Talk:Soulstone

Diablo v. D2trailer
Expanded the trivia section. Restored an active link to the video and added a shot.

As you can see, there is a distinct difference in the shape the wanderer holds in both hands, and what is left in the road. The former is much thicker than the latter.

In the original game we can see that the shard removed from Albrecht was able to fit in the Warrior's hand quite easily, but the one he takes 2 hands to hold is bigger than that, unless his hands somehow dramatically shrunk. This article mentions:
 * The second to awaken was Diablo, courtesy of Archbishop Lazarus, who shattered his soulstone and allowed Diablo to take mortal hosts

Lazarus' article elaborates:
 * Lazarus was lured into its depths by Diablo, where he proceeded to shatter the soulstone that imprisoned the Prime Evil. After Diablo failed to fully possess Leoric himself, Lazarus brought the King's son, Prince Albrecht, into the labyrinth to serve as the mortal host for the Lord of Terror.

Since it was shattered, it was merely a Shard in Albrecht, and only that shard was put in the Wanderer's head. In the E3 trailer, the piece the Wanderer held could have been a larger part of the original stone. Him throwing away the shard could have meant that he found a larger stone to contain Diablo's power.

Not THAT important since D2/D3 seems to have ignored the impact of that trailer, but a useful detail.

I take it the shattering was why Albrecht/Wanderer succumbed and why they were needed to supplement the stone, much like Tal Rasha had to supplement Baal's damaged stone.

I don't think Meph's stone was actually damaged though... yet he still managed to dominate others from within the stone, even when inserted into a host. However weak Meph might be, he certainly seems to best of the brothers in terms of mental might and manipulation of others. +Yc 20:08, April 6, 2014 (UTC)