Chronoplast visions

Template:Term The Chronoplast Visions were a set of 'portals' that showed Raziel what had already happen to him and also a possible future as a prelude to his battle with Kain in the Chronoplast at the end of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.

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Vision	Description	Fulfillment
	First Chronoplast vision: The first showed Raziel's 'arrival' in The Elder's Lair, after being remade as a Wraith.
	Second Chronoplast vision: The second showed Raziel discovering the Tomb of the Sarafan .
	Third Chronoplast vision: The third showed his battle with Kain at the Sanctuary of the Clans; specifically showing Kain shattering the Soul Reaver blade against Raziel.
	Fourth Chronoplast vision: The fourth portal showed a future battle between Raziel and Kain, in a darkened room with Kain's symbol on the floor and Raziel armed with the Wraith-blade - This is interpreted to be Raziel and Kain's battle in Avernus, shown in Defiance.
	Fifth Chronoplast vision: The fifth showed Raziel striking down Ariel in a darkened room (not the Sanctuary of the Clans) and the wraith blade glowing bright yellow as a result - This is interpreted to be Raziel gaining the Spirit Reaver in the Spirit Forge, by absorbing Ariel's soul; also seen in Defiance
	Sixth Chronoplast vision: The final portal showed Raziel wielding a dark red wraith blade overlooking Nosgoth from a darkened balcony - this is interpreted to be Raziel looking out over Nosgoth, from Janos Audron's aerie, shortly after Janos' Death in Soul Reaver 2 . The Red blade being the newly imbued Fire Reaver .

Beta Movie Rooms

In 31st May (also known as 1st June) build of Soul Reaver, when using a hacked debug menu, it allows full exploration of all six movie rooms, thus allowing to observe them in great detail. The order of these visions changed several times during the development and in this version is as follows: Underworld, Pillars, Sarafan Tomb, Kain Encounter, Pinnacle and Ariel ' s scene comes strangely last, with red and black Reaver as an upgrade for enhancing the Reaver with her soul.

Movie 1 is basically an altered version of the Underworld with a non-functional Elder God's platform and the only other difference is that the surrounding wall where the tunnel leading to the Warp gate has been cut out.

Movie 2 is nearly identical to the retail version, except the bottom of the spiral in the spectral realm is solid and Raziel cannot fall through.

Movie 3 contains an earlier version of the Pillars throne room, which is different level Pillars 1. The Pillars actually stretch when in spectral and have half of the City's symbol on them. The surrounding two walls are also not scalable.

Movie 4 is essentially an edited version of the first outdoor area of Raziel's Stronghold with the staircase removed, leveled floor and Ariel model. The top of the arched columns remain unchanged and even the alcove where the health upgrade is found in the retail version is present. All the textures have been replaced to a dark stone texture. It is not currently possible to trigger any of Ariel's animations.

Movie 5 takes place in the pinnacle of the Silenced Cathedral, in one of the arched openings seen in the Silenced Cathedral render. This corridor is very short and leads outside, with Raziel overlooking the landscape of Nosgoth. The outer large wall is curved and two support columns on either side (one has greyish texture, the other is made out of metal with bolts).

Movie 6 is supposed to take place in Kain's Mountain Retreat and looks like a courtyard. It is unclear whether this is the entrance to the Retreat or this scene is further within the structure. There are two towering collumns with Kain's face on each side and a small staircase leads to a gate with Kain's symbol on it and also in on the floor, in the middle of the room. The courtyard has three scallable walls (it is not possible to climb them, however), only one of them has a alcove which is blocked off.

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Notes

• Spectral intro-outro zoom

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• The Chronoplast vision portals can be approached in either realm to trigger their respective visions - these will be identical in either realm although the intro-outro zoom is slightly different due to spectral effects.
• The order of these events was slightly changed during the development process. In the Soul Reaver Later Beta, the order remains the same until the scene with Raziel standing in an opening follows after the Sarafan Tomb discovery scene, followed by Raziel confronting Kain and the scene with Ariel´s destruction appears as the last one. In the earlier beta, all of the visions simply play a video of the crystal dynamics logo and the intro-outro zoom shows a textureless 'brick-wall' style area as the portal textures are yet to be added.

• Early beta visions with textureless portal and Crystal Dynamics logo vision

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• Though the Chronoplast Visions appear to depict the events of future games (Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance), they actually show some Original Soul Reaver Storyline events removed from Soul Reaver before release - They show in order: Raziel's battle with Kain at Kain's Mountain Retreat (hence the Kain symbol and Kain' s missing (Blood) Reaver blade); Ariel sacrificing herself to give Raziel the 'Ariel Reaver ' to strike down Kain; and Raziel overlooking Nosgoth from the pinnacle of the Silenced Cathedral after opening the sounding pipes (the red wraith blade is actually the Amