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Originally posted by Q'Anilia
His durability was shown when Raziel punched through his chest and ripped his heart out.
Kain's greatest strength feat is sending Raziel across the room with the usage of what I remember was a bitchslap.The equipment can be debated forever. Since it's a magical blade that doesn't appear to have enhanced slashing power, it's easily assumed that it has to penetrate the skin to absorb someones soul.
When Kain stabbed Raziel, Raziel could resist the loss of the soul until he decided to give up and "join the blade". This can of course be debated that Raziel was extra resilient due to his nature, or history and title.
What this would prove if anything then, would be that the Soul Reaver doesn't instantly drain all the souls. What the game also shows is that Kain could't drain the soul of the Elder God. For what reason, can only be speculated.
And when he survived many full blow Raziel attacks without a scratch on his body.
Arguable really, in his youth he could pick up fully armoured soldiers with one arm, later on he could do the same to fully armoured super soldiers who were almost like giants, a man in full armour is damn heavy anyway, lifted with one arm when Kain was probably at his weakest is also impressive and may be considered above tossing Raziel, effortlessly overpowering Raziel perhaps would be a better feat.
enhanced slashing power? somebody explain what she means by this....Kain enhances the slashing power by his own strength, the blade being nearly indestructable also helps. Easily assumed? completly illogical really considering the blade is enchanted by the soul of Raziel who absorbed souls from long range through his cowl, furthermore its a supernatural weapon attacking a ethereal object, slicing physical skin to take a soul is more than illogical, it just does not make sense, perhaps hit the skin, but penetrate? no reason to do so.
false, Raziel has never been impaled by Kain with the soul reaver, merely the reaver itself before it became the soul reaver, dont forget that Raziel MAKES IT the soul reaver.
The only time the sword actually hits beings is when Kain uses it in gameplay in LOk blood omen, in which by Kains description of his weapon it takes souls in a strike, and in-game, has similiar effects in which is blasts apart foes in one hit. Which makes sense because enemies without their souls in Blood omen dissolve/explode anyway.
The Elder God is not debatable on any level, its unkown whether it has a soul, its an immaterial being who is in constant contact with soul drainers and who himself constantly puts souls through the wheel, the EG himself is both immaterial and to a degree material depending on which plane, he is still oddly enough physical to the beings of the spectrla realm (the soul realm to those who do not know the universe) and is actually immune to the spectral soul reaver which could actually strike those of spectral origin, which means....he has shown immunity to the soul reavers soul drianing powers.
