Soul Reaver 2 (2001 Video Game)

Simon Templeman: Kain

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• Kain : Thirty years hence, I am presented with a dilemma... let's call it a two-sided coin. If the coin falls one way, I sacrifice myself and thus restore the Pillars... but as the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth, this would mean the annihilation of our species... Moebius made sure of that. If the coin lands on the reverse, I refuse the sacrifice and thus doom the Pillars to an eternity of collapse. Either way, the game is rigged.

  Raziel : We agree then that the Pillars are crucial and must be restored.

  Kain : Yes, Raziel, that is why we've come full-circle to this place.

  Raziel : So after all this, you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die so that new Guardians can be born.

  Kain : The Pillars don't belong to them, Raziel... they belong to us.

  Raziel : Your arrogance is boundless, Kain.

  Kain : There's a third option, a monumental secret hidden in your very presence here. But it's a secret you have to discover for yourself. Unearth your destiny, Raziel. It's all laid out for you here.

  Raziel : You said it yourself, Kain... there are only two sides to your coin.

  Kain : Apparently so, but suppose you throw a coin enough times... suppose one day, it lands on its edge.

• Kain : Janos is indeed the key to your destiny, but you'll need to find your own way back into Nosgoth's past. Make no mistake though, Raziel. You and I are now in great danger. We are irritants here. Malevolent forces are being marshalled to eliminate us.

  Raziel : You talk as though we're allies

  Kain : Regardless of your sentiments, Raziel, in their eyes... we are.

  Raziel : Well, they're certainly trying to eliminate you, Kain, there can be no doubt of that. I am assaulted relentlessly with demands for your demise. As for me, I suspect they made a grave error when they allowed my unique resurrection. I don't think they know how to destroy me.

  Kain : You mustn't underestimate them, Raziel.

  Raziel : And who exactly is this diabolical "they" to which we keep referring? If there's some grand conspiracy going on, the right hand doesn't appear to know what the left is doing. Even Moebius seems to be caught out at every turn.

  Kain : Moebius is a puppet, Raziel! Haven't you realized that yet? That's the sweetest irony in all of this. Nosgoth's 'great manipulater' is their plaything! But the ones pulling the strings haven't shown their faces, yet.

• Raziel : I understand only this Kain, that you and Moebius have impelled me to this moment, simply means that i can trust neither of you. I don't know who's pulling the strings, bit it no longer matters, because i'm cutting them. I set my own course from here.

  Kain : If only it were that simple.

  Raziel : Your fatalism is tiresome, Kain.

  Kain : And profoundly ingrained, Raziel. You must understand, our presence here doesn't alter history. You and i meet here because we are compelled to, we have always met here. History is irredeemable. Drop a stone into a rushing river, the current simply courses around it and flows on as if the obstruction were never there. You and I are pebbles, Raziel, and have even less hope of disrupting the time-stream. The continum of history is simply too strong, too resilient.

• Kain : Very well, Raziel. I'll not ask you to trust me, your truths are for you to discover alone.

  Raziel : Humble words for one who presumes to teach me a lesson at every turn.

• Raziel : Oh no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens. I don't think i have the stomach for it.

  Kain : No drama this time, Raziel.

  Raziel : You are persistent, crossing time like this to follow me. Still waiting for that coin of yours to land on its edge?

• Kain : Raziel! Janos must stay dead!