LEGACY OF KAIN: DEFIANCE ANNOUNCED

When the arrogant nobleman Kain took the chance to come back to life to take revenge against the coward brigands that murdered him, little did he suspect the monumental implicances his decision would have. He came back indeed, but carrying the curse of vampirism: sunlight was painful, water burned like acid, and he was constantly urged to feed on the blood of living creatures.

The search for a cure got him involved in a quest full of deceptions and betrayals, during which he discovered and claimed the Soul Reaver, a legendary and powerful soul-devouring sword.

In the end of his ill-fated quest, he was left to choose whether to sacrifice himself and save the decaying land of Nosgoth, or to live eternally with his curse. Revolted by the machinations of the human sorcerers and alienated from his former humanity, Kain chose the latter path, and started building his empire, with the help of a newly formed vampire army.

Raziel, firstborn of Kain's lieutenants would have a relevant part to play in the story. After serving his master for one thousand years, he fell from grace, and thus he was cast in the abyss of the lake of the dead. When his body was almost comsummed, his suffering was suddenly stopped by the intervention of an Elder God, who gave him the chance to take revenge against his former master.

Raziel came back to the land of the living as a soul-devouring ghoul, revenge was the only thing in his mind. In his first encounter with Kain, he received a strike of the Soul Reaver. Surprisingly, instead of dying, Raziel absorved the very spirit of the sword and fused it into his arm as a symbiotic weapon. Several times he faced Kain again, in a quest through time and space, but with each new confrontation, new shocking truths would be revealed, proving the story to be much more complicated than it seemed.

Raziel and Kain ended up in a truce, both under the threat of Moebius, the Time Guardian, and a strong and unkown force, bent on the destruction of the land of Nosgoth.