* Meridian ( Nosgoth ), the capitol of Nosgoth in Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain

* Elzevir the Dollmaker from the video game Blood Omen

* Soul Reaver, the sequel to Blood Omen in the Legacy of Kain series

* Blood Omen 2 Faustus

* November 1996: Mortanius the Necromancer in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

First introduced in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain in 1996, he was created by Denis Dyack and Silicon Knights, and has appeared in all subsequent Legacy of Kain games under the direction of developer Crystal Dynamics.

Kain's character was originally conceived circa 1993 by Silicon Knights ' president, Denis Dyack, as the protagonist of The Pillars of Nosgoth, an initial video game concept for what would become 1996's Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

After a legal dispute with Silicon Knights, Blood Omen publisher Crystal Dynamics obtained the rights to the Legacy of Kain intellectual property, with Amy Hennig directing Kain's characterization for the sequel, 1999's Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.

In this game, which built upon the Blood Omen ending in which he damns the world, Kain adopted the role of antagonist, with new character Raziel serving as the lead.

For 2002's Blood Omen 2, developed by a different team within Crystal Dynamics, Kain returned as the playable protagonist.

The development staff chose to focus on his rise to power as a younger vampire, combining aspects of his Blood Omen and Soul Reaver incarnations.

Design issues, raised by the wealth of abilities and equipment he accumulated in Blood Omen, prompted the team to add to his backstory and convincingly deprive him of these powers.

The spells he obtains over the course of his levels were intended to pay homage to the original Blood Omen.

According to Silicon Knights, the gore and vampirism in Blood Omen served as their " dirty jokes ", supplemented by a complex story.

In Blood Omen and Defiance, his battle cry and catchphrase is Vae victis, a Latin phrase attributed to Brennus meaning " woe to the conquered ".

In Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Kain is introduced as a young human noble.

He seeks a third option to the dilemma prescribed for him at the end of Blood Omen, hoping to both restore Nosgoth and return the Pillars to vampire control.

However, this alteration putatively changes history for the worse, leading into the events of Blood Omen 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.

Blood Omen 2 pursues a younger Kain during his early conquests of Nosgoth, in the altered timeline triggered by the changes to Raziel's destiny at the end of Soul Reaver 2.

Praise has frequently been directed towards Simon Templeman's voice acting, with IGN and Game Revolution citing Kain's soliloquies as " both gruesome and entertaining " and " the best part the game's audio " respectively in their assessments of his debut in the original Blood Omen.

For Blood Omen 2, although critics expressed disappointment with the game itself, they praised Kain's character nevertheless ; GameSpot's Greg Kasavin branded him " a very intriguing protagonist " and " as memorable of a main character as they come ", while IGN's Douglass C. Perry felt he was " incredibly likeable ", and " in a very true sense [...] a great videogame character ".

Some reviewers were less enthusiastic about aspects of the character, with IGN's Perry commenting that his Soul Reaver 2 dialogue was haughty and " overwritten ", and Ivan Sulic considering his Blood Omen 2 incarnation " nothing more than an arrogant jerk with little to latch on to and care about " while expressing preference for Raziel.

Also relating to Blood Omen 2, IGN's Aaron Boulding regarded his pompous nature as his " one personality trait ", and considered it comedic, while Matt Casamassina felt Kain was " cool ", but decried his visual design as " flamboyant to the point of being comical ".

After " herculean efforts ", Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain released in late 1996 to success and acclaim.

* 1990 Blood Legacy ( FASA, ROC reprint )

* Flowers for the Judge ( 1936 ) ( U. S. title: Legacy in Blood )

Captain Blood: The Legacy, a five-issue sepia-toned comic adaptation of the novel by Matt Shepherd and Mike Shoyket ( 2009, SLG Comics )

In 1998 Silicon Knights filed a suit against Crystal Dynamics for rights to the Legacy of Kain IP, requesting an injunction to prevent Crystal Dynamics from marketing a sequel to Blood Omen which they were developing without Silicon Knights involvement.

