The Seven Deadly Sins Will Strip Fury of Her Powers.
When acting with the authority of the Charred Council, the Horsemen are nigh unstoppable. The only way the rank and file demons, angels, and other assorted monsters of the previous games could pose even a slight threat to War and Death is because the Horsemen's powers were restricted; War because he was being punished, and Death because he was operating without the Council's knowledge. Yet here, Fury is being directly ordered to hunt down the Seven Deadly Sins, and it seems like a massive stretch for the Council to send her after them without her full power.So how can the standard enemies pose a challenge to Fury? My hypothesis is that she starts the game with her full strength and slaughters her way through regular enemies before confronting all, or maybe just one Sin. She then gets her ass kicked and her power is stolen somehow (maybe Gluttony eats it), forcing her to climb back up the power ladder and seek out allies and artifacts to help her defeat the Sins.
- Alternatively, the Charred Council itself limits Fury's power, under the excuse that they don't want her causing too much of a mess, or getting the idea of taking a side trip to finish what War started. They've got a strong excuse to keep Fury on a leash.
- Jossed
The Charred Council are sending Fury on a suicide mission.
One versus seven? Bad odds. And as the events of the first game showed, the Council consider the Horsemen expendable. With six of the Seven seals broken, the Horsemen are six sevenths of the way to escaping the Charred Council's control, and nobody is more aware of that than the Council. Sending a Horsemen on a solo mission with a low chance of success of just killing two birds with one stone.- Confirmed: keeping in line with the first Darksiders, the Council has been conspiring to get rid of the Horsemen entirely since War was imprisoned.
Strife will be mentioned.
Specifically, the game will show how his guns end up going to War and Death, possibly with the earth bound gun being used by Fury in this game.- Building off that, I think that not only will Strife be mentioned, he will be a support character for Fury. From the first two games, we know that Strife was somehow separated from his weapons Mercy and Redemption since War and Death each found one of the two guns. The trailers seem to indicate that the third game takes place while War is still a prisoner of the Council. And we know that Fury will meet Ulthane, the Maker who gave War Mercy in the first game, at some point. It is possible that one of the Sins may have captured Strife, and a part of the game will be a rescue mission to free him. It would also be an excuse to skip a game dedicated specifically to Strife, both for the sake of wrapping up the series and avoiding having to adapt a character who seems to only use guns to a third person action game, and go right to the Horsemen's war against the Council.
- Confirmed: per the Council's statement at the start of the game, Strife is sent on another task by them. He even appears in-person in the ending, having disguised himself as Jones when Fury reaches Haven for the first time.
The final Sin will be Pride and kill Fury.
Whether they're the true Big Bad or not, they'll most likely end up being the Final Boss and kill Fury. Just as they're about to destroy what's left of the world, the Seventh Seal is destroyed, reviving Fury and having her with her full power restored unleash a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown until Pride is nothing more than a wet stain on the floor.- Jossed: despite being the Starter Villain, Envy returns as the Final Boss via Grand Theft Me from Fury's Watcher over the course of the game, but Fury does not die.
Most likely not this game, but we'll see what happened to Famine and Pestilence
They were probably the same race as the Horsemen and for even extra irony, Famine would end up becoming Gluttony, somehow having managed to survive The Purge. Jones isn't merely Strife's disguise.
He's basically what Strife looks like under the armor. The Tempest is Rampage
Much like his master, Rampage is full of boundless anger and rage, and so he couldn't find rest after being murdered. The storm actively makes a beeline straight for Fury whenever she enters its area of effect, and upon being destroyed it lets out a loud echoing "Thank you!", as if Rampage was only chasing after Fury because of his love for her, but couldn't help but ensnare her into the literal whirlwind of aimless rage, and so being destroyed by her hand allowed his soul to be released and he could finally rest in peace.