![]() Raziel chases Kain through a portal into the past, 30 years before Blood Omen. Raziel fights Kain, but then Kain vanishes into a portal back in time, with Raziel following in pursuit. Fueled by this revelation, Raziel defeats the rest of his brethren (except Turel) then chases Kain to Moebius' grand time-streaming chamber. He realizes that he and his brothers were Sarafan vampire hunters in life, before Kain turned them all into vampires. ![]() Shortly afterward, Raziel discovers the Tomb of the Sarafan, where he finds a series of empty coffins etched with the names of his vampire brethren and his own. The apostate soul previously trapped in the Reaver joins itself to Raziel, granting him the Soul Reaver as a "wraith blade" of spectral energy. Kain seems relatively un-surprised by this, then disappears. Kain attacks Raziel with the Soul Reaver, but the blade shatters. Raziel travels through the land of Nosgoth, facing and defeating some of his former vampire brothers, before eventually confronting Kain at the Pillars. The Elder God grants Raziel the inability to ever be destroyed in return for killing Kain and his brethren and allowing the Wheel to turn again. The Elder God then makes his presence known to him, and tells Raziel that the widespread reproduction of the vampires has stalled his Wheel of Fate, a cycle of souls critical to the world's health-as their souls are immortal vampires stall it. For his disobedience, Kain has Raziel thrown into the Lake of the Dead, where he was burnt to death and laid for centuries, before being unexpectedly resurrected as a wraith. Over time, Kain and his fellow vampires began to evolve, with Kain evolving first and the other vampires following suit, until Raziel, Kain's first-born lieutenant, surpassed his master by sprouting a pair of wings on his back. The game starts roughly a millennium after Blood Omen, after Kain refused the sacrifice and instead chose to rule Nosgoth as its vampire king, wiping out the human race with the help of his six vampire lieutenants. The first game to be developed by Crystal Dynamics, who went on to handle the rest of the series. Or, remain alive and rebuild the vampire race at the cost of Nosgoth's damnation. Thus Kain is given a choice-sacrifice himself to purify Nosgoth, but as the last living vampire their race will be extinct. At this time Ariel reveals she has deceived Kain-the final Guardian he must kill is himself, for Kain is the next Balance Guardian, born to take her place. He fights Mortanius, who transforms into a monstrous demon called "Hash'ak'gik", and kills him. Kain continues on and finds that Mortanius was the one who killed Ariel and set the Circle's corruption in motion. He returns in time to watch Vorador, the oldest living vampire and in this alternate timeline their last besides Kain, be decapitated before a cheering crowd. ![]() However, upon his return he discovers that his round-trip in time triggered a genocidal hate-campaign against vampires helmed by Moebius, who tricked Kain into killing William so he could begin his anti-vampire war. In his quest, Kain also finds himself in the middle of a war between the noble King Otmar and the cruel Nemesis (formerly known as King William the Just), and with the Soul Reaver blade in tow, travels back in time with the use of Moebius the Timestreamer's witchcraft, and defeats the young King William. Only if Kain kills them and brings tokens of their power to their Pillar will he be cured and the world saved. As long as the Guardians remain alive, their corruption infects the Pillars that govern the world's well-being and so the world is doomed. The ghost of Ariel, the former Balance Guardian, points him to the direction of the Circle of Nine, the Guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth and her former colleagues, who have all been corrupted when Ariel's former lover, Nupraptor the Mentalist, went mad with her death. Mortanius the Necromancer offers him a chance for vengeance by resurrecting him as a vampire, and as soon as Kain avenges his own death, he begins to seek a cure to his own vampirism. The first game in the series, created by Silicon Knights of Eternal Darkness and Too Human fame and the only one to play as a top-down action RPG in the style of The Legend Of Zelda: The story begins with Kain, a then-unknown nobleman, being assassinated by a group of thugs on the way home from a pub.
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