04-06-2004, 05:23 AM
"Adding in" the info given by Izual was the least thing I liked to do. That is why I said the whole story got mucked up in D2â by the very information given by Izzy (in D2), the unfair plot twist was introduced.
All of a sudden the Soulstones, the very things the Three desired to evade (by limiting their true power in the taking of hosts) were revealed to be so very, very important to the boys.
Let's map things out: in the D1 backstory, the Three came to the Mortal World in the form of spirits. In the form of these spirits, the boys had a rockin' good time: no one could harm them, and they were doing vast amounts of damage in their rampages. Big T drops by with Soulstones, gathers a bunch of otherwise-warring magi and consolidates them into a united brotherhood called the Horadrim, and tells the Horadric boys that the Soulstones will capture and trap the Three.
The Three, taking note of what the Soulstones can do, come up with a plan to evade the effects of the stones: by inhabiting a human body, the demons will be rendered immune to the entrapments. The Horadrim learn the only way they can now use the Soulstones is to kill the physical avatars of the Three, then trap the expatriated spirit that departs the corpse.
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.
All of a sudden the Soulstones, the very things the Three desired to evade (by limiting their true power in the taking of hosts) were revealed to be so very, very important to the boys.
Let's map things out: in the D1 backstory, the Three came to the Mortal World in the form of spirits. In the form of these spirits, the boys had a rockin' good time: no one could harm them, and they were doing vast amounts of damage in their rampages. Big T drops by with Soulstones, gathers a bunch of otherwise-warring magi and consolidates them into a united brotherhood called the Horadrim, and tells the Horadric boys that the Soulstones will capture and trap the Three.
The Three, taking note of what the Soulstones can do, come up with a plan to evade the effects of the stones: by inhabiting a human body, the demons will be rendered immune to the entrapments. The Horadrim learn the only way they can now use the Soulstones is to kill the physical avatars of the Three, then trap the expatriated spirit that departs the corpse.
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.
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