The Tomb of the Sarafan

Advice from the ancient god…

Elder god: The canyons beyond the Pillars expose an ancient blasphemy. Having devoured Zephon’s soul, you may now gain entrance where your path was formerly blocked.

Advice from Ariel…

Ariel: Like a corpse in a shallow grave, corruption rises to the surface… Beyond these Pillars, the defiled victim mutely screams its outrage…

Raziel reaches the entrance of the Sarafan tomb…

Raziel (vo): The ancient tomb of the Sarafan, once impenetrably sealed… Now, ravaged by Nosgoth’s upheavals, its mysteries lay exposed.

In the time of Vorador, centuries before Kain was made, the Sarafan warrior priests waged a merciless war against the vampire tribes of Nosgoth.

Emboldened by righteousness, they committed unspeakable and indiscriminate acts of violence - massacring fledglings and ancients alike, they decimated entire bloodlines in mere decades. Now their husks lay here - murderers enshrined.

Raziel passes through the entrance door to the tomb…

Elder god: Take heed, Raziel. A forgotten history lies within. Know thyself - though it may destroy you…

Raziel moves aside the stone sealing the tomb…

Raziel (vo): As I pulled the stone free, a sigh of sepulchral air escaped the inner chamber.

I was not prepared for what lay beyond this threshold…

These crypts… defiled caskets of Sarafan saints… bearing my brothers’ names… And my own…

The irony of Kain’s blasphemous act rushed in on me with the crushing force of revelation…

Were my hands not as bloody as these? Worse, I had spilled the blood of my brothers - these very comrades whose tombs lay ravaged before me.

Elder god: Yes, Raziel - you were Sarafan… born of the same force that all but destroyed your race. Before the dawn of the Empire, you were chosen.

Kain – Nosgoth’s solitary, self-declared monarch – plundered this tomb and raised you from these crypts. Breathing his vampiric gift into your defiled corpses, he resurrected you as his favored sons.

Further ahead, Raziel encounters a descendant of Turel…

Turelhim: Heretic! You shall not pass…

Raziel: Such loyalty… to one who has you guarding this outpost like a chained dog. Do you prosper on the scraps he casts you?

Turelhim: Your insults will do nothing to blunt the agonies of your demise.

Raziel: Kain killed me once – behold the result. I have no more to fear from you.

After defeating him, an artifact appears…

Elder god: This relic has infused you with the power to compress and manipulate space. As your symbiotic weapon, the Soul Reaver is also thus enhanced. You may focus and project an orb of kinetic energy to strike objects that are otherwise beyond your reach.