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     The next puzzle is to get out of the Audience Chamber.  The way you came is blocked by the enraged Turelim.  It will not take them long to regroup and charge into the throne room a second time.  The only way out is through the triangular skylight.  Assemble pieces of the collapsed columns into a stair, and jump.
     As Raziel pulls himself up, he sees (faintly) a rusted forest to the east.  At least a dozen great furnaces once stood, now all but one lies in ruins.  Most have been consumed by their own fires.  The last standing furnace still glows with an eery light, smoke still billowed in a faint trail upwards into the sky.  In between Raziel and this furnace lies a great desert.

Leap off the tiers of the Palace of the Sorceror towards that desert.  Climb down the mountain of barren rock.  Pathetic cacti grow here and there, but the land is waste.  Within the sand dunes and angry storms dwell a blood starved tribe of Melchahim.
     Raziel must learn how to move over and around the sand dunes.  It's very easy to get an avalanche of sand going, half burying Raziel.  Worse, once Raziel starts to get the hang of moving across this wasteland, Melchahim start emerging.  Within sight of the furnace's gates, a small tornado arises from the sand.  The Melchahim retreat under the sand.  Raziel can't follow them and still maintain his course.  Steering clear from the eye of the storm, keep moving towards the last extant furnace.

     Raziel is confronted by large rusted pipes, gas feeds to a complex network of furnaces.  The drawbridge has been destroyed as has every scrap of flammable material long ago been harvested.  The feed pipes, three in all, block entrance to the furnace.  Each is taller than Raziel can jump.
     This block puzzle is the most complex in either game.  Find the first batch of blocks, there are eight.  Assemble them in a staircase but not only for Raziel to walk onto the platform at the top of the pipe, but to shove one of the blocks onto the other side.
     The second batch of blocks is a repeat of the first except this time Raziel must force two blocks over the second pipe.  There are ten to be assembled, not counting the one pushed from the opposite side.  Once over the second pipe, with the two blocks from the previous two pipes, Raziel need only assemble a point in which to jump to the barbican of the iron tower.  He can only do so if he has indeed truly completed the other two block puzzles.

     When Raziel reaches the landing, he discovers the portcullis to the furnace is sealed. Use the Amplified Force Projectile to break it.

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     Raziel walks into the smokestack and looks it over very carefully.

RAZIEL A feat of engineering taken straight out of the fantasy journals of the vampire
Master Yiril himself!  To create a world of timeless beauty we built these furnaces to
cover the sky and smother the sun's light.  We burned Nosgoth's trees.  Some progress! Without the sun and the forests, humans and their food died in droves.

     In great piles on each side of him lie the remains of Nosgoth's forests.  Further in is an assembly line moving the dry timber towards a bonfire.  Seek out the Dumahim loading the assembly line and kill them.  The fire in the center of the room still has plenty of fuel, however.  Find the service ducts and drop down into them.  Look over the decaying gas pipes.  Near the large spigot spewing gas upwards to the central burner is a wheel.  With the proper key, this wheel shuts off the gas from feeding the fire.  Leave the ducts and go find this key.
     When you return with it, insert it down the center and turn counterclockwise.  The gas flow will be cut off.  Once it is however tiny leaks will burst in the ancient pipes.

     Return above and go to the still burning bonfire.  The next puzzle is to put the fire out.  The answer is to use the water glyph, nothing else will work.
     Now go back down to the service ducts and locate a bellows.  Take it to the largest leak furthest from the spigot.  Put into the fracture and pump the bellows.  The pipe will burst open and gas will gush out.  Detector gauges, long rusty, will start reading red very shortly.

     As Raziel heads back upwards to the burnt out bonfire, he is challenged by a Dumahim chieftain.
 

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    The chieftain is an old, powerful one, looking like a smaller version of Dumah himself,

Blue electric arcs score it.
CHIEFTAIN O great spectre, you have come to extinguish the fires.  You've entered the
front door, but you shall not depart that way.
RAZIEL Out of my way, old one, lest you meet your fate sooner than later!
CHIEFTAIN (laughs) When you ignite the gas, the explosion will be hot enough to melt
the desert sand into glass!  Many of the older furnaces will also go, as will an
underground network of gas feeds.  There is only one way out.
RAZIEL And you know it?
CHIEFTAIN Yes.  And I will share it, if you spare me.
RAZIEL Spare you?  I think not.
CHIEFTAIN Light the fire now then.  Figure your own way out, try to reach the Silenced
Cathedral, find where Kain awaits you.

