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Since the events of
LEGACY OF KAIN
™
: BLOOD OMEN
™
, Kain had
become a commander of an army of vampires bent on ruling the land
of Nosgoth. In response to his rise to power, another faction appeared
in the land: The Sarafan, a group of militant humans led by a mysterious
and powerful figure, the Sarafan Lord. Determined to wipe out the
vampire threat, The Sarafan clashed with Kain’s army for years. This war
ended with The Sarafan finally triumphant over Kain’s army, and with
Kain and the Sarafan Lord locked in mortal combat. The Sarafan Lord
won this battle, stripped the Soul Reaver from Kain, and threw him off
a cliff to his apparent death.
Umah tells Kain that his body was found and revived, and he has been
brought to the capital of Nosgoth, the city of Meridian. Kain has been
unconscious for over two hundred years, and in this time, The Sarafan
have taken fascist control of most of Nosgoth. Vampires have formed
a small resistance, called The Cabal, in Meridian to undermine The
Sarafan. It is this resistance that Kain is now a part of. The goal of the
resistance is simple: Kill the Sarafan Lord, and The Sarafan will
crumble. Because The Sarafan do not know of Kain’s existence, he
becomes the perfect agent to find and kill the Sarafan Lord. Kain agrees
to help The Cabal for the time being, but he fully intends to follow his
own agenda, and seek revenge however possible ....
IN A WORLD ...
My armies are all slain.
My castle lies in ruins.
My enemies have taken everything from me,
all my wealth and power.
But they could not kill me.
I still walk the earth, weak but alive.
They have taken everything but the beating
of my undead heart.
Now they will learn of fear, these mewing babies
who thought they could destroy me.
I shall regain my powers, and I shall come
to them in the night.
And my visits shall not be kind.
The story of
BLOOD OMEN
™
2
takes place two hundred years after
LEGACY OF KAIN
™
: BLOOD OMEN
™
, and several centuries before
the events of
LEGACY OF KAIN
™
: SOUL REAVER
™
. The vampire Kain
awakens in a strange city with almost no memory of his former self.
Another vampire, Umah, has taken him in and revived him to health
after a deadly battle that Kain barely remembers. He is weak, and has
lost most of his former powers. Worse still, his weapon, the Soul Reaver,
is missing. Umah begins to fill Kain in on the recent past, and pieces
of Kain’s shattered memory return.
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