Well, first of, Hadriel was already floating about in Hell, so I wouldn't particularly see an issue with Tyrael doing so- he didn't particularly have a good running record with the Angiris Council, anyway. Secondly, if he wasn't willing to get involved, why would he have tried to get in to the Worldstone Chamber in Act V? He said he tried, but Baal would not let him through, which I'm guessing was via the power of the corrupted Worldstone.
I always thought, from his actions and what he said, that Tyrael was the one angel that realized that isolation from Sanctuary would not solve anything, and that's why he chose to help humanity, because its neutrality kept it from becoming another bloody battlefield for the immortals.
Hmm, I find it hard to believe that Tyrael would be so weak as to succumb to Diablo's power simply by being exposed to him for such a short amount of time. Once again, thy?ve been at each other for close to eternity, you'd think they know the ins-and-outs of each other by now.
That's why I said, or at least meant to say and perhaps forgot, that although he'd probably be much better at resisting corruption than a human, it's still a possibility, and one that would be better off not chanced. That would be the logicality behind such a story mechanism.
The other, more likely, cause, of course, is that it's a story, and as such, the writers have the distinct privilege of doing things therein that might not make the *most* sense, but, all the same needed to be done to advance the story in the way he/she/they intend it to. This is obviously the real issue here, although the former would make sense if you wanted to rationalize it. I, myself, will stick with the former so that I don't feel the story has been fractured.
But he didn't have the Soulstone. Look, I wasn't saying that Tyrael should have smashed it. I'm saying Tyrael could have smashed it. Although, we do not know if he had some special help with the Worldstone. Because he could obviously destroy that, yet he couldn't smash the stones in Hell while he was at the pandemonium Fortress. So someone must have helped him when the Worldstone was destroyed.
I think the reason Tyrael did not take the burden upon himself is because he didn't want to become corrupted, not even chance it. Like in the Lord of the Rings, when Gandalf refuses the Ring from Frodo- he knew he would be a more powerful host/puppet (although this was only part of his reason). In the same way, imagine an angel of the Angiris Council, the most powerful members of the High Heavens, being corrupted and instilled with the baleful spirit of a Prime Evil?
No, it doesn't say it anywhere, but it does make sense.
I just didn't expect it to start happening so soon. And especially over such an interesting phenomenon. However, I, personally, will still regard that as cannon unless Blizzard actually releases new information to counter it. I think someone should make a point of this in the Wiki with the Council Members, or where ever applicable.
See that's no all clear anymore. It USED to say that on Arreat Summit, but it doesn't anymore.
Oh, wow, that must have just happened. That is kind of weird. They obviously had to do it on purpose. Of course, the soulstone shard is still jammed in to the GIF's hand, but still. I wonder why they did that.
but the peices, however small, would still have a part of mephisto right? so if someone collected all six of the smaller peices and stabed them into themself or bound with them or whatever-they would have a larger peice of mephisto in them than the simple one peice in D2. Right?
I'm not really sure if this helps at all, but I don't think there was ever any doubt that the lesser shards had demonic power in them. They were taken and jammed in to the hands of the Council Members to completely subvert them, physically and mentally, to the will of the corrupted Zakarum, Mephisto.
When you engage in a story, there are certain points that may not seem logical, but the author(s) have the distinct privilege to tweak things a little every now and then, and even more so in a fantasy setting. I'm guessing- this would be kind of getting away from actual lore and just speculating- that the largest soulstone shard was the one that Mephisto's being would be able to en-dwell, with the lesser pieces being only containers of his essence. But that's just conjecture.
I always thought, from his actions and what he said, that Tyrael was the one angel that realized that isolation from Sanctuary would not solve anything, and that's why he chose to help humanity, because its neutrality kept it from becoming another bloody battlefield for the immortals.
That's why I said, or at least meant to say and perhaps forgot, that although he'd probably be much better at resisting corruption than a human, it's still a possibility, and one that would be better off not chanced. That would be the logicality behind such a story mechanism.
The other, more likely, cause, of course, is that it's a story, and as such, the writers have the distinct privilege of doing things therein that might not make the *most* sense, but, all the same needed to be done to advance the story in the way he/she/they intend it to. This is obviously the real issue here, although the former would make sense if you wanted to rationalize it. I, myself, will stick with the former so that I don't feel the story has been fractured.
I think the reason Tyrael did not take the burden upon himself is because he didn't want to become corrupted, not even chance it. Like in the Lord of the Rings, when Gandalf refuses the Ring from Frodo- he knew he would be a more powerful host/puppet (although this was only part of his reason). In the same way, imagine an angel of the Angiris Council, the most powerful members of the High Heavens, being corrupted and instilled with the baleful spirit of a Prime Evil?
No, it doesn't say it anywhere, but it does make sense.
Oh, wow, that must have just happened. That is kind of weird. They obviously had to do it on purpose. Of course, the soulstone shard is still jammed in to the GIF's hand, but still. I wonder why they did that.
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I'm not really sure if this helps at all, but I don't think there was ever any doubt that the lesser shards had demonic power in them. They were taken and jammed in to the hands of the Council Members to completely subvert them, physically and mentally, to the will of the corrupted Zakarum, Mephisto.
When you engage in a story, there are certain points that may not seem logical, but the author(s) have the distinct privilege to tweak things a little every now and then, and even more so in a fantasy setting. I'm guessing- this would be kind of getting away from actual lore and just speculating- that the largest soulstone shard was the one that Mephisto's being would be able to en-dwell, with the lesser pieces being only containers of his essence. But that's just conjecture.