RAZIEL Agreed.  You will lead me out of here.

CHIEFTAIN You'll have to swim out to the Cathedral's moat.
RAZIEL How do I know I can trust you?
CHIEFTAIN Because I lose by your destruction.  Open the cathedral's great pipes and let them sing.  The riverbed will crack and the water will drain deeper still.  Then I will be free.
RAZIEL You're going to jump in?!
CHIEFTAIN Better that than burn (extends his arms), I've already been dead once.  I am
Thelem and I have nothing to fear.  I am self redeemed and will emerge triumphant.
RAZIEL The outcast?!  You survived?

RAZIEL Thelem!  Truly a name out of the long forgotten past.  Dumah's firstborn who became the scourge of the vampire empire for heresy.  Though damned by Kain and Dumah both, she was nearly invincible, and the clans settled into despising and shunning her.  Across this gulf of centuries, I now see her plight not so unlike my own.  As I sought the place in which to free the land, I heard again her call for self redemption.  A goal worthy of my own pursuit.

     Step back in front of the central gas spigot, the warning gauges will all be red.  Use the Fire Glyph to ignite the gas.

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     Camera pans the Nosgoth night filling with fiery light and thunder as the last active furnace explodes.  It's followed by the subterranean network of gas feeds, and finally a handful of the old furnaces ignite as well.  As Thelem foretold, the fire crests over the desert in waves.  The Melchahim, even the deeply buried ones, are cremated in the blast.
Before ebbing, the heat reaches the cloth of Turel's abundant sigil banners.  Fire will consume much of Turel's Palace of the Sorceror before dawn.

     Raziel himself was shifted immediately into the Spectral of course.  Go back down to the underground lake and jump down into the lakebed.  Jog through its twists and turns.  When it ends in a grotto full of stalactites and stalagmites, he must return to the Material Plane.  Swim - fast - to the highest passage for once in the physical world time resumes and the concussions of the explosion affect escape.  Raziel must push his way through a barrage of obstacles.

     Navigate through the caverns, but stay alert for the Rahabim who dwell here.  Most look and act similar to what they have before, but a handful have now reached a stage where their powers are greatly increased.  Avoid these sea monsters, they cannot be defeated in the water!  Swim onwards and steer clear of the many tempting fights.

     Soon Raziel will reach a rusted grate, largely blocked by a boulder.  Destroy them both with the Amplified Force Projectile.  Move on into the moat of the Silenced Cathedral! Jump up onto the bank -- and prepare to fight!

     The great portcullis of the Cathedral has been broken open, and recently.  A small army of Zephonim have amassed in exodus under the leadership of a large true eight legged Master.  They will spot you immediately and attack.  Use the Amplified Force Projectile on them and large numbers will explode.  However, the octopodal Master will not.  The
Projectile will knock him over, but he'll hop right back up.
     He is your next challenge.  He will manuver himself to block you from entering the Cathedral yet be swift enough to avoid your assaults with the Soul Reaver.  Here, once again, the Glyphs are necessary.  Use the one Glyph that invokes what even normal spiders avoid: sunlight.  Once stunned with the Sunlight Glyph, the joust can be finished with the Soul Reaver's impale.
     Enter the Silenced Cathedral.

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     Raziel leaps up onto the corridor above and walks to the courtyard.  The great doors that once stood there have been ripped off their hinges.  As he jumps and leaps upwards to the first of the great fans, he ponders these events.

RAZIEL Having come to this place with all purpose to vent the deadly hymn from its pipes, I could not escape the feeling of having been watched.  Or more accurately, having been anticipated, it was no  accident that the gates had been sundered.  Here more than anywhere else does Kain's words reveal truth.  Yet, for the first time, the vistas revealed by the Chronoplast have proven false.

