History WMG / DiabloIII

Because let's see, a lot of the follower quest, particular Lyndon and Shen's are still unresolved. What's more is that all the seven evils were released and there are still 5 lords of sin unaccounted for(through it's quite likely that the five would be saved for Diablo 4). Furthermore, Datamining of Reaper of Souls have revealed portraits for Mephisto and Baal. I think it's likely that, as Blizzard is planning to resolve the storyline started in D1 with D3, that adventure mode-only areas and dungeons is a good way to deliver content without a full expansion. That way a lot of space could be covered without needing to spend too much time producing expansions, and we could deal with some of the Seven Evils without needing to wait for an expansion, which would most likely deal with a GrandFinale where the Nephalem stands against both the High Heavens and a Resurrected Diablo. Before the second expansion is released, content patches could patch in some of the Adventure Mode areas, events and bosses into campaign as a "prelude" to the second expansion.

Because let's see, a lot of the follower quest, particular Lyndon and Shen's are still unresolved. What's more is that all the seven evils were released and there are still 5 lords of sin unaccounted for(through it's quite likely that the five would be saved for Diablo 4). Furthermore, Datamining of Reaper of Souls have revealed portraits for Mephisto and Baal. I think it's likely that, as Blizzard is planning to resolve the storyline started in D1 with D3, that adventure mode-only areas and dungeons is a good way to deliver content without a full expansion. That way a lot of space could be covered without needing to spend too much time producing expansions, and we could deal with some of the Seven Evils without needing to wait for an expansion, which would most likely deal with a GrandFinale where the Nephalem stands against both the High Heavens and a Resurrected Diablo. Before the second expansion is released, content patches could patch in some of the Adventure Mode areas into campaign as a "prelude" to the second expansion.

Meanwhile, some Angels, the bad ones, like Imperius and Malthael, who seek a more perfected world and has an intense dislike to anything with demon blood in it. What's to say that they got that trait from Anu himself, who wanted a state of complete purity? Meaning that if, for example, Imperius is a gigantic asshole, that trait was sired from Anu who only wants perfect things and not even bothering with the balance. All these demon hating that extends to hatred to humans/Nephalems can be traced back to Anu, meaning that perhaps in the sequel, Anu would be reincarnated like Tathamet via Diablo, and proceeds to say that Nephalems and Sanctuary are not pure good because of having evil's essence and want obliterate it.

As of why he might have lost a mustache or something... a small missed thing.

Both of them are bald black dudes, and judging from Tyrael's usual tendency to be impressed with humanity, it might not be a surprise when he broke away from High Heavens, he just picked a familiar face based on his experiences to shape his head, and he chose someone that was helpful from him: One of the heroes that defeated the Prime Evils. He picked the Paladin, who's more likely to take on leadership roles.

More sympathetic Angels like Auriel would also jump ship and turn themselves into mortals, like Tyrael, before it's destroyed.

Will involve Angels under Imperius reaching the crossing point that the new heroes (it's a tradition, new game features new classes and heroes) will tell both Burning Hells and High Heavens, in a similar fashion of [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]]: "If you keep gunning us down without thank... ''then to hell with you!''" and proceeds to initiate the destruction of High Heavens and Burning Hells, leaving Sanctuary alone and people who die there would instead be subjected into TheNothingnessAfterDeath, nobody goes to heaven or hell anymore, but in the end, Humanity gets to be free and choose their own path, and if they want faith, there are still other deities to pray at such as Bul-Kathos or Akarat.

The game will cause events where the player must first deal with Imperius and afterwords the Dirgest will bind the soul of Imperius to the last surviving remnant of the Black Soulstone and later move to kill Itherael and steal his soul than later claim the soul of whoever the current replacement of Malthael created by the Crystal Arch is forcing the player to kill the Dirgest which would lead to Fate lying shattered forever like in the prophecy.

Belial actually was performing a skilled deception, and Azmodan was actually using good tactics against your characters. However, the nephalem's powers, in addition to making them strong fighters, also make them smarter, more skilled, etc., and allows them to see through the lies, and understand the tactics much better than most others could. Since this is hard to show in game, blizzard instead made a stylistic decision to show Belial using a somewhat more predictable trick of simply pretending to be [[spoiler: hakaan]], and Azmodan as simply throwing soldiers at the fort, and telling you what to do, as a way of showing your character's advantages in these areas.

[[WMG: Expansion pack #2 will have Imperius and Tathamet as bosses]].

[[WMG: Expansion pack will be set in Skovos (among other places) and feature not only Diablo, but also Mephisto and Baal]]
All three Prime Evils have their audiologs in Reaper of Souls. Those could be found in Battlefields of Enernity, and they both have portraits and voice actors already. Skovos is mentioned in Adventure Mode by Lorath Nahr and its artwork was shown before the original game's release. At very least, Baal and Mephisto will have more audiodiaries in future expansion.

