Dark Eden

Leaving Vorador's mansion with a new sense of the sort of monster he might become, Kain's determination to end his curse was reinforced. The voice of Mortanius pried into his head once more to alert him to the presence of three Guardians to the north - Dejoule, Bane and Anarcrothe slowly but surely spreading their world-twisting magic across the land.

Fighting off various bizarre constructs born of the Circle's ongoing carelessness with their power, Kain entered the vast mutating dome spreading this horror and, unaffected on account of his own undead state, sought out the tower where the three madmen waited. Infiltrating the tower, he quickly discovered his prey: While Anarcrothe summoned Malek to his aid and flees the tower, Kain mocked the alchemist's cowardice and called upon Vorador to keep the iron soldier at bay.

Pursuing the remaining two, Kain found Bane morphing the land into water which would eat through Kain's vampiric flesh like deadly chemicals. Meanwhile, DeJoule disposed of her energy-insulating cloak to unleash her full powers, her entire body glowing bright and crackling with threatening bolts of energy which she launched from a distance. Kain, careful to avoid the ever-increasing waters, eventually conquered Bane and took the Guardian's antler headdress to restore the Nature Pillar.

Crossing a small lake to approach DeJoule afterward, he made quick work of her as well, and took her cloak for the Pillar of Energy. Returning to the tower, he found Malek dead and Vorador missing, and retrieved the fallen paladin's helmet as yet another restorative token.