#wraith raziel

And how short is he compared to Daniel Fortesque.

Attention: these are just reuploaded artworks I did back in a day. Due to current circumstances all of new artworks (if there will ever be so) will be uploaded on BlueSky, Cara, Artfol.

So with the release of remasters of such classics like Soul Reaver 1 and 2 I've decided to reupload some of the artworks I did few years ago (excluding some WIPs).

In the fandom, everyone calls him a prick and an asshole, but I think it would be way more coherent to his character if he were an extremely kind person, who still dirtied his hands in the name of righteousness.

Imagine a human Raziel who is well liked by his peers, who is good with children and kind to women, and who leads the sarafan with a strong will because he has a sense of purpose. Not over status and power, but because he genuinely believes the cause he is part of. Imagine that noble person, that paragon of humanity, that charmed even his wraith self for a while.

And then imagine this person commiting unspeakable acts of genocide in the name of faith. Blinded by righteous rage, he doesn't pity his victims because he was led to believe they were a plague, and doesn't even mind the monster he becomes in the process, because in his eyes, everything he does is for the good of the world and that absolves him. And that would make Wraith Raziel even the more horrified. What do you mean this gentleman he looked up to can turn into that brutal murderer? Capable of wiping out an entire culture?

And it shows that humans can be monsters, and that monsters can be human. That he's not a cackling evil maniac like Moebius, but instead a sweet man. That even war criminals have human lives and go back home to their families at the end of the day.

And everything Sarafan Raziel did against vampires, Vampire Raziel did tenfold against humans over the course of the thousand years that he was Kain's lieutenant. Raziel as a vampire enslaved humans like cattle and turned them into playthings out of boredom. I don't see the fandom criticizing Vampire Raziel nearly as much.

And here's the thing. Once he turned into a Wraith, Raziel had a process of unlearning his idea that humanity were lesser beings. He started fighting to protect them just as much as vampires, because they're also part of the world of Nosgoth, a world he wishes to see restored.

You know, if Wraith Raziel was capable of unlearning a thousand years of his vampire self enslaving humans, and start seeing them as equals and worthy of saving, and later on even as noble beings, I like to think the same would be possible for Sarafan Raziel too. Because even if he lost his memories, his personality stays the same across his lives. I he only had more information. He just never got the chance to.

Or, he did, when he became his new self.

I am the Engine of life....

The Hub of the wheel....

The Origin of all Life....

The Devourer of Death....

The Wheel of Fate must turn......

You are Reborn as my agent of fate....

My Angel of Death....

You are and will forever be mine....

My Reaver of Souls.....

A day late for this, but wanted to commemorate the 23rd anniversary for my fav game series with a digital version of my latest Soul Reaver artwork! Keeping it a simple black and white with gray tones, will maybe color it much later. As I said before, I demand a remake or at least a final chapter, the final turn of the wheel to bring this ageless story to a close! Stay tuned for more

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I said I would and I keep to my word! Have a Raziel wip drawing as the start of my Soul Reaver obsession!! At least until we get news on Legacy of Kain.....and then I will continue afterward.😂🤣

Art is mine