Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003 Video Game)

Tony Jay: Elder God

Quotes 

• Elder God : You cannot destroy me, Kain. I am the Engine of Life itself... the Wheel will turn. The plague of your kind will be purged from this world. And on that inevitable day, your wretched, stagnant soul will finally be mine!

  Kain : In the meantime, you'd best burrow deep.

• Elder God : What do you profit from this defiance?

  Raziel : There's some grim satisfaction in infuriating you.

• Elder God : Relinquish your will... and feed.

  [Striking at the ground with his fist] 

  Raziel : No.

• Elder God : Embrace your calling, Raziel. You will find that just as defiance has its price, so obedience has its reward.

  [(Rising to his feet] 

  Raziel : And submission is not always as it seems.

• Raziel : I refuse to do your will!

  Elder God : I can see into your heart, Raziel. It is not your will, but cowardice that keeps you here.

  Raziel : How so?

  Elder God : You know what fate awaits you when you leave the underworld. That phantom weapon you bear is a constant reminder, isn't it? The sword is waiting for you out there somewhere, and you tarry so as not to meet it.

  Raziel : [narrating]  I could not deny it. As long as I lingered here, defying my captor, I was able to postpone what I feared was my inevitable doom; to become the ravenous spirit imprisoned in the Reaver blade. But that sentence was no worse than the stalemate I now endured. Better to face one's destiny than cower from it.

• Elder God : I have delivered you faithfully to the very hour you desire. You know what must be done, Kain. There is only one way to prevent Raziel from doing great harm.

  Kain : He is not my enemy.

  Elder God : But you are his.

• [Kain sees the Elder God for the first time] 

  Elder God : So. I am revealed to you at last.

  Kain : What in the hell...

  Elder God : I am the origin of life, the devourer of death. I am the hub of the Wheel, the purifying cycle to which all souls must be drawn.

  Kain : [to himself]  Had I condemned Raziel to this nightmare when I cast him into the abyss?

  Elder God : You may ponder the futility of your ambitions as you spend a deathless eternity beneath a mountain of rubble. You and your Soul Reaver will go equally mad as the eons pass. The Citadel of the apostates will become your living tomb.

  Kain : Your words are heartening. For you would not fear us, unless we could truly do you harm.

  Elder God : No! You are nothing!

  Kain : False God! This is the end... the final turn of your Wheel!

• Raziel : You want this room cleared of its vermin?

  Elder God : If you wish to leave it.