Time to take a stab at another part of the Legacy of Kain mythos, this is going to be hard!
The results of Kain's refusal to sacrifice himself at the end of Blood Omen was that he built a vast empire and took over Nosgoth.
To this end, he...shall we say "recruited" some powerful allies by resurrecting the most powerful Sarafan knights as vampires, to be his lieutenants.
Most important of these was Raziel, a righteous fiend who believed wholeheartedly in the murderous rampage of his priesthood. Raziel infuriated Kain after a time by being the first vampire to sprout wings, and Kain consequently threw him into a watery abyss somewhat resembling the Niagara Falls.
This wouldn't have been such a big deal had it not been for the fact that vampires in Nosgoth can't stand water, and it has the same effect on them as acid.
However, Raziel was saved from the water by, unlikely enough, the Elder God himself. Thus begins Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
Armed with a spectral blade attached to his arm, the soul-stealing part of the Reaver, Raziel starts on his quest to hunt down Kain and his lieutenants, encouraged to do so by the Elder God, acting as his great benefactor.
At the end of the game, Raziel faces down Kain in a chamber known as the Chronoplast, which houses a timestreaming device which Kain ultimately uses to evade Raziel.
This concludes Soul Reaver, and leads directly to Soul Reaver 2.
Still not confused enough?
Not to worry, tomorrow is when some serious shit is going down!
Stay tuned!
lördag 30 oktober 2010
fredag 29 oktober 2010
The Legacy of Raziel!
Okay, where were we?
Right, the human guardians!
As I mentioned before, there needed to be one additional guardian of all the pillars as well as the Blood Reaver; Janos Audron. Because both the pillars and the Reaver were made by the vampires, this guardian needed to be a vampire. The relevance of this will be explained later.
As the years went by, the humans hunted the vampires, believing them to be demonic beings the sole purpose of which was to terrorize the humans. By the time of the events of Blood Omen, the first game in the series, the vampires were nearly extinct, Vorador being the last, at the hands of a fanatic order of vampire-hunters called the Sarafan.
Some 500 years before Blood Omen, six members of the Circle of Nine were slaughtered by Vorador in response to the Sarafan killing Janos, thinking wrongly it would put an end to all vampires.
Later on, the Hylden managed to corrupt the guardian of Death, Mortanius The Necromancer, and got him to murder the balance guardian, Ariel. Ariel's lover, Nupraptor the Mentalist, was driven to madness by this, and spread his madness to the rest of the members of the Circle, including the newly born balance guardian; Kain.
When he was a young nobleman, Kain was murdered in his hometown. This allowed Mortanius to "help" him by resurrecting him as a vampire. Unaware of it at the time, it was the heart of Janos Audron that Mortanius used to do it.
Kain was then sent on a mission to slay all of the corrupted guardians and recover items of importance from them to use to cleanse the pillars of the corruption. Eventually he found the Blood Reaver, the same sacred weapon forged by Vorador.
During this quest, he came upon the evil conqueror called the Nemesis, who was rapidly spreading from northern Nosgoth. Enlisting the gentle king Ottmar of Willendorf, he tried to stop the Nemesis. They failed utterly, and in the slaughter on Ottmar's forces in the great battle, Kain found the Hourglass of Time, belonging to Moebius the Timestreamer, the guardian of the Pillar of Time.
The hourglass took him back in time, to when the Nemesis was simply a good king known as William the Just. In order to prevent the Nemesis from ever existing, he fought and killed William, who just so happens also carried the Reaver. The paradox created by the two Reavers meeting changed history, so that the Nemesis never existed.
However, when Kain returned to the present, he arrived at the execution of Vorador, carried out by a mob lead by Moebius, who had manipulated Kain all along to get him to kill William, so that Moebius could make him out to be a martyr to motivate people to murder any vampires that remained.
With this act, Kain was left as the last of his kind, making him the guardian of the Reaver, as well as the Balance guardian.
After slaying Moebius, he came back to the Pillars, just as Mortanius the Necromancer killed Anarcrothe the Alchemist. After Mortanius was killed, the Unspoken, a demonic agent of the Hylden, attacked, and was also slain.
This left Kain with a choice; to sacrifice his own life to restore the Pillar of Balance, or refuse, damning the Pillars to eternal decay. If he decided to give up his own life, that would be the ultimate end of the vampire race.
He refused, and went on to build a great empire that spanned all of Nosgoth.
You think all of this is confusing? You have no idea!
Tomorrow, it'll get seriously weird!
Right, the human guardians!
As I mentioned before, there needed to be one additional guardian of all the pillars as well as the Blood Reaver; Janos Audron. Because both the pillars and the Reaver were made by the vampires, this guardian needed to be a vampire. The relevance of this will be explained later.
As the years went by, the humans hunted the vampires, believing them to be demonic beings the sole purpose of which was to terrorize the humans. By the time of the events of Blood Omen, the first game in the series, the vampires were nearly extinct, Vorador being the last, at the hands of a fanatic order of vampire-hunters called the Sarafan.
