Author's Note: Well i decided to write this crossover, since i'm a huge; i mean HUGE fan of the Legacy of Kain series sometimes i play Blood Omen again from the begining in my PSX. (Yes, i still have one of those)
Also i had i little fallout while writing my other story the white wolf of Azeroth. i mean, i suffered a blackout, i hadn't save my progress and ended up losing half of the chapter that i was going to upload. I was like Noooooooooooooooooooo.
Obviously that leaved me more than just a little vexed. so right now, don't you dare to speak to me about that other story or i might just track you down and kill you. Wait a couple of weeks for me to chill out before demanding me of keep on writing the other story.
Anyway, since i had not much to write about that. i decide to put my efforts in writing something else entirely, hence this story.
This is a cross-over beetwen Legacy of Kain, Kingdom Under Fire and Ninety Nine Nights (Just the first game not the second one which i haven't play yet)
I felt more relaxed while writing this story than the other one since these are things that i know pretty well.
In the White wolf of Azeroth i had to investigate a lot in the subjects because, well WOW has a lot of stuff not just the lore that i certainly like look for first and the witcher has a lot of weird stuff in the books (which i had to look for and read them).
But here, all have to worry is in the story of videogames that i have played several times in the past; i know a lot of this stuff; i'm practically almost a Lore master of LoK, and the other games a know a great deal to. hell i fcking wrote all this stuff and uploaded it in 3 days. (unlike the months that i take in the other one)
Anyway, i'm going to make chapters that are not that long only enough for you people to enjoy, and make sure that the plot carries on. Cause god knows that i have trouble making the plot move fowards in my other story. at least in a way fast enough for my likes. Hope i can prevent that in this story.
Anyway first the beginning of this story will be heavily in the Kain's world with brief glimpses of what is going on at the same time in the others. Then after a while will come the integration.
And; before you ask. why would i make a crossover of this games? well... Why the hell not?. They have awesome characters, awesome plots (N3 not so much), great epic battles of armies clashing in a LoTR style and besides the games settings and plots mesh well.
But most importantly i wanted Kain wreaking Havoc in a battlefied while slaughtering and killing entire armies, while at the same time feeding himself from the deads. Just like the battle of Last Hope against the Nemesis forces in Blood Omen. Ah! good stuff.
The Victory Of The True Lord
Chapter 1: A new day's dawn
Kain's POV.-
I venture without fear into the light of a new day. The soul reaver firmily in my grasp. I take a moment to ponder once more about the sacrifice of my first lieutenant; Raziel, he had embraced his doom, so i may succed. Now; he forever, lays trapped inside this sword. Forced to feed from the souls of my enemies that i would -make no mistake- bring down with this blade. He has given me the weapon that i need to make all my plans come to fruitrition. But also gave my... hope for the tomorrow. I would have never believed in such a thing before.
how could I? after all that i have been able to witness. the plots and plans that were set in motion since the dawn of time. The cages that were lay to trap the creation and bind it into the unforgivable chains of destiny. Free will was a lie. every single individual had been set , from the moment of his birth, into a predetermined path that offered no option. No possibilities. just one already decided outcome.
I refused to accept that and made plans of my own to counter such a farce. for centuries i plotted and scryed the chronoplast for just one chance. one meager opportunity to bring a change to the outcome. Alas, i managed to succed somehow. but there were unforseen developments, things that i had never taken into account. i was a fool to think that i could control the flow of time. So many variables and every little, insignificant shift; a missplaced thing or a small delay could bring great change for the hole flow of history. Not even someone as ancient and cunning as i could expect to know all results. but it was not a disadvantage; for my enemies had made the same mistake. they too believed themselves the undispituable masters of time. But just like me, they were victims of unaccounted factors. This allowed to level the playfield for all players. giving everybody the same opportunities as the others.
I managed to get ahead of all of them. and this is the result. My first born condemed to an eternity of imprisonment. The destiny that i tried to prevent him from suffering in the first place. but i am free now; the outcome that was lay for me which ensured that i would perish was changed. I live, and now i can make sure to prevent my empire from falling into oblivion. i must stop the decadence of the pillars. I must restore the balance of the land. destiny would had dictated that my death would bring salvation for the land and if i refuse then it would cause my empire to suffer a slowly downfall into decadence. But now; thanks to Raziel, i believe that it is possible to save both; and ensure that i would rule as the rightful king of this land. it's one and only true lord.
There is much work to be done. I put the soul reaver in my back as the trusting weapon that has always been to me. I grin and start taking my first steps into a new era. A new era that i would bring and lead as it is my right.
My eyes slowly adjust themselves to the sudden surge of light, after a few moments my vision clears and i found myself with the sight of the land that i have so hard fought to save and rule; Nosgoth. A mystic land of great beauty, saddly that beauty is marred with the corruption that has been spilled from the pillars for millenia in my time. but in this time beauty conceals the corruption; but alas, all one has to do is to take a long look to this land to discover that the corruption that plagues it is right before your very eyes, How quaint?.
I found myself with a decision to be made. Where should i go now? i know who my enemy is but i lack a way to ensure his demise. The creature that call himself "elder god"... God? Pah! nothing but a parasite that would doom this land to a slow death so he can satisfy his dark hunger for the souls of Nosgoth inhabitants. I can't wait to condemn his wretched form for an eternity in the void. It is less of what he deserves tought.
