Diablo 4 Ending Explained | Full Story Breakdown 

That’s actually super interesting, as that’s basically what I suggested! Awesome

@@smoughburgh The western Continent is where Diablo 1 2 and 3 take place

@@jkranites Indeed!

we'll most likely be revisiting tristram, westmarch, dreadlands, etc as well as the southern area of the eastern continent

Always to the East

Death by cutscenes.. cannot die by demon but die by decorative wall.. same like pansy-a$$ INARIUS

Blizzard build up INARIUS, IMPERIUS… but don’t deliver the payoff.. we suppose to fight them.. as corrupted angels like MATHEAL

@JOOCHIANTING Apparently he knew enough about the female anatomy to father children but not enough to know where her heart was, lol

That would not only have been more in character for Neyrelle, but preferable. Donan was probably the best character in the story mode-which is probably the precise reason why he was killed off. Because they knew we'd like his death least of all.

Reminded me of Robert Baratheon. Death by Boar.

10/10

yeh, brilliant

You can tell the confusion on his face in that scene, which is incredibly because we're never shown it

The faces on the pillars say everything for him

the cultists mention the lord of hatred not lilith, mephisto definitely planned all this

And he did that while not even in one mind. Lilith did everything she could to keep him from regaining his essence and he still triumphed.

Absolutely… He was far too cunning and open.. it’s almost like he wanted us to know he was screwin us… The longer she keeps that shard on her person the stronger his influence will become. Most people go insane from that type of interaction with a Prime Evil. *Laughs in Baal* Also I think she went looking for Tyreal as he is the leader of the Horadrim.

I've been thinking too the soul stones never stop the primes. They just let the primes corrupt sanctuary and invade. Since the soul stone is a piece of the world stone its more like a gateway between hell and sanctuary.

Yup if you read the new art book the book of Lorath, there are letters by proxy between Lorath and Nyrelle while Lorath is trying to find her. Nyrelle is definitely wanderer 2.0 places she goes through are having problems. At the end there is a tidbit of the last town she was in before she starts sailing west and the towns almost devoured by hatred. Considering the speed Mephisto is exerting influence Nyrelle isn't going to be able to stop him despite her intentions (if she wasn't being influenced from the start considering how gungho before they even got there about we must do it to Mephisto).

Or Lilith was lying to us and just wanted more power to take over hell. We have no idea of her true intentions

She defo wasn't purely out to get humanity - but she was absolutely brutal - look at what she did to Donan and the Driud in Act 2

@@smoughburgh collateral damage 😅 she is a demon at the end of the day. I just wish we knew more of her MO. I’ve been diving into the lore and it seems her main MO was revenge against Inarius for banishing her and ending the Eternal Conflict. Now if she did kill Mephisto and got stronger, would that power have corrupted her? Likely imo. This is why I love Diablo lore so much lol

@@oct2119960 true that but we know for certain Mephisto was lying to avoid death at Lilith’s hands. I think her intention was pure to stop the Eternal Conflict but I don’t doubt she could’ve been corrupted by Mephisto’s power and the other Prime Evil’s powers in the end

she told Elias" let weeklings fend off for themselves" while they were watching an oldman being torn apart by wolves before them. But i do feel ya, making her feel human enough sure does leave a bad taste in my mouth, cause it raises the question, have we done a good thing by killing her or have we just made a terrible mistake that will cost humanity even more then what was already taken. And i like that tbh

Instead of East, she will go west back to where it all started.

Hardly surprising seeing as the majority of D4 set pieces and location style is copied from D2

@@olesideburns always west.

Well the "Dark Wanderer" is Aidan from Diablo 1 was technically the player character from the "cannon warrior" from Diablo 1 when the end cutscene the player stabs themselves with diablos soul stone to "contain" the evil. which was retconned Aidan was never mentioned was leoric son in D1 they put it in D3 to fit the story.

Kinda shows the problem of that kind of video, when the informations and actual storytelling and characterizations in the game itself are really sparse. I doubt someobody who doesnt know about the lore of these two will understand anything whats going on in the cinematic.

Yeah but there is a problem with that. Mephisto was never trapped in anyway before he was sealed in the soulstone. He was regenerating himself after the destruction of the black soulstone from D3 when he along with all the other demons was released. He was never trapped he just needed time to manifest in a fully functional body again.

