I don't know whether Metzen is responsible for Adria's creation or not, but he has been there since the beginning. He's listed in the credits of my Diablo I manual under "Script & Story". Also, if you do a search on his name you'll find quite a lot on him, detailing his career with Blizz.
Whoever created Adria, this is pretty interesting. I wish I'd stumbled across this before BlizzCon, I would have asked someone attending the lore panel to ask the team about Adria.
Oh, I don't think the character was "stolen", but I just wondered if Chris Metzen perhaps created Adria in homage to this character. I don't recall seeing this before and was kind of surprised when it was the first site listed by Chrome when I searched "Adria the Witch".
Recently I was digging around a bit, trying to learn more about Adria (a character I've always found fascinating, even before we knew she was part of the D3 storyline). Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this link:
I'm not well versed in Marvel characters, but she seems to have been a rather obscure minor villain. But this is certainly the first I've heard of Adria being anyone other than the enigmatic NPC we remember. Has this ever been discussed before?
I am imagining the triune is responsible considering they are the ones who grab the human that fell in the star from the heavens. Skeleton king tells you that after you beat him.
Oh? I hadn't heard that, does that happen in the beta?
*obsessively checks her email for that elusive beta key*
Cain dies in ACT 2, don't ask me how, don't ask me why. I just know and cannot say who told me. This is something someone blurted out at blizzcon in a small party of people talking.
Yeah, but I heard it was Belial who did the aforementioned blurting. You believe him?
Just teasing you. That is an interesting development, I'll have to go back and see where Act 2 is set again. If it turns out to be true there must be a very significant reason for it.
True, (speculation!) but it could be that Diablo needs Leah, who has that little fraction of Diablo in herself, to rise above the other evils and become the dominative power of this "Amalgam of Evil". And Leah does this by shoving the stone in her chest (speculation!).
What with all of this speculation about where the Black Soulstone is going to get shoved, I thought I'd point something out.
Look, again, at the "soulstones" from Diablo II.
Then look...again...at the "Black Soulstone", which in the cine is sitting on the table before Leah like the world's ugliest paperweight.
Notice how big that thing is?
It's big enough to pulverize the human head, and I don't believe a bra size exists that can accommodate it.
Perhaps the function of this particular "soulstone" might be somewhat different than the ones we've seen previously? Just wondering.
Well, the cathedral was originally built by the Horadrim (if my lore is correct) to house Diablo's soulstone and also provide a resting place for the Horadrim dead as time passed. Doubtless it had a lot of magic woven into its structure, which may have made it difficult for even a horde of demons to destroy. It went pretty deep, after all...four levels of dungeons, four levels of catacombs, four levels of caves, three or four levels (I forget, it's been years) of mortal-realm-twisted-into-Hell, then Diablo's hangout.
And after all, Diablo's anger was directed at the people of Tristram who helped the original hero find and defeat him. His minions may have simply disregarded the cathedral, and attacked the town itself.
I've wondered about that...you defeat Baal, and Tyrael hustles you out of the chamber while Baal's soulstone is left lying in a puddle of Baal barf. Maybe that combined with the destruction of the Worldstone was enough to do the trick?
I asked this question on the official D3 forums yesterday, with mixed results. I figured I'd get a better discussion going here. :rolleyes:
I'm just wondering if we'll encounter the Sisters of the Sightless Eye in the new game...I don't recall hearing anything about them since D3 was announced. Granted, the storyline is being kept under very tight wraps, but consider the role they've played in the series thus far:
In D1, they were an actual playable class.
In D2, you spent the first part of the game helping them reclaim their monastery.
In short, their story is part of the overall story, and is apt to appear again. If you returned to Akara after leaving Act 1, she would tell you that the Rogues were "still clearing the Monastery", which indicates to me that the survivors were preparing to return there.
And since the Monastery guards the only passage East...it seems inevitable that we would meet some Rogues in the new game, since both "New Tristram" and the desert regions seem to be part of the storyline.
Gonna have to re-read this series...and it turns out I'd given my copy of Birthright to the local libary. Thank goodness for the Science Fiction Book Club!
Also, both Baal and Diablo were in "weakened" states...Diablo was still living in the body of the hero who'd slain him, and had not fully been "reborn" as we see in the later cinematic in the Zakarum temple. Baal had just been released from a very long imprisonment...that would take its toll even on a Prime Evil.
I'm sure the two brothers would have "killed" Tyrael if they could have...whatever "killing" might entail with creatures such as Tyrael, Diablo, and Baal. Like others here, I don't buy the "Tyrael is evil" theory.
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Whoever created Adria, this is pretty interesting. I wish I'd stumbled across this before BlizzCon, I would have asked someone attending the lore panel to ask the team about Adria.
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Adria the Witch
I'm not well versed in Marvel characters, but she seems to have been a rather obscure minor villain. But this is certainly the first I've heard of Adria being anyone other than the enigmatic NPC we remember. Has this ever been discussed before?
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Hmm. As archangels go, that's a pretty good disguise.
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Oh? I hadn't heard that, does that happen in the beta?
*obsessively checks her email for that elusive beta key*
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Yeah, but I heard it was Belial who did the aforementioned blurting. You believe him?
Just teasing you. That is an interesting development, I'll have to go back and see where Act 2 is set again. If it turns out to be true there must be a very significant reason for it.
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What with all of this speculation about where the Black Soulstone is going to get shoved, I thought I'd point something out.
Look, again, at the "soulstones" from Diablo II.
Then look...again...at the "Black Soulstone", which in the cine is sitting on the table before Leah like the world's ugliest paperweight.
Notice how big that thing is?
It's big enough to pulverize the human head, and I don't believe a bra size exists that can accommodate it.
Perhaps the function of this particular "soulstone" might be somewhat different than the ones we've seen previously? Just wondering.
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And after all, Diablo's anger was directed at the people of Tristram who helped the original hero find and defeat him. His minions may have simply disregarded the cathedral, and attacked the town itself.
:cool:
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"Breakfast Connoisseur" (my Hobbit's favorite), for eating a certain amount of breakfast-type foods
"Weird of the Worms", for killing X number of wingless dragons in a given area
"Blind Leaper", for managing to fall into several chasms in Moria (my kinship leader is a pro at this)
You also get trait buffs for completing some of these, so it's often worth the time to work for them. It would be cool to see such a system in D3.
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I'm just wondering if we'll encounter the Sisters of the Sightless Eye in the new game...I don't recall hearing anything about them since D3 was announced. Granted, the storyline is being kept under very tight wraps, but consider the role they've played in the series thus far:
In D1, they were an actual playable class.
In D2, you spent the first part of the game helping them reclaim their monastery.
In short, their story is part of the overall story, and is apt to appear again. If you returned to Akara after leaving Act 1, she would tell you that the Rogues were "still clearing the Monastery", which indicates to me that the survivors were preparing to return there.
And since the Monastery guards the only passage East...it seems inevitable that we would meet some Rogues in the new game, since both "New Tristram" and the desert regions seem to be part of the storyline.
What do you all think?
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:thumbsup:
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I'm sure the two brothers would have "killed" Tyrael if they could have...whatever "killing" might entail with creatures such as Tyrael, Diablo, and Baal. Like others here, I don't buy the "Tyrael is evil" theory.
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And...according to canon, at least, Diablo is one of the three supreme lords of Hell...so he can't be easily beaten.
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:thumbsup: