Raziel, though, committed the ultimate blasphemy by pupating beyond Kain, surpassing him by fledging bat-like wings. Kain would always 'enter the state of change and emerge with a new gift' first, and the lieutenants would follow 'some years after the master'. As time passed, and the vampires physically evolved, they became more 'divine'. 'Too long dead' to remember his Sarafan roots, Raziel served as Kain's 'right hand' for a thousand years, raising a vampire clan of his own and partaking in the rise of Kain's empire. Raziel was raised first, inheriting the greatest portion of Kain's gift. Having discovered a method of raising fledgling vampires, he raided these 'sacred crypts', breathing portions of his soul energy into the commanders, and thus drawing their own souls back into their bodies. In the era following Blood Omen, five centuries after the collapse of the Pillars, Kain вЂ“ the vampire Guardian of the Pillar of Balance вЂ“ sought to recruit a cadre for his conquest of Nosgoth. Upon his death in combat, Raziel's corpse was interred within a sarcophagus in the Tomb of the Sarafan alongside the others, where it would lay memorialized, sanctified, and undisturbed, for a millennium. His eldest peer, Turel, served as his second-in-command, and together, the six comrades operated as the 'pride of the order'. Although he was the youngest of the commanders, his ambition, talent, and cruel nature drove him to become the leading member of the brotherhood. As one of the faction's most elite warrior-priests, he rose to the rank of Sarafan commander, and later head inquisitor, with seniority over fellow commanders Dumah, Melchiah, Rahab, and Zephon. Raziel was born a human in Nosgoth's early history, and went on to join the vampire-hunting order of the Sarafan. Raziel unveils his wings to Kain and the Council. The vampire Raziel arrives at the Sanctuary of the Clans. For my transgression, I earned a new kind of reward. Until I had the honor of surpassing my lord. Some years after the master, our evolution would follow. Kain would enter the state of change and emerge with a new gift. Over time, we became less human and more. I stood with Kain and my brethren at the dawn of the empire. 'I am Raziel, first-born of His lieutenants. This act cleansed Kain of the corruption of the Pillars, enabling him to see, battle, and oppose the Elder God at last. Dually sacrificing himself to the Soul Reaver and dispersing the Wraith Blade вЂ“ his future soul вЂ“ into Kain, he simultaneously trapped himself within the sword, and freed himself from thousands of years of torment. Temporarily rescued from this fate by Kain, his lust for vengeance was gradually tempered, superseded by a higher quest for knowledge and freedom.ДЇinally exposing the Elder God's parasitic nature through several twists and turns, Raziel ultimately accepted his fate, and achieved respite from his cyclical destiny. Lured through time and confronted by revelations, Raziel realized his terrible, inevitable future: he was destined to become the captive, ravenous spirit trapped within the Soul Reaver вЂ“ later the Wraith Blade itself. Cast into the Lake of the Dead, Raziel was, like Kain before him, revived by a mysterious benefactor, and returned to Nosgoth as a wraith, to exact his revenge.Дriven by this new master, the Elder God, Raziel systematically eradicated his former brethren in the wasteland of Kain's empire, obtained the Wraith Blade, and unearthed his own ironic past originally a human born in Nosgoth's early history, he had become a leading commander in the vampire-hunting Sarafan brotherhood before his death and resurrection. Once a vampire вЂ“ Kain's lieutenant, 'prodigal son', and second-in-command вЂ“ Raziel evolved to such an extent that he surpassed Kain, a transgression which seemingly prompted his execution. Raziel is the protagonist of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Soul Reaver 2, and one of the two lead characters in Legacy of Kain: Defiance, alongside Kain.

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