@@Shiftry87 The videos interpretation makes more sense, IF we look at the whole prophecy: "I saw my corpse, and from my mouth crawled Hatred, A father burned his children on a pyre, and a mother molded a new age from the ashes, I saw the weak made strong, a pack of lambs feasting on wolves, Tears of blood rained on a desert jewel, and the way to Hell was torn asunder, Then came a spear of light, piercing Hatred's heart, And he who was bound in chains was set free." BUT the last part is relatively vague and Inarius wasnt freed from anything, just killed. But its the only thing the description kinda matches, especially the "spear into heart" thing. But how anyone would know that Inarius was hateful, just from the things within the game, is a mystery to me. He just comes across as an narcistic asshole with maincharacter-complex, before he does a hard 180 for the cinematic into a pathetic idiot. Thats not what he was and tbh also Lilith is by no means the deep character that she was in the Sin War trilogy. That they changed so much into bland stereotypes is not a nice and deep twist, but the result of embarassingly bad writing... see Donans death.

Not yet but soon for sure those soul stones suck 😂

if you read the book of Lorath you get some small tidbits about what's going on post her leaving. If there's much of Nyrelle left she doesn't have a lot longer to figure out a way to stop him.

Mephisto be like "oh no don't trap me in a soul stone and smuggle me out of hell. "

Ofc he's corrupted her. If she somehow survives all this, I'd be really dissapointed with the story.

no mephisto was just being honest and that honesty made everyone do whatever he wanted

Incredibly foolish of the protagonist to trust a child's decision over their own.

Yet another parallel between D4 and Warframe

@@Dioptase26 mind to elaborate? :)

@@IplayTeemoasaWard uses platinum, call bugs features, balances by reducing fun

@@Dioptase26 don't forget about useless features added for padding and certain characters being useless/ignored

*Mephisto’s Voice* do you miss your mother? You know… I can bring her back from the dead? Let’s make a trade? You help to set me free and I’ll bring you back your mother… and your arm too since I’m so generous…. (Wolf starts to lick its lips)

Mephisto should have been called lord of deceit instead.

That would be better. I don’t think it’s the case, but it would certainly flesh out her non-existent character.

@@jasonlagman9993 Belial is the Lord of Lies, title already taken lol but I think it is fair to assume they all have some overlap

@@joeduncan5186 I know but lie is just one common form of deceit. So yeah Mephisto is the prime root I guess.

i think it goes further than that , inarius may have been chained at some point but i think he was allowed to leave whenever he wanted but refused to and once hell was empty of all its greater and lesser evils , inarius was sitting their alone and that was the moment he took off and pretended to have done a great escape where in truth there was nothing to escape from

Same lol I guess you can have it mean both events?

Yeah this is my interpretation!

That theory makes more sense than everything else I heard about D4 so far

a stone is not a spear tho, altho i understand the connection u wanna do in allegorical sense but still a spear is still to far off from a stone, which also is not light, it may glow, but a spear of light does not recouncil a stone of which is not of light , or idk

Thank you so much my friend, appreciate that. Yeh 100%, she isn't benevolent - we can see that in the brutal suffering she causes in Act 2 especially! And as you say, the part where she an Elias stand there and watch that poor Monk.

In the 3 books..... yea, she quite the bitch. That being said.... she's probably right. At no point, has Lilith ever said that she wants to rule over all, before this game. She only complained that NO ONE, not a single angel or demon who ran to escape the eternal conflict, wanted to use the nephalem to end the war. Every other demon and angel was terrified that nephalem even existed.

My feelings are that Lilith may style herself as the 'Mother of Sanctuary' and say that she only 'wishes to empower' humanity, but the minute she sacrificed Yorin to Astaroth it became clear to me that that was BS, BS she might have believed herself but still a lie.

It's possible but we won't really know what her true end game was, you either take her word or you don't because she's currently no longer with us. Fairly clear that she did care about her first born and in her own twisted way she actually did care about her creation (Sanctuary). What she didn't care for was those among us that she thought of as weak. Multiple expositions of her claiming as such, including the scene with the monk being devoured by the wolves (those are meant to represent Baal, Mephisto and Diablo). I got the impression from her throughout the story that the main cast she actually begrudgingly respected, and in multiple scenes she always gave us the choice, even if she didn't like the answer. Elias also made it clear to her in that very scene that he doesn't really respect cultists and blind loyalty, as only fools think that way. Right and wrong is really hard to judge in this world to begin with. As mortals massive immediate losses waging wars against Hell and then inevitable Heaven isn't a really good selling point. Our lives are short and we aren't really thinking about future generations beyond maybe a couple, so what does it matter if this eternal conflict just keeps going on forever. For Lilith, in her eyes she sees this as frustrating because she's essentially immortal and wants it to end. To a being such as her, the massive toll on humanity as the weak is culled and the strong survive is necessary if it means the long term goal of Hell/Heaven being vanquished resulting in the conflict finally being over. She did plenty wrong, no doubt about that. I can understand her motivations and her end game goal though. Instead of exploding in hellfire she sat there defeated, scolding us for squandering our futures because we are too stupid to think about anything except the short term. Overtime the losses are going to mount up, and her words be far too great (as it flashes between Mephisto, Baal and Diablo once again) for humanity to contend with. To that end, I don't think she's wrong there. Keep in mind also that 50 years prior half of humanity was wiped out by Mathael, a rogue angel from the Heavens. Like Zoltuun Kuul said, angels aren't really any better than demons.

