The Vampire Citadel

Kain arrives in the council chamber via bat-flight.  He resumes his natural form, and looks about himself. Kain And so I arrived at the citadel of my Vampire ancestors, long abandoned since their extinction eons ago.  Perhaps it still held the wisdom of its creators.  Here Moebius said I would find proof that Raziel was not what I thought he was -- or hoped he would be.  But in sending me here Moebius had done me an unexpected -- or perhaps an unwitting -- service.  For it was my destiny, not Raziel's - my role as Scion of Balance - whose secrets I was here to discover.

 

Mural: The Fall of the Vampire Hero Here, no doubt, was the evidence Moebius wished me to have… For the Vampires had prophesied not one, but two champions – one destined to be Nosgoth’s redeemer, the other, its destroyer.  The Vampires’ hero wielded the Reaver, forged for this very purpose.  His opponent was clearly the hero of their adversaries – the Hylden – and brandished a flaming sword.  The foretold outcome was unambiguous: the Vampire hero would fall.

Kain
This door was clearly significant; the answers I sought surely lay within.  But to unlock the chamber, the Balance Emblem had to be fully restored.

Kain comes across another sealed door.

Kain
The Reaver required some additional enhancement before this door could be opened.

Kain enters a room housing large statues, similar to one that had come to life, and attacked him earlier. Kain These statues were singularly inanimate.  I knew better than to assume they would always remain so.

Kain discovers the third shard of the Balance Emblem. Kain The third fragment of the Balance Emblem endowed the Reaver with the elemental power of Lightning.

Kain uses the third shard of the Balance Emblem to progress.

Kain
A new area of the Vampire citadel lay open to me.  I still had much to discover.