The Disturbing Truth of Mephistos Councils Appearance in Diablo 2 Resurrected
699One detail that shocked me when first playing diablo 2, was Mephistos grotesque council. And why they had twisted half man, half demonic forms?
Especially because it looked like they were losing control of their left side of their body like Tetsuo from Akira.
Well, at the end of the video I will reveal what Lead artist of Diablo 2 Phil Shenk had to say about it, but in terms of the lore reason the council are suffering from a demonic growth.
The Lord of Hatred, Mephisto, was the first of the three brothers to be caught and imprisoned within a soulstone. He was then entombed beneath the Temple of Light within the temple city of Travincal in Kurast, where the esteemed High Council of Zakarum watched over him. However, overtime, Mephisto's insidious power started corrupting both his soulstone and his human jailors. Ultimately he ordered the Zakarum priesthood to shatter his soulstone, freeing his spirit. Each of the fallen priests drove a shard of the soulstone through their left palms, with the largest shard piercing the hand of the high-priest Sankekur. And of course, In time Sankekur would become the mortal host for Mephisto's spirit.
In terms of HOW mephisto only needed a shard of his soulstone, when I asked Phil on twitter he said his memory was a bit shaky but surmised of the stone:
...C) Mephisto didn't need it. Centuries growing power inside the stone twisting & corrupting Zakarum religion so energy flowed through followers to him, via this twisted cult. Sankekur's soul would have been serving as the conduit. Prolly I prefer C, opens up neat lore options
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