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KainTheVampireLord — Guardian of Mind
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Acrylic paint 40x50 centimetersSewn the own eyes and mouth shut to deny the outer world though can't escape the nightmares and madness of one's own mind
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very evil pic of Nupraptor amazing so emotions in this face from him
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Thank you, this crazy man was interesting to paint. 
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very nice you don't see very many pictures of nupraptor
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That's not really bad, it gives a lot of artistic freedom to interpret the character without much visual reference.
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yeah there really isn't much you see of any of the pillar guardians in blood omen so like u said that gives and artist alot of freedom so no two pictures of these characters look the same witch is great love all your art work by the way
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One thing that never quite sat with me all that well as the bulging brain design for Nuprator as looking at it a little differently looks like something from Mars Attacks. It would have been interesting to see Nupraptor before the death of Ariel and how it ultimately changed him before the corruption of the circle. However what I do love about the character was the idea of him committing self mutilation to deny the outside world, which was a sad way for this character to function.
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It reminded me to Mars Attacks too
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BRAINS!!! The only thing I remember about Nupraptor was he was lover of Ariel and he went insane after her death and basically ended up like so. Although the look of him is very close to the game.
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Yes that's it, he went insane and sewn his eyes and mouth, and with his madness he poisoned the Pillar of Mind and also his fellow guardians. I took a lot of freedom with painting him, there's hardly any visual source for Nupraptor aside of that small token card Kain collected.
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Very true. They didn't have much of a visual of him at all except at the beginning video of Blood Omen and a small thumb nail of his head in the menu of the game play. I think it would have been nice if they would have showed a little more about Nupraptor though being it was basically of Kain it's understandable.
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I think that's because older games didn't needed to bother much with the introduction of a character (unlike today's games that build up a complete psychology to explain the actions of the character) we see Kain on the screen the most of the time and Vorador got some more details but there's hardly anything about the guardians and other weirdos like Elzevir or William the Just we had to kill.
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Right. I think more of the characters were built around the mary sue bs. Well then Soul Reaver of course comes after due to Kain's decision although I would have loved it if they made a game that showed the story of how he raised the clans rather than cutting off the end of BloodOmen2. Though they said the mmo was supposed to take place at the wars after Raziel's death. I didn't care for that one too much.
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Blood Omen 2 is the end of the story, the hylden lord that abducted Janos got defeated, and there's no point showing Kain the happy-go-lucky guy restoring the Pillars and founding his empire to sit on a throne, that's just not for him. SR is a time loop that was inserted after the end of Blood Omen and ended with Defiance, so thanks to that latest installment the time manips don't allow SR happening after BO again so it's followed by Blood Omen 2 instead. The multiplayer game is just another has-nothing-to-to-with-the-series kind of add on, not going to play it, neither any future sequels by Crystal or Enix.
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Well that's what I figured you know. SR came in as a time loop, hence the paradox issues (Although I would never want to go through one myself.) Well of course Kain would have never been interested in restoring the Pillars even though they belong to the vampires anyway. Though to be honest there would be a huge time lap too especially at the beginning of the pillars. Also what I have come to understand over the years about the game series that Raziel is actually the reaver no matter how you take it. (No offense.) But, my understanding was that the whole story was not explained in BloodOmen how the pillars were built and such so pretty much why they added it and that Amy had took part of her story to CD.
Totally understandable why you would not play the sequels minus that blasted MMO game. I would play the sequels because I liked it though but each is to their own ideals, opinions and dislikes and likes.
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That's true Raziel is just the weapon in the game, however we take it his existing is a mere paradox and things were just set right when he was sent back inside the blade, but on the other hand have to consider the marketability of a videogame title, if it's Raziel that sells the developers will insert him into a game doesn't matters it makes sense or not. Just as Tomb Rairer: Angel of Darkness, Lara Croft died in the previous game and there you got another installment that was disappointing not only in gameplay but also in story-wise, Lara died and she was here again in the next release without making reason how.
I think originally vampirism was a very secondary thing in Blood Omen, it differs in almost everything from Soul Reaver as you got a wicked world without good or bad people, all of them equally egoists and sick in different ways. Kain himself wasn't any better, he wasn't the good hero up to save the world, he was rather a terribly cynical person who became an outcast by his transformation got sick of the surrounding world. The importance of vampirism was he gained magical powers and extra skills, plus the way he drank driven him more distant from the goodhero stereotype. The pillars were like structures by nature guarded by a circle of powerful wizards, being a vampire or not had no importance.
