Heaven

The Heaven Realm was one of the several dimensional realms that divided the cathedral of Avernus in the Blood Omen era as Dimension Guardian Azimuth attacked her city. Visited by Kain in the Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain chapter Defeat Azimuth, the area consisted of much 'heavenly' imagery and acted as something of a dungeon for the legendary Soul Reaver blade.

Role
The heaven realm was one of the several dimensions that split Avernus Cathedral when Kain visited in the Blood Omen era of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

After defeating the triad of Pillar Guardians at Dark Eden in Threaten the Circle, Kain was directed by Ariel to Avernus and Dimension Guardian Azimuth and cryptically advised that "Three instruments await you, to aid you in your quest, but first you must rise and you must fall and find your salvation in between." Travelling to Avernus in the chapter Defeat Azimuth, Kain discovered that the city had been overrun by Demons originating from the Cathedral. Entering the building Kain discovered that Azimuth had split the internal area into several dimensions, with the regular Material Realm joined by a murky alternate dimension and subsequently another two areas - the cloudy Heaven realm and the fiery and skeletal Hell realm.

Pushing his way through the Cathedral, Kain was periodically teleported to the murky dimension and back again before finally reaching the Heaven realm and following a rising "Stairway to Heaven" until discovering a chamber containing the Soul Reaver blade along with a angelic statue.

Soon after Kain found the other artifacts, descending to the Hell realm to recover the Wraith Armor and confronting Azimuth in the regular Material Realm to gain a time streaming device. The Soul Reaver was necessary to defeat Azimuth and later to defeat William in the Pre-Blood Omen era in the chapter Stranded in Time, going on to become one of the trademarks of the series in subsequent titles, which revisited its significance in Blood Omen.

Design and Layout
The 'Heavenly' realm of the Cathedral is based in the upper western part of the building. The environment in the heaven realm consists of a white, creme and golden colorscheme - with white tiled flooring, creme walls and containing a number of white columnade pedestals with golden fonts and multicolored stained glass windows, along with occasional icy patches. All of the area featured in a gradual 'ascent' towards the clouds.

The Heaven area could broadly be split into five map areas:
 * The first map area consisted of a long rectangular room heading stretching northward with a red carpet down the center of the room and a Save altar in the center. At the top of the area a white stairway flanked by two stained glass windows headed up to a higher balcony which consisted of a square room with a mural of the Soul Reaver on the floor in the center, with a pedestal and golden basin on each of its corners. At the top of the balcony area two doors either side of a stained glass both led through to another wider room with two teleporter pads (one active, one inactive) either side of a small pool of water. A blood vial was positioned just north of the inactive eastern pad, with three golden basin pedestals and four stained glass windows along the back wall. The active western teleporter led onto the next map area.