In any other franchise, Kain would be a straight villain, but in the Black-and-Grey Morality of this one, he's the guy to root for because his enemies are worse. On the negative side, he's a remorseless mass-murderer, very arrogant and self-absorbed, and will act ruthlessly if it's more advantageous to do so. On the positive side, he is not without some capacity for mercy, values his allies and considers some of them friends, and has some lines he still won't cross. He's trying to save the world from destruction and demonic invasion, but he's trying to save it so he can conquer it with a vampire army.

Anti-Hero/ Anti-Villain: Zigzags either way.

Sarafan Lord: Your ambition to rule this world is but the youthful craving of a petty noble who has gained too much power, but never enough.

Ambition Is Evil: Repeatedly accused as such, considering the fact that he essentially doomed Nosgoth to an eternity of decay purely so he could rule over it.

Kain is definitely no longer human, but also no longer a vampire what he is is as uncertain as the rest of the series since the story was Left Hanging after Defiance. However, he retains all of his vampiric abilities and possibly vulnerabilities.

Ambiguously Human: At the end of Defiance, he isn't really a vampire anymore, as Moebius' vampire-weakening staff no longer affects him, because the Heart of Darkness that originally gave him his vampirism has been removed.

Admiring the Abomination: In Blood Omen, when seeing creatures mutated by the Circle's magic, while he finds the sight of them horrifying, he admits to having some admiration for the mind that created them.

He becomes a bit more grey as he ages, but he's pretty unapologetic about the whole 'vampires ruling over the human sheep' thing. The beings he calls his enemies, on the other hand, aim to exterminate the vampires and don't care if the humans go down with them in the process.

A Lighter Shade of Black: His goals at least would leave humans and vampires alive, if marginalizing humans.

Few know the truth he was mortal once, as were we all.

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