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Production Material

Very few artifacts have escaped the inner sanctum of the Legacy of Kain development teams throughout the series. This article depicts a few of these rare items.

During my visit to Crystal Dynamics in 2002 (see My_Visit_to_Crystal_Dynamics), lead tester Chris Bruno presented me with copies of two of the dialogue scripts from the original Blood Omen. One is the Cinematics Script (version 2.46), dated 22 August 1995, which covers all of the FMVs. Its content is nearly identical to that of the final game, with the exception being that Mortanius is explicitly identified as Ariel's murderer (which is strongly implied, but never revealed outright in the English version of the retail game). The two endings are called "Kain Kong" and "Happy Happy Joy Joy". For younger readers, the latter is a reference to the Ren & Stimpy cartoon which was exceedingly popular during the era when Blood Omen was developed.

The other script is the NPC Recording Script (version 3.0), dated 21 March 1996. "NPC" is a term from the olden days of role-playing, and means "non-player character" (that is, any character in the gameworld not under the control of the player, such as Moebius or Vorador). This script contains the deleted scene A_Traitor_in_The_Circle and was the source for the material in the article Early_Character_Names.

The ever-gracious former series director Amy Hennig was kind enough to give me two T-shirts which were produced for the crews who worked on Blood Omen and Soul Reaver 2. The Blood Omen shirt reads "go for the throat" and has fang bite marks on the neck, with the back reading "Vampire Wear: Immortal - not subject to death, cessation, or oblivion". The Soul Reaver 2 shirt has Raziel's clan symbol emblazoned over the left breast and a stylized image of Raziel (which is also pictured in the Defiance bonus material) on the back.

The Blood Omen cinematics script, version 2.46 (courtesy Chris Bruno)

The Blood Omen NPC script, version 3.0 (courtesy Chris Bruno)

The front of a Blood Omen crew T-shirt (courtesy Amy Hennig)

The front of the SR2 Crew t-shirt (courtesy Amy Hennig)

The back of the SR2 Crew t-shirt (courtesy Amy Hennig)

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[[BO1/A Traitor in the Circle]] (Blood Omen)
Early_Character_Names (Blood Omen)