well it's not like we already sided with heaven and got betrayed as well :D

Agreed.

Because she is full of shit. I’m guessing she is going to try and use the power to revive her mother.

THANK YOU. This bothered me so much.

Dude I read a bunch on diablo lore when I was a kid and had all the D2 extra books and shit and was so pissed to see him die that way. I was really excited to fight him or atleast have him be a major character in the story, not just die and have like 2 mins of screen time, half of that he’s dead. I’m really hoping that Mephisto does something to resurrect him since it’s his grandson and that he becomes a major character. At bare minimum let us interact or fight with his spirit.

@@alexmoult7725 Because "our players are stupid and don't read lore and don't pay attention to the dialogues, so we won't confuse them with additional drama".

he died on purpose or let himself get killed because he wants to meet the great serpent tragoul inorder to get reborn and save his father from turning into the lord of darkness , inarius is kind of the lucifer in all of this , perhaps even the main character , besides that 2 new angels are going to appear , one is the new angel of wisdom and the other the new angel of justice

​@@deepaksingh-ku9uf sounds cool but where are you getting those theories from?

Thanks so much for checking it out my friend, really appreciate it. Yeh I will be covering more - have one planned for the coming week as well!

Thank you so much, yeh absolutely - talking about Mephisto's motivations is my next video.

🤣 That's the greatest mystery of this franchise

Mephisto probably saved her during the battle, it took place in his very own domain after all. Also she's very clearly corrupted by hatred at this point, she'll probably serve Mephisto in the future. He'll take over and corrupt the Church of Light through her just like he took over and corrupted the Zakarum faith in D1 and D2. So he probably kept her alive as his pawn.

@@holyromanempire3445 Oh boy shadow Cleric/Priest class here we go!

oooh good one

Also “He who was bound in chains was set free.” Seems, at least to me to refer to Mephisto himself. He’s free from Hell and will soon corrupt Neyrelle if he hasn’t already.

Cheers my friend! More this week

Glad you enjoyed! Thank you

hahaahha

I believe we'll go after her in future seasons/expansions. They've said they're doing more story so it only makes sense.

the thing with mephisto is his planning is all good its just diablo who purposely fucks things up in order to make sure he comes on top as he did in D3

@@deepaksingh-ku9uf It likely is how theyll reintroduce Diablo, as he is the main antagonist of the entire series. As Mephisto is reforming, so is Diablo. And it may be that in Mephistos absence, Diablo takes over Mephistos realm, becoming more potent among Hell in terms of conquest, making him have more minions at his disposal.

@@KaunPrime there is only one missing part i cant figure out and that is baal , he was never the most complicated character but i have this feeling that guy wants everything destroyed including hell itself

@@deepaksingh-ku9uf Baal I dont feel wants entire destruction, but i do believe he wants absolute chaos reigning supreme, which would be the end of the Angeris council and the Prime Evils at the very least, causing all systemic senses of order to collapse.

@@KaunPrime he for one was the most patient one , he listend to all of marius story just for the soulstone , he could have just tortured him but didnt, at the end he did kill him and the entire kloster but still once baal realised later on what diablo was planning he was the one who didnt resist at all , he is kind of like the joker this guy doesnt care as long as everything gets destroyed

Thank you my friend! I will certainly give my thoughts on that in a future video!

The ages of the people who are present in D2 and in D4 give me the feeling that we are the descendants or the actual people who helped to destroy Baal from Diablo 2. According to the timeline, Diablo 1 took place in 1263 of the Sanctuary calendar, and Diablo 2 took place over the following two years. Diablo Immortal took place five years later, with Diablo 3 occurring 15 years after that. However, Diablo 4 is taking place a whopping 50 years after the events of Reaper of Souls. When we first saw Meshif in D2 he is a seasoned sailor and middle age to young man? No age is known. But he is in D4? Let’s say he is 25 in D2 then 15 years till D3 that’s 40 then 50 years later in D4 he is 90 years old… so it’s totally possible that we are Nephalem from D2 that made it D3 and our journey and power gained along the way from bathing in Prime evil blood has kept us youthful. Rogues are Amazons and Assassin and Demon Hunters all the same people. Sorse is Sorse, wizards Necro is necro, witch doctors and Necro. Barb… Druid…

@@joeyfowler1919 Very nice breakdown! Thanks for that!

