Raziel MK1 Guest Fighter
Saviour and Destroyer, Pawn and Messiah...
The tale of Raziel is as blood soaked and filled with treachery as the legacy of his former master. Once a mortal human who died as a Sarafan crusader, and then risen as a vampire alongside his brother's in arms by the misanthropic Kain for the twisted irony in having the most infamous vampire hunters in the history of Nosgoth as his lieutenants.
Cast down in a swirling abyss by his sire, Raziel underwent another rebirth into a wraith, his hunger for blood supplanted by one for souls, crossing over time and between realms spectral and material, Raziel uncovered the monumental truth that only he truly possessed free will, a distinction that made him the target of misdirection by Elder Gods, sorcerer's and vengeful demons alike, all eager to claim the Soul Reaver for themselves.
Ironically his only source of salvation may lie with his sire and destroyer, Kain himself...
Raziel: You tamper with lives as readily as any would-be-god! Lui Kang: Only to disarm the wicked and unbound unseen potential.
Liu Kang: Your Elder God is no such thing. Merely an exceptionally large parasite. Raziel: That I have already discerned for myself, “Titan.”
--- Raziel: Thunder all you like, but you will not be spared if you impede my retribution. Raiden: Well at least your honest. --- Raziel: What madness drove your “Titan” to place an actor amongst his champions? Johnny Cage: Somebody had to be the light of the party.
Johnny Cage: You have a killer voice dude. Ever thought of doing VO work? Raziel: That… sounds intriguing.
--- Kung Lao: Just so I’m sure, are you a zombie or a ghost? Raziel: (sigh) A wraith, you ignoramus.
Raziel: Your bravado reminds me all too much of my brothers and I. Kung Lao: Please. I have infinitely more style.
--- Ermac: You consumed your brothers souls, they cry out for release. Raziel: Then I shall extend the same mercy they offered me, and do nothing!
Raziel: You too are a reaver of souls. Ermac: We are Ermac, we are legion you are but one, little soul.
Ermac: We knew each other in life and we shared a tomb in death. Let us slay Kain as brothers of the Sarafan again. Raziel: All in that crypt were raised, save for... Malek?! --- Kenshi: Something about your weapon provokes Sento. Raziel: Your blade and the Reaver are kindred - two sides of the same bloodied edge.
Raziel: You can perceive the spirit realm? Kenshi: I can, and the one who claims you as his weapon. Your Scion of Balance is in for hell of a fight. --- Homelander: I already killed you, how are you still alive?! Raziel: I am not so easily vanquished, wretch.
Raziel: How fitting that one with the temperament of a mewling child, should have the appetite of one as well. Homelander: (Chuckle) When I’m done, your going to look even more like a corpse. --- Peacemaker: Hey, I put the bad guys in ground, just like you. Raziel: Yes, alongside the innocent, the young and unfortunate.
Raziel: There is no righteousness here, only the desperate justifications of the fanatic. Peacemaker: You think I like being this way? It’s not easy fixing what’s broken. --- Nitara: To tear the wings from a vampire is among the gravest of transgressions, in my realm. Raziel: One I shall repay a thousandfold upon that bastard Kain.
Raziel: I will devour your soul and restore my wings! Nitara: You won’t find me easy prey. --- Quan Chi: Shinnok will reward me for my faith. Raziel: Then you will share the same fate as Moebius!
Raziel: You think the Hylden are trustworthy allies? Your not the first necromancer they've used. Quan Chi: Mortanius was a mere vessel for Hash'ak''kik. He considers me a more worthy partner.
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Shang Tsung: Azimuth possessed a fascinating mind, a shame she met your sire. Raziel: Partners in depravity were you? Then it is long past time you joined her.
Raziel: I grown tired of the whims of petty sorcerer's. Shang Tsung: My whims shake realities, ghoul's like you can only hope to be in service to them.
Shang Tsung: No, it cannot be possible. My powers- Raziel: But it is, now, as your oft said; Your soul is mine!
--- Noob Saibot: We have both of us been transformed by death. Raziel: But only I remain free.
Noob Saibot: Embrace what you have become, shifter. Serve the wheel of fate. Raziel: I will serve no master, not Kain, not Moebius, and certainly not that parasite calling itself a god!
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Raziel: Your just like my brother, Dumah. Martial, proud... and ambitious. Raiko: I will suffer no accusation!
