Moebius' Triumph

Kain (vo): I found myself once more in the Nosgoth I knew. The carnage from battle was gone. Yet there was something amiss. From the distance, I heard cries and a breeze from the south carried with it the faint odor of vampire blood.

Kain observes the ruined statue of William…

Kain (vo): ‘Twould seem the folly fell upon my own shoulders. With their sainted King William dead by my hand, the people of the land were consumed by a hunger all their own - for vampire blood.

Leaving Stahlberg…

Kain (vo): As I wandered about more, the shrieking and cheering became more apparent and defined. There was some sort of gathering to the south; for with each cheer I smelled an outpour of blood.

Kain sees Moebius’s crusade mercenaries for the first time…

Kain (vo): I make no pretense to justify my killing. Yet these vampire hunters would cloak their bloodlust beneath a veil of righteousness. Hypocrites! They would make themselves judge and jury. Very well, then. Let us see how they take to my role as executioner.

Kain is about to witness Moebius ordering the execution of Vorador at the guillotine. Kain is the last surviving vampire of Nosgoth…

Executioner: We are free of this unholy scourge!

Moebius: Not yet, my friend.

Would you be free of a plague if only one city was cleansed?

Crowd: No! No!

Moebius: Would you spare one wolf in the pack that has devastated your herd?

Crowd: No!

Moebius: Then let us destroy them all!

Crowd: Yes!

Moebius: He is the last! Destroy him!

Kain (vo): I had been betrayed. In my haste, I had not realized it before. That sigil on his forehead. The Oracle of Nosgoth was in fact the Time Streamer Moebius. And I had followed his advice!

How much of my quest was of his design? Willendorf? The Battle of the Last Stand? William the Just?

Was this the trap he had fashioned for me?

Kain begins the fight against Moebius…

Moebius: The people will not rest until Nosgoth is purged of your kind!

We will send you back to the grave whence you came, vampire!

I have seen the future, Kain. You are not in it!

Let us call upon the puppets from the past!

From the present!

And from ages yet to come…

Moebius falls defeated before Kain…

Kain: Ironic. By going back in time, and altering the past, you turned William the Just into the Nemesis.

Moebius: Aye - you have seen my plan, vampire, as I have seen your destiny. The future says you die!

Kain: But I am dead… as are you!

Kain collects the object from the Pillar of Time in Moebius’s possession. Mortanius summons Kain…

Kain (vo): 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: 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.