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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8971116" data-attributes="member: 5142">There are some good ideas in the books - (1) humans being descended from the unions of angels and demons and (2) Rathma as the son of Inarius and Lillith - but IMHO the books have had an overall negative impact on the character of the franchise. IMO, the idea that the nephalim are even more powerful than demons and angels actually undercuts humanity's struggles against outside forces and the gothic horror tone of the setting. It turned our human characters into superheroes. Moreover, I think that one problem that Diablo and other similar franchises* face when it comes to their tone is that when they depict everyone as being just as bad (angels included) then it creates a sense that the world isn't worth saving. That's one thing that I would like to see in Diablo 4. Give me a sense that this world and its people are worth saving. Don't just repeatedly show me how terrible the world is. Don't just repeatedly tell me that angels are just as bad as demons. (Hooray for false equivalances in fantasy games!) * This is also one of my criticisms of the TTRPG Shadow of the Demon Lord. It definitely reflects Schwalb's depression. Indeed, the more that I learned about the setting and its secrets, the more I felt that the Demon Lord should win and let the world be destroyed.</blockquote>