Cain always was my favorite NPC. TBH though I don’t knew jack about the lore. 
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He was the No. 1 broski.
He gave your storyline meaning and direction.
At the end of every significant moment you just know, every other npc that’s helped you is staying behind. Not Deckard. He’s got his hotplate, thermos, and Hungry-Jack pancake quik-mix ready to roll out.
I dislike Cain’s death because it was a meaningless death, it was done in such a thrown away fashion I was confused when it happened. I would like him back undead or by forced possession strictly so he could have a heroes death or sacrifice.
Then to replace him with a book. Sacrilegious! But whatever in the end it just can’t be a child’s story like D3.
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I liked Deckard Cain more when he was dead, now he’s just there trying to sell legendary crests to people in DI.
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You never want to be dead long enough to see yourself turn into a soulless vendor of capitalism.
Destroys the image of all our childhood heroes.
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Not even moral capitalism, but predatory greedy apathetic capitalism.
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I’d just be happy with a Maghda reskin. My character being tricked and Cain getting killed by that pathetic excuse of a fairy cosplay at a child’s fare is really offensive.
I’m against retconning if possible, for Cain just have him spawn as a ghost/soul after some quest and have him identify items only in last act or something.
Yeah everyone in Tristram died except Adria and Deckard.
Adria gets killed by the player.
Deckard who survived the horrors of Tristram gets poisoned by a Renaissance + Tolkien cosplayer that probably collected Lisa Frank folders.
I don’t know, humans naturally have a fear of butterflies, some of the most vicious and territorial lepidoptera’s wiped out my families village.
Well David the gnome and his village had it coming.
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You could have a story about something something soul vault, in there you meet a confused Cain, something happens, Yada Yada, the heroes are in trouble and Cain slowly gains some memories back, cause flashbacks and story fills, at the end he Yada yada’s and the heroes move on.
Edit: I don’t know just bored but he can’t be left like that
Edit2: The hero is sucked in or trapped in a soul vault, while in the vault time travels much faster. While there you meet Cain, aware of him but when you meet he is confused and wandering. You talk and take him with you as he offers to be a guide of sorts. While traveling he remembers more, eventually thinks of a way to open the vault and release the heros soul to return to his body. However releasing the vault releases all souls, if no body exists then the soul is thought to be lost. Hero accomplishes it and Cain sacrifices himself in a way to help the hero.
Leaves open the possibility of his soul going somewhere else, or if he is dead dead it’s at least a sacrifice.
But again random thoughts that I don’t want but I have the urge to type.
Edit4: as hopefully a surprise, Cain shows back up in some ghastly form, being stuck inside ummm a demon or undead of some kind, and helps finish off the baddy at the end. Could be a cutscene after finishing the boss.
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Wirt’s younger Stepbrother Steve is going to make a huge game intro into D4 Lore.
I will not spoil the plot line by revealing what prosthetic Steve has…
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Is it a prosthetic arm I can cube to open the secret chicken level?
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I think it would be great to have a reconstituted Zoltan show up with the head of Cain…
“I’ve got an old…friend…of yours here with me. He’d like you to stay awhile…and listen…”
Well… just so long as Zoltan doesn’t get ahead of himself.
Would of been much better for cain to of died trying to stop diablo from possessing Leah. Would of still been meaningless as he wouldnt of succeeded but would of been much better then him tripping because he saw some butterflies. I just didnt really like d3 in general though. The new lords of hell weren’t really that impressive and boobablo was just a stupid design. Then we got Leah, nothing wrong with the idea but seriously. She wondered the world with cain and has seen some crazy stuff but the moment demons are mention she goes “thats crazy”. Dead rising? No thats lies. Goatmen, na they are just beasts. Spawn of hell coming out of the ground. Didnt happen. Leahs entire mindset was just dumb.
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Some of the reason the story is so unmemorable is that once adventure mode was created no one ever saw it again. Your story became whatever bounties you were running as fast as you could to get mats to craft sets that were essential.
Ah, this would have been acceptable and fitting. I would have received this well.