Nevertheless, the point of the matter still stands; where should i go?. I need to find something or someone who could give some insight in the elder gods origins with the hopes of finding a weakness that will help me to destroy the parasite forever and rid this land from his corruption.
I take some time to asses my options, who wholds the knowledge that i seek? who is old enough to remember the existance of the parasite?.
I sigh; the answer is clear enough. Janos Audron, the eldest of us all, the last and greatest of the first ancient vampires that ruled Nosgoth in its ancient and distant... and forgothen past. He would remember, he would know. Always it seems that Janos is the one to hold the hidden truths.
Saddly; it is a shame that Janos is unattainable to me. I sigh; The Hylden has already full control of Janos's body and actions and i know not of a way to realese Janos from his control without causing his demise.
It is settle then. Janos Audron is well beyond my grasp; there is no way for me to be able to speak to him... Feh, at least not in this era.
I can't resist the urge to smirk. For i know exactly when would Janos be available to me. My other self of this era is the answer. I know exactly what the events about to unfold would be.
The Hylden lord would use Janos's body as a power surge in order for him to open a gateway vortex into Nosgoth, to allow himself and the rest of his dreaded kin to return from that demonic dimension were they are currently trapped.
The bastard would revive the sarafans and put himself at the head of the order by possing as the Sarafan lord. Then he would raise an army and clash it against the forces of my younger self. Alas, no matter how hard i fought back then, i was struck down by that wretch. Now i know that his victory was assured because of the treason of one of my top liutenants.
Memories of that time come to my head, especially of the traitor... Sebastian; how could he betray our race in such way?. I shake my head furiously annoyed. It is of not use to remember those memories. I dealt with that traitor personally, dead just like all the others by my hand. Serves him right for beliving he could confront me, the lord of all vampires.
In any case. The Sarafan Lord would made a stupid mistake. He would leave me for dead but without properly ensuring the comfirmation of my demise, when in fact i would be pretty much alive. My body would shut down instead and enter in a stupor to begin the slow process of healing my injuries. Two hundread years wasted in that fragile state beetwen life and death.
I could have made a more useful use of that time; like crushing the sarafans before they managed to take control of the land, killing the traitors and consolidate my empire in a more fast and efficient fashion. Another sigh escaped me, no point in wasting time thinking in what could have been.
But the thing is: My success is guaranteed. My younger self will rise anew, collect righteous bloody vengance from the traitors, slaughter the sarafan and break their hold of the land, defeat the Sarafan/Hylden Lord and send him and all his horrid kin back to the hellish pit were they came from.
But that's not important. what it is important is that my younger self would succeed in freeing Janos from his Hylden captors, althought his cheer would not last much. Since he is going to be tossed inside the vortex and lay trapped with the Hylden in their hellish dimension.
But, it gives me an oportunity to reach him. Maybe i could prevent him from falling in the vortex. if not; i would have to follow him into the depths of hell itself.
Normally i would not consider it feasable to enter inside a demonic dimension with no apparent way to return. But i already been in the Hylden dimension during that exactly same situation; back when Raziel ripped my heart out of my own chest. I touch the place were my heart used to be. the gaping hole now closed thanks too by Raziel. Another wave of nostalgia invades me and i found myself struggling to resist it.
At any rate; it was a surprise indeed that i did not require my heart to live, but like with many things that i have dealt with in my vampiric unlife. i managed.
Besides; if i could enter and exit from the Hylden Dimension before, i can damn well do so again. whatever it is needed to be done so can Janos give me the answer i seek and if anyone or anything foolishly dares to stand in my way, they will be crushed. I give mercy to none.
Now i know what needs to be done. i would use the chronoplast and travel 400 years from now on. so i can get in the exact moment in which Janos would be at my reach. But first i must ensure that those events will come to pass. For i know that the flow of time is so fragile when it comes about predictions.
I need to make sure that everthing and everyone are in place. My younger self would require the assistance of another and i have to ensure that he will be there.
I need to find that old and decadent hedonist, i need to find and bring back to life the once great champion of the Vampire race. The father of all the vampires of this time: Vorador.
Again another memory creeps his way into my mind. the memory of Vorador's aid, made me remember another one. One that leaves a sour taste in my mouth, the only one that could have become the queen of my empire, the only one that was worthy; Umah.
Even do i literally have no heart; i cannot avoid felling a pang of regret swelling were my heart used to be. Umah has been one of my greatest dissapontments. Why should i feel regret for the one who betrayed me, she took the nexus stone from me. Either she was a spy of the Sarafan Lord or she was acting under orders of Vorador; it dosen't matter nothing good could have came from it.
At least that's what i tell myself in my moments of weakness. When remorse starts to creep his way into my soul. Again i cannot avoid to question how things could have been, if all had ended differently.
But enough of that; I leave Umah behind a long time ago. Right now there is work to be done.
I lift my gaze at the clouded sky and look at were a dark and violent storm is brewing. no doubt that's were the Hylden lord is at.
I laugh; knowing that his efforts are meaningless, knowing already who would achieve final victory. With a motion of my arm, i made my cape fluster at the wind and then it started to break and transform into a flock of bats, then my body too; suffers the same transformation and i take flight into the sky. My laugh still echoing in the valley below.
Note: well this was the first chapter hope you like it, remember review and the cross-over with the other games; as i already said will come later.
