Striking anything with it drains Kain's mana completely - but that mana is converted into raw damage, and that damage is frightful. The Soul Reaver is the most powerful weapon in the game. But its purpose remains - to feed on the souls of any creature it strikes. 'Time fades even legend, and the origin of the Soul Reaver has been lost long ago.

The metal exists only partially in the human realm, causing it to fade between tangible and ethereal states.'Īnd, we have one other relic to procure before we move on: 'This armor was spawned in the most impure of spirit forges tempered from the seething agony of tortured souls. First.Īfter navigating that utter bitch of a room, we finally find our artifact: 'Above me stood a memory, etched in stained glass.'īeyond it we find a pair of locked doors - but we'll return here later.

Once we complete their ridiculous teleporter puzzle, we come to the chapel.Īnd beyond it, this enormous stained glass ceiling, depicting none other then Vorador and Malek, in their fated clash. Hash'ak'gik - we'll see that name again (much) later in the series. 'And Hash'ak'gik spoke to the world, and all who heard trembled.īring me your first born, and shed their blood on the alter of the world, so I might take nourishment from them.ĭo this without question, or suffer my wrath for eternity. The clean, holy interior, it seems, is a clever facade for something much darker.Īt the end of the hallway above, we come to a pedestal holding this book. The door, we find, houses some stairs which decend into the bowels of the Cathedral. These mark the tops of doors in the Cathedral - this is in fact a very well hidden one. If you look carefully in the lower right corner of this room, you can see 2 pillars of sorts sticking out of the wall. Wholly annoying to navigate.Īnd to make matters worse, the whole of it is populated by these attrociously hard-hitting demons. The Cathedral is a giantic maze of teleporters, for the most part. Their presence here suggests that the decay of the pillars has weakened the lock, allowing some of these beings passage into Nosgoth. Demons - such as these - are native to the dimension to which they were banished. It should be noted that, as mentioned in the first post, long before this game's timeline, the ancient Vampires had banished the Hylden to an alternate dimension, using the Pillars as the lock on this makeshift prison. Here, then, we discover the source of the demons demolishing the town. The demons knew better than to bite the hand that feeds them.' Though the city lay in ruins, the Cathedral remained untouched. 'Avernus was a religious autocracy, with the Cathedral as its dais of power. Perhaps when it was over, it would be the other way around.' 'I felt its eyes upon me, eager, hungry, as if it longed to rip my heart out and eat it before me as I died. To his disappointment, he would not find me such easy prey.' 'The beast paused for a moment, drooling in anticipation of the fine meal he saw before him. Look carefully on the left side of the shot - it's not very clear. Whatever hand slaughtered its people ravaged the city as well.' Once I would have felt horror now only hunger remained.' Yet, what would have appalled in my life only tempted me in death.

'The gate of Avernus opened slowly before me, daring me to cross the threshold. Rather then flying into the conflagration itself, we're forced to enter from the gates. Having seen it burning in the distance, we're now able to fly to Abernus, to investigate. Part 6 As a side note, I had always thought (until seeing it printed here) that it was 'Avernus' - I could have sworn it was written that way elsewhere.

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