Yeah, Andariel was given the role of corrupter and her own bit of land (Catacombs and the valley above). Duriel was punished to guard the correct Vizjerei tomb which held the prisoner Baal.
I'm unsure of what willing it would do (I haven't read that book) to the stone.
I am at least 80% sure of these facts:
*The people in Diablo 3 will be stronger, or they won't simply because it may take longer for them to gain their powers back.
*The players in Diablo 2 were practically nephalem like Bk and Tra[n]g'oul.
I think the soulstones are indeed anchors, but not in the way you mean it. I think they, now that they are all shattered, will allow the Prime Evils to stay alive rather than having to respawn in the abyss. So in Diablo 3, we would first have to destroy all the soulstone pieces before we can destroy the Prime Evils.
-----
Well, Leoric is obviously back in Diablo 3, and the Zakarum's page on the Arreat Summit has been secretly changed. This cannot be a coincedense. Mark my words, Leoric's return has a big meaning for the plot. Call me a fool, but I think the soulstone piece is what allowed him to return.
@First paragraph quoted: I composed a repsonse similar to this in this very thread a day ago if I am not mistaken.
@bold: I also said that I think this is a way to change canon lore to be able to move forward with the storyline. Or they are planning something big, like you said.
It's a prison first and foremost. The Prime Evils could dwell on Sanctuary without any problems at all before they were imprisoned. When the soulstones were smashed, their spirits were freed.
It seems like they wanted to be imprisoned in the first place, however, and we have no idea why. So there might be more to how the soulstones work. Anyway, they're not an anchor, and I don't know where you got that idea.
Well, the were their prisons first; but by perverting them they used them as anchors. They (speculation) could hold a more meaningful power with their stone or shards.
Their shards also worked efficiently for corrupt those of the humans.
If the Prime Evils are now simply back in Hell, what did they actually accomplish?
They managed to get the worldstone destroyed.
Also, I could see a quest in the game requiring you to recover 'The Last Worldstone Shard', with a history like: Vendors used to sell them if they knew what they had. Through the years, a bevy of clans have banded together to destroy them all. But there is still one left. And yada-yada, maybe it could be the key to the rejuvination of the evils, idk.
Then that would (i'm assuming) compromise how the demons manage to make an uprising in D3. They wanted to make it most believable, or something, so that couldn't work.
I am at least 80% sure of these facts:
*The people in Diablo 3 will be stronger, or they won't simply because it may take longer for them to gain their powers back.
*The players in Diablo 2 were practically nephalem like Bk and Tra[n]g'oul.
@First paragraph quoted: I composed a repsonse similar to this in this very thread a day ago if I am not mistaken.
@bold: I also said that I think this is a way to change canon lore to be able to move forward with the storyline. Or they are planning something big, like you said.
Their shards also worked efficiently for corrupt those of the humans.
They managed to get the worldstone destroyed.
Also, I could see a quest in the game requiring you to recover 'The Last Worldstone Shard', with a history like: Vendors used to sell them if they knew what they had. Through the years, a bevy of clans have banded together to destroy them all. But there is still one left. And yada-yada, maybe it could be the key to the rejuvination of the evils, idk.
The soulstones were given to trap the prime evils, and baals was damaged, and to set these demons lose they had to be broken.
Okay, so we had to take the (mother?) shard and dispose of it, it being the true anchor to this world.
But I'm not sure.