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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is a video game that was released on the PlayStation 2 and PC. It had been in development for Dreamcast, but was cancelled when Sega stopped production on the console. It is the sequel to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and the third game in the Legacy of Kain series. It was released in 2001 by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Interactive to limited success.
The game begins where the first Soul Reaver game left off. Raziel confronts Kain in the chronoplast, a time machine. Raziel attacks Kain, who escapes into the time machine. Raziel follows Kain and is met by Moebius the Timestreamer, and finds himself thirty years before the events of the first Blood Omen game. Moebius reveals that the future Kain is at the Pillars of Nosgoth, and while Raziel distrusts and threatens Moebius, Raziel seeks Kain out there regardless. On his way out of the Sarafan stronghold, he finds a broken relic - the Soul Reaver as wielded by William the Just during the first Blood Omen. Taking the broken weapon augments Raziel's wraith blade, triggering a cutscene with Moebius.
Raziel eventually confronts Kain at the Pillars, and Kain reveals he has plans to redraw the lines of history to avert the consequences of his decision. Kain previously refused to sacrifice himself to purify Nosgoth because that would cause the extinction of the vampire race. Kain alludes to a monumental secret of Raziel's existence and disappears. Raziel continues northward, and finds himself again in the lair of the Elder God. Emblazoned here are enigmatic murals depicting the existence of an ancient race and iconography of the reaver. The Elder God chastizes Raziel for not killing Kain at the Pillars, and disregards the murals that Raziel has found.
Raziel presses further through a swamp (the Termogent Forest) and finds another area of ancient construction - a reaver forge adorned with murals telling the story of an ancient war. After exiting the forge, Raziel finds a conciliatory Vorador, who (like Kain) hints at a profound secret, but (like the Elder God) disregards the value of the murals. Vorador reveals that the deceased vampire Janos Audron knows this profound secret, and leaves.
Raziel, now equipped with a dark-elemental soul reaver, backtracks to a shrine he saw near the Sarafan stronghold. The Elder God says little more of the ancient race other than they were attempting to manipulate history for their own purposes. At the light-elemental forge, however, it becomes obvious to Raziel that they were far more benign - they were the architects of the Pillars of Nosgoth. After attaining the light-elemental soul reaver, Raziel finds his way back into the Sarafan stronghold. Here he again meets Kain - and it is here he is destined to kill Kain. The reaver seems to act of its own volition, and Raziel is faced with a dilemma: kill Kain and submit to fate, or establish his own free will by refusing. Raziel refuses, allowing Kain to deliver some exposition on the nature of causality, and disappear.
Raziel proceeds further and encounters Moebius in his timestreaming chamber. Raziel forces Moebius to operate the timestreaming device and send him through time. Rather than arrive during Jano Audron's lifetime, as Raziel was hoping, Raziel finds himself far into the future. Demons and mutants have overrun Nosgoth by virtue of Kain's corrupt and continued existence. Moebius at this time is dead, haunting a memorial to himself (note: because of the events in Legacy of Kain: Defiance, this is not Moebius' actual soul but an illusion to manipulate Raziel).
Raziel travels again to the swamp. Along the way he finds Ariel, the ghost of the previous balance guardian who now blames Kain for the degeneracy of Nosgoth and her continued purgatorial existence. He also visits the Elder God. Raziel is surprised that in the corruption of Nosgoth, the Elder God is not only alive but thriving. Elder God simply reasserts his role in the existence of Nosgoth: the hub of the wheel of life, and the devourer of death. Raziel believes the Elder God is simply a parasite, like the vampires. When Raziel finally reaches the Termagent Forest, he finds a pathway to Janos Audron's mountain retreat. The retreat itself is inaccessible for now, although the surroundings can be investigated.
Here, he again meets Kain. Again Raziel stays his hand, only this time because he doesn't believe the damage can be undone by killing Kain. Kain alludes to a vague malevolent "they", expressing confidence in Raziel's ability to see through their deception. Raziel has been thus far immortal, and is confident in his ability. Kain warns him that they shouldn't be underestimated, and that when time cannot accommodate the changes in history fate itself will expel the irritant.
When Kain leaves again Raziel continues into the air forge. It is here that he learns that the ancient race were vampires, and had sterility and the bloodthirst inflicted upon them by their enemies. These ancient vampires constructed the reaver, Pillars, and were the original guardians. Kain's assertion that the Pillars did not belong to the humans had been right all along. Using the air-elemental soul reaver, Raziel finds another timestreaming device, and with suspicious coincidence finally arrives during the time of Janos Audron.
Raziel finds a means of entering Janos Audron's mountain retreat in the time of the Sarafan. He ascends the labyrinthine tower (clearly meant for working wings, not Raziel's tattered ones) and finally meets Janos Audron. Janos recognizes Raziel immediately. Janos is then revealed to be the tenth guardian - the keeper of the reaver, and that vampires (and vampire guardians) are necessary for the purity of the Pillars. Janos, far from being the monster as depicted, is a benevolent and forgiving individual. Raziel feels no temporeal displacement as he did previously, however, and it repells him from bearing this time's corporeal reaver.
All of this was a trap. Raziel had blazed a trail for other non-winged creatures to get to Janos. The Sarafan elite, consisting of all Raziel's former brothers (Turel, Dumah, Zephon, Melchiah, Rahab, and the human Raziel himself) attack Janos. Janos' only reaction was to save the future Raziel by teleporting him to the nearby fire forge. Raziel tries quickly to solve the riddle of the forge and escape, but it is too late. Janos is dead, his heart removed, and all Raziel can do is get revenge.
Raziel breaks into the Sarafan stronghold, encountering a few anachronistic demons who had pursued Raziel through time and the Elder God again (who makes clear his displeasure) along the way. Raziel is ambushed in a small room by Moebius and Malek. They overhear Vorador's massacre of the other guardians. Raziel's wraith blade is disabled by Moebius' staff, and Raziel takes up Janos' (suspiciously) conveniently placed corporeal reaver. Moebius and Malek escape before he can attack, though, and Raziel finds himself incapable of letting go of the weapon. Despite this setback, Raziel continues ahead and slays his Sarafan brothers in the delirium of power the weapon gave him.
After the wraith Raziel kills the human Raziel, the effect of Moebius' staff wear off. The wraith blade, with its parasitic augmentations, entwine with the physical reaver and they turn themselves on Raziel and impale him. The soul reaver, it is revealed, was not forged to be a soulstealing weapon at all. Raziel's own soul was the soulstealing element of the blade. A soul devouring its own soul created a paradox, which is what shattered the Reaver in the previous game. Kain, at the last instant, pulls the soul reaver out of Raziel and saves him from being imprisoned within the blade.
As Raziel's essence fades back to the Spectral Realm, Kain tries in vain to warn him about something about the "Hylden" (see Blood Omen). Raziel finds himself still bound to the Spectral Reaver despite Kain's calculated plan, and realizes that Kain has not rewritten his apparently inevitable destiny, merely postponed it. Raziel's last words before the end are: "History abhors a paradox." This ending leads seamlessly into the events of Legacy of Kain: Defiance, thus far the last LOK in the series.
source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Kain:_Soul_Reaver_2 |
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