I can’t stand how wrong blizzard got it. The Nephalem and humans are not the heroes. The hero lost the war. The real hero was Malthael, the wisest of all Angels. Even Tyreal understood Malthael was right, but couldn’t allow his pet humans to be culled. Even if they are corrupted and literally part of the problem. Malthael wanted to purify the world. To remove all corruption. Nephalem and humans dont belong in a pure world. Evil won.
My proof. 100% FACT.
Tyreal’s sword El’druin is said to be the symbol of justice itself. By all accounts El’druin is a unique weapon, capable of cutting through any foe or substance in existence. However, some believe that the blade’s edge cannot pass through or harm any being of righteous intent. The sword can destroy demonic seals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb7QJwQ58T0?t=186
clearly passes through unharmed.
So there you have it. Humans and Nephalem are basically the only reason why evil exists. I can’t tell if Blizzard did it on purpose or not. My guess would be that one person at Blizzard knew what they were writing and slid it right under the corporate boys noses. Either way it’s still all terrible the way the game pushes Malthael is a villain.
Will D4 lore have any sneaky underlining lore? Hope so, the villain looks pretty weak compared to the past iterations.
If Malthael was so pure of heart, why did he kill the innocent angels at the Pandemonium gate? In fact its his fault that Diablo and the other evils escaped the Black Soulstone.
So Malthael is the true villain of Diablo 3!
what is he supposed to do? He’s trying to save the world from corruption, and they try to stop him. They are literally helping evil, gullible as they are or not, he can’t allow them to force him to stop saving the world.
How is it Malthael’s fault the evils escaped, it’s literally our fault. Malthael had them all contained and trapped eternity, and the Nephidiots defeated him and released them…
did you even play the game, or did you skip the lore?
FACT 100% is El’druin judged Malthael as pure intent, literal god herself claimed Malthael is right.
yeah and Sargeras was merely trying to save the universe by killing all living beings the nerve of us actually being selfish and not wanting to die just so he can feel safe in his own netherhood
in fact he unleashed the legion on us all because he “loved” us Sarge was the poster child for burning down the village in order to save it only in his case he came packing napalm and nukes
But Sargeras saw what had been done with his own eyes, and didn’t believe there was any other alternative. He made the right choice — and as far as he was concerned, there was only one path the Pantheon could follow.
To this end, he presented an unorthodox plan: purge the universe of all life.
The difference between Sargeras and Malthael was that Malthael was trying to save all things pure, good, and just. Malthael still had HOPE. Sargeras gave up.
No that’s wrong, he literally pwned Diablo hard. He was going to alter the worldstone as Baal had, but this time to end all corruption. He’s literally the anti-baal. He would have easily succeeded if the Nephalel wasn’t a greedy garbage half-demonic trashcan.
Much to the horror of his foes, Malthael was fundamentally altering the Black Soulstone to consume and contain all demonic essence in Sanctuary. This meant that humanity faced annihilation as their demonic heritage would be torn from their souls by the stone and their bodies ripped apart. Malthael continued his work from the heart of the Pandemonium Fortress, continually feeding off the increasing souls of the dead and growing more powerful with each passing moment.
Sargeras wasn’t crazy, he was just the only one to see the Void and the Void Lords and how they were using old gods to corrupt future born Titans into dark Titans. He was right, WoW is doomed and everything will suffer to the void. Think he was powerful, imagine a thousand of him on void-roids.
he was driven insane by the level of evil the void contained and in his madness he became convinced without mortals the void would have nothing to feed on but thats where he was WRONG the void wanted him to kill all life thus removing the only cosmic equation that would be a threat to them
without light darkness can consume all since theres nothing pure to oppose them destroying all good would upset the cosmic balance thus giving the void free reign to do whatever they needed to free themselves at their own pace sicne theres no longer any obstacles to hinder their goals
El’druin wouldn’t cut Malthael because he’s not corrupted by the Burning Hells, the eternal war concerns Angels and Demons (humans are a sub-product from both)
Objectively Malthael’s master plan wasn’t bad at all, wickedly awful but not stained by corruption.
Tathamet was very much an inner part of Anu until he was casted out, this is how “evil” came to exist.
I don’t see Malthael as evil but rather as an emotionless being, after all he’s the Aspect of Wisdom and wisdom isn’t based on feeling.
But I do agree that some lore is badly needed on this very matter, otherwise let’s say goodbye to Holy magic, who on this world would want to use the divine light after what Malthael did.
Note: I do consider myself 50% casual about the lore
Algonon was cold too he came to end azeroth which oddly ironic when he arrived he was actually dead because what left the titan home world was an avatar sent in his stead to decide our fate in ulduar
which is why he was beatable i mean like any other titan in their full powered form he wouldve stomped any raid with ease luckily what we fought was simply a weakened state that only possesed maybe 10% of his true power
While it’s possible that El’Druin may had deemed Malthael’s actions as righteous, and thus chose not to harm him; the primary reason Malthael was unaffected by El’Druin (according to Tyrael) was because Malthael had become attuned with death, this caused him to be impervious to any harm unless the person in question was also attuned to death, like the Diablo 3 Nephalem had to do in order to even face him.
Except the angels were not against the reapers until the reapers attacked the gate. In fact had the reapers not attack the gate, Imperius would have tried to stop us from going to Pandemonium.
I did play the game. That is why I know that had Malthael not shattered the soulstone and absorbed all the demon souls it contained, Diablo and siblings would still be trapped.
As Oblivion stated, Malthael was attuned to death which was why we had to go free some souls so we could become attuned to death as well.
Indeed. Both Thanos and Malthael were egotistical megalomaniacs who just decided they were right and everyone else was wrong and nothing anyone else says would convince them otherwise. It can’t get much more wrong than that.
Neither Thanos, nor Malthael are egotistical. They were literally both trying to help others. Literally the opposite of selfish and self-centered. Humans themselves were the selfish ones in both scenarios.
