Yeah, I guess its possible. If he headed north first and went around the Twin Seas (would he really be able to get a whole army over the water?) and then headed west then north up to Arreat, then he probably could have made it. There doesn't seem to be any major civilizations on the way for anyone major to notice him.
Did you say that you fixed the OP post up? Because you still say that Baal heads south when he actually heads north lol
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"And now at last the storm surges forth from the southlands, and the hand of Destruction Reaches out to undo the workings of the Ancients. The tides of Hell surge - ready to smash Down upon the shores of the mortal world - to drown the guilty and the innocent alike."
Baal reaches Mount Arreat and seeks the Worldstone chamber, with his demonic army going southwards and battling the barbarian tribe of Harrogath.
When the hero(s) reach the Worldstone Chamber and defeat Baal, they were too late. The Worldstone was corrupted and Tyrael was forced to destroy it: thus assuring Evil's return into the future (Diablo 3)
Come to think of it... where did his army emerge from? There are several portals to Hell on Mt Arreat, but that's on the mountain itself. The army originated somewhere further south.
Sorry but I don't agree with all of your interpretation. I do agree with most of it, but really don't think this poem has anything to do with DIII in mind. I think you're over-analysing lol.
Note that DIII went through many changes since the poem was written.
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"And a child will cradle Terror in his breast the heart of man falls under the shadow."
Child is Prince Abrecht: Diablo failed into corrupting King Leoric, thus went to more easier prey, the King's own son
Agreed.
"A Wanderer will pass through the ancient lands trailing chaos in his wake."
The Wanderer is Diablo himself, in full control of the Hero who defeated him, journeying eastward to reunite with his brothers: Mephisto and Baal
Agreed.
"The Three Brothers will be reunited as the mortal world trembles before their might."
Diablo has freed Baal, together, travelling East into Kurast, finally meeting Mephisto in his Durance of Hate
Agreed.
"And so it was foretold that the Three, once reunited, would be shattered again --"
All three of the Prime Evils were defeated by mortal heros of mankind.
Agreed.
"And the last of them would set his sights on the holy mount. The warnings held that Their defeat would be illusory - that the final gambit had yet to be played . . ."
The last of the Prime Evils to be defeated was Baal: while Mephisto and Diablol were trying to reunite Hell, he instead went on a conquest for the Worldstone on Mount Arreatj
I didn't think Mephisto and Diablo were trying to reunite Hell though. They were all working together, all of them trying to get to the Worldstone and all of them playing their own part to help each other get as far as possible. Mephisto stayed behind so that Diablo and Baal could escape, and while Diablo was being defeated in Hell, Baal managed to escape and build an army. They were quite successful in their teamwork for getting at the Worldstone.
Now, after Baal was defeated, he manged to corrupt the Worldstone. And due to Tyrael's descision: the Worldstone was destroyed. Instead of Tyrael going insane, I believe that the Prime Evils tricked both the minds of the mortal heros, Deckard Cain, and the Engimatic Tyrael into destoying the Worldstone, thus their plans throughout Diablo 1 and 2 was all but a decoy: Their defeat would be illusory
Remember that this poem came with the expansion. When Diablo was defeated, it seemed as if the game was done... but then they came out with an expansion and oh crap, now we have to defeat Baal. Most people that played the original Diablo II forgot all about the third Prime Evil.
Well, okay, it really depends on who they mean by 'their'. "Their" can mean either Diablo and Mephisto, or all three of them together. It can be interpreted both ways equally, but from a LoD-point-of-view, it sounds to me more like 'their' is referring to the Prime Evils as a whole, and most people think that if two of them are defeated, the third must have retreated or something.
Then throughout 20 years, the Prime Evils finally reunite the Burning Hells into their command once again, and now target the High Heavens, with the Sanctuary as the battlefield
It doesn't mention reuniting Hell, it just mentions a "final gambit". The 'final gambit' sounds to me more like Baal. Like: Mephisto's dead, Diablo's dead, oh there's one final Prime Evil to be defeated type of thing.
"And now at last the storm surges forth from the southlands, and the hand of Destruction Reaches out to undo the workings of the Ancients. The tides of Hell surge - ready to smash Down upon the shores of the mortal world - to drown the guilty and the innocent alike."
Now this is the starting line of Diablo 3's storyline, an invasion of the Burning Hells lead by both Prime and Lesser Evils, and no man: guilty or innocent, shall survive
[You also said this in another post:]
Now when Baal was travelling to Mount Arreat, I believe he was going North instead of South, so that pretty much rules out this part of the passage from Diablo 2: LoD. Mount Arreat being now a Crater of Arreat, that is where the Worldstone was destroyed, thus being the most vulnerable point on where the forces of the Burning Hells could unleash their unholy might, their quest being to conquer the whole Sanctuary then to continue their endless war against the High Heavens with the upper hand
I think you're misunderstanding the words here. Baal was going north, yes, but that is exactly what the prophecy said. "forth from the southlands" means 'coming from the south', not going towards.
You seem to have overlooked this line, too, when assuming that this paragraph is all about DIII: "and the hand of Destruction Reaches out to undo the workings of the Ancients." What does that have to do with DIII storyline? It speaks entirely of Baal 'reaching' up to Mt Arreat to defeat the Ancients and corrupt the Worldstone.
"The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary To defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – And even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself."
This second part explains the Diablo 3 plot about the comet in the cinematic. The comet is a warning from the Archangel Tyrael about the upcoming threat of the Burning Hells and the High Heavens. The Worldstone now gone, the forces of the High Heavens 'failing luminaries' and from the Burning Hells 'rising powers' prepare to take their unending war into the Sanctuary with no resistance.
Yeah, thats right, and its very exciting! But your wording is a bit hard to understand lol. I'll make it clearer for other people:
It sounds as if we are going to fight both Demons AND ANGELS. Simplified, the sentence on the DIII homepage says that mortals will defend themselves against Hell and even the luminaries of the Heavens itself.
Luminaries = light, and Angels are entities that are made of light (and sound).
When a 'light is failing', it means it is losing its glow. Therefore, when an Angel's 'light fails', it becomes corrupted? Their light isn't so good afterall?
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But yeah, boats are plausible.
Come to think of it... where did his army emerge from? There are several portals to Hell on Mt Arreat, but that's on the mountain itself. The army originated somewhere further south.
Note that DIII went through many changes since the poem was written.