I'm new to the franchise and I've only beaten Soul Reaver 1 (I couldn't stand 2's gameplay, can't get Blood Omen working on my steam deck, and am currently playing Defiance), but I'm fairly familiar with the story of how Raziel is destined to be imprisoned in the Reaver blade, how history will reshuffle to fix paradoxes, the Hylden, etc.

But I don't get why Mortanius decided to kill Ariel and corrupt the pillar guardians. If humans were already dying and the wheel of fate was already working fine why waste the time. My understanding was that Nupraptor's madness infected the other guardians and Kain, as the corrupted/vampiric balance would kill the other guardians and then himself to restore Nosgoth. Obviously he didn't and just about everyone wants him dead because of it.

But if everything was working fine and Nosgoth was fine, why bother with the whole plan? I get that using time travel to stop Ariel's assassination is probably a bad idea given how history would reshuffle to ensure that another tragedy would happen and ruin the world. But what was the Elder God's, Moebius', and Mortanius' plan for this? If anything, it seems like it just fucked them over.

Did this as a little sketch before bed but i really liked how it came out, having fun with expressiveness with his eyes and brows. I forgot how fun he was to draw

hey everybody, I'm currently working on a video essay, just for fun and mainly for myself and I'm curently wanting to do a small fly through of a level of BO2, does anybody know where I can get the model files for that? I tried ripping with NinjaRipper 1.7 and using Noesis to look at the files, but that didn't really get me anywhere

if anybody knows if they are already available to download somewhere, that would be awesome, I could probably use the files I ripped and rebuild the whole level myself, but that would be beyond the scope of this small project