The most easy to corrupt person. I would do that too

yeah we need to find Tyrael if he still alive😂

Yeh I'll be honest, when Lorath gave that speech about her at the end of Act 1 I thought she'd have more to her - guess we just wait and see.

Well, we saw mighty and wise keep soulstones - and they fell miserably. Maybe there will be "Frodo" case when small and humble save the day?

Don't get why she decided to take the crystal by herself or how mother pava knows about it. Also shouldn't we be worshiped as the slayer of Lilith?

Yeh his death is absolutely brutal

Felt bad for him?! Yea, don't. The Cathedral of light has existed for a long time and was originally run by the angel himself... he was not a good person... or angel dude

@@MrRagston Brought it on himself by being obsessed running back to heaven instead of standing by his choices

Thanks so much! Yeh defo a possibility, someone suggested Inarius isn't dead and we will see him again

I wonder what Tristram gonna look like

@@gunsk853 Tristram and that poor fishing hamlet nearby are all just abandoned, if my memory of the Book of Lorath is correct. The only reason the two were rebuilt and reinhabited was because everything went to a stable state between D2 and D3. And by Stable I mean, everything but the Barb lands were getting normalized (and Southern Kehjistan where Kurast was poppin off still too.) I really don't see us going to Tristram besides as a cameo much like Mephisto's vision is an Easter Egg and a fourth wall attempt at getting the player to feel emotions.

True!

Yeah I think it’s implying the spear piercing hatred’s heart is someone impaling inraious because he hates the human and nephlim

@@SHINIGAMI6774 while I think that's a workable interpretation (and honestly, probably the correct one,) I like mine better because neither interpretation actually changes how events play out but mine characterizes Lilith more as a loving mother rather than reinforcing what we already know about Inarius; that he's an asshole lol

Yeh absolutely mate - if you check out my prophecy lore video, that’s one of the lines I highlight. Thanks so much, I really enjoyed the story and appreciate you checking it out

We are the chosen of mephisto and from the beginning of the game he has been corrupting us, by the end of this games life I wont be surprised if we have a "heroes fall" like every other hero in the diablo universe

There's something to notice about Mephisto in this story. Mephisto was there from the beginning of the story. We woke up to him "guiding" us...and that's for a reason. WE never were bound to Lillith, we were bound to Mephisto. Mephisto is the most manipulative and witty of the prime evil brothers, he's the oldest and the most wise of them. He was able to corrupt a whole civilisation from his soulstone burried in an underground temple in diablo 2...do you think he couldn't manipulate and corrupt people that easily in diablo 4, especially with his soul being in Hell, in his domain where he's at his strongest? Dude was still "weak" but no where as weak as in the beginning of the events in diablo 2. Everything in diablo 4 yet is just happening exactly how he wanted it to happen, i'm pretty sure. He's probably guiding Nyrell back to the West, either at the soulstone chamber, Tristram or back in Kurast.

@@thornwolf4234 well that makes sense... totally forgot about that aspect of the story

@@JeffreyBezeau you as well, now that you mention it, yes it makes sense that mephisto corrupted as and many others

Mephisto was playing us from the very start, and manipulating us. Lilith is absolutely brutal but also sort of right. The player characters/cast just saw her methods as way too brutal and short term most mortals aren't going to care about something that's going to benefit them generations down the line. They won't be alive to see it, and in the short to mid term it's just going to be mounting losses for humanity. Her being immortal means she cares little for the short term (even if short term for her is spanning potentially dozens if not more human generations), she only cares about winning the war as a long term goal so there isn't a conflict anymore. Honestly I think her character was fairly consistent and it was pretty obvious she cared about her first born son. She "seemed" to respect most of the main cast and had little respect for blind followers or cultists. Even though they served her, they were only a means to an end to help cause enough chaos to get beings such as Andariel and Duriel summoned to Sanctuary (and she mentioned using Andariel as a font of power, which shows how little she regards powerful beings from Hell). I highly doubt she would wipe out humanity, it doesn't fit her character. I truly think her end game goal was literally to rampage through every domain of hell, and in the process that would simultaneously cull a lot of humanity to where only the strong would survive. With hell out of the picture they would turn on the heavens, with the only remaining domain being Sanctuary itself. If for whatever reason Heaven/Hell can't ever TRULY be vanquished the power of the humans of Sanctuary would just be way too overwhelming for either side to ever rise up. Something that is often overlooked is that the heavens were fairly close to moving against Sanctuary and just culling them right from the start. Then also 50 years prior to the events of D4 Mathael rampaged through Sancatury culling roughly 50% of humanity. Which is why she would never be content with just stopping with hell. Inarius was far more accurate representation of "hatred" in D4 than Mephisto and Lilith were (but that was likely amplified by the eons of Mephisto torturing him).

