@josemkay9272

2 years ago

That coin quote is one of my favorites, as well as Janos’ thoughts on the humans. “They fear what they don’t understand and despise what they fear… they’re simply unenlightened and vulnerable to manipulation.”

On Kain’s dilemma though, he knew there was more to his fate than sacrifice or damnation, in fact had he sacrificed himself Nosgoth’s devastation may have been even greater. The pillar’s had another purpose than being the umbilical cord pumping life into Nosgoth, they were also a barrier holding back an ancient enemy, the Hylden. In the ancient battle between the Vampires and the Hylden the vampires struck a final blow to their sworn enemy, in constructing the Pillars the vampires saw the banishment of the Hylden into the demonic realm, and in their fall the Hylden gave the vampires their curse, infertility and an immortality sustained by an insatiable thirst for blood. The Pillars had to be under vampiric vigilance in order to be sustained, however in being freed from the wheel of fate the vampires were now despised by their one and only god who so relished in the purifying cycle of birth death and rebirth. The vampires began committing mass suicide in desperation to be reunited with their god, until Janos Audron was the sole remaining ancient vampire, sustained solely by his obligation to the reaver and his mission in giving guidance to Raziel in the future. However by then the elder god would manipulate Moebius into killing off the rest of the vampires, and the Hylden who had found a way to posses not only corpses but Mortanius himself, and use him and the circle to set their twisted machinations into motion. At that point it was too late, even had Kain sacrificed himself as the sole remaining vampire that would mean the extinction of the vampiric race and in turn the Pillars destruction.

Upon further contemplation Kain might have been ignorant of that fact, that his death would mean the absolute destruction of the pillars, but according Moebius Kain did know about the vampiric prophecies that saw Kain as a messiah of sorts, and Kain knew the pillars rightfully belonged to the vampires, he wanted to fulfill his role as the “Scion of Balance,” to take back the fate stolen from him by the Hylden and the Elder God.

You could say Kain’s gamble was in seeing his fate restored.

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