Blizzard has stated that only the Fate part of the End of Days prophecy has been fulfilled so the Valor shall turn to Wrath actually refers to the increasing apparency of Imperius's true nature as the Archangel of Wrath(Diablo points out that Imperius hides his Wrath out of fear which isn't Valorous/couragous) and not the Archangel of Valor(there probably isn't one to begin with). The Sinlord tied to the Deadly Sin of Anger which is sometimes known as Wrath will be called the Lord of Anger(the word Wrath is usually treated as more righteous than Anger).

A lieutenant of the greatest tactition of Hell ''would'' be able to time Diablo's arival at the Silver Spire and attack the Nephalem with an army of Angels only to ''feign'' weakness when the Angels he brought get shut down by the corruption of the Silver Spire. Once Diablo got destroyed Imperius would find the Black Soulstone and smash it on the Hellforge while preserving it's fragments to use to capture Azmodan's 6 brothers in anticipation of Azmodan's ascension to Prime Evil. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Malthael's actions have only ensured that Azmodan would be the ''only one'' to obtain a fragment of the Black Soulstone due to it's destruction in the Malthael boss fight.]]

The Reaper of Souls beta has Adria reveal before death that Diablo is returning and it's because of the players. Once Malthael is slain it's likely that the Black Soulstone will inadvertantly be destroyed releasing the 7 Great Evils setting things up for later expansions and the saving of Leah that Metzen mentioned.

As the Prime Evils are greatly weakened following Diablo-Tathamet's defeat, some dangling plot threads must be resolved (such as Adria's whereabouts and the status of the other five Sin Lords who are possibly fighting each other for the position Azmodan left after his death) -- and Malthael will be TheChessmaster behind those threads. And then, in the final battle, Malthael will merge with the Black Soulstone to become a [[EldritchAbomination blasphemous amalgamation of Anu and Tathamet]], effectively becoming a deity higher than the aforementioned original Prime Good and Prime Evil and the sole supreme being with the power to unmake heaven, hell, and Sanctuary itself.

A lot of the components of diablo 3 are either updated, or based off of, features in Diablo 2. (The 5 character classes are similar to diablo 2's non-expansion classes, the locations are similar, the boss spawn system, waypoints, and loot systems are touched up bu the same, the auction house copies D2's trading, etc.) given this:

[[WMG: Diablo universe will cross over into WorldOfWarcraft around the tenth expansion]]

If one takes a look at VideoGame/TeamFortress2's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I Meet The Pyro Video]] they you see something similiar happen with the Pyro character. After 4 brutal acts of fighting countless demons, venturing into the bowls of hell and climbing to the highest reaches of heaven and finally achieving their goal, along the way gathering a few strange items that the blacksmith is somehow able to fashion into a staff, you meet a jovial ghost who sends you into a rainbow colored stream of light. In reality, the player character's mind shatters under the strain of everything they have gone through and the result is whimsyshire. The little flowers? Children. The Teddy Bears? Teenagers. The Unicorns? Adults. The happy clouds? Shopkeepers (Just observe how the player character (in my case, the monk) punches a fist into his hand before pointing at the cloud, at which point it gives up loot.)

[[WMG: The Necromancer from ''Diablo II'' will be the Big Bad]]

This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQo8cZnXN_M leaked video]] implies that Imperius is the ''Lord of Wrath'' in disguise and this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr5Oq_DF74 leaked video]] makes it clear he lives. This all implies that Imperius is going to be shown mercy after his defeat and will turn good. Covetous Shen seeks a jewel containing a demon... How do we not know he's not after the Black Soulstone and isn't the ''Lord of Greed''? And what's to stop him and Imperius from clashing in their true forms?

This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQo8cZnXN_M leaked video]] implies that Imperius is the ''Lord of Wrath'' in disguise and this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr5Oq_DF74 leaked video]] makes it clear he lives. This all implies that Imperius is going to be shown mercy after his defeat and will turn good. Covetous Shen seeks a jewel containing a demon... How do we not know he's not after the Black Soulstone and isn't the ''Lord of Greed''?

[[http://s23.postimg.org/kktgl1ijv/port.jpg Leaked images]] include icons that match the characters. After the creation of Sanctuary and the birth of the first nephalem, Lilith wanted to raise an army of nephalem to conquer both heaven and hell while Inarius feared the nephalem and wanted to destroy them. Considering this, upon her return Lilith would want to stop Malthael from destroying the human race and maybe even side with the player for the duration of Reaper of Souls. It would be a good premise to have Lilith as the new BigBad when she tries to conquer heaven and hell the way she originally intended to in the second announced (but unnamed) expansion. After all, we've defeated the sum of all hells and the former leader of heaven, so what else is there than to fight other nephalem?

...is in a location where someone's hardcore character died.