Over a decade after Diablo 2, the next entry Diablo 3 was released D2R ladder items. Players return to the world of Sanctuary twenty years after the events of Diablo 2 and its expansion. Deckard Cain, a prominent NPC in the Diablo series who guides gamers, is back as he explores Tristram Cathedral in search of answers about a prophecy before a falling star hits the building and creates a crater into which Deckard disappears. After investigating the crater and saving Deckard, players find the Archangel Tyrael and help him to restore his lost memories.
Appalled by the apathy of his fellow angels toward the plight of humanity and the plague of demons in Sanctuary, Tyrael chooses to become mortal so that he can help warn humans about the arrival of the Demon Lords. Players must counter the demonic forces and search out the Black Soulstone, which has the power to imprison the souls of all seven of the Lords of Hell.
However, the player and their cohorts are betrayed and the Black Soulstone is used instead to resurrect Diablo with Leah – Deckard's ward – as his vessel. Diablo now has all the souls of the Lords of Hell within him and begins his assault on the High Heavens. Diablo is eventually defeated and Tyrael remains in the High Heavens, determined to forge a greater bond between them and the mortal realm.
In the expansion pack Reaper of Souls, Tyrael recovers the Black Soulstone and attempts to seal it away in Sanctuary buy d2r items. But before he can, he is attacked by Malthael, a former Archangel of Wisdom who now calls himself the Angel of Death, and the Black Soulstone is stolen.
