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Player: Pilotslover
Name: Raziel
From: The Legacy of Kain series (Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver II and Defiance)
Age: Over 2000 – See history
Species: Wraith
Weapon of Choice: The Spectral Reaver
Magic: Reaver controlled only
Appearance: Raziel is a tall, gangly creature who fits the mental image of Demon near perfectly save for the noticeable lack of a tail. His skin is blue and he looks rather like his muscles are on the outside, his sinewy appearance is rather horrific but there is a form of world weariness about Raziel that permeates through his outlandish appearance.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/Pilotslover/Raz.jpgHe has three cloven fingers and two toes, his white coloured eyes glow brightly in the darkness. He wears a cowl around his face which hides the fact that the Wraith doesn’t have a bottom jaw but he wears nothing else with it; he doesn’t have any obvious reproductive orders.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/Pilotslover/Raz1.jpgRaziel has short raven black hair. His Cowl bears the symbol of his clan and used to be red, but it’s now brown due to the long time he spent in the lake of the Dead.
Personality: In part a total cynic, in others a hopeful, desperate person, Raziel is certainly full of conflicting emotions. His prevalent stance seems to be the quest for truth, he wants to know who and what he is and is clearly frustrated by the lack of answers those around him provide.
Raziel is also the only person on the whole of Nosgoth to have true free will, meaning that he circumvented his fate and – with Kain – was the cause of a massive rift in time due to not dying when he was supposed to.
Raziel can be very bitter and sarcastic at times, he also tends to question the order of things but this all broils down to his continuing search for the truth.
History: Originally a human, Raziel has been through a great deal to reach the point whereby he looks as he does today.
As a Human, Raziel was part of the Seraphim Knights, a militia force that eradicated the Vampires; in this ‘life’ Raziel murdered the last of the Ancient Vampires – Janus Audron – by cutting out his heart.
Ultimately, this life came to an end by his own hand; as the Wraith Raziel plunges the Reaver into his past self, he remarks on laughing at Kain’s joke. All along, he was destined to take his own life; he renounces this past self – which he sees as deplorable – and The Human Raziel dies.
Upon his death, Raziel is resurrected by the Vampire Kain and comes to serve as his lieutenant; in this role he does the opposite of what he did as a seraphim warrior and starts killing Human’s. In this time, he is chief of Kain’s Lieutenants and effectively serves as his right hand; in this time he creates Vampires of his own known as the Razielim. He has no knowledge of his former self and serves Kain loyally.
Kain evolves – the Vampires on Nosgoth enter a metamorphic stage and emerge changed – and his ‘brood’ follows suit; Raziel presents his latest evolution, a pair of bat like wings. In a seemingly sadistic act of cruelty, Kain breaks the fragile appendages; we eventually learn the method behind this act as Kain has read the ancient scriptures and knows what Raziel could be.
Raziel suffers the punishment of traitors and weaklings and is thrown into the Lake of the Dead; he endures unspeakable pain in the abyss, cursing the hypocrisy that has led to his being thrown in and eventually dies. Eons pass before The Elder God resurrects Raziel – who now has the form of a Wraith – and sets him back out on his path.
In Soul Reaver, this path sets him after Kain; he kills most of his vampire brothers and gains their abilities after consuming their soul. It is during this time that he learns he was formally a warrior priest, he confronts Kain at the end and is transported into the past.
In SR II, Raziel meets with the Time Streamer Mobius and ends up playing pawn to any number of characters; yet, we discover that Raziel is pure Free will, he alone is outside of the cycle of life and death.
Raziel also discovers that the wraith blade he carries, the unquenchable spirit in the Soul Reaver is actually his own soul; this leads to the games climax where he is wielding the ‘real’ version of the Reaver and it takes control to stab him in the chest in an attempt to absorb him. This is revealed as a critical moment in time and Kain appears; he tears the reaver from Raziel’s chest and tries to issue him a warning as the Wraith looses his grip on the material realm.
Defiance finds the Wraith in the spirit realm, refusing his ‘masters’ will before finally seeming to submit and eats a soul; this is, however merely an act so that he can escape. Whilst in the previous two instalments, Raziel has used portals to return to the mortal world, this one sees that privilege removed and Raziel finds a far more disturbing way back; he finds a soul and slips back into the world in their corpse, shaking the skin off once he emerges.
In this game, Raziel discovers more about his unorthodox appearance and learns that whilst he had thought himself the Vampire’s champion, he is actually the champion of the Hylden; the enemy of the ancient vampires.
Raziel lives with the uncertainty of knowing that he is destined to become the ravenous spirit in the Reaver and this spurs him on to doing some questionable things, chief of which is tearing out Kain’s heart in a hope of returning it to Janos Audron. Under Janos instruction, Raziel travelled to the citadel of the ancient Vampires and here gained the ‘Spirit Reaver’ a powerful soul cleansing blade.
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