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.
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