Before the events of Soul Reaver, the guardians became corrupt, and, after Kain killed eight of them, he discovered he was the final one.

Karen Alexandria Kain, CC ( born March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ballet dancer, and currently the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada.

Kain retired as a professional dancer in 1997.

* March 28 – Karen Kain, ballet dancer

* Karen Kain ( born 1951 ), Canadian dancer

* Karen Kain ; dancer

Luciano, Kain, and Nelson recorded separately as The Original Last Poets, gaining some renown as the soundtrack artists of the 1971 film " Right On!

In 1977 Kain stopped dancing, but resumed again in 1981 with the National Ballet of Canada, where she danced for a further 15 years.

Raziel is a central character in Eidos Interactive's Legacy of Kain series of video games, the protagonist of the Soul Reaver story arc.

Raziel is a central character in Eidos Interactive's Legacy of Kain series of video games, the protagonist of the Soul Reaver story arc.

Anna Gunn, Simon Templeman and Richard Doyle reprised their roles from Blood Omen as Ariel, Kain and Moebius.

Resurrected by The Elder God, Raziel returns to destroy his former brethren and Kain, and eventually confronts Kain at the ruins of the Pillars.

Reanimated in the Spectral Realm as a wraith by The Elder God, Raziel serves as the deity's " angel of death ", stalking the ruined landscape of Nosgoth in hopes of confronting and destroying his five undead brethren, and eventually Kain himself.

Although Raziel eventually gains an advantage, the Chronoplast activates, and Kain escapes through a time portal, beckoning Raziel to follow.

Though Kain, like Cecil, notices the King of Baron's unusually harsh behavior, but is mind-controlled by Golbez, becoming Cecil's enemy.

He is also well-known among Legacy of Kain fans for his voicing of the original Mortanius and of the Elder God, alongside several other minor characters.

In the course of its run, A mixture of well-known Canadian and Hollywood guest stars appeared such as Al Waxman, John Ireland, Megan Follows, Alan Hale, Jr., August Schellenberg, DeForest Kelley, Ray Walston, Morey Amsterdam, Michael Ironside, Patrick Macnee, Abe Vigoda, Saul Rubinek, John Vernon, Chris Makepeace, Karen Kain, Vic Morrow, Henry Gibson, John Carradine and Leslie Nielsen.

Kain began training in 1962 at the age of eleven at the National Ballet School of Canada, where she trained for seven years until upon graduation in 1969, she was invited to join the National Ballet of Canada.

In 1998, Kain returned to the National Ballet of Canada as part of the senior management team, in the role of artistic associate.

Kain has been married since 1983 to Ross Petty, a stage and film actor, and producer of theatrical pantomime productions in Canada for over 20 years.

Conrad Kain ( August 10, 1883 – February 2, 1934 ) was an Austrian mountain guide who guided extensively in Europe, Canada, and New Zealand, and was responsible for the first ascents of more than 60 routes in British Columbia.

The Alpine Club of Canada maintains an alpine hut ( the Conrad Kain hut ) in the Bugaboos where Kain also made a number of first ascents, including Bugaboo Spire, the most difficult alpine climb in Canada until the 1940s.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Kain's arrival in Canada, the Conrad Kain Centennial Society was formed in the upper Columbia Valley in 2007 to celebrate his achievements and to develop legacy projects in his memory.

Mount Kain is a mountain located in the Fraser River Valley of Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada.

* Mount Kain, a mountain in the Fraser River Valley of Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada

Dancers, such as Karen Kain, a member of the National Ballet of Canada, remember Tetley as a choreographer who had a " ferocious demand for total artistic commitment ", while David Allan recalls that Tetley " fired up your imagination and made you look at yourself differently ".

Climbers and hikers often use the 40-person Conrad Kain hut, maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.

In 1996, Kain reunited with Frank Augustyn to appear in her husband Ross Petty's panto production of Robin Hood at Toronto's Elgin Theatre.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

* Legacy of Kain: Defiance – ( 2003 ) ( PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC ) External collaboration with Crystal Dynamics

Later he came in contact with the warrior-monk Kain Doshi who taught him a new way of viewing life and the means of survival ( ninjutsu ).

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

Conrad Kain is credited with over 60 first ascents but his most notable first ascent was Mount Robson in 1913 with Albert MacCarthy and William Foster.

There are a total of eight playable characters in Phantasy Star II, each with his or her own personality, weapons and abilities ; Rolf uses swords and Rudo uses guns, while Kain is strong against robotic enemies and Hugh is strong against Biomonsters, and the female characters have their own arsenals of such these.

Kain is a balanced fighter with very strong techniques against robotic enemies, which is proven in the game as it progresses, making him a valuable member of Rolf's team.

He has been favorably received by video game critics and enthusiasts, with praise attributed to his antagonistic role in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, and his status as a strong example of a memorable, nuanced antihero in the medium.

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.

Faced with the obligation of self-sacrifice — thereby restoring the world, but ensuring the annihilation of the vampire race — or the alternative of destroying the Pillars to rule over the world in its miasmatic state, Kain opts for the latter choice, embracing vampirism as a blessing as the Pillars collapse.

Kain attacks Raziel with the Soul Reaver, but the blade shatters when it strikes him, and Kain escapes, strangely satisfied.

Narrowly escaping, Kain activates the Chronoplast and travels into the past, with Raziel pursuing him as the game ends.

Legacy of Kain: Defiance takes place in the same altered timeline, periodically switching between the characters of the elder Kain and Raziel from Soul Reaver 2, with both acting as playable protagonists.

Kain, after being presumed dead, returns, and reconciles with Raziel, who willingly enters the Soul Reaver.