DeepT
2962
I have a lore question, if anyone knows. What happened after the events of D2 and the start of the events in D3? If it is not known now, will it be explained. In the beta so far, there is nothing to connect the end of D2 with the beginning of D3.
stusser
2963
My guess is that the fallen star was Tyrael the angel falling to earth, and after you kill the skeleton king he pops up and delivers a bit of exposition. Beyond that who knows.
Ninyu
2965
It’s been 20 years since Tyrael destroyed the worldstone at the end of D2:LoD. Deckard Cain has been raising his niece and everything has been quiet. No sign of demonic or angelic activity. New Tristram is founded in the ruins of Tristram. Then the meteor falls on the Tristram cathedral and D3 begins.
Giaddon
2966
Man, Tristram keeps getting fucked. Move away, people!
Man, I hope Wirt comes back as a zombie sub-boss.
As far as I know his leg is the only thing left of him.
I thought his body was seen in Tristam in D2? After 20 years, maybe a skeleton boss rather than a zombie boss.
Heck, his leg is the only thing not left- that shit was turned into a secret cow portal.
DeepT
2971
I gathered that, but destroying the world stone was supposed to change the world. So what happened in the immediate aftermath? Also Deckard Cain has some terrible timing. He decides to go to tristram after 20 years, right when that star falls. Had he gone a year earlier or even a few months before, all would have been well.
Also the last we knew, all the prime evils had their soul-stones smashed which should have locked them back up in hell. I just hope this is covered in the story in D3. There are already some inconsistencies with D1 in the main story, the obvious one about who killed the skeleton king. In diablo, it was you the player. You were not the son of Leoric, but a wanderer who came into town.
Actually, it’s not inconsistent; you the player, the Diablo 1 Warrior…
Leoric was unable to venture forth from his tomb, but he slay many adventurers who dared enter his lair, until he was finally dispatched by the hero who ultimately defeated Diablo, took the essence of the soulstone into his forehead, and became the Dark Wanderer.
kill the shit out of Leoric.
Leoric’s son, Prince Albrecht was kidnapped by Lazarus, and got possessed by Diablo.
What actually happens after the Worldstone is destroyed is that magic begins to return to mortals in earnest. Past that… nobody really knows, including Heaven/Hell.
DeepT
2973
Leoric had two sons. One became Diablo, the other killed him once he became the skeleton king, according to the D3 lore presented in the beta. Yet in D1 the player kills the skeleton king, who is one of the wandering adventurers, not Leoric’s other son. Did I miss something?
MikeJ
2974
It sounds as though it was the shoe that didn’t drop.
Also Deckard Cain has some terrible timing. He decides to go to tristram after 20 years, right when that star falls.
I don’t think that is a coincidence.
As far as I know, it’s a deliberate retcon.
Their continued insistence on not including chat channels in this and other modern games is baffling. It’s almost like they don’t want the community to communicate easily with one another.
Anyone got that screenshot comparing the functionality of Bnet2.0 with 1.0 hanging around?
I mean, if you’re going to force us to be online to play a goddamned single-player game, at least make the online experience halfway comparable to what you managed in the late 90s!
Jab
2976
Here’s another plot question. The son who killed Leoric, in one of the lore scrolls, it says that he ventured into the dungeon of Diablo 1 after being cursed by him. It’s been a very long time since I’ve played Diablo, but did you ever encounter him in the game?
Lorini
2977
They say that open chat gets too much out of control so they are forced to moderate it, and they don’t want to do that (ie spend the money for the GM’s needed). It’s not a sub like WoW so whatever they get is what they get, there’s no ongoing money to fund the GM’s. Now whether or not they should take that money out of their profits is another question, but they aren’t going to do that now.
Well, clearly, the wandering adventurer (you) happens to be Leoric’s other son. Also, spacegoats.
Here’s another plot question. The son who killed Leoric, in one of the lore scrolls, it says that he ventured into the dungeon of Diablo 1 after being cursed by him. It’s been a very long time since I’ve played Diablo, but did you ever encounter him in the game?
Leoric (as King Leoric) isn’t killed by his son; he’s killed by Captain Lachdanan. Well, I guess he’s killed by Aidan, his semi-estranged wandering Warrior son who is the protagonist, and who then goes on to become the Dark Wanderer.
Aha!
In 2011 Chris Metzen informed the world that Blizzard had given the Dark Wanderer a minor retcon. When the Dark Wanderer was human he was the long lost son of King Leoric and his name was Aidan. This would also make him an an older brother to Prince Albrecht.
This does not directly contradict known information about the character (save for one NPC referring to Albrect as Leoric’s only son, easily explained away), and as such might be labeled a minor retcon.
In the Diablo 3 beta it was revealed, from Leoric’s Journal, that Aidan went off to become a warrior after Leoric made Tristram his new seat of power. He later returned to Tristram to put the Skeleton King to rest and later defeat Diablo.
Also, the Rogue became Blood Raven and the Sorcerer became the Summoner.
MMORPGs moderate their general chat? I’ve never seen that.
