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5-> ''There is no greater release than that from vengeance, sated.''
6-->-- '''Kain''', after slaughtering his assassins.
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8-> ''Nupraptor with his blind act of vengeance threatened to destroy all of Nosgoth. Each circle member was bonded to the pillar he served, each pillar reflected the mental state of their servant and as the mind of each member was sent further into dementia, the pillars crumbled. To restore them each member of the circle had to die and the artifact that served as their link to pillar had to be returned. Only when all the pillars were restored did Ariel claim my curse would end. And so my hunt began.''
9-->-- '''Kain''' explaining what was happening to Nosgoth.
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11-> ''All in time, sirrah. Yes, time. Unless you master it, it ''will'' master you.''
12-->-- '''Moebius''', in his guise as the Oracle.
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14-> '''Kain: (narrating)''' ''In the bowels of that black forest I found something worse than Hell: a vision of what I was becoming.''
15-> '''Vorador:''' ''It's not often I see one of our own. Especially one as young and foolish as you. Nontheless drink: drink deep and indulge your gift.''
16-> '''Kain: (narrating)''' ''Gift? Hah! Vorador thought my curse a blessing, that we were gods, that mortals offered their blood as sacrifice that we could enjoy our supernatural powers, and somewhere deep inside my new self I knew that he was right. That mortal dreams ''were'' prayers, prayers to us, begging us for power. I pondered this as the decadant old fool prattled on about his past. A boorish account of how he defeated Malek the Paladin and took his revenge upon the Circle of Nine for supporting the Sarafan holy war to exterminate us.''
17-> '''Vorador:''' ''After slaughtering six of the sheep, I defeated their pathetic little shepherd, Malek. Since then our kind has not bothered with the cattle, except to feed, and I suggest you do the same. Meddling with the affairs of man can do us no good. Sarafan witch hunts are much too tedious to concern ourselves with. Am I understood, Kain?''
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19-> ''It is not often that a man sees his own corpse. It is a sobering experience. But I am far less interested in my own corpse than I am in yours. Prepare yourself, vampire.''
20-->-- '''Malek the Paladin'''
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22-> ''You thought yourself a king, but you were in fact a pawn! You have served me well, Kain. [...] Don't you see? My silencing of Ariel, and its calculated repercussions, is but the first act in my theatre of Grand Guignol... Of which ''you'' are the tragic hero! Play on, little vampire, play on.'''
23-->-- '''Hash'ak'gik'''
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25-> ''I am the last Pillar. The only survivor of the Circle of Nine. At my whim, the world will be healed... or damned. '''At my whim'''.''
26-->-- '''Kain''', faced with the decision that would shape his whole existence.
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28-> ''Once I embraced my powers, I realized Vorador was correct: We ARE gods. Dark Gods! And it is our duty... '''to thin the herd'''. (Evil Laugh)''
29-->-- '''Kain''', after dooming the Pillars and Nosgoth in the [[BadEnding Bad]] ''and'' Canon Ending.
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34->'' Kain is deified. The Clans tell tales of Him. Few know the truth. He was mortal once, as were we all. However, His contempt for humanity drove him to create me, and my brethren. I am Raziel, first-born of his lieutenants. I stood with Kain and my brethren at the dawn of the empire. I have served him a millennium. Over time, we became less human and more... divine. Kain would enter the state of change and emerge with a new gift. Some years after the master, our evolution would follow. Until I had the honor of surpassing my Lord. For my transgression, I earned a new kind of reward... agony. There was only one possible outcome -- my eternal damnation. I, Raziel, was to suffer the fate of traitors and weaklings - to burn forever in the bowels of the Lake of the Dead. ''
35-->-- '''Raziel''' in his introduction.
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37-> ''Settle your dispute with Kain. Destroy Him and your brethren. Free their souls and let the wheel of fate churn again. Use your hatred to reave their souls, I can make it possible. Become my Soul Reaver, my Angel of Death.''
38-->-- '''The Elder God'''
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40-> ''Conscience? You dare to speak to me of conscience?! Only when you have felt the full gravity of choice, should you dare question my judgement! Your life span is a flicker, compared to the mass of doubt and regret that I had borne since Mortanius first turned me from the light! To know that the fate of the world hangs dependant on the advisedness of my every deed... can you even ''begin'' to concieve what action you would take in my position?!''
