History Fridge / LegacyOfKain

* 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.

** There's a difference between aging and developing. Aging is the process of the body becoming weaker and less efficient over time - skin losing elasticity, internal organs losing effectiveness etc. Development and growth from infant to adult is unrelated, hence the existence of conditions that result in rapid aging - but not growth and development - among children.

* So Raziel is repeatedly said to be the only character in the series to have free will, and thus every player in the GambitPileup wants to manipulate him for this reason, because everyone else is locked into a specific fate and wants to change it. Then it struck me 'why' he is the only person to have free will. Consider how time travel works in this universe; it is, ostensibly, [[YouCantFightFate immutable]], except in rare circumstances when two or more of the same object or person exists at the same time in the same location. Raziel spends almost the entire series walking around with his ''future soul stuck on his arm''! Of course he has free will, he's a walking point of mutable time in the continuum.

* So Raziel is repeatedly said to be the only character in the series to have free will, and thus every player in the GambitPilup wants to manipulate him for this reason, because everyone else is locked into a specific fate and wants to change it. Then it struck me 'why' he is the only person to have free will. Consider how time travel works in this universe; it is, ostensibly, [[YouCantFightFate immutable]], except in rare circumstances when two or more of the same object or person exists at the same time in the same location. Raziel spends almost the entire series walking around with his ''future soul stuck on his arm''! Of course he has free will, he's a walking point of mutable time in the continuum.

* So Raziel is repeatedly said to be the only character in the series to have free will, and thus every player in the GambitPilup wants to manipulate him for this reason, because everyone else is locked into a specific fate and wants to change it. Then it struck me 'why' he is the only person to have free will. Consider how time travel works in this universe; it is, ostensibly, [[YouCan'tFightFate immutable]], except in rare circumstances when two or more of the same object or person exists at the same time in the same location. Raziel spends almost the entire series walking around with his ''future soul stuck on his arm''! Of course he has free will, he's a walking point of mutable time in the continuum.

** The vampires who were pregnant most likely either had miscarriages or stillborn children, no doubt due to the Elder God's getting angry at them for not being able to die anymore and deciding not to let any more souls become immortal. There wasn't anything that said they stopped aging, it just said they were cursed with immortality; though it is rather curious that the remaining vampires waited until the human guardians were mature adults before turning them into vampires.

*** The souls Raziel fights are the original guardians, the vampires who actually raised the Pillars. It was only after they died that the Pillars started choosing people from birth.

* Doubles are {{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.

* Coming up with a better reason than jealousy for Kain's genocide of Raziel's clan. If Janos being alive when the Binding failed caused Blood Omen 2, then perhaps it wasn't safe to have any winged vampires alive when there were no Pillars.

** The pillars choose their guardians at birth; The first guardians were ancient vampires, and judging by the shape of their ghosts, they matured. Still, their immortality may have been different, considering that the human guardians are immortal.

* "The Hylden cursed us as they fell." So it seems an entire race suddenly stopped aging. There were probably children who were suddenly [[CantGrowUp not aging,]] but what about the ones who were pregnant? Did they remain pregnant for the rest of their lives? Did they miscarry? What about the babies that survived expulsion? Wondering how robust the immortal healing factor is, a premature birth might not have been as fatal as it should have been.

** Well, how would you react if your father said, "Hey, son, I'm going to force you to endure a horrifically painful and humiliating death just before your brothers slaughter all of your progeny and take over your territory, but it's okay, you'll come back as a dessicated blue soul-eating corpse and then we'll save the world"?

* At one point in ''Soul Reaver'', Ariel says, "Those blind with rage are by destiny ensnared." [[{{Foreshadowing}} Doesn't that sound a bit like what happens to Raziel]] ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} more than once]]''?

* FridgeLogic - In the boss fight with Zephon, his spider-form lays eggs, which you light on fire and throw back at him. Okay, typical gameplay. But Zephon was ''male'' so why would his spider-form ''lay eggs''... ? Never mind the fact we're later told that Vampires are sterile. It could be that they were cocoons and possibly part of the conversion process for the vampires in his clan. Or they're simply an embarrassing side-effect of his evolution into a giant bug and aren't actually viable eggs anyways.

** Kain knows pretty much how all of history is meant to play out, and Raziel has the power to change it. Why wouldn't Kain just play it straight with Raziel and explain himself so they can work together to make the world better? Imagine how much more understanding and cooperative Raziel may have been if Kain had taken him aside before killing him and explained the situation to him. "I'm going to have you killed, but ultimately you'll come back to life with the power to change history for the better. Trust me, it'll work out if we work together." Raziel ''was'' loyal to Kain prior to his execution after all, he probably would have listened.
*** Well, how would you react if your father said, "Hey, son, I'm going to force you to endure a horrifically painful and humiliating death just before your brothers slaughter all of your progeny and take over your territory, but it's okay, you'll come back as a dessicated blue soul-eating corpse and then we'll save the world"?