However because vampires are immortal, their souls do not spin with the Wheel, with horrible consequences for the land, which decay as the Wheel stalls. The Elder God explains that the Wheel of Fate, the cycle of reincarnation that governs the world, is dependent on mortal souls to move forward. Five centuries of constant torture later, however, Raziel is rescued from his predicament, when he is resurrected as a wraith by the mysterious Elder God to become his ' Soul Reaver'. One of the very few who hasn't is Raziel.Īfter evolving wings, Raziel decides to show them off to Kain, but out of an apparent act of jealously, Kain tears the bones from his wings and executes him by ordering his brothers to throw him into the Lake of the Dead the swirling, powerful energies slowly burn Raziel as it pulls him apart, subjecting him to constant horrible pain but also leaving him unable to truly die. The vampires have since grown into the land's dominant species, enslaving the remaining human population who have been effectively domesticated as a living supply of blood for their vampire overlords, and almost everyone has forgotten that Kain himself was once a mortal.

Kain has spent his time raising up the vampire race, creating his lieutenants, including Raziel who is the eldest, to function as the heads of their own clans, giving them each a region of Nosgoth to rule over. Starting 1500 years after the events of Blood Omen, Soul Reaver chronicles the journey of the vampire-turned-wraith Raziel, lieutenant to the vampire lord Kain, who has ruled uncontested over the ruined realm of Nosgoth ever since he refused to sacrifice himself to the Pillars of Nosgoth to restore balance to the land. The second game in the Legacy of Kain series, developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive, and released for the PlayStation in August 1999, and the Sega Dreamcast a year later.

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