The choice is not yours.
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| — | Elder God, Soul Reaver |
The cathedral’s pipes, once tuned to blast a deadly hymn, now stood silent, and these vacant spaces whistled their impotence.
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| — | Raziel, Soul Reaver |
Then we share a common foe, Raziel. Return here when you have need. Ariel remembers what others have forgotten…
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| — | Ariel, Soul Reaver |
Thirty years hence, I am presented with a dilemma - let’s call it a two-sided coin.
If the coin falls one way, I sacrifice myself and thus restore the Pillars.
But as the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth, this would mean the annihilation of our species. Moebius made sure of that.
If the coin lands on the reverse, I refuse the sacrifice and thus doom the Pillars to an eternity of collapse.
Either way, the game is rigged.
If the coin falls one way, I sacrifice myself and thus restore the Pillars.
But as the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth, this would mean the annihilation of our species. Moebius made sure of that.
If the coin lands on the reverse, I refuse the sacrifice and thus doom the Pillars to an eternity of collapse.
Either way, the game is rigged.
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| — | Kain, Soul Reaver 2 |
more clearer-ish image here: http://www.dark-chronicle.co.uk/def/muralhero2.php
I stumbled on this mural before, it is in Vorador’s mansion. Now, I’ve seen many black haired ancient vampires but this one seems to have PINK HAIR. she isn’t wearing a hat either…
pink haired vampire in Nosgoth?
Oh Raziel… if you only knew.
Did Kain order him to be thrown into the Abyss just for the lulz?
Or was he REALLY that jealous?
Or did Kain have an idea about how to manipulate the present Raziel with the past Raziel?
I think he wanted to use his rage to drive him to do something he couldn’t have done otherwise. “Oh hey Raziel want to help me change time? I raped and revived your corpse hope you dont mind. Oh by the way your soul is trapped in my blade… so yeah…”
That’s so odd! So what had powered the Soul Reaver to be a soul devouring weapon in the first place? I mean in Blood Omen, I remember shit exploding once getting hit by it. Oh man, Raziel, what a temporal mind fuck; You become the sword in which you must use to kill yourself with.
Now what i really wonder is if Kain knew he had the Heart of Darkness in him the whole time or not. I imagine he did since he did use the time streaming chambers alot. But still i wonder.
When he was in hell he was so blind with rage and that Mortymorty shoved the heart into him I don’t think Kain cared at all. Revenge and the search for truth drove both these guys into some insane situations. The whole thing is confusing, it is a perfect Ouroboros.
Its kinda funny how ironic the whole story is sometimes. I love it. Mortanius blindly did a good thing even though he did the wrong thing at the same time under the Hyldan control. Murderin Ariel and such. Then making Kain a Pillar Guardian slaying mother fucker. Haha. They are both motivated by the same thing (Raziel and Kain) But Kain has had time to calm down and think while Raziel is like “No fuck this i want blood on my hands now!”
Haah too true! Do you have any idea what started the whole shitfit with the Ancients and the Hylden? Were the Ancients trying to make them convert to “their god” ?
