Vampires (events of Soul Reaver)

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"That's impossible - these foul, scuttling beasts could not be kin of our high blood."

―Raziel

The vampires of the Soul Reaver era were the generation of vampires created during the rise of Kain's empire, all of whom are descended from Kain himself.

Role

Proceeding the Collapse of the Pillars, Kain spent five centuries as the sole remaining Vampire in Nosgoth before finally discovering a way to create vampires himself: by snaring a Soul and using it to reanimate a corpse. Subsequently, Kain, in an act of ironic blasphemy, broke into the Tomb of the Sarafan and breathed part of his Soul into the corpses of six sanctified Sarafan warrior inquisitors: in order, Raziel, Turel, Dumah, Rahab, Zephon and Melchiah. Thus, a new generation of vampires was born.

As Kain's vampire "sons" raised their own vampire clans (the Razelim, Turelim, Dumahim, Rahabim, Zephonim and Melchahim), the vampire race quickly repopulated, and within a few centuries, the Humans were "thoroughly domesticated," with a few groups of vampire hunters kept around to entertain and provide some challenge. Kain was soon deified amongst the lesser vampires, with his exploits as a fledgling becoming the stuff of legends while few people in Nosgoth, human or vampire, were aware that he was once human.

However, like their progenitor Kain, all vampires inherited the Corruption of the Pillars, which Kain had had from birth. Thus, over the centuries, all vampires in Nosgoth mutated into various beasts.

Appearances

• Template:Icon-SR1Comic Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver comic
• Template:Icon-SR1 Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
• Template:Icon-SR2 Soul Reaver 2 (mentioned only)
• Template:Icon-DefianceComic Legacy of Kain: Defiance comic
• Template:Icon-Defiance Legacy of Kain: Defiance

References

Preceded by: Vampires (post-Blood Omen era)

Vampire sub-races Vampires (Soul Reaver era)

Followed by: None

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