unless a documenstation says otherwise, because their written by the developers and what developers say>>what a character says because the Developers can see the whole story
but where did this debate come from, Raziel is not even in this fight until the end...the planar portals in the game respresent checkpoints however what is possibly canon is that Raziel loses the ability to go into material at will when the portals no longer excist after Elder God takes them away and Raziel then has to use bodies to enter material realm
but how is this relevent to kain gauntlet......