But the Circle was infiltrated by a dark enemy, and Ariel the Balance Guardian- was cruelly murdered. Her assasination sent psychic shockwaves throughout the Circle, and in their derangement the remaining sorcerers turned their powers to nefarios purposes, poisoning the land with their sorcery and abondoning the Pillars to stand like silent, decaying sentries.
Into the dying world Kain was born. the son of an aristocratic nosgoth family, he lived the privileged life of a nobleman, never realizing his undiscovered destiny- that he was marked from birth as Ariel's succesor, fated to take her place as the Guardian of Ballance.
Ignorant of his destiny, the ambitous but directionless Kain roamed the land. During one fateful journey, he was ambushed by brigands and murdered, cruelly impaled on his assasin's sword.
Plucked from the brink of oblivion by the necromancer Mortainus, Kain awakened in the underworld, still transfixed by his enemy's blade. Tormented by his hunger for vengeance, and heedless of the spiritual cost, Kain recklessly accepted the necromancer's offer of revenge-and rose from his tomb to discover that he had been resurrected as a vampire.
Kain wreaks his unholy revenge, but unwittingly triggers a chain of events that leads up to the annihilation of Nosgoth's vampire race. As the last surviving vampire, Kain eventually discovers that he is destined to replace Ariel as Balance Guardian. But in order to restore the Pillars, and thus return their guardianship to Nosgoth's humans, he must sacrifice his own life. Kain rejects this choice-opting to rule Nosgoth in its damnation rather than commit himself to oblivion-and sires a new breed of vampires.
