History Fridge / LegacyOfKain

* During the climax of ''Soul Reaver 2'', Kain is left alone with the memories of the tragic future of ''Blood Omen 2'', which he just engineered with his choice of saving Raziel, while Raziel does not have a clue about all that, even tho he came from the same future of Kain. This seems strange at first, but acually is perfectly coherent with the way time works in the setting: Kain's future is already fixed, and even if he already lived through it, he is still powerless to change it barring the exploit of a paradox. Raziel's future, on the other hand, is literally blank because history is forced to rewrite itself around everything he does until the moment he will be finally absorbed into the Reaver. Raziel doesn't know his future because it hasn't happened yet, and it's his to decide, which is what everyone means when Raziel is told to be the only one with free will.

* During the climax of ''Soul Reaver 2'', Kain is left alone with the memories of the tragic future of ''Blood Omen 2'', which he just engineered with his choice of saving Raziel, while Raziel does not have a clue about all that. This seems strange at first, but acually is perfectly coherent with the way time works in the setting: Kain's future is already fixed, and even if he already lived through it (as he is the Kain from the future of Nosgoth), he is still powerless to change it barring the exploit of a paradox. Raziel's future, on the other hand, is literally blank because history is forced to rewrite itself around everything he does until the moment he will be finally absorbed into the Reaver. Raziel doesn't know his future because it hasn't happened yet, and it's his to decide, which is what everyone means when Raziel is told to be the only one with free will.

* During the Climax of ''Soul Reaver 2'', Kain is left alone with the memories of the tragic future of ''Blood Omen 2'', which he just engineered with his choice of saving Raziel, while Raziel does not have a clue about all that. This seems strange at first, but acually is perfectly coherent with the way time works in the setting: Kain's future is already fixed, and even if he already lived through it (as he is the Kain from the future of Nosgoth), he is still powerless to change it barring the exploit of a paradox. Raziel's future, on the other hand, is literally blank because history is forced to rewrite itself around everything he does until the moment he will be finally absorbed into the Reaver. Raziel doesn't know his future because it hasn't happened yet, and it's his to decide, which is what everyone means when Raziel is told to be the only one with free will.

** The games offer but never confirm the idea that the elder god didn't bring Raziel back and instead was simply there when Raziel awakened and set him on his course.

*** It's actually debatable whether or not Kain was lying when he offered Sebastian mercy; despite his strict honesty, throughout the series people suspect or believe Kain is lying simply because he's ''[[MagnificentBastard Kain]]''. It's likely he knew Sebastian was dying of his injuries anyway and didn't want to waste time arguing the point. It's worth mentioning that Kain doesn't make a move to finish Sebastian off, he simply lets him expire from the wounds he sustained during the fight(most of them being his own damn fault, anyway).

* Doubles as {{Foreshadowing}} if you think of it at the time--when Raziel kills Kain in Avernus, the timeline is perfectly fine, as evidenced shortly after with the pillars shattering. But remember, Kain wielded the Reaver of the past--the reaver that is supposed to absorb Raziel's soul and eventually be wielded by William the Just and then Kain. That Raziel just killed Kain and he and the Reaver vanished, but the timeline isn't destroyed or unravelling, is a clue that Kain ''isn't'' really dead.

** The timeline doesn't get destroyed or unravel in this universe, it just gets rewritten. The Reaver elder Kain has is the broken one from William the Just's tomb, so William has already wielded it and lost to fledgling Kain (who still has his version of the Reaver from BO1 in Defiance). Raziel is the one that put William's sword back together, and that's when he discovered the spirit within it. Kain is weilding this sword, which presumably already has Raziel's soul inside of it but will also be the sword that will absorb Raziel. This series doesn't seem to have many cut-and-dried answers, especially where the time travel segments overlap and get confusing.
*** Kain is using the blood reaver from the sarafan age that he pulled out of raziel at the end of SR2, not Williums sword, only the empty reaver absorbs raziel, Williams soul reaver would not. After the end of defiance kain now has to go back and make sure William gets the sword and that it later appears in Avernus

* As Raziel is leaving the Sarafan Stronghold at the beginning of the game, Mobius is actually afraid of him, unlike earlier when he was confident that Raziel wouldn't kill him. I didn't realize this at the time, but Raziel was in the middle of a paradox because of the multiple reavers in the room. Mobius was scared because Raziel had the power to ScrewDestiny at that moment. It's something that requires a rewatch or replay to catch.

* As Raziel is leaving the Sarafan Stronghold at the beginning of the game, Mobius is actually afraid of him, unlike earlier when he was confident that Raziel wouldn't kill him. I didn't realize this at the time, but Raziel was in the middle of a paradox because of the multiple reavers in the room. Mobius was scared because Raziel had the power of [[ScrewDestiny]] at that moment. It's something that requires a rewatch or replay to catch.

* During Raziel's descent into the watery abyss that originally destroyed his body, he screams for the first few moments but then appears to stop quickly, which is merciful to the viewer and makes things seem considerably less horrific. Meanwhile, however, he narrates his "timeless" agony and says his torment only "receded" much later. It only just dawned on me years later that the only reason he wasn't screaming the whole time '' is because his lower jaw comes off early in his fall ''. Imagine burning in what basically amounts to "magical acid" for two thousand years, [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream and you can't even scream in pain]]. Wow.

* During Raziel's descent into the watery abyss that originally destroyed his body, he screams for the first few moments but then appears to stop quickly, which is merciful to the viewer and makes things seem considerably less horrific. Meanwhile, however, he narrates his "timeless" agony and says his torment only "receded" much later. It only just dawned on me years later that the only reason he wasn't screaming the whole time ' is because his lower jaw comes off early in his fall '. Imagine burning in what basically amounts to "magical acid" for two thousand years, [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream and you can't even scream in pain]]. Wow.