#They could've either had More Inarius

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D4 Rant Time!

I really think if you took Inarius out of D4 it would change just about nothing whatsoever. His impact on the story is...killing Rathma (who, before this game, was supposed to have been dead since the end of the Sin War soooo) and I guess re-starting the Cathedral?

And the Cathedral...helps with a few missions...and then is wiped out in Hell, along with Inarius.

Like.

The whole Caldeum sequence could just be you bashing your way through cultists and demons without Prava.

I think Vigo might be the most impactful thing to come out of the Cathedral - his folly with lilith and trying to fix what he did are pretty impactful. Could still kill him off without sticking him in the giant shish kebab armor. Or hell, have him find the armor himself, and put it on as a choice, rather than being coerced by Prava.

Even getting the lights blessing...like, it coulda just been Neyrelle opening the way.

The story doesn't gain much from Inarius.

Oh, angels can be bad too? We already had Malthael and Imperius to an extend prove that.

Inarius was hyped up in all the promos and he's barely in the damn game. When he is, its to either be a bitch or die. (I am fine with his bitchliness. I would like more Inarius being bitchy. That's the whole point of him). They coulda have him hang out in the Cathedral or Kor Valar the whole time. Give him some bitchy dialogue where the character asks wtf is wrong with him and he just brushes it off.

Oh, and you know what would have been fun for Lilith's character? Have her be the one to kill Rathma.

Have it be a big decision for her; she wants to empower humanity, and the only way to do that is to kill her precious child, who dares stand in her way.

He would not have given her the key. He doesn't support either of his parents, and locking Hell in the first place was to try and prevent her from completing the prophecy. Rathma would have fought back against his mother. If Inarius hadn't killed him, Lilith would have.

Have her run him through and weep over his corpse, but determine that he was one of the 'weak' mortals that needed to be swept aside so that the strong could survive, or whatever. Give her a little development, a little conflict, as a treat.

There's not enough Lilith in this game either, for the record. At one point Mephisto straight up says 'you guys are focusing too much on Elias and not enough on Lilith'. And he's right! Elias was a cool villain and I liked his story, but there was too much of him and not enough Everything Else.

The Inarius we got was inconsequential. That was probably the Whole Point, but its still frustrating as hell.