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Cunning and relentless, the vampire Kain battles the oppressive
agents of Fate that seek to destroy him. For centuries, he has ruthlessly pursued a singular ambition--to take his rightful
place as Balance Guardian, thus returning Nosgoth to vampire rule. And Raziel, he believes, is the key to fulfilling
this goal. Armed with the legendary Reaver blade--the weapon fated to become Raziel's eternal prison--Kain seeks to
reclaim their true destinies from the wreckage of history
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Once the greatest of Kain's vampire lieutenants, Raziel
is now only a ruined vision of his former glory. Armed with the wraith-blade of the Soul Reaver, he strives to unravel
the truth behind his enigmatic fate, a destiny apparently foretold in the earliest centuries of Nosgoth's history. Raziel
seeks only to escape the bonds of his one-time benefactor, now turned adversary--the mysterious Elder God that resurrected
him as a reaper of souls--and to somehow avert the terrible destiny appointed for him when the Reaver was forged.
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The most ancient and powerful of Nosgoth's surviving vampires, Vorador
has witnessed the near-extinction of his race at the hands of Moebius' mercenary army of vampire hunters.
In the era of the Sarafan crusade, Vorador took his revenge upon the Circle
for their sponsorship of the vampire purge, and for the murder of his sire, the infamous Janos Audron. Since that time,
he has retreated from the world in disgust, renouncing the affairs of mankind, whom he regards as little more than brutish
cattle.
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Once a powerful sorceress, Ariel governed the Circle of Nine
as Guardian of Balance. But the Circle was corrupted from within by an insidious enemy, and Ariel was assassinated by
a fellow Guardian - the necromancer Mortanius, possessed by a dark entity bent on the destruction of the Pillars.
The repercussions had been expertly calculated. Ariel's
murder drove her beloved Nupraptor, Guardian of the Mind, insane with grief. In his madness, he unleashed a telepathic
shockwave throughout the Circle, and tainted the remaining Guardians with his derangement. Corrupted, the sorcerers
turned their powers to dark purposes, abandoning their guardianship of the Pillars. Symbiotically bound to the Guardians
who served them, the Pillars absorbed the sorcerers' corruption and fell into decay.
Into this poisoned world, Kain was born - Ariel's destined
successor as Balance Guardian, rendered incapable of fulfilling his destiny as long as he, too, is infected by the spiritual
poison that has corrupted the Circle. Now a disembodied specter, Ariel is cursed to haunt the Pillars until Balance
is once more restored - her fate, and the fate of all Nosgoth, lies in Kain's hands.
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