Not even revenge.” Of course, you need someone to deliver this dialogue effectively, and English actor Simon Templeman got what McCulloch was asking for, and delivered with perfection. Obviously, Kain has some of the best, with moments such as his recalling of taking Mortanius’ Faustian bargain, not caring if he was “in Heaven or Hell”, and only wanting vengeance, but later noting that “Nothing is free. It seems as if every character has their share of elaborate dialogue, thanks to McCulloch. The writing for Blood Omen is simply a thing of beauty. Even in that division, humanity has its own problems with internal strife, with those wanting to save civilization, and those wanting to end it. The game sets up Nosgoth as a land divided by humans and vampires. In fact, Silicon Knights even created a document to outline the various themes and interpretations of Blood Omen‘s cinematics.
Including Kane, everyone dances that line, being equally capable of doing what’s considered good or evil, and even that is up to interpretation. No one in the game is a pure “good” or “evil” character. It’s this attention to the game’s lore and character development that made Blood Omen such a blast to play. Dyack wanted to create a character that was morally ambiguous, which up until that point, video games really had no protagonist that was made up of these shades of grey. Lastly, and particularly for Kain, Dyack drew upon Clint Eastwood’s character of William Munny from Unforgiven.
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Other novels included Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series and Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth. Dyack states the first influence was Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novel series, which featured a “complex and compelling” storyline which Dyack wanted to emulate. Originally conceived by Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack and art director/writer Ken McCulloch as “The Pillars of Nosgoth” in 1993, Blood Omen drew upon several influences to shape what would become its grey morality and its multilayered protagonist. Kane is then tasked with restoring balance to Nosgoth by killing the sorcerers, thereby allowing new guardians to take their place. The Pillars are the health of the world, which have become corrupted due to the Circle of Nine having been driven insane. He soon learns about the Circle of Nine, a group of sorcerers who protect and represent the Pillars of Nosgoth. After killing his assassins, Kain seeks to reverse his condition. After being assassinated by a group of bandits, Kain accepts a deal with the necromancer Mortanius, who resurrects Kain as a vampire to exact his revenge. Which, if you’ve played the game, you know is a damn shame.įor those who walked in late, Blood Omen takes place in the land of Nosgoth, and centres on a nobleman named Kain. Released 25 years ago today in 1996, Blood Omen not only gave us a memorable anti-hero in Kain and unveiled the world and rich lore of Nosgoth to players for the first time, but it also ended up in legal purgatory that has left it to be largely forgotten by the mainstream. (For the inside story on Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun's demise, check out our in-depth report.As popular as Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was during the PlayStation’s heyday, its predecessor in Blood Omen almost never gets mentioned. It was cancelled in 2012 after three years of work. Perhaps the most high-profile of these is Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun, which was a more traditional Legacy of Kain game developed by Climax Studios for Square Enix Europe.
2003's Legacy of Kain: Defiance was followed up by Rocket League maker Psyonix's multiplayer game Nosgoth, which shut down in 2016 after failing to make it out of open beta.Īttempts to revive the series over the years have failed. "Accentuated with cinema-quality voice-overs, dynamic lighting effects and more than 25 minutes of stunning full-motion-video footage, Legacy of Kain features an engrossing storyline that invites gamers to embark on a journey through an expansive world containing more than 100 hours of intense, blood-sucking, spell-casting gameplay."īlood Omen: Legacy of Kain returns to modern PCs at a time when the Legacy of Kain series seems dead in the water within the bowels of owner Square Enix.
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