(gasp)
No one has ever done that before!
I know it’s too sharp of a jab, but truly this is at least something after Diablo 3. The focus on D3 was so on gameplay and its flow, they completely forgot what made people intrigue about Diablo series at the first place. I’m actually glad that they bringing that twisted fairy tale atmosphere back at the series again from a power fantasy.
I still think they could’ve pick a better background music though…
Okay Blizzard and Netflix come together and work something out.
Hmm I wonder what that shard Lilith is holding. Is it some lost shard of the Worldstone (like something Lilith had took before she was banished and kept hidden) or another artificial soulstone (like the black soulstone) created via human and/or demon hands?
That said, I’m certainly looking forward to seeing the story of D4 unfolds. It looks to be just as bloody, horrific, dark, and desperate as they said. And that’s a major factor for what I’m looking for with a Diablo game’s story.
I think it’s either Diablo’s or Mephisto’s; we see Lilith holding a skull that resemble Diablo’s at the game art, but we also see her standing at the top of a sigil that appears to be Mephisto’s. Also, I remember Baal’s soulstone being yellow from Diablo 2 end cinematics and S25 of Diablo 3; while Mephisto’s shard is blue and Diablo’s having a very red and crimson hue.
Too hard to give a true guess.
That’s a fair guess imo. The stone, given the sinister energy that it seems to pulse with, seems either demonic in nature and/or seems to have contained a great deal of demonic essence. Especially since it looks like Lilith is utilizing it and/or have need of it. That said, it may not be Diablo’s or Mephisto’s (at least not their D2 variations), as their soulstones was destroyed and undone at the hellforge. Baal’s soulstone was also supposedly destroyed by the fallout of the Worldstone’s destruction, but no one actually witnessed it.
No arguments here. That said, it being a stone that represents and/or belongs to at least one of the Prime Evils is a good guess.
D4 has a story, at least every bit as deep as D3!!
But fear not, once you played it once, you can go on to totally ignore it. Or so I was told! 
This might be a long shot, but upon further speculation, that shard could also have been the core of the Black Abyss and/or an item that’s linked to it. In short the Hellish counterpart of the Crystal Arch (the divine object that births angels and is the source of most of their power). If so, it would explain why Lilith was so keen upon going into Hell, as with the great evils dead and/or in the middle of reviving, she’d be able to enter Hell and into the Black Abyss unchallenged and acquire the Shard, and with it gain great dominion within Hell.
The book of Lorath will be on my reading list this year.