Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred May Bring Back An Iconic Diablo Boss

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recently announced an upcoming expansion to the dungeon crawling game which will be titled and is expected to make its debut late in 2024. The announcement came with a trailer during the BlizzCon 2023 event, but not much information was provided just yet as to the story that will be seen in the campaign of the new DLC other than that it picks up where the crucial narrative left off at the end of the base game. The story so far has been left on a cliffhanger, which this expansion is poised to address.

[Warning: The Following Article Contains Spoilers About The Main Story Of Diablo 4 and Diablo 2.]During the BlizzCon 2023 live campfire chat, many of the development team for the game discussed some of the information that they were able to share regarding. The story will take players into the jungles of Kurast and introduce an all-new playable class to the game that has never been seen in the universe thus far. Kurast was a key location in, and heavily featured one particular Prime Evil that has appeared in much of the lore of: Mephisto.

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It has been confirmed that the expansion will take the story to the area of Kurast, which is a familiar area to veteran players who experienced it in. The area of Kurast was known to be a beautiful paradise before it fell to Mephisto's corruption. The jungle that surrounds the ancient city was itself, created by Mephisto's power as he controlled the church, city, and land surrounding it all. This is a land that Mephisto is quite at home in, and likely considers his personal playground within Sanctuary.

In, it was here in Kurast that Mephisto was supposedly defeated by the heroes of that game. After a long hunt and intense battle, Mephisto's essence was imprisoned inside a soulstone. That soulstone was later destroyed with the objective of putting an end once and for all to Mephisto's machinations upon the world.

It should come as no surprise to those who finished the main campaign of thus far that the story is not complete. The ending scenes and epilogue provide more questions than answers in its cliffhanger. Mephisto's essence is once again trapped inside a soulstone and the young girl, Neyrelle, takes off on a journey to defeat the Lord of Hatred by herself. Lorath pursues her, knowing that Mephisto's corruption will be working on the child, and the final imagery players are left with is that of Neyrelle being shadowed by the bloody wolf form of Mephisto.

Where Neyrelle is going, and what her intended goals are, is left unknown. There are many theories of what she could be planning to do, but it is evident from the epilogue that she thinks she can put an end to Mephisto once and for all, and that it