Yeah, but Mephisto is sort of perma-dead now, or at least that's the impression I got from the events of the last game.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Mephestio was either "imprisoned" on Sanctuary or dead for quite a number of years. More than enough time for Inarius to slip from whatever cell he was caged in.
However I suspect that Mephisto set Inarius free deliberately. Mephisto is likely absolutely terrified of what Lilith could do now that she's free and has apparently amassed some power within Hell, and he figures that Inarius is the one with the best chance of actually defeating her.
How is Lilith so strong, though? She's not a Prime Evil or even a Lesser Evil. By all accounts she's just an ordinary demon, as Inarius is an ordinary angel. Why should Mephisto be scared of her?
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 11th 2022 at 5:00:51 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Lilith's capability was never really a matter of raw power. She's not entirely lacking in that department, but she likely couldn't match a Prime Evil in a direct contest.
What she can do is think so far outside the box that she might be able to completely overturn the board. Unleashing the power of the Nephilim and using them against both the angels and demons is something she may be working towards.
That was her original plan for Sanctuary after all. While Inarius wanted to hide out in Sanctuary, Lilith intended to use it and the children she would sire with Inarius to win the war.
Edit:
Knowing that, the recent trailer is full of irony. Inarius is the one on the warpath leading an army of humans into Hell itself against Lilith.
Edited by M84 on Dec 11th 2022 at 8:22:05 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedWhich means something big has to be going down that he’s willing to call Lilith back, because besides using her progeny for her own goals she’s also a violent Mama Bear about her possessiveness.
He even said something about needed her to protect Sanctuary in the initial trailer too didn’t he? Or was that Nephilim in general? I should probably go back and watch it.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Dec 11th 2022 at 4:31:02 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.All he says is "Blessed Mother. Save us."
As I said earlier, it's rather ironic that Inarius is the one leading a human army against Lilith, since using humans as soldiers was originally her idea. Curiously, Inarius' presence seems to almost supercharge said humans — those knights are shown easily slaughtering the charging demons with simple phalanx tactics.
Disgusted, but not surprisedHow many nephalem are there, anyway? With the Worldstone broken, I was originally under the impression that all new humans would be born nephalem, but while that was pretty much immediately disproven, it's unclear if the hero of III is the only nephalem or just the most famous. This isn't helped by gameplay, where a lot of people who probably aren't nephalem can keep up with you.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.So latest scandal earlier this month out of Blizzard (it's a day ending in y) for new years.
Diablo 4 development entering crunch, and the head writer (who wrote for the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077) who wanted to include rape into the games story until Blizzard staff objected and the stuff was cut out.
In meetings held with Stępień, employees faced various setbacks, which delayed the story’s development for months, according to five current and former employees. Although Stępień had held a creative director title before, his background was more in cinematic directing than in game mechanics, and he approached “Diablo IV” from the perspective of taking the entire game and rewriting it himself.
In 2019, many Blizzard employees were disgusted by a version of the game’s script that repeatedly mentioned the rape of a love interest and referred to this female character as the raped woman as her primary description. Stępień had spent months working on this script, penning it in Polish and having a translator change it to English, according to several employees. Employees pleaded with leadership to revise his version of the story, saying rape had no place in a Blizzard game. Many expressed discomfort with the idea of adding rape to the game in what they considered to be an effort to make “Diablo IV” feel grittier and tonally darker than the previous game, rather than engaging with the subject in a sensitive way.
Two employees recalled to The Post a line in the 2019 version of the game’s script that was written as, “And then she was raped, brutally.” Employees would repeat the punctuation — comma, period — out loud to each other, alarmed by the direction Stępień had gone with the script.
“Rape has no place in the ‘Diablo’ universe,” said a former employee. “It’s not a thing that we should be tackling because it takes a certain amount of nuance and a deft hand.”
The “rape version,” as multiple employees called the script, was ultimately overhauled in the same year, and the female character was cut from the story.

The CG work is exquisite in both of the Diablo IV trailers. Of course, rendered trailers being nonindicative of gameplay has been a problem for a long time. Here the important element is the story, as we learn that Inarius is apparently invading the Burning Hells to confront Lilith.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"