 20 years, get back in Sanctuary.
The demons are also not just back in full strength in Hell, after you killed them. Just like when Diablo, Baal and Mephisto were first banished from Hell, they were weakened and bodyless. (see the story about the time they were hunted by the Horadrim).
So even if the barrier that prevents them to see/enter Sanctuary is gone, they would first have to aquire new bodies and build up their strength again. Perhaps that is what they have achieved now after 20 years and that is the reason we have to battle them again.
If all you've done is send them to Hell, why in Act 4 do you go into Hell to kill Diablo and thus send him... right back to the place he was standing? I think there's either some huge inconsistencies in the universe and story, or something a little more to the killing of Prime Evils and destruction of the soulstones then just sending them back to hell.
I think the soulstones were more to facilitate embodiment, which gave them more power (and made them capture-able). I'm not sure how much that applied to the Lesser Evils, though, since they weren't in soulstones to start off with...
If all you've done is send them to Hell, why in Act 4 do you go into Hell to kill Diablo and thus send him... right back to the place he was standing? I think there's either some huge inconsistencies in the universe and story, or something a little more to the killing of Prime Evils and destruction of the soulstones then just sending them back to hell.
Yea i found that pretty stupid too. They made the soulstones kinda to excuse the plot of the games but the plot itself of the soulstones always seemed flawed to me...
If all you've done is send them to Hell, why in Act 4 do you go into Hell to kill Diablo and thus send him... right back to the place he was standing? I think there's either some huge inconsistencies in the universe and story, or something a little more to the killing of Prime Evils and destruction of the soulstones then just sending them back to hell.
I thought that being trapped in the corrupted soul stone was the way they made it into Sanctuary. That it would be more difficult or impossible to get there any other way. By smashing them you a) send them back b) keep them from coming back to Sanctuary.
The whole soulstone hook is weak. I am hoping they will take the chance to tie up this loose end in D3. Something like being traped in the soulstones allowed them to corrupt the worldstone. The soulstones are of the same stuff or a shard of the worldstone.
The Prime Evils were banished to the mortal realm, where they were overcome by the Horned Death led by Belial and Azmodan.
It seems that the reason why they chased the Prime Evils out of Hell is that they believed the Angels will be forced to take their focus on the mortal plane, thus leaving the Gates Of Heaven abandoned and defenseless.
However, Belial and Azmodan began to argue over which had the higher authority and they took arms against each other. Thus a bloody civil war was launched that has lasted to this day.
So in other words, the Prime Evils have been exiled to the human world, they did not "forge a plan".
If all you've done is send them to Hell, why in Act 4 do you go into Hell to kill Diablo and thus send him... right back to the place he was standing? I think there's either some huge inconsistencies in the universe and story, or something a little more to the killing of Prime Evils and destruction of the soulstones then just sending them back to hell.
Well, if your goal was to destroy Diablo's soulstone, so he couldn't go BACK through the gate into Sanctuary at will, you'd probably have to kill him to get it, right? So assuming that Marius' belief that Diablo's soulstone was shattered is correct, that'd be a solid reason for hunting him down in hell and smacking him. That and shiny loot.
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