character, he frequently narrates his thoughts through the dramatic device of soliloquy. In Blood Omen and Defiance, his battle cry and catchphrase is Vae victis, a Latin phrase attributed to Brennus meaning "woe to the conquered". Appearances Debut In Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Kain is introduced as a young human noble. In the game's prologue, he is murdered by assassins, and resurrected as a vampire by Mortanius, a necromancer. He is promised both vengeance and a cure to his vampirism if he can restore the nine Pillars of Nosgoth, edifices whose state dictates the vitality of the world; the nine guardians who symbiotically represent the Pillars were corrupted prior to his birth, and must be killed before the land can recover. During his quest, he meets the ancient vampire Vorador, who influences him to forsake his former humanity and accept his vampirism, and discovers the Soul Reaver, a legendary soul-devouring sword. Using the Reaver, he tries to alter the course of Nosgoth's history to prevent the Nemesis — a tyrant king — from coming to power. Tricked by Moebius, the guardian of time, Kain succeeds in destroying the Nemesis, but the temporal paradox this triggers results in a new timeline in which vampires have been hunted to extinction; Kain is left the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth. After systematically tracking down and killing most of the guardians, he confronts Mortanius — revealed as the guardian of death, and the orchestrator of Kain's assassination. After killing Mortanius, a malevolent, mysterious being known as The Dark Entity emerges from Mortanius's body where he tells Kain that he is the one who orchestrated the murder of Ariel (by possessing Mortanius) and the entire affair in Nosgoth, while Mortanius attempted to save Nosgoth and fight mentally against him before succumbing. Kain confronts The Dark Entity in final battle by slaying him. After the battle, Kain realizes that he himself is the final guardian, and that the cure to his curse entails his own destruction. Faced with the obligation of self-sacrifice — thereby restoring the world, but ensuring the annihilation of the vampire race or the alternative of destroying the Pillars to rule over the world in its miasmatic state. Although both options are available to the player, the canon established in the sequels proves that Kain opts for the latter choice, embracing vampirism as a blessing as the Pillars collapse.Elder God: This world