Some 500 years before Blood Omen, six members of the Circle of Nine were slaughtered by Vorador in response to the Sarafan killing Janos, thinking wrongly it would put an end to all vampires.
Later on, the Hylden managed to corrupt the guardian of Death, Mortanius The Necromancer, and got him to murder the balance guardian, Ariel. Ariel's lover, Nupraptor the Mentalist, was driven to madness by this, and spread his madness to the rest of the members of the Circle, including the newly born balance guardian; Kain.
When he was a young nobleman, Kain was murdered in his hometown. This allowed Mortanius to "help" him by resurrecting him as a vampire. Unaware of it at the time, it was the heart of Janos Audron that Mortanius used to do it.
Kain was then sent on a mission to slay all of the corrupted guardians and recover items of importance from them to use to cleanse the pillars of the corruption. Eventually he found the Blood Reaver, the same sacred weapon forged by Vorador.
During this quest, he came upon the evil conqueror called the Nemesis, who was rapidly spreading from northern Nosgoth. Enlisting the gentle king Ottmar of Willendorf, he tried to stop the Nemesis. They failed utterly, and in the slaughter on Ottmar's forces in the great battle, Kain found the Hourglass of Time, belonging to Moebius the Timestreamer, the guardian of the Pillar of Time.
The hourglass took him back in time, to when the Nemesis was simply a good king known as William the Just. In order to prevent the Nemesis from ever existing, he fought and killed William, who just so happens also carried the Reaver. The paradox created by the two Reavers meeting changed history, so that the Nemesis never existed.
However, when Kain returned to the present, he arrived at the execution of Vorador, carried out by a mob lead by Moebius, who had manipulated Kain all along to get him to kill William, so that Moebius could make him out to be a martyr to motivate people to murder any vampires that remained.
With this act, Kain was left as the last of his kind, making him the guardian of the Reaver, as well as the Balance guardian.
After slaying Moebius, he came back to the Pillars, just as Mortanius the Necromancer killed Anarcrothe the Alchemist. After Mortanius was killed, the Unspoken, a demonic agent of the Hylden, attacked, and was also slain.
This left Kain with a choice; to sacrifice his own life to restore the Pillar of Balance, or refuse, damning the Pillars to eternal decay. If he decided to give up his own life, that would be the ultimate end of the vampire race.
He refused, and went on to build a great empire that spanned all of Nosgoth.
You think all of this is confusing? You have no idea!
Tomorrow, it'll get seriously weird!
torsdag 28 oktober 2010
My apologigiesage!
I know I haven't updated this in the last three days, but they have been rather busy and I have been giving alot of thought to the content of my next line of posts.
So, the topic to be covered is the history of Nosgoth; the gothic styled world of the Legacy of Kain series of videogames.
If you do not enjoy massive spoilers, then stop reading here!
Thousands of years before the first game in the series, there were the ancients. They ruled all of Nosgoth, and worshipped the Elder God. This deity was connected to the so called Wheel of Fate; the cycle of birth, death and rebirth upon which the Elder God fed.
These ancients were blue-skinned and had large feathered dark-gray wings. As they were described in old murals, they were beings of great beauty and magnificence.
Ultimately, however, another race rose up against the Elder God and refused to feed him, leading to a great conflict between them and the ancients. This race, the Hylden, cursed the ancients with a great thirst for blood, transforming them into vampires. While this was a terrible fate for the proud race, the real doom of the curse was that they became immortal and sterile, and were forever cut off from the Wheel of Fate and lost the favour of the Elder God.
A small note; the kind of immortality we are talking about is akin to that of Tolkien's elves; they do not suffer diseases or aging, but they can die through other means, but never be reborn. Many of them also took their own lives in response to being cut off from their god.
Since they could no longer reproduce, one of the ancients, by the name of Janos Audron, decided to turn a human into a vampire for the very first time. This man, named Vorador, helped the vampires by forging the blood-draining weapon called the Reaver.
In the end, the vampires managed to banish the Hylden with the help of the Reaver, and locked them inside a demonic dimension by erecting the Nine Pillars of Nosgoth, and binding guardians to each pillar. The pillars represented the different elements that made up the world; mind, dimension, conflict, nature, energy, time, states, death and balance, the latter being the most important one.
Each of these had its own vampire guardian, but there was one other; the guardian of all of the pillars and the Reaver; Janos Audron.
However, at some point, the humans of Nosgoth rebelled against them, and managed to overthrow them. With the loss of the pillar guardians, humans were chosen at their birth to become the new guardians.
This sets the stage for the coming story, which will be covered further tomorrow!
So, the topic to be covered is the history of Nosgoth; the gothic styled world of the Legacy of Kain series of videogames.
If you do not enjoy massive spoilers, then stop reading here!
Thousands of years before the first game in the series, there were the ancients. They ruled all of Nosgoth, and worshipped the Elder God. This deity was connected to the so called Wheel of Fate; the cycle of birth, death and rebirth upon which the Elder God fed.