41-->-- '''Kain'''
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43-> '''Kain:''' ''At last. I must say I'm disappointed in your progress. I imagined you'd be here sooner. Tell me: did it trouble you to murder your brothers?''
44-> '''Raziel:''' ''Did it trouble ''you'' when you ordered me into the Abyss?''
45-> '''Kain:''' ''No. I had faith in you. In your ability to hate, in your self-righteous indignation.''
46-> '''Raziel:''' ''Lies. You cannot have foreseen all of this.''
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50-> ''I've seen the beginning and end of our story, however, and the tale is crude and ill-conceived. We must rewrite the ending of it, you and I.''
51-->-- '''Kain'''
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53-> ''This is the sublime moment of our undoing, Raziel. The ineffable fulcrum upon which swings the entirety of our history. This is where all of Nosgoth is betrayed.''
54-->-- '''Kain''', meeting Raziel [[spoiler:at the Pillars of Nosgoth at the moment of their corruption]].
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56-> ''Let's ''drop'' the moral posturing, shall we? We both know there's no altruism in this pursuit. Your ''reckless indignation'' led you here – I ''counted'' on it! …There's no ''shame'' in it, Raziel. Revenge is motivation enough – at least it's ''honest''. ''Hate me'', but do it ''honestly''!''
57-->-- '''Kain'''
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59-> ''You have grown wilful, Raziel. But beware: to embrace a serpent is to invite poison into your heart. Kain is a sinuous beast; he will seduce and deceive you. You pride yourself on your free will, yet you let that degenerate deter your resolve.''
60-->-- '''The Elder God'''
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62-> ''This one thing I readily admit: I have been used by others, time and again. But always I seem to stray from their path. What is it about me, demon, that makes me such an unreliable instrument? Why do I survive one trial after another, on and on in an endless succession of humiliating deaths and resurrections? It seems there is much more to my destiny and history than I know. Perhaps more than ''you'' know as well.''
63-->-- '''Raziel''', to the Elder God
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67-> ''He had the sword. Soul Reaver, the prize I had won a lifetime ago was in his foul possession.''
68-->-- '''Kain'''
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70-> ''You dare dream of killing me? That fantasy was quenched in blood long ago when I defeated you. And yet, you have learned nothing. Such a pathetic creature.''
71-->-- '''The Sarafan Lord''', to Kain.
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73-> ''Once again, I began to feel the obligations of power. To deal justice fairly to all. One day my people would know me again for their lord, but the vampires who were traitors to their kind would know me first of all.''
74-->-- '''Kain'''
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76-> ''What was it she said to me in that fateful moment when she took from me the Nexus Stone? How would my rule differ from that of the Sarafan Lord?\
77If you had lived, Umah, you would have learned the difference.\
78You should have trusted me...\
79The war was over, and yet there was another battle to be fought. The cruel masters of Nosgoth, the Sarafan - now leaderless - still had to be put down.\
80There were cities to be rebuilt, and order to be restored. And a new rule, my rule would then begin.\
81To the victor go the spoils. At last, Nosgoth would be mine.''
82-->-- '''Kain'''
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87-> ''Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire, or to challenge the fates for another throw, a better throw against one's destiny - what was a king to do? But does one truly have a choice? One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate, and thus defy the tyrannous stars.''
88-->-- '''Kain'''
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90-> ''What game is this, where every player on the board claims the same pawn?''
91-->-- '''Raziel'''
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93-> '''Raziel:''' ''Kain. Why is this no surprise?''
94->'''Kain:''' ''Because our destinies run together , Raziel, like two rivers that have met and can never be distinct again. At your every fatal turn, you'll find me.''
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96-> '''Raziel:''' ''I should have known I'd find'' you ''here.''
97-> '''The Elder God:''' ''Here and everywhere, now and always. I am the Wheel and its turning, I am the Circle of life and death.''
98-> '''Raziel:''' ''And I am beginning to think the vampires committed suicide only to escape your voice.''
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100->''Now, at last, the masks had fallen away. The strings of the puppets had become visible, and the hands of the prime mover exposed. Most ironic of all was the last gift that Raziel had given me, more powerful than the sword now held his soul, more acute even than the vision that his sacrifice had accorded me - the first bitter taste of that terrible illusion: hope.''
101-->-- '''Kain''', the ending of Defiance, and [[CutShort the last words of the series]].

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