This whole ancient vampires vs humans and hylden thing all came from Crystal, it never been the part of the original story, rather the content of SR's original. Shifter meant to be an angel themed game with a fallen angel in the main role taking revenge, that's where the angelic traits of the SR vampires came from and the hebrew names and the high importance of vampirism as they became the rightful saviours of their world. That's two different storylines and different worlds, Kain's Nosgoth is far more wicked and cynical while Raziel's world is more about pathos and heroism. I think it's the reaver blade the only thing that connects the two though it was important in the SR games only, it was a heap of junk in Blood Omen and wasn't an iconic blade like the Excalibur, it only drained Kain's energy and prevented him from casting spells, didn't used it after obtaining it, was easier to get him cut his way through with the axes or the flame sword.
Yes I know a lot of people play this multiplayer Nosgoth thing because it's called Nosgoth, up to everyone to play whatever they fancy. I'd abandon a title when it gets warped beyond recognition, usually giving a try to the new sequels but after getting continuously disappointed it's time to draw the line it was enough and not giving more chances. Others can easily adapt the reboots and play anything that comes out under their fave title, but each their own
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Can't really argue with that. But to each is to their own although I do admire your admiration in sticking just to Blood Omen since it was the first and original piece of the franchise.
Yeah and that's the whole reason I love Kain because of his arrogance and being cynical as well as a bit of a loner like myself. I do understand where you are coming from with your opinion on why though an yeah the Soul Reaver did drain his energy but I have to admit it is one hell of a weapon and would imagine the pain it's victim goes through when it is pulled out from the body.
I did not like the Nosgoth MMO that well. I played it for a bit and it reminded me of playing. (Sorry if I'm a bit off topic on most of this reply. My daughter keeps wanting on my lap. She is a bit of a handful at times and distracts me. )
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I love both Blood Omens, but the other line just doesn't works, guess I'd liked it too if it didn't got glued to Legacy of Kain, that's a different world with different characters, the two series have no matching. Never mind, it happens I have a favourite game, book or a movie and feeling a strong dislike to their sequels or adaptations when it differs a lot from the original and brings disappointment. Just as I love IT by Stephen King, but hate the tv film made of it. Also love the original Tomb Raider games over Crystal's version (I don't say I hate them as they more or less kept Lara's attributes, the new games are just less enjoyable with the too easy gameplay)
Liked these about Kain too, his person has nothing idolized hero thing at all that'd make the gamers be like him (noticed many main characters are idolized selfless persons kind of teaching morals to the gamers) and he didn't gave a crap about his world's good and neither pitied himself for tragedies he had to suffer, he rather enjoyed when someone got it worse than he did.
I never used the reaver sword, rather cast the repel spell and grabbed the axes, that was the most effective against bosses or the flesh armour and the axes against powerful enemies.
To me it's the Rune game that feels like playing the Blood Omens. Recently playing Medievil, about as old as BO1, feels like playing with King Ottmar on drugs.
Hehe never mind, your little daughter demanding attention
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I hear ya and totally understand. I have major dislikes towards movies and games myself. I agree it is a totally different world rather than the original mapping of Blood Omen, except for Blood Omen 2 thanks to the Hylden. Right The movie it used to scare me when I was younger but I didn't care much about the movie as I did the book. Like the Langaleers I loved the book but the movie was just unsatisfying. Meh I couldn't stand the Tomb Raider games all that much. The first ones I played I got confused until I figured it out. The game I miss the most was Primal. That was an awesome game.
Right. He just didn't give a damn about anyone but himself and what he was doing. LOL. Yeah they get the short end of the stick and he would just laugh at their demise. I used the reaver in Blood Omen a few times. I never thought about using flesh armor against some bosses I always stuck with the boney armor and the iron armor. Ha! I remember Medieval I loved that game but it's a shame I couldn't find it around where I live I'd have to go to the flea market in Columbus or online to get it.
Yeah she was demanding my attention she was getting sleepy. Seems like the only time she wants the most attention is when she is sleepy. LOL. Kids.
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That's it, when a sequel totally twists the original beyond recognition I can't help endlessly dislike it. SR was the same, hoped at least Kain's presence can save this game to me but got suspicious I played the half of the game and Kain was nowhere in it so far. Even checked the cover if I really bought a Legacy game or picked the wrong title, then got endlessly disappointed when it turned out that horrible green wizard supposed to be Kain. Hmm SR hylden has not much in common with BO2 hylden, they're quite different in design and culture. So as the sarafan, they were nazis in BO2 and rather elf-looking in Defiance.
