In the Diablo 3 cinematic trailer, twenty years after the destruction of The mystical '''meteor''' seen in the [[WorldstoneWWI 2008]] and the defeat of the intro [[Prime Evilscinematic]], a blazing meteor is seen falling across the sky, landing abruptly upon the New Tristram's Cathedral. Leah and Deckard Cain were at the cathedral at the time the meteor struck crashing through many levels down into the basement. It presumably crashed obviously important to the bottom of the basement where [[Diablo3]] was originally defeated in Diablo I's story line, but the purpose of it, or what it is, remains unknown.

 ==Meteor==In the Blizzcon [[Diablo 3]] [[cinematic]] trailer from [[WWI 2008]], twenty years after the destruction of the [[Worldstone]] and the defeat of the [[Prime Evils]], a blazing meteor is seen falling across the sky, landing abruptly upon the [[New Tristram]] Cathedral. [[Leah]] and [[Deckard Cain]] were at the cathedral at the time the meteor struck crashing through many levels down into the basement. It presumably crashed to the bottom of the basement where [[Diablo]] was originally defeated in [[Diablo I]]. In the [[BlizzCon 2008]] playable demo, [[Captain Rumford]] says a meteor had struck the cathedral and it has awakened evil within. He asks you to investigate.It turns out to be [[King Leoric]]. If this will be the same in the full game is unknown.  ===Cinematic Meteor Event===This is the sequence in which the [[cinematic movie]] from [[WWI 2008]] depicts the meteor:<gallery>Image:Meteor1.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Meteor across the horizon.</span>Image:Meteor2.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Comes tumbling down...</span>Image:meteor-med2.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">And down...</span>Image:meteor-med4.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">[[New Tristram]] Cathedral.</span>Image:Meteor3.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Light from meteor shines in.</span>Image:meteor-med6.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Crashes through the roof...</span>Image:Meteor4.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Impacts in [[Tristram Cathedral]].</span>Image:meteor-med7.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Great bang ensues.</span>Image:Meteor5.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Possibly a view of the crater left by the meteor.</span>Image:diablo-cinematic.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">[[Diablo]] behind it?</span></gallery>   ==Speculation==What the meteor actually contains is unknown. The only things fans have been able to speculate about are information given in the [http://www.diii.net/gallery/ concept art].  ===Fallen Angel===The most popular line of thought is that the comet in fact is an [[Angel]], or even an [[Archangel]] expelled from the [[High Heavens]] for unknown reasons and that hitting [[Tristram Cathedral]] is either a sign to get the hero characters of D2 there, or random chance. The reason for this line of belief is the concept art with angel-like appearance. The two most popular candidates are [[Tyrael]] and [[Izual]].  These are the concept art pieces that have been speculated to be related:

Image:meteor-med1Cain cinematic concept.jpg|Meteor <span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Was [[Cain]] originally supposed to be in the Cathedral, or was he just not visible in the Skycinematic?</span>Image:Tristram meteor-med2impact.jpg|<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Meteorimpacts, but does not hurt [[Leah]].</span>Image:Tristram meteor-med3crater.jpg|MeteorImage<span style="font-size:meteor85%;line-med4height:95%;">Presumably [[Leah]] looks down the crater.jpg|New Tristram Cathedral</span>Image:meteor-med5Angel concept1.jpg|LeahImage<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:meteor95%;">Some [[Angel]]-med6type entity doing something involving fireing up his wings...jpg|Meteor Crash 1</span>Image:meteor4Tyreal_bare.jpg|Meteor Crash 2<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">[[Tyrael]] on [[Diablo3.com]] changed wing-look on Dec 10 2008, is this related to the left image?</span>Image:meteor-med7Angel concept2.jpg|Meteor Crash 3Image<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:diablo95%;">Entity with angel-cinematiclike orange "wings" standing in a bastion of sorts. Wears helmet with horns, or has horns.jpg|Diablo</span>Image:leahAngel concept3.jpg|Leah<span style="font-size:85%;line-height:95%;">Looks a lot like the previous Angel in the tower, has a helmet with horns/wings, and apparently turns to fire/light. [[Tyrael]] has no such helmet normally.</span>

* [http://www.diablowiki.net/[Captain_Rumford |Captain Rumford Quest]] [[Category:Lore]][[Category:Objects]]