Kain

         As the last of the surviving vampires in the dying land of Nosgoth, Kain strides the line between ruthless villain and tragic hero. His life as a scion of a noble human line lies forgotten. Having used the power of sorcery to assassinate the tyrant who dared to call himself Nemesis, before his rise to power, Kain warped history itself, initiating the Purge, which would claim every vampire save himself, and shatter the very pillars upon which Nosgoth stood. Bearing the cursed blade Soul Reaver, Kain sought out and slew the conspirators who manipulated him, dueling the incarnation of Death himself to purify Nosgoth. The parting words of Death made Kain aware that only his own demise can ever right the last remaining pillar holding the tenuous weight of the world from the brink of annihilation.
        Thrice has Kain faced Raziel, the slayer, each time locked in battle with the Soul Reaver, ripped from separate times, to meet in mortal battle.  Each time Kain survived, whether victorious, or in the last case, spared at the cost of Raziel’s life. Each time wrought low by his wounds gaining power by consuming the very hearts of his vampire kin during the time of the purge, accelerating the demise of his own kind, in order that he may survive. He spills the blood of vampire, human and demigod alike, reaping a bloody swath across the land, all in a fight to restore time to its rightful state.
       It was Kain who discovered that the force of the Soul Reaver, clashing upon itself in disparate times was the catalyst to allow the destruction of prophecy and the rewriting of history. Raziel and Kain in fact wielding the Soul Reavers, being the sole entities who had experienced the cosmic shear that resulted in the creation of a parallel timeline. In this alternate realm Kain was forced to relive the sins of his past, while he struggled to mitigate the destruction he had wrought upon the world. In the end Kain yet lives, secretly lording over humans as a powerful immortal, yet tormented by the world of his own making.<356>