Yes, it works different when watching a movie first and reading the book later, I got the book first and had high expectations for the film that turned to be a disgrace to the story. A lot of books get terrible film adaptations that don't worth to care with, but when it comes to a favourite it becomes a sensitive spot.
Tomb Raider games are my all-time favourite, they were my very first 3D videogames, had the basic Windows games before. When it moved to Crystal they quite dulled down the gameplay and sourced from those lame movies with Angelina Jolie so it got stuffed with lots of pathos and drama (looks like Crystal has a weakness for that)
Never played Primal, had games for pc only, and a few for the PSP lately.
The flesh armour was good with the axes, fast food for Kain as he could kept butchering while the armour taken the blood of the enemies. Just had to be careful with poisonous critters not to wear the flesh armour when killing them. Usually needed the repell spell against those, even those blobby Jabba creatures weren't hard to kill but they vomited poison.
Hmm maybe she just doesn't like falling asleep alone
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I can not honestly blame you. Although I was kinda irked by Kain in the SR games at first too. Although he was starting to look more like a Hylden than a vampire in the SR Series. His controls in Defiance were almost the same as blood omen2 but not quiet to the T. I did like the Defiance Hylden they were pretty cool looking although I would not want to be a bystander when they are on a roll. Might not be a good end for them. LOL. Haha that's what I thought about the BO2 Sarafan too. I literally said Sieng Heil when I saw them for the first time playing BO2 years ago. They did rather look whimsical in Defiance.
I think that was another reason why I didn't like the tomb raider games too the movie kinda ruined it for me when I saw Angelia Jolie was playing her, they could have chose another actress because she didn't suit that role also the movie was a serious let down.
When it comes to movies and books I usually always get the book first then watch the movie. I know the only movie and book series that was dead on to each other was Harry Potter.
CD Tends to try with certain games but tends to fail in some of their game series in the long run.
I loved the flesh armor for that specific reason. I figured out most of the game on my own it did take a few hour but I got it pretty quickly though, I did hate the fat creatures that vomited poison because I wasn't sure if my game was glitched at first and they would just keep coming out of no where. I found out later it was glitched. No they weren't hard to kill at all. The only creatures I hated the worst were those bony creatures that hylden created in BO2 that would spit on you and were hard to kill at first but those things were everywhere pretty much.
Yeah she doesn't want to because Daddy isn't here right now so she is having daddy issues. I used to have her sleep with me for a while till she kicked me in my sleep when she was sleeping and I woke up with a bloody nose. LOL.
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I hated the so-called "Kain" in the SR games too but for different reasons, because it tried to pass itself as Kain and the character I liked was gone from those games. Didn't liked Raziel either, I laughed at him at first sight as seeing this blue Gollum running around naked showing what he was missing, then got pissed I bought a Legacy of Kain game for Kain and not for this goodhero creature out of the blue.
Defiance had a way different control system from BO2, the greatest change was the camera wasn't fixed behind the characters and the controls of movements got simplified too, you needed to whack only one button to fight (well actually just slapping the enemies with an exaggerated speed) and were no blocking moves. The special attacks made not much use, had no point in jumping up and whack the air. But Crystal used this nixxes software later in their own Tomb Raider games so as those lame movies for their source. They cut with Core's Lara Croft and rather built up their version based on those Angelina Jolie films. Haha understand it gave a bad impression on the Tomb Raider title, made me wondering too I'd ever played those games if I met those movies first. I didn't seen Lara's character in Jolie's performance, she was Angelina Jolie all along but not Lara Croft. Also the story of the movies was retarded, the original games have more resemblence to Indiana Jones.
Same here, I liked the Harry Potter series both in books and movies, the adaptations were made very decent especially they were the works of various directors. The other great fantasy I like in movie too is Lord of the Rings, even if the original content is heavily cropped the movies are great. (can't say the same about the Hobbit, whoever decided it to be a trilogy made a big mistake with a short book of 200 pages expected to rival Lord of the Rings)
Also my all time big faves are Sin City and 300, the movies really kept the comic style.
In Blood Omen I disliked the darting enemies, but if I had enough magic power to cast the repel spell they weren't hard to kill at all. And the 99-100th secrets were a pest too getting stuck at William's castle for another full moon if I wanted to get all secrets.
Yes those skeleton demons in BO2 often succeeded to bring in the big blows. I liked the sadism and cruelty of that game, not only Kain could play with his victims, smashing their faces with the sword or kicking them in the ass, but he also hot the tough treatment when he got stabbed or pinned up to a two-hander. Liked a lot his blood was spilled too and not just his victim's.
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SR Kain kinda reminded me of a derp dragon. Though he made great practice for me when drawing.
