Vengeance

Raziel encounters his former brethren from his previous life and begins to slay them…

Zephon: Come to take your revenge, demon?

Melchiah: Back to hell with you!

Raziel (vo): I recognized these two as my former brethren… in life as Sarafan; and in unlife as Kain’s vampire ‘sons’. Melchiah and Zephon, the weakest of Kain’s brood… These bastards had no idea what future lay in store for them - how they would become the very thing they so despised.

The Reaver hummed with anticipation - Janos had called it a ‘vampiric’ blade, endowed with the power to drain its victims of their lifeblood. I was eager to see what the Reaver would do to these two…

Raziel finishes off the Sarafan priests…

Raziel (vo): As Melchiah and Zephon fell before my blade, I felt the Reaver’s blood-thirst as keenly as I ever had when I was still a vampire. I could sense the boundary between us dissolving - the Reaver was consumed with my rage, and I was intoxicated by its bloodlust.

The blade had a vitalizing effect on me - my physical energy no longer decayed over time, and the wounds inflicted by my foes healed almost instantly. The Reaver had made me invincible.

Continuing on his path, Raziel encounters the next Sarafan priests…

Dumah: Have you come to reclaim the monster’s black heart?

Rahab: You’ll have to get through us, first.

Raziel (vo): My former brethren Dumah and Rahab confronted me next - this all seemed so elegantly choreographed. Exhilarated by the Reaver, I was drunk with revelations…

I could finally appreciate the delicious irony of Kain’s blasphemous, private joke - and I revelled as I colluded with him across the centuries. For it was I who put these bastards in their tomb, thus providing the corpses for Kain to raise as his vampire sons a millennium from now.

He finally confronts Turel…

Turel: Get back to the pit you crawled from, demon!

Raziel (vo): And here at last was my brother Turel, who along with Dumah would bear me into the Abyss without questioning Kain’s command. So dutiful and righteous, even as a vampire… I guess some habits die hard. The vampire Turel had eluded my vengeance; the Sarafan Turel would not.