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The Pillars
In the centuries before Kain's birth, the land was protected by an oligarchy of sorcerers known as the circle of nine. These guardians were sworn to serve and protect the Pillars of Nosgoth, the ancient edifice towering over the earth as a manifestation of the mysterious power that preserved and gave life to the land.
But the circle was infiltrated by dark forces, and Ariel-the Balance Guardian-was cruelly murdered. Her assassination sent psychic shockwaves throughout the circle, and in their derangement the remaining sorcerers turned their powers to dark purposes, poisoning the land with their sorcery and abandoning the Pillars to stand like silent, decaying sentries.
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Destiny
Into this dying world Kain was born. The son of an aristocratic Nosgoth family, he lived the privelaged life of a nobleman, never realising his undiscovered destiny- that he was marked from birth as Ariel's successor, fated to take her place as the Guardian of Balance.
Ignorant of his destiny, the ambitious but directionless Kain roamed the land- during one fateful journey, he was ambushed by brigands and murdered, cruelly impaled on his assassin's sword.
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A Dark Covenant
Plucked from the brink of oblivion by the Necromancer Mortanius, Kain awakened in the underworld, still transfixed by his enem's blade. Tormented by his hunger for vengeance, and heedless of the spiritual cost, Kain recklessly accepted the Necromancer's offer of revenge- and rose from his tomb to discover that he had been resurrected as a vampire.
Kain quickly tracked down his assassins and exacted his bloody revenge. With his vengeance and hunger sated, he sought only a cure for the vampiric curse that afflicted him. Guided by Mortanius and the spectre Ariel- now bound helplessly to the decaying Pillars she once served- Kain hunted down each of the corrupt sorcerers now poisoning Nosgoth. Only with their deaths could the Pillars be healed- and only by restoring balance would Kain be released from his vampiric curse.
first reluctant to live the horror of an existence blighted by a thirst for human blood, Kain soon adapted and discovered, within his darkened soul, a growing disaffection for humankind as he embraced his newfound immortality. During his journey, Kain discovered and claimed the Soul Reaver, an ancient soul devouring blade, and stumbled across- not so coincidentally- a time-streaming device created by Moebius, the Guardian of Time.
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A Fragile History
Against the counsel of the ancient vampire Vorador, Kain found himself embroiled in human events, caught in a bloody battle between Ottmar's Army of Hope and the ruthlessly advancing armies of the Nemesis, from the north. As the tide of the battle turned, Kain used his only means of escape- the time-streaming device, which swept him nearly 50 years back into Nosgoth's past.
Hoping to alter the course of Nosgoth's history, Kain assassinated the young William the Just, who would become the diabolic tyrant known as the Nemesis. After sating himself on his victims blood, Kain returned to the present- only to discover that his murder of the beloved King had ignited a genocidal war against vampires, led by the Time-Streamer Moebius, himself. Upon his return, Kain witnessed the future that he had wrought-
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