History Headscratchers / LegacyofKain

** {{Lampshaded}} by an interview. When asked a similar question, Hennig responded, "Because he'd look silly bald."

** Later games suggest that, at the end of ''Blood Omen'' Kain had some inkling of how important vampires are to the balance, and didn't want to leave the fate of the world in anyone elses hands. Also, he gleefully puts the "Sociopath" in "HeroicSociopath", so it's [[strike: possible]] [[strike:probable]] (who are we kidding?) certain he just didn't want to die, so used the most likely excuse.

* How exactly do the metaphysics in the Spectral Realm work? Soul Reaver 1 already established that when a person travels into the Spectral Realm, time becomes frozen from their perspective, and their surroundings become non-mutable (for example, Raziel could use falling rocks as stepping stones, but not open doors). Is the Spectral Realm the same for every one of its inhabitants? Does it suddenly change to accomodate objects moving in the Material Realm whenever Raziel passes through? And how does the Spectral Realm suddenly become much less static in Defiance, where the Elder God clearly destroys some architecture in the Spectral Realm while trying to keep Raziel from escaping?

* This troper is a trained vet who worked for 3 years at a wildlife shelter in New Mexico, and thus knows enough about bat wings to know that the way Kain ripped the bone structure off Raziel's wings is simply impossible. The bones in a bat's wing are very fragile, and the skin very tight, even if Kain was able to rip them out in one piece expect a lot more damage wing's surface than seem in game, if a bat breaks the wrong bone in the wrong place, it's entire wing can rip in half under it's own weight. Even if Kain was able to rip off the entire bone structure in one piece without tearing them, then the wings still wouldn't be in one piece, each section would fall to the ground without the bones connecting them. In short, the most Raziel would have is a very short flap of tissue at the very base of his back.

** (By the way, the e-mail adress mentioned on the timeline is defunct by now.)

* Here's the big issue. Hylden General/Sarafan Lord is the same character who was possessing Mortainus/Janos in Defiance. He was able to set his plans into motion by manipulating Raziel into tearing the heart of darkness out of the Scion of Balance-- Kain-- and putting it back into Janos. He presumably knew that Kain was the Scion(He knew Mortainus put the heart into a vampire he believed to be the scion, whith was Kain), and he believed that by tearing the heart out of the Elder Kain, Raziel had killed him. So, while leading his army against the Younger Kain's vampire army, how is it that he thought he could actually win? Kain has to survive to become the elder Kain that Raziel takes the heart from, which is how his plan gets put into motion. For Kain to survive, that means the Hylden General can't kill the younger version. Yet he has complete confidence his plan will succeed inspite of coming into conflict with Young Kain, he is surprised that Young Kain survived their first battle, and has complete confidence he'll kill Kain in their final showdown.

*** WordOfGod says that the Hylden and the Hylden Lord can look into Nosgoth's timestream to see the future, which is how they planned everything out. Its been hinted at that their method is different from the Elder God and Moebius, but the specifics aren't given.

** It wasn't that Raziel evolved something "better" than Kain, its that he evolved ''before'' Kain. Vampire evolution doesn't happen gradually; they enter a hibernation every few decades or centuries, and come out of it with a new gift. They do this in order; Kain first, then Raz, so on and so forth, presumably absent their control. Raz happened to lapse into the state of change before Kain did, and that was the problem, even though it was mainly an excuse.

* This troper is a trained vet who worked for 3 years at a wildlife shelter in New Mexico, and thus knows enough about bat wings to know that the way Kain ripped the bone structure off Raziel's wings is simply impossible. The bones in a bat's wing are very fragile, and the skin very tight, even if Kain was able to rip them out in one piece expect a lot more damage wing's surface than seem in game, if a bat breaks the wrong bone in the wrong place, it's entire wing can rip in half under it's own weight. Even if Kain was able to rip off the entire bone structure in one piece without tearing them, then the wings still wouldn't be in one piece, each section would fall to the ground without the bones connecting them. In short, the most Raziel would have is a very short flap of tissue at the very base of his back. Sorry, something of a WallBanger to me.

** I think that the problem here is that while the Vet who brought up this issue is apparently an expert on the bone and tissue structures of a bat, he's in a minority which doesn't include the makers of the LegacyOfKain series. I think that the best solution would be to accept that this lies somewhere between a {{wallbanger}} and DidNotDoTheResearch, albeit one that can be forgiven for a feature of the series that is more important to the gameplay than the plot, and the plot is definitely among the strongest points (if not the strongest point) of the series.

*** If that's the case, couldn't they have at least made the fanservice [[DistractedbytheSexy decent]] instead of... well, ''really ugly'' [[ErectionRejection "fetish" gear]]? Not everyone, [[MostGamersAreMale including the targeted demographic]] thinks of dental floss as fanservice. They could have gone with OfCorsetsSexy, for example (still impractical, but at least it's pretty).
*** You may think it's ugly, others may think it's not. Eye of the beholder, and all that.

*** If that's the case, couldn't they have at least made the fanservice [[DistractedbytheSexy decent]] instead of... well, ''really ugly'' [[ErectionRejection "fetish" gear]]?

* Ignoring MaleGaze, [[{{Stripperiffic}} the women's outfits]] annoy the hell out of me. I can understand the vampires, but what about the humans? The lack of coverage doesn't offer much protection from attackers or [[ExposedToTheElements the cold]], and [[DoubleStandard the men are generally covered up.]]

* Ignoring MaleGaze, [[{{Stripperiffic}} the women's outfits]] annoy the hell out of me. I can understand the vampires, but what about the humans? The lack of coverage doesn't offer much protection from attackers or [[ExposedToTheElements the cold]], and considering they work for the [[KnightTemplar Sarafan]], I doubt such a puritanical organization would approve of such "indecency".
** Where's it ever said the Sarafan are puritanical? They're defined by their hunting of vampires pretty much entirely--there's no mention of how they feel about things other than that.
** It's not explicitly said, but it was [[YourMilageMayVary arguably hinted at]] during the games. Plus, [[DoubleStandard the men are generally covered up,]] along with human women who ''aren't'' vampire hunters.

** It's not explicitly said, but it was [[YourMilageMayVary arguably hinted at]] during the games. Plus, [[DoubleStandard the men are generally covered up.]]

* [[{{Stripperiffic}} The women's outfits.]] I can understand the vampires, but what about the humans? The lack of coverage doesn't offer much protection from attackers or [[ExposedToTheElements the cold]], and considering they work for the [[KnightTemplar Sarafan]], I doubt such a puritanical organization would approve of such "indecency".

** The fact that Raziel still has the wraith blade is meant to show that, though he was saved at that point, him going into the Reaver was inevitable. That's why he's stuck in the spectral realm til the beginning of Defiance: He's ''scared shitless'' of it happening, and figures the only way to avoid it is to keep his ass away from the reaver.\\

*** As for Kain retaining his memories, I always assumed it was due to the temporal distortion - it hadn't yet faded, so that's why Kain knew about both histories - he wasn't meant to but being at the place of the temporal distortion managed to "preserve" his memories. Same thing happens in [=BO1=] - Kain was at ground zero of the temporal distortion, since he was wielding the Reaver (the source of the distortion), which I always assumed made him at least partially "immune" or something.\\

* Here's a thought, Raziel. You were told to kill off your brothers. Why not raise up an army of humans and take them over? Here's a better thought: Don't. Do. Anything. Just go back to your clan territory and hold up in there because, every move you make? Makes everything WORSE.