Raiko: I will not fail the general as you failed your master. Raziel: My fai was no failure, It was an execution! I will show you the difference.
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Raziel: You expect loyalty for your power, yet you cannot even dethrone your Empress. Shao: She will fall, I need only enough with the vision to see it.
Shao: We meet again, twice claimed Champion. Raziel: Hash'ak''kik. Your new vessel deserves you.
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Geras: You were meant to end all vampires that remained in Nosgoth. Raziel: Instead my pursuit of Kain allowed me to retake by destiny.
Raziel: I have done your timeline no wrong automanton, why pursuit me?! Geras: Because history abors a paradox, and I, am its guardian. --- Raziel: In my experience, paths to redemption lead only to further disillusion Ashrah: Yet you were able to renounce the man you once were.
Ashrah: You purified the reaver, can you not offer the me the same? Raziel: Your kris is your destiny, the reaver is mine. --- Conan: You corralled humanity into cages! Raziel: Only that we might feed, they indiscriminatly slaughtered vampires out of mere zealotry --- Ghostface: You took my style, now I'll take your life. Raziel: What are you babbling about, you masked lunatic?
Raziel: The depravity of mankind never ceases to surprise me. Ghostface: I'm only picking up where you left off, "noble" Inquisitor.
Born to succeed the guardian of balance upon her death, slain and risen by the Necromancer Mortanius in a plot to oppose his fellow Pillar Guardians who had been corrupted by malevolent scheme's, but when it came time to put himself to the sword to end the corruption that had infested them, Kain instead chose self-preservation over self-destruction, and built a vampiric empire upon the ruins that followed.
Foreseeing this too was a doomed endeavour, through the methods of his nemisis Moebius, who had used him to do the impossible and rewrite history, Kain sought to do the same and reclaim his fate from those who had taken it, by executing his first lieutenant Raziel. Perhaps then, Kain might also reclaim his role as Scion of Balance and free Nosgoth from its would be masters...
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Liu Kang: Not many would cast aside their destiny as you did.
Kain: In rigged games, I prefer to see if I cannot make the coin can land in it edge.
Kain: We are not so dissimilar. We've both gambled with lives in service to greater goals.
Liu Kang: I admit to my duplicity against Shang Tsung, but only to prevent evil, not indulge in it.
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Ashrah: In life and unlife your soul has been stained by dark deeds. Have you nothing to say in defence of them?
Kain: Vae Victis!
Kain: Seeking redemption? I walked that road once, I found it... Beneath me.
Ashrah: Not everyone is incapable of rising above themselves, Kain!
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Johnny Cage: I thought I'd seen every take on vampire's there is, but this, this is a new one.
Kain: Then allow me to further your education on the subject.
Kain: (chuckle) Do you truly believe being a, "superstar" will amount to anything in this confrontation?
Johnny Cage: Jeez... I just got a flashback to my old theatre couch.
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Reptile: What about my human form do you find lacking?
Kain: It's rudimentary, but cast a visage of nobility... There are many who would readily divulge to highborn blood.
Kain: A fitting match. Two outcasts challenging each other upon the field of battle.
Reptile: Your solitude was by choice, mine was forced upon me.
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Shang Tsung: You have the potential to be a rival, I cannot allow that.
Kain: If only I could say the same.
Kain: You ask for the heart of darkness, yet I know not where it is.
Shang Tsung: Oh, but I do.
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Kenshi: Your mind is awash with blood.
Kain: Consider it an omen of your doom.
Kain: Be warned, I often bring misfits to blind mentalist's.
Kenshi: Except now you're about to face an armed mentalist?
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Kitana: This princess doesn't need saving.
Kain: Fortunate. As I had no intention of doing so.
Kain: You waste your potential as a mere bodyguard.
Kitana: Better to live in service then to waste centuries on a broken empire.
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Nitara: You would be welcomed in Vaeternus as honoured kin.
Kain: Tempting, but Nosgoth is where I rule and it is where I shall stay.
Kain: We are as gods, child. dark gods... Thus it is our duty, to thin the herd.
Nitara: Perhaps in your realm, I seek only a means to feed my people.
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Rain: What's wrong? Do the rushing waves leave you ill at ease?
Kain: Savour it while you can, sorcerer. It will not last.
Kain: You unleashed a deluge, now you must bare the consequences.
Rain: I will not be judged by one with oceans of blood on his own hands!
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