| blood omen 2 story line |
| "my armies are slain. my castel lies in ruins. my enemies have taken everything from me, all my wealth and power. but hey could not kill me. i still walk the earth, weak but alive. they have taken everything but the beating of my undead heart. now they will learn of fear, these mewing babies who thought they could destroy me. i shall regain my powers, and i shall come to them in the night. and my visits shall not be kind." kain. |
| the story of blood omen 2 takes place two hundred yrs after blood omen, and several centuries before the events of soul reaver. the vampire kain awakens in a strange city with almost no memory of his former self. another vampirer, umah, has taken him in and revived him to health after a deadly battle that kain barely remembers. he is weak, and has lost most of his romer powers. worse still, his weapon, the soulreaver, is missing. umah begins to fill kain in on the recent past, and pieces of kain's shattered memory return. since the events of blood omen, kain had become a commander of an army of vampires bent on ruling the land of nosgoth. in response to his rise to power, another faction appeared in the land: the sarafan, a group of militant humans led by a mysterious and powerful figure, the sarafan lord. determined to wipe out the vampire threat, the sarafan clashed with kain's army for yrs. this war ended with the sarafan finally triumphant over kain's army, and with kain and the sarafan lord locked in mortal combat. the sarafan lord won this battle, stripped the soulreaver from kain, and threw him off a cliff to his apparent death. umah tells kain that hi sbody was found and revived, and he has been brought to the capital of nosgoth, the city of meridian. kain has been unconcious for over two hundred yrs, and in this time, the sarafan have taken fascist control of most of nosgoth. vampires have formed a small resistance, called the cabal, in meridian to undermine the sarafan. it is this resistance that kain is now a part of. the goal of the cabal is simple: kill the sarafan lord, and the sarafan will crumble. because the sarafan do not know of kain's existence, he becomes the perfect agent to find and kill the sarafan lord. kain agrees to help the cabal for the time being, but he fully inteds to follow his own agenda, and seek revenge however possible. . . |