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I have some (possibly) pretty good ideas for a new Legacy of Kain game. It will be an RPG game with characters that are mostly the new Guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth, since Kain has been cured of the corruption by Raziel in ''Defiance''. Like in ''Soul Reaver I and II'', the main character will not be Kain, though, like in ''Defiance'', Kain will still be one of the playable characters. The main character will actually be a female vampire-hunter who happens to be a {{Dhampyr}}, which is the VERY first time in the series since there are '''''only''''' fully vampires and fully humans, and has an AmbiguousDisorder. And her allies will be the new Pillar Guardians, [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits who will be consisted of]]: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent A werewolf from one of the surviving tribes]], [[TheMorlocks A morlock-like soothsayer]], and a Romani girl who happens to be a {{Druid}}. I'm still working on that idea, but what do you guys think?

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I have some (possibly) pretty good ideas for a new Legacy of Kain game. It will be an RPG game with characters that are mostly the new Guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth, since Kain has been cured of the corruption by Raziel in ''Defiance''. Like in ''Soul Reaver I and II'', the main character will not be Kain, though, like in ''Defiance'', Kain will still be one of the playable characters. The main character will actually be a female vampire-hunter who happens to be a {{Dhampyr}}, which is the VERY first time in the series since there are '''''only''''' fully vampires and fully humans, and has an AmbiguousDisorder. And her allies will be the new Pillar Guardians, [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits who will be consisted of]]: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent A werewolf from one of the surviving tribes]], [[TheMorlocks A morlock-like soothsayer]], and a Romani girl who happens to be a {{Druid}}. I'm still working on that idea, but what do you guys think?

We learn in Defiance that Raziel is not the only one that immortal and unkillable. So is Kain. Earlier in the game Raziel comes to the conclusion that the Elder God did not revive him as he claims, but just happened to be there to use Raziel as his tool when Raziel came to. Raziel is immortal because Kain is immortal and Raziel was created with part of Kain's soul. This is also why Raziel has to be the one to kill his "brothers" because they are immortal as well. When they die Raziel absorbs their part of Kain's soul. Their immortality is shown with Dumah, who was impaled by the humans but he didn't die. He only moved to the spectral realm. And he gained the ability to move in both the Spectral Plane and the Material Plane exactly like Raziel when he was "killed". The only way to end Raziel and his brothers is for them to be absorbed back into one. Into Kain. When Raziel pushes the Purified Reaver into Kain he isn't just purifying his corruption with the Purified Balance Reaver, he is also restoring his entire soul. Repairing that which has been split asunder.

Think about it. Janos Audron said it: The Pillars choose their guardians from birth; but the crux of the vampires' predicament is that they are no longer born, only sired. The curse made sure of that. Furthermore, by giving the vampires an unquenchable blood lust, the Hylden also made sure that the humans would eventually start their own crusades against the vampire race, including the original vampire Guardians. The curse made sure the Guardians would be killed, and it also made sure the Pillars would have to choose human replacements for them, susceptible to the plan the Hylden used to eventually corrupt the Circle and finally the pillars. Right from the very moment of their imprisonment, they planned every detail of their own eventual liberation.

Think about it. Janos Audron said it: The Pillars choose their guardians from birth; but the crux of the vampires' predicament is that they are no longer born, only sired. The curse made sure of that. Furthermore, by giving the vampires an unquenchable blood lust, they also made sure that the humans would eventually start their own crusades against the vampire race, including the original vampire Guardians. The curse made sure the Guardians would be killed, and it also made sure the Pillars would have to choose human replacements for them, susceptible to the corruption the Hylden used to eventually corrupt the Circle and finally the pillars. Right from the very moment of their imprisonment, they planned every detail of their own eventual liberation.

* SPOILERS AHEAD!-----> First, in general, two things can't exist at the same time in the same place, but, apparently, according to [[TimeTravelTropes any laws of time travel]], they CAN exist in the same time but not the same place, no matter how they get there, no matter for how long, and in some cases [[GrandfatherParadox no matter for what reason]]. The souls can be respun into new lives but there's nothing in canon that says they are going to be spun within or outside of linear time. Raziel and Kain can postulate all and as they wish but it doesn't change the fact that [[spoiler: greater forces can manipulate their very souls and use and place them in any way.]]

