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This storyline is based on some "holes" in the story as far as i know feel free to clarify any fasle deductions, From what we are told the purpose of the soul stone is to contain the spirit entity of the evils once thier physical form is slain or else they will be manafested back into a physical form by feeding off the feelings from mortals of terror destrution hatred, smashing the soul stones supposeddly "destoys" the souls so they cannot manafest in the mortal realm, is anyone able to clarify is the word destroy is actualy used as it would be possible to loop hole cains wording into that when the stones are destoyed the souls are sent back to hell not destroyed, we must ask ourselves if destroying the stones destroys the soul why did the horadrim bury them instead of destroying them for good, When the stones are destroyed the souls all return to hell at which point the prime evils take control of hell again, however at this stage the worldstone is gone and the dimension between the three realms has weakend, allowing transition due to high powers, we start the game as a char in the middle of the sin war where angels and demons run rampant in the world, act 1 could be fighting on the side of the angels which would be a proper battlefield with angels and demons fighting similar to act 5 bloody foothills but more realistic, not like 3 barbs vs 100 demons, the hero would establish a reputation as being a new hope for mankind after slaying the luitenants of the evils, eg Belials Grimspike, the character who was discluded from d1 but can found on the discs mpq file, his power is described as "immeasurable" for those who havnt discovered all the extras from d1, after killing all luitenants, that 7 1 for each evil you will venture into hell possiblely with a sqaudran of elite angel mercs or something and you go to each of the 7 areas of hell where you find and pick off the evils 1 by one untill they are all dead, ofcourse everything would be way more indepth and have mint quests in it.

In the end to have a succesful series diablo baal mephisto and the other evils, including azmodan and belial this time must come back. the question is, are we ever let in on the purpose of smashing the soul stones, according to horodric lore the purpose of the stones is to hold the souls so they cannot manafest a physical form, this manafestation is born from human terror hatred and destruction respectivly. i dont recall if we are ever told why the stones require being destroyed, when baals was broken all it did was set him free in the battle with tal rasha and the horodrim. is it therefore probly acceptable that all evils return to hell where they are able to overcome or befriend the ruling minor evils who have depleted forces and then we have a full scale war again, no worldstone means they can come to the mortal plane, as to why......hmmm maybe they want to lure angels out of heaven, something else that could be introduced is a bit hard to create, we have leaders of hell but no leaders of heaven, tyrael is only an arch angel so there must be a form of "god" equal to the "devils" of hell.

I think that we are supposed to assume the form of tal rasha is lost to baals true form the same as the wanderers was distorted into diablo in the "gates of hell" video

I just hope they are well thought out builds, so the skills can be customised to your own build making one char possible of lots of diff combos for moves.

I have to agree i loved reading the storeys from the Diablo 1 Book they are great, and i like the idea of playing while Izual was still the luitenant of the Arch Angel, when he ran the campaign against the hellforge to get shadowfang. that could be a cool angle to play, with the same era as Tal Rasha, Cains dad was a horodrim too wasnt he? Also Bartuc the bloody and the Summoner were still alive, also it was the beggining of the reign of leoric and the war against westmarch i thnk it was could also be included.

Ya diablo is and will always have to be a midevil setting, it just doesnt feel right any other way, it would be cool if even some of the newer mods were online, i seen one called Median 2007 which has all new skills for each char, the pally has quite alot of Vampire like abilities, it seems pretty cool, not sure if the storey and areas are as diversified as Hell Unleashed thou.

Theres already a mod where you fight king leoric in act 1, he is in tristram however the map for tristram is the one of diablo 1 not the modified d2 map, he is way to strong to fight when you get there, you have to be about level 30 to beat him, mod is called Hell Unleashed,

about the evils regenerating in 100 years or so, i thought that the evils were manifested by thier respective titles eg, when terror is in the world it strengthens diablo, what was the purpose of destroying the soul stones? all it does is release the soul so it can re-manifest into physical form.

Azmodan and belial are two of the four lesser evils that are underneath the primes, the other two lesser are andariel and duriel, belial and azmodan exiled the primes thats how they got on earth.

Ya blizzard will have not really much choice as they are the only big characters that they have up their sleeve to diversify the game. Angels as hirlings or even a class is another possiblilty

The soul reaper, when u kill a monster they drop a soul or can be activated like the necro can see bodies wehn summoning then use these souls to transform into the slain monster and have the flash effects of devil may cry 1 where u only see the over shadow of the shapshift while u strike