     Moving ever deeper into the Cathedral, floating upwards from each vent, find the so-called organ, and Scale to the top.  Open the pipes one by one - a sound ensues but it travels not beyond that one chamber.

RAZIEL Ah, I see the workings of this instrument now.  I had given breath to its lungs, but alas its voice remained silent.

     Re-familiarize yourself with the Cathedral.  There are three pipes.  Seek out now the locations of three bells.  Two are close to one another while the third lies relatively close to the pipe organ chamber.  Strategically plan on how to hit all three so as to make them sound off together.

     Return to the bell in the chamber furthest from the other two.  Strike it, and shift into the Spectral Plane.  Listen for the sound of its resounding tone.
     Stay in Spectral!  You'll know you're going the right way because you won't need to open any doors.  Return to the first landing (the first tower top), turning left to go to the door on the left.  Shift into Material, and open the door.  Return to Spectral.  You should still be able to hear the first bell.  Move to the second bell, and return again to Material.
You should hear a deeper tone commence after hitting it.  Shift into Spectral for the last time (hopefully).  Use the shattered window to glide down to the second bell.  Shift into the Material Plane, and strike it.  If you've hit it in time, a gong ensues and the cutscene begins.

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     [pans above the Silenced Cathedral, revealing its topside view.]
     The spiral shell, emits great billows of steam and the legendary deadly hymn ensues.  In geographical proximity to the Cathedral, and according to strength, the vampire legions are being destroyed.   The fleeing armies of Zephonim come apart like firecrackers.  Like all their brethren, the fledglings first, then the Masters.
     [camera reveals deep catacombs]
     Melchahim explode as well, howling.
     [in the buildings and fortresses]
     Dumahim bodies crack apart in agony, their individual deaths take longer.
     [camera dips under the waters]
     Even in the depths, the deadly hymn isn't muted enough to save the Rahabim.
     Finally the mighty Turelim howling in agony and clutching their ears the longest finally break apart and die.

     Inside the Cathedral, however, a similar story is unfolding.  Either by sabotage or great age and general neglect, the Cathedral is also crackling and crumbling.  Like the vampire legions, it has come to be a part of the Empire and will suffer its fate.  Great blocks of stone start to fall, and Raziel starts to run towards the exit.  The ground shakes.  The cutscene follows Raziel downwards.  By the time he reaches the open courtyard, the pressure within the Cathedral has grown so great, the tone of the blast rises in pitch.
     Explosions of crashing steel and masonry thunder the air.
     When Raziel emerges from the Cathedral, the camera pans away to the Cliffs above the Abyss.  The Cathedral explodes under tremendous pressure, the top towers shattering and flying off.  The deadly hymn comes to an end.

     The camera pans downward onto the cliffs themselves and reveals Kain shaking his head as if to ward off the last of the sound.

     Raziel now knows where to go to confront Kain for the last time.  Run to the cliffs, and find nothing!  Walk out near the edge and look for Kain.
     Raziel steps back to jump over onto the Cliffs.

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     Kain shifts into the Material Plane, and punches Raziel backwards.

KAIN So now you suppose you've discovered my secrets, defeated all my supporters.
RAZIEL (regaining his feet) I know why you did it.  Do you dare think it changes anything between us?
KAIN (smiling) Truly my faith was well placed.  Not as a dilettante might imagine it as
jealousy over your wings.  No, I held this very image of you, of your actions, from the
moment I broke into your Tomb.  I knew you were the one from the very start.
RAZIEL The one?  For what?
KAIN To free me from this anvil!  To free me from the weight of this world!  And to
defeat the last stain of Nosgoth's human masters.
RAZIEL The Demon.
KAIN Hash'ak'gik.  He waits down below (points down to the Abyss).  I doubt Ariel
mentioned that the Circle created him, from start to finish?  I wasn't the first vampire
made by Mortanius, no, all of our kind, are the children of the Circle.  You have already
met Janos Audrin, in his spectral form!  Revived and incarnated and destroyed over and
over by the fickle desires of the corrupt Circle.  Do you not see now that they betrayed
even your precious Sarafan (laughs)?  Their crimes were many, I was merciful in killing
them all.
RAZIEL As I shall be to you.

KAIN (laughs)