[Shadow_Drifter]

You cant have a Diablo game without Diablo...

My Ideas -

With the destruction of the world stone, Tyreal was banished from heaven. Generations pass and the heroes that stopped Baal are all dead. The Horadrim order is gone (Decard Cain is long dead). The only person with the lore of what has happened (as it happend not as it has been changed through verbal history) is Tyreal himself.

As time moved on the evils of what happend have been changed from history, to legend and finally myth. With the prime evils gone (and i use gone loosely) heaven has lightend its vigil. Hell is in the throws of civil war among the remaining powerhouses of the demons and finally a wayward demon overthrows his rivals and takes the "Demon Crown" and declares itself the Demon King (Not Diablo).

At some stage, even though his soul stone is destroyed (remember they were made to TRAP the demons, not as their actual life energy), Diablo re-emerges (as tales told among the demons (when a player hears a demon its often cryptic and the player has no idea who they are talking about) and later heaven hears rumours too. (prelude - training chapter)

Tyreal takes a long journey comming to the various peoples, though they dont know its him, he manages to get some of the newly trained recruits of several classes and undertakes an investigation. (start of Chapter 1 -around this time monsters start comming back to the land in greater numbers)

Diablo himself is seeking a way to bolster his power and find an artifact that would provide him an edge over the demon king. Meeting up with the other Prime Evils (much later on of course) he turns his eyes again to the lands of men. With heaven only hearing rumors (and ultimately unwilling to help mankind anyway) they dont watch the human lands as they should and Diablo and his brothers are free to walk the land.

Finding a cache of items long lost by the horadrim (including a set of stones SIMILAR but not the actual soul stones (more like a beta version of them) they find a way to posses a select few people without being trapped to the stone (hence why these stones were never used).

With this the three prime evils overpower and finally posses the three most gifted of Tyreals investigators which. Tyreal suspects nothing and when they investigation fails (end of chapter 1) the investigators head back to their homelands. Diablo in the body of necromancer learns of a powerful artifact that the necromancers have been studying. A device that allows the body sustain an extreme amount of damage without giving out (a device designed to grant "eternal life").

This is the artifact he has been searching for and once aquired (end of chapter 2) (cutseen showing tyreal talking to a scribe (later to be a new generation of the Horadrim) he sheds his "cloak" and makes his presence known. He destroys the Pandamonium Fortress and then through its power makes an assault on heaven. He destroys several key places and with a small army that gathered to him he hastily makes his own outpost in heaven (a place where hell can make assaults on heaven). Tyreal and his group are "pulled to heaven" by the Master Angel and is requested to rid heaven of this fortress (something which they fail to do). After a large battle Diablo FORCES Tyreal and his crew back to earth (end of chapter 3).

Tyreal knows that the only way to get Diablo out of heaven is to engage in combat with his two brothers. After much searching (a long chapter) they find Baal and Mephesto. After a heated arguement and much realisation (not matter what they do they cannot destroy the prime evils) the Demon King itself makes an appearence and confides to Baal and Mephesto that if they fail he will ensnare their souls within the "Devil Rift" a prison for uncontrollable demons. Demon King leaves and the battle begins after one is defeated Diablo comes down and with his brother goes to hell to confront the Demon King to get his brother back (depending on which one is defeated means there is a variation on what happens next). (end of Chapter 4).

You follow them to hell to catchup and defeat both brothers and if you can the demon king. But by the time out fight your way through minions and such, it is too late and Diablo has beaten the Demon King. The overload in power destroys the device that grants eternal life. Diablo releases an army at the player and a final battle must follow. Finally after a terrible battle the Master Angel and an army of angels trap Diablo in the Rift (diablo unknown to the angels has the crown and can escape the prison later) (end of chapter 5)

Of course this is very unlikely and very rough (LOL i made it up as a went along (rambling as i do form time to time).

Ultimately i would like to see D3 as a MMO but also the style of D2 wasnt bad either (and the way i wrote my short story).

I hope you enjoy and a simple I like or I dont like (with an explenation and no flaming) would be much appreciated.

~Shadow Drifter