"or the books" ? What other books? I'm not aware of any outside The original trilogy + Demonsbane, and the Sin War Trilogy.
Sorry, that was refering to the Sin War novels. Those are canon, as opposed to the other five books.
I guess I don't get the distinction... 6/11 were written by the same author, Richard Knaak, and the original set of them was actually written shortly after the release of Diablo II, as opposed to the Sin War trilogy, which is only a few years old at this point.
As far as I am concerned, Diablo really should be dead as we killed him in hell and that should be that.
But... I can see Blizzard explaining his return by saying that Diablo is still in "Human Form" when we kill him in Hell as the "heroes were able to make their way through the portal and kill him before he could transform back to his natural "hell self".
As far as I am concerned, Diablo really should be dead as we killed him in hell and that should be that.
There is a consistent focus on the importance of the human bodies of the Three whenever their death is discussed by fans that's never implied to be relevant in the Diablo lore itself. Or rather it's there in Diablo I but not really in Diablo II and certainly not in the books. I blame other fantasy works for this obsession with the host body.
The lore describes The Great Evils as eternal enteties
This. Or you can say that they are even forces of nature itself, and that they are required to exist in order to maintain the balance in the universe.
I really like this concept. Unfortunately I don't think it's a turn that the story will take even though the basic idea is well supported by the grand cosmological structure in the Diablo universe of Heaven and Hell. It's seems rather unlikely due to Trag'Oul's rather cryptical statements that Heaven and Hell aren't the masters they think they are, thus removing them from the center of the cosmological structure and instead simply making them powerful entities among others.
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I guess I don't get the distinction... 6/11 were written by the same author, Richard Knaak, and the original set of them was actually written shortly after the release of Diablo II, as opposed to the Sin War trilogy, which is only a few years old at this point.
But... I can see Blizzard explaining his return by saying that Diablo is still in "Human Form" when we kill him in Hell as the "heroes were able to make their way through the portal and kill him before he could transform back to his natural "hell self".
I really like this concept. Unfortunately I don't think it's a turn that the story will take even though the basic idea is well supported by the grand cosmological structure in the Diablo universe of Heaven and Hell. It's seems rather unlikely due to Trag'Oul's rather cryptical statements that Heaven and Hell aren't the masters they think they are, thus removing them from the center of the cosmological structure and instead simply making them powerful entities among others.