While Soul Reaver was still in development, Crystal Dynamics assembled another team to create a game that would succeed to the Blood Omen title, and when the Soul Reaver team started work on their follow-up in late 1999, two Legacy of Kain games were in simultaneous development.

Since that time, Silicon Knights has moved from creating PC games to console titles, such as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain for the original PlayStation.

* Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain ( 1996 ) ( PlayStation, Windows )

He directed the production of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem as well as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Shortly after touring for Bonded by Blood, Paul Baloff was fired from the band and replaced by Steve " Zetro " Souza, who had previously been the lead vocalist for Legacy, an early incarnation of Testament.

A little over a year later, JMT continued their creative streak with Legacy of Blood, this time intentionally keeping guest artists to a minimum.

* Lore of the Witch World ( 1980 ) Collection of Stories ( includes " Spider Silk ," " Sand Sister ", " Falcon Blood ," " Legacy from Sorn Fen ," " Sword of Unbelief ," " The Toads of Grimmerdale ," & " Changeling ")

As the second game in the Legacy of Kain series, Soul Reaver is the sequel to Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

A key point of focus for the Blood Omen 2 team was the main character, Kain ; Crystal Dynamics had " a huge investment in Kain as a character ".

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

Blood or plasma DMT levels in recreational users of the drug are generally in the 10 – 30 μg / L range during the first several hours post-ingestion.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

" Wollstonecraft's first novel Mary: A Fiction, in part, addressed her relationship with Fanny Blood.

Blood tests, lumbar puncture or toxicology screening can be helpful in specific circumstances suggestive of an underlying cause like alcohol or benzodiazepine withdrawal, meningitis or drug overdose, but there is insufficient evidence to support their routine use in the work-up of an adult with an apparently unprovoked first seizure.

The first president of the South African Republic was Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the Battle of Blood River.

In 2006, Gotye debuted his first album Like Drawing Blood.

The 1980s also saw the birth of the grunge genre, with the arrival of such bands as Soundgarden, Green River, Melvins, Screaming Trees, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, The U-Men, Blood Circus, Nirvana, Tad, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone and Alice in Chains ( who formed in 1987, but did not release their first album until three years later ).

That same year, Sylvester Stallone starred in First Blood, the first installment in the popular Rambo film series.

The Protestants looked for leadership first to Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, the First Prince of the Blood, and then, with more success, to his brother, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, who backed a plot to overthrow the Guises by force.

Blood River was an attempt to retrace Henry Morton Stanley's trip down the Congo River, documented in Through the Dark Continent ( first published, 1878 ), and was shortlisted for the 2008 British Book Awards.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

" They are first of all the gifts of the community ( both individually and corporately ) to God, and then, after the epiklesis, the Gifts of the Body and Blood of Christ to the Church.

His first movie appearance was in Chappaqua in 1966, which was followed by several films including Christopher Speeth's and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood, Crazy Joe, Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and The Forbidden Zone.

Flynn was an overnight sensation in his first starring role, Captain Blood ( 1935 ).

With their help, Bananarama recorded their first demo " Aie a Mwana " ( a cover of a song by Black Blood, sung in Swahili ).

The first, Blood, Women, Roses, featured Jarboe on lead vocals, and the second, Shame, Humility, Revenge, featured Gira on lead vocals.

Workshop director Paul Engle was the first to read and comment on the initial drafts of what would become Wise Blood.

* Bodas de sangre ( Blood Wedding: written 1932, first production 1933 )

The murders, arrests and convictions of Hickock and Smith were the basis for author Truman Capote's acclaimed book, In Cold Blood, which was serialized in The New Yorker magazine in 1965 and first published in book form in 1966.

The first film shown on opening night in February 1949 was Blood on the Moon.

Long was Laramie's first marshal, and with his brothers owned the saloon Bucket of Blood.