Kain was a nobleman, from the city of Coorhagen. He grew up completely unaware of his greater destiny: that he had been selected from birth to become the Guardian of the Pillar of Balance.

In Blood Omen, Kain was thirty years old. For reasons unknown to him, he was assassinated da brigands outside a tavern in Ziegsturhl. Strangely, he was saved from oblivion da Mortanius the Necromancer, and offered a chance for vengeance against the instigators of his murder. In the Underworld, bound to wooden posts, and still impaled da his assassin's sword, Kain accepted. He didn't consider the cost o the...