She never loved inarius

@@cooperblackwell1392 Oh, entirely possible. The double meaning works with the prophecy since they ran from their homes together and created Sanctuary and humanity, etc. 😎🍻😎

That's one way I saw it as well and I thought it was bizarre I hadn't seen anyone else mention this

Inarius has always been a threat to the Nephilim, to humanity.

@@fumarc4501To the nephalem, yes, but not to humanity. Remember that between Lilith banishment and the sin war Inarius was the all Powerful ruler of Sanctuary, and what did he do? Nothing. He didn’t rule humans, or kill humans, or influence humans. He respected free will and left humanity alone after it was no threat to him, nor did he hunt down Rathma or any other nephalem survivors once it was clear they too were subdued. Based on what he says during the books, he did care in a vainglorious kind of way, but he respected free will because it was always his wish for sanctuary to run without need of oversight. This is of course before the aeons of mind breaking torture, though. Now he actively hates sanctuary, humans, Lilith, and deep down, himself. Why else would his Pauldron emblems be his own screaming face?

@@rakshithanand8262 yea i like his character arc. Turns out his deeds weren't never going to be enough for the Angels. The Angels hate sanctuary and that hate eventually spread to him as well.

True dat

She was banished to the void, twice, for a long time. Likely, Tra'Ghul had something to do with it, but however she found out probably has to do with being there. Inarius sent Rathma there at a point and Tra'Ghul pulled him from the void, saying that it was nearly impossible for him to do, even though he was created when sanctuary was, as it's guardian. No angel or demon knows about Tra'Ghul, but on his scales are supposed to be the entirety of all time.

That gate is also in the Estuar (east continent). It is under Travincal in Kurast.

I think you are on the direct track. Mephisto's manipulations might even up be his own undoing as fate tends be bitchy like that.

There are two planned expac's so i'm thinking we get 1 half of the western continent first. Then the last half with the 2nd xpac.

nothing about the storyline makes any sense anymore, the whole thing is a joke. what a waste of time

She opens it herself by using the soul stone. Basically, you can gain the powers of the soul trapped inside of it, but depending on how powerful the soul is that is trapped, it can start corrupting you - eventually making you release the soul that is trapped within.

@@DeathByMercy Love how you just toss out bullshit without actually saying anything. Nothing makes sense? Like what? What particularly did you not understand? Because it's all fairly simple for anyone who paid a bit of attention.

There's no telling what a Prime Evil is really capable of doing inside that stone. Just because we were told it would work decently doesn't mean Mephisto can't already be corrupting things around himself. Making a portal probably isn't difficult for him.

@@7gamex calm down. We get it; you like to gobble on blizzard 🥜

Its really a shame. They really just put him in there for fan service, could have replaced him with any other demon and had the same effect.

Yeh it’s a shame, he looks so cool as well -but just appears as a boss with no surrounding story

Yeah I'll need to maybe revist immortal! Interested in learning the lore from it

Yeah they added a new zone, another worldstone shard, and they're gearing up for another update soon with more story. Say what you want about immortal but they're updating it often.

Yeh defo could be and it’s one of the suggestions I make in my prophecy video

@@smoughburgh awesome I’ll check out your other vid! Thanks

Tyrael is an aspect of justice, he became a mortal cause he viewed it as just, this is why tyrael was kicking imperiuses ass when they fought, because he is much stronger when fighting for justice

@@davidbousi7845 He became aspect of wisdom after D3:RoS

Mephisto probably saved her during the battle, it took place in his very own domain after all. Also she's very clearly corrupted by hatred at this point, she'll probably serve Mephisto in the future. He'll take over and corrupt the Church of Light through her just like he took over and corrupted the Zakarum faith in D1 and D2. So he probably kept her alive as his pawn.

Yeh I do think it's the most likely location

Mount Arreat is no longer a mountain, its just a crater theres basically nothing there now