06-04-2004, 09:02 AM
Quote:What Izual reveals in D2 bears no reasonable link to what is said or understood in D1, and is practically an unsubstantiated reversal of the story. It's akin to writing a Superman story where green kryptonite, for no explained reason at all, actually helps Superman to live... it flies in the face of what is already lain down, and its veracity comes only in the form of a character dropping out of the blue and saying it to be so.
Actually, I believe your forgetting an important piece of the D1 history here. Diablo's soulstone laid dormant underneath the church (which of course was built on top of the Horadrim monistary) where, over the ages, he was able to grow stronger and corrupt the soulstone, allowing him to overpower the mind of Lazarus and Leoric. Leoric eventually snapped, and Laz brought Albrechet down to take the soulstone into his body to become Diablo's "Avatar" or whatever youd like to call it.
So, from my perspective, the soulstone corruption was already laid down in the D1 Mythology.
"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
-Urza
He's an old-fashioned Amish cyborg with no name. She's a virginal nymphomaniac fairy princess married to the Mob. Together, they fight crime!
The Blizzcon Class Discussion:
Crowd: "Our qq's will blot out the sun"
Warlocks: "Then we will pewpew in the shade"
-Urza
He's an old-fashioned Amish cyborg with no name. She's a virginal nymphomaniac fairy princess married to the Mob. Together, they fight crime!
The Blizzcon Class Discussion:
Crowd: "Our qq's will blot out the sun"
Warlocks: "Then we will pewpew in the shade"