These ancients were blue-skinned and had large feathered dark-gray wings. As they were described in old murals, they were beings of great beauty and magnificence.
Ultimately, however, another race rose up against the Elder God and refused to feed him, leading to a great conflict between them and the ancients. This race, the Hylden, cursed the ancients with a great thirst for blood, transforming them into vampires. While this was a terrible fate for the proud race, the real doom of the curse was that they became immortal and sterile, and were forever cut off from the Wheel of Fate and lost the favour of the Elder God.
A small note; the kind of immortality we are talking about is akin to that of Tolkien's elves; they do not suffer diseases or aging, but they can die through other means, but never be reborn. Many of them also took their own lives in response to being cut off from their god.
Since they could no longer reproduce, one of the ancients, by the name of Janos Audron, decided to turn a human into a vampire for the very first time. This man, named Vorador, helped the vampires by forging the blood-draining weapon called the Reaver.
In the end, the vampires managed to banish the Hylden with the help of the Reaver, and locked them inside a demonic dimension by erecting the Nine Pillars of Nosgoth, and binding guardians to each pillar. The pillars represented the different elements that made up the world; mind, dimension, conflict, nature, energy, time, states, death and balance, the latter being the most important one.
Each of these had its own vampire guardian, but there was one other; the guardian of all of the pillars and the Reaver; Janos Audron.
However, at some point, the humans of Nosgoth rebelled against them, and managed to overthrow them. With the loss of the pillar guardians, humans were chosen at their birth to become the new guardians.
This sets the stage for the coming story, which will be covered further tomorrow!
söndag 24 oktober 2010
All wrapped up!
I must say, being smeared with some sort of oily goo and wrapped in plastic and towels was a...fascinating experience!
Good thing I slept through most of the procedure, or else my claustrophobia would probably have kicked into overdrive.
It was a cozy enough place, the Västerport Spa & Relax; they provided towels, slippers and bathrobes, as well as fresh fruit and lemon water. All of it reminded me of a dungeon, what with the oaken doors and the stone arches all over the place.
Good thing I slept through most of the procedure, or else my claustrophobia would probably have kicked into overdrive.
It was a cozy enough place, the Västerport Spa & Relax; they provided towels, slippers and bathrobes, as well as fresh fruit and lemon water. All of it reminded me of a dungeon, what with the oaken doors and the stone arches all over the place.
lördag 23 oktober 2010
Between together and not!
A night out at the restaurant of our choice has come to an end, and I must say it was quite an enjoyable experience altogether!
Okay, so the pork fillet wasn't all that great, but the beef was excellent, and came bundled with alot of mashed potatoes and various sauteed vegetables, yum!
I'd say Table 20 is a good choice for anyone wanting a nice, but not overly snobbish, restaurant to bring friends or family to!
Oh well, time to go to bed, got a whole session at the spa tomorrow!
Okay, so the pork fillet wasn't all that great, but the beef was excellent, and came bundled with alot of mashed potatoes and various sauteed vegetables, yum!
I'd say Table 20 is a good choice for anyone wanting a nice, but not overly snobbish, restaurant to bring friends or family to!
Oh well, time to go to bed, got a whole session at the spa tomorrow!
fredag 22 oktober 2010
I'm working on my lie!
That's the results of writing and reading the caption on channel 4 at the same time, yes siree!
We just finished watching the latter half of the movie The Jacket, an absolutely absurd story about time travel and straightjackets...darnit, I really need to finish Time Traveler's Wife! At least it has more tits!
Methinks it could be a good idea to quit while I'm ahead on this one, seeing as how I've probably drunk enough to sink a ship!
We just finished watching the latter half of the movie The Jacket, an absolutely absurd story about time travel and straightjackets...darnit, I really need to finish Time Traveler's Wife! At least it has more tits!
Methinks it could be a good idea to quit while I'm ahead on this one, seeing as how I've probably drunk enough to sink a ship!
torsdag 21 oktober 2010
Liberate tutemae ex inferis!
I got some feedback on my blog in the form of an order to make it green, as opposed to pink. Fuck it, says I, I'll keep it pink!
I finished watching the reboot of Friday the 13th yesterday, and I couldn't help but feel the people who died in that movie deserved it! One of them even took a bottle of Lagavulin and drank straight outta the bottle, not fucking cool!
Luckily, he ended up being inverse-garotted by Jason shortly thereafter!
Did you know, by the way, that there are no green mammals? The only one that comes close is the sloth, but it's only green because of the algae that grows in its fur!
I finished watching the reboot of Friday the 13th yesterday, and I couldn't help but feel the people who died in that movie deserved it! One of them even took a bottle of Lagavulin and drank straight outta the bottle, not fucking cool!
Luckily, he ended up being inverse-garotted by Jason shortly thereafter!
Did you know, by the way, that there are no green mammals? The only one that comes close is the sloth, but it's only green because of the algae that grows in its fur!
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