I like wraith Raziel but he could have at least had some pants. Lol.
I did love the game play of BO2 But Umah made no sense to me. The thugs cracked me up. Though the Tomb Raider controls may have changed I still won't play it.
Right. I always thought the movies were a stupid rip off of Indiana Jones. I saw the first Tomb Raider when I was still living with my mom and not even she liked it.
I liked the lord of the rings too but I only read the first book. Sin City was ok but I loved 300. I heard about the 200 page book. My friend said it was a let down and a rip off.
I agree with the enemies in blood omen.
Haha Blood Omen 2 always cracked me up with the way he tormented the enemies before killing them. (Sorry on my phone my laptop is out of order atm due to the screen.)
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The greenie-green was a rotting Uruk-hai orc to me at first sight. And Raziel was reminiscent to Gollum, though I found the skinned and castrated Gollum funny the confusion about what the hell this new critter doing in a Legacy of Kain game as main character was stronger.
Those horrible Tomb Raider films were surely a bad reputation to Tomb Raider, I wouldn't play the games either of those movies were the first experience of the Tomb Raider title. It's just following the pattern of games adapted to movies are always a fail.
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Yeah I noticed the trailers of the games and their patterns after the movies although I only saw the first one and it was pretty mug a gag. As far as Raziel and Vorador, Vorador's appearance made me snicker due to the odd appendages protruding from his jaw and chin. Raziel on the other hand I likes his wraith and Vampire forms.
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I can't like Raziel at all, it's not about his appearance (though he looked like a teen star from a late 90's boyz band and his later blue Gollum look was rather funny than cool) it's all about this is the character who seized Kain's Legacy, these games supposed to be about Kain and not about Raziel (I meant the original Kain, the greenie-green is another character I don't want to see in a Legacy of Kain game either)
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That's totally understandable. Not everyone likes him for the same reasons.
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What an ugly disgusting looking freak. Was he always this ugly or was it because of something that happened in the game? Anyways, nice glowing effect.
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Thank you so much. That's mostly my imagination.
I have no idea about the origins of this guy, the game didn't dealt with his origins, neither gave much visual base, only the narration described him as a sicko, I meant to depict that with visual tools and imagined the physical manifestation of mental sickness.
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Alas poor Nupraptor, I knew him well.
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Well, not really.
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yeeaaaah, this piece is rad, dope, sick, nassssty! I loooohve it!
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Thank you, I'm glad you like
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no problemo broskie!
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This is wonderful great creepy style paint effect and very twisted subject matter. Love its madness!
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Thank you so much, I'm glad you like this kind of stuff
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I"m glad you like it
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i do i never any artwork like that in my life
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This was almost addressed by another comment, but I'm still pretty curious: why did you make his brain look like intestines rather than going for the natural hemispherical way of depicting a brain? Is it to make him more grotesque? To hold closer to the original style of the game?
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Very simple: what's the special about a natural "average" brain 
Many horror artists try to freak you out by spilling brains and guts into your face in the greatest realism, especially when it comes into your face in 3D movies it rather disgusts than freaking out. I rather love working with the unnatural or grotesque (and needed to make him look different from the green guys in Mars attacks)
The green colour comes from the game, but actually there was only that small token card depicting his head as a vidual base so a lot of imagination went into this.
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Good point there.
Your imagination really showed, no doubt. There's not a lot of good pictures of the man in game, the card, the cutscene, and his boss sprite are all pretty limited.
When I tried to look up 'nupraptor' on Google to try and find the game assets of him, I actually saw your "Alas poor Nupraptor" as the very first result! I think your depictions of Nupraptor have more credibility than the original artists!
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This guy gives me the shivers. And not the good kind!
But it's nice to see some creepy art that doesn't try way too hard!
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I'm glad he's giving the creeps. I like dark arts with grotesque elements, not my style trying to be horroristic with open wounds and slit up bodies. That's not the ammount of blood and guts on the canvas that makes an artwork creepy.
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That's so true. So many horror artists try much too hard and I just wander away, bored.
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Love this take on Nupraptor, although it's hard to understand what Ariel saw in him.
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The little card with Nupraptor's head was the inspiration for the concept. As for Ariel, maybe simply bad taste
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Very eerie and abstract! You definitely achieved the vibe you set out for. The right hand looks a little large in comparison to the other hand, but that's a minor distraction. I appreciate the grotesque uniqueness to your character. Great job! And thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
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PLEASE TELL ME YOU"RE GOING TO DO ALL THE GUARDIANS!!!! 
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Thank you
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