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As the story progresses, Raziel finds out that he and his fellow lieutenants (who, incidentally, he has been procedurally slaying and stealing the powers of) were once Sarafan warriors who Kain revived in the spirit of irony to serve him. However, Raziel is resurrected by the mysterious Elder God, who instructs him to kill Kain in order to restore balance to the world. In response, Kain rips the bones out of them and has him executed.

Soul Reaver – Kain is ruling over Nosgoth with his six lieutenants when Raziel has the audacity to evolve a pair of wings.

Keen to get his sword – and empire – back, Kain embarks on some more killing, eventually defeating the Sarafan Lord (who is actually the leader of the Hylden, a race of crazed demons imprisoned in the appropriately-named Demon Realm by the power of the Pillars). Oh, and the Sarafan Lord also steals the Soul Reaver.

Blood Omen 2 – Kain terrorises Nosgoth for a couple of centuries before being defeated by the Sarafan Lord (the leader of that anti-vampire crusade he started) and forced into slumber for 200 years.

In the end, it turns out that the Pillars’ corruption was Mortanius’s fault all along (the scamp), but after defeating him Kain refuses to sacrifice himself in order to restore them, instead choosing to save both himself and his people (but also thus causing the Pillars to fall). He soon becomes embroiled in the bigger plot of restoring the Pillars of Nosgoth, the subsequent swathe of bloodshed inadvertently starting a genocidal crusade against vampires after he kills King William the Just.

Blood Omen – Kain, originally a human nobleman, is assassinated but offered a new life and the chance to exact his revenge as a vampire by the necromancer Mortanius.

So what are the odds?įor those not privy to the twists and turns of the Legacy of Kain storyline, it goes a little something like this: Recently, a rumour stating that Crystal Dynamics is currently working on a Soul Reaver HD remake began to circulate, leading to speculation as to whether this would indeed be a reboot of an existing title, a continuation of the series or something else entirely. I’m pretty sure I rented it and/or played a demo to death before acquiring my own copy, but the combination of a gory, dark setting, intriguing (if, as would be proved with the release of later instalments, somewhat convoluted) storyline and, perhaps most importantly of all considering my burgeoning logophilia, a generous helping of big words, soon made acquiring the full version a necessity.

My first flirtation with the Legacy of Kain series was with Soul Reaver on the PS1.