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Nothing is likely to be confirmed about this relic until the game is released and we can see how it's handled in the actual [[storyline]].
==Diablo III==
The Black Soulstone was crafted by the ex-Horadric mage, Zoltun Kulle. Originally a member of the Ennead mage clan, he was an accomplished alchemist with profound powers of transmutation and alteration. Among the founding members of the Horadrim, he accompanied his brothers across Sanctuary as the fledgling order pursued the Prime Evils Diablo, Mephisto and Baal. Charged with carrying and overseeing the use of Soulstones crafted by the archangel Tyrael, Kulle was essential in the binding of the three.
After spending years pursuing the Prime Evils, the trauma and prolonged exposure to demonic influences left Zoltun Kulle hollow and mad. He retired from the Horadrim and took up arcane research. He eventually crafted the Black Soulstone, an artifact capable of containing the essence of both angels and demons. However, his endeavors were interrupted by his former colleagues the Horadrim. While their intervention preventing Kulle from finishing the Black Soulstone, it was never found by his former brothers.
It wouldn't be until years later, when Zoltun Kulle was resurrected by a band of Nephalem, that the Black Soulstone was completed and used to imprison the spirits of the Greater Evils of Hell.