7 Pointless Video Game Characters (Who Were Actually CRUCIAL)

Legacy of Kain's narrative is a complex tangle of high-falutin, faux-Shakespearean gibberish, replete with time-travelling vampires and portentous architecture, so it's perfectly understandable if some of the key details managed to go over some people's heads. Particularly given the most crucial detail of all - ie, who the villain is - isn't actually clear until the end of the second game.

Ostensibly, Soul Reaver's withered anti-hero Raziel is trapped in a bitter, gothtastic ménage-à-trois twixt vampiric traitor Kain, whose sort of like an anthropomorphised mashed potato, and Cthulhu'n puppeteer The Elder God (your bog standard 'Big Eye').

After being hoyed into the Pit of the Damned by said potato for the impertinence of his rapid evolution, it's natural to assume our winged smurf's main beef is with Kain, at least, until it's revealed the mellifluous Elder God has been using him all along!

So naturally, the final battle ends with Raziel chasing Kain into his time machine (don't ask), and when he emerges, he's confronted by... a spindly old man in a robe?

Anyone who played the first instalment, top-down RPG Blood Omen, will recognise him as Moebius the Time Streamer, an otherwise incidental character within Soul Reaver's lore. Except, he's secretly the most important chap in all of Nosgoth.

Absolute bats.