There’s no morality system at play to tinker with based on playstyle. There’s no missable ending or quests linked to your actions. There’s not even a punishment to these killings. They’re as much a resource as hearts in Zelda or mushrooms in Mario. There’s no guilt or shame in using the innocents. The people around Kain are commodities to discard once they fulfill his specific needs.
This can sometimes be enemy knights or brigands who will attack you, but more often than not, you will be consuming the blood of innocents, as they are far more easy to extract from. Regardless, Kain refills his health by drinking the blood of those around him. While I didn’t personally have an issue with this, as it’s slow enough to not actually be all too noticeable, I can see where it could create undesired stress to a player. One of the more potentially controversial pieces of design is that Kain is always slowly losing his health.
Kain’s recklessness with human life is made apparent through many of the gameplay mechanics. It is a deeply misguided and emotionally immature way of bringing about legitimate structural change. Why, then, is Kain the one who is tasked with dismantling such a system? His blind hatred toward those who killed him is merely being leveled at anyone who could have possibly contributed to his death. It’s why he viewed his killing as a reprehensible act of cold-blooded murder, when it was likely done because his murderers needed his money to feed themselves. It’s abundantly clear that Kain simply doesn’t even understand his role in contributing to the oppression of these people. He chooses to judge people based on their socioeconomic status and makes no effort to assist them in their suffering. Kain, for his entire life, has been contributing to systemic oppression of the unfortunate. These are views he continues to hold following his loss of humanity, the only difference being he now sees himself as an abomination as well. He deems them lowly people who lack intelligence and basic hygiene. From future narrations, we can tell that Kain hates peasantry.
Needless to say, this is odd, isn’t it? The human, Kain, is a nobleman, birthed into wealth and without any known empathy for those less fortunate than he is. To aid in the slaughter of his enemies, Kain may equip different weapons and armor, each with its own unique properties.I don’t want to delve too deeply into the rest of the story, as it’s pretty complex, and I’d likely do a poor job of hitting on all the important details while spoiling everything. As the enemies are slain in front of him, Kain may drink their blood to restore his health, which is always trickling away, representative of his insatiable craving. Kain is also fixated on murder and is a master of several ways to kill and destroy his opponents. However, he is able to obtain several cursed abilities and spells such as being able to transform into a bat, wolf, and even a cloud mist respectively, as well as learning the ability to disguise himself from creatures of weaker mind. As a vampire, Kain is able to withstand sunlight, but is harmed by water. The fate of Nosgoth may hang on Kain decisions.īlood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a top-down game where the player controls the vampiric Kain. She informs Kain of his relation to the Pillars and that the only way for him to restore the balance is to seek out each guardian and kill them. At the Pillars, Kain meet Ariel – a former guardian of the the Pillar of Balance, now a spirit after being murdered by an unseen assailant. These pillars, the center of the world and balancing the forces, have become corrupted and the Circle members been driven mad. Mortanius is of the Circle of Nine, the guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth. However, Mortanius and other forces seek to use him a tool in a greater plot. Stronger and faster than a human being, coupled with a thirst for blood that must be satisfied regularly, he is able to dispatch his killers quickly. Kain is returned in the form of a vampire and yearns to exact vengeance on those who had killed him. The nobleman Kain has been slain by a group of bandits and in his death, he is revived by the necromancer, Mortanius for his own ends.
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