* SPOILERS AHEAD!-----> First, in general, two things can't exist at the same time in the same place, but, apparently, according to [[TimeTravelTropes any laws of time travel]], they CAN exist in the same time but not the same place, no matter how they get there, no matter for how long, and in some cases [[GrandfatherParadox no matter for what reason]]. The souls can be respun into new lives but there's nothing in canon that says they are going to, or can't be outside of, be spun in linear time. Raziel and Kain can postulate all and as they wish but it doesn't change the fact that [[spoiler: greater forces can manipulate their very souls and use and place them in any way they wish.]]

Original paradox when Kain wields the Reaver against William the Just, also wielding the Reaver. When Kain wields future Reaver against past Reaver there are multitudes of paradoxes that the blade must sustain. I'm saying sustain because whatever happens to William's Reaver will need to be evident in Kain's Reaver later, but simultaneously. Every strike will echo across the time and then back again to the Reaver in Kain's hands and each strike, limiting the paradoxical properties to not only to the time of the battle but to the entire time spanning the Reaver's existence after William's battle with Kain until the conclusion of the battle with it in Kain's hands. Alone the blade can NEVER strike itself because it can never BE anywhere else, other than where it is, let alone as another of itself to do so. Since Kain makes this possible through time travel, the Reaver must gain some perverted form of free will at Kain's hand. More specifically, the blade then represents the purest form of rebellion, in the form of perverted free will, against the properties of fate as set by the timeline, and I believe never loses this property of, this familiarity with, tampering with entire actions and events regarding 'fate', as it were. The Reaver would NEVER possess Raziel's soul until Raziel, with his soul draining ability and wraith blade, die in the presence of the Reaver. If Kain handed him the Reaver, and then killed him somehow, ([[KungFuProofMook "or if Raziel died any other way wielding the Reaver himself"]] during gameplay) the Reaver would absorb the wraith blade and Raziel as he died, even with it in his own hands. Kain would then, at some point, obtain the un-purified Reaver to continue with the plotwe are all familiar with, taunting and mocking the fool Raziel at every step, bloodrage over Moebius' petty, childlike meddling, burning over his every motive.

[[spoiler:Raziel's own soul as his wraith blade]] is excusable with one redundant statement: It [[spoiler: can't be Raziel's SAME soul because it's NOT Raziel's same soul]]History abhors a paradox, buuuuuut not in this case. If time and history act as Kain says, flowing around paradoxes, then what event could really lead to Raziel's paradox? And what does it have to do with the fact that individuals and their experiences are somehow [[RippleProofMemory "immune"]] ? How can time and history know how to adjust without already having fundamental understanding of paradoxes?
* SPOILERS AHEAD!-----> First, in general, two things can't exist at the same time in the same place, but, apparently, according to [[TimeTravelTropes "any laws of time travel"]], they CAN exist in the same time but not the same place, no matter how they get there, no matter for how long, and in some cases [[GrandfatherParadox "no matter for what reason"]]. The souls can be respun into new lives but there's nothing in canon that says they are going to, or can't be outside of, be spun in linear time. Raziel and Kain can postulate all and as they wish but it doesn't change the fact that [[spoiler: greater forces can manipulate their very souls and use and place them in any way they wish.]]

[[spoiler:Raziel's own soul as his wraith blade]] is excusable with one redundant statement: It [[spoiler: can't be Raziel's SAME soul because it's NOT Raziel's same soul]]History abhors a paradox, buuuuuut not in this case. If time and history act as Kain says, flowing around paradoxes, then what event could really lead to Raziel's paradox? And what does it have to do with the fact that individuals and their experiences are somehow [[RippleProofMemory "immune"]]? How can time and history know how to adjust without already having fundamental understanding of paradoxes?

* SPOILERS AHEAD!-----> First, in general, two things can't exist at the same time in the same place, but, apparently, according to AnyLawsOfTimeTravel, they CAN exist in the same time but not the same place, no matter how they get there, no matter for how long, and in some cases [[GrandfatherParadox "no matter for what reason"]]. The souls can be respun into new lives but there's nothing in canon that says they are going to, or can't be outside of, be spun in linear time. Raziel and Kain can postulate all and as they wish but it doesn't change the fact that [[spoiler: greater forces can manipulate their very souls and use and place them in any way they wish.]]