Transformed

The Transformed were an enemy class featured in Legacy of Kain: Defiance, they were created when a (living) Possessed host was transformed by the Possessing Hylden. The Transformed featured mainly in the later chapters of Defiance.

The Transformed were first featured in Chapter 12 of Defiance; when Janos sent Raziel to the Spirit Forge in the Vampire Citadel. The Transformed manifested when the weakening of the binding caused the breakdown of the barriers between the planes of existence; this process allowed the disembodied souls of Hylden to possess living hosts, crossing into the Material Realm and creating the Possessed. When the possession was of sufficient strength (and the victim and the binding sufficiently weak), The Possessed host would be "broken", consumed by the Possession and their bodies would transform into a monstrous, deformed spiky shape. The Transformed vaguely resembled the humans they had once been, though much of their body and limbs were overgrown or mutated.

The Transformed, like their 'predecessors' The Possessed, enjoyed increased Strength and Power, but their increased size and mass made them noticeably slower than other enemies. The transformed would often attack using it's great strength, attempting a Grab/Throw move that enabled them to "slam its enemies like rag dolls", like other Hylden enemies, the transformed were resistant to TK attacks and were best dealt with quick combat techniques.