I agree 100% with italofoca. I did not like the sin wars trilogy exactly because of the reason he mentioned. when people and beings have divine unset powers it's just the end of good story telling. all I read in those three novels was the protagonist overcoming obstacles with new found power. it's like anything would happen to him and all we needed to do was wait for his divine powers to bail him out!!! <_<
a good fantasy story involves many parties, with different ideologies and agendas. it involves alliances of regular non divine beings who overcome obstacles not with divined power, but with wit, cooperation, skill and a little luck. and much like italofoca said the more is left a mystery the better.
I also believe going with the idea that humans are angel demon hybrids was bad idea. It added nothing to the story, it just limited it! if they had maintained that humans are just humans a natural native element of sanctuary a world among many more. and that heaven and hell are just the isolated elements of a binary universe, it would have left their hands much more open! just think of it if humans are angel/demon hybrids then what are the critters in the world?
If I were in charge of diablo 3 story I would totally ignore the sin wars. humans are not nephalim descendants, sanctuary existed with with out inarius creating it(just as it was so in the first diablo) and angels while not the salvation of humanity are not a threat to humanity like the demons are (the sin wars trilogy explanation for why heaven isn't good was very weak!"they are strict!! so humans don't like them" I bet humans would rather all the strictness of the angels if it meant they would be saved from demons killing them.
case in point the sin wars trilogy did nothing but make the diablo universe a Saturday morning cartoon.
p.s. about the world stone; It was never said that demons and angels would not be able to enter sanctuary, they could by being anchored to a human or being conjured by some summoning ritual. what the world stone did was it prevented demons and angels from being on sanctuary permanently with out a host, and so prevented large scale invasion.
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a good fantasy story involves many parties, with different ideologies and agendas. it involves alliances of regular non divine beings who overcome obstacles not with divined power, but with wit, cooperation, skill and a little luck. and much like italofoca said the more is left a mystery the better.
I also believe going with the idea that humans are angel demon hybrids was bad idea. It added nothing to the story, it just limited it! if they had maintained that humans are just humans a natural native element of sanctuary a world among many more. and that heaven and hell are just the isolated elements of a binary universe, it would have left their hands much more open! just think of it if humans are angel/demon hybrids then what are the critters in the world?
If I were in charge of diablo 3 story I would totally ignore the sin wars. humans are not nephalim descendants, sanctuary existed with with out inarius creating it(just as it was so in the first diablo) and angels while not the salvation of humanity are not a threat to humanity like the demons are (the sin wars trilogy explanation for why heaven isn't good was very weak!"they are strict!! so humans don't like them" I bet humans would rather all the strictness of the angels if it meant they would be saved from demons killing them.
case in point the sin wars trilogy did nothing but make the diablo universe a Saturday morning cartoon.
p.s. about the world stone; It was never said that demons and angels would not be able to enter sanctuary, they could by being anchored to a human or being conjured by some summoning ritual. what the world stone did was it prevented demons and angels from being on sanctuary permanently with out a host, and so prevented large scale invasion.