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The fifth Legacy of Kain game is quite different from the others since the player takes control of both Kain and Raziel throughout the game to discover how their destinies are intertwined.

Many fans believe that Legacy of Kain: Defiance was created as a finale or conclusion to the series, but (apart from a comment from Crystal Dynamics' Test Manager Chris Bruno back in 2003 that a sequel was 'in the works') there has been no official word yet as to whether there will or won't be any further games in the series. The end of Legacy of Kain: Defiance however left some vague openings and a few unanswered questions (How do the pillars get restored - if they even do ? How did Vorador come back from the dead and what exactly became of him at the end of Blood Omen 2. The ending too was also very ambiguous, with the Elder God, Moebius, and Janos Audron all apparently dead [Again], and Raziel being absorbed by the physical Soul Reaver, and with the Hylden apparently launching a full scale invasion of Nosgoth) which could hint at a possible sequel (though this is made more unclear by the fact that Amy Hennig, who led the Crystal Dynamics team responsible for Soul Reaver 1 & 2 and Defiance left Crystal Dynamics for Naughty Dog not long before Defiance was released).

Note: Moebius' appearance towards the end of Defiance is a mistake (though one voluntary created to add tension toward the end), as admitted by the developers – The mistake is the scene where Raziel returns from Avernus to Vorador's mansion finding Moebius and his vampire hunters to greet him. In the scene Moebius gloats about Raziel finally killing Kain (or did he ?) and how he and his vampire hunters had subdued Vorador, tossing down his bone sword as proof. As he is leaving he mentions he has Vorador's execution to attend to. This directly conflicts with the events just before in which Mortanius was summoning Kain to go to the pillars for the Blood Omen 1's ending scenes just after he killed Moebius claiming his binding item (it is possible that he was projecting himself into the future through some inknown means). This is taken straight from Blood Omen 1 which overlaps into Mortanius' dialogue in defiance:

Kain - "I knew that Moebius' Hourglass was the focus of his time streaming magic. Farewell, sorcerer. The sands of time have ceased to flow for you!"

Mortanius - (Using telepathy) "Well done, Kain. Ah, Moebius did so love playing the trickster's part. His guise as the Oracle served his schemes well. Pity with all his plots he failed to plan for you. Come to me, my undead son. Make haste to the Pillars. The stage is set for the grand finale. You will have your vengeance".

(It is important to note also, when Moebius appears at the very end of Defiance, he has been resurrected after his death at the hands of Kain's younger self during the events of Blood Omen 1).

This mistake, however, is one that may be easily explained away in-game; as the Guardian of the Pillar of Time and in his capacity as the chief trickster of Nosgoth, Moebius often travels back and forth from one point in history to another. It is feasible the Time-Streamer had one last bit of traveling to do before meeting his final appointment with Kain: to go slightly forward in time so he could gloat over the deaths of Vorador and the future Kain, and then travel back so he could die at the hand of the younger Kain (convoluted, but still a good explanation). In this fashion Moebius can get in what he thinks will be the last word against Raziel, and still keep the 'necessary' events of Nosgoth's history intact. Other possible explanations include Mortanius' message having a time-delay, or Moebius' presence being an illusion.

A clever explanation which explains just about everything is as follows: Time Travel, being a fictional concept, does not necessarily have to work in a linear fashion. As such, Moebius does not have to be present in locations in a set order, but could in fact continue to exist after his own death simply because he was there at that time. If Moebius was there to gloat over Vorador's death to Raziel, and there to be killed by Kain, it was because he HAD travelled to those points and still existed there. His death at Kain's hand does not mean the points in history where he had existed suddenly did not occur. Moebius himself addresses this earlier in the game saying to Kain, "You can't kill me now, we both know this is neither how nor where it ends for me".

Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Release Date: Dec 17, 2003

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[kulatong]

Is this the try media download or the one with 2 disc?

[Kane's Wrath]

This is an upload by Tehparadox. It's highly likely it's an actual release and not shareware +crack.

Thanks for this up, I've been eager to play this but haven't been able to find a PC version anywhere. Whether it be legally or illegally. Rather eager to find out what happens after the mind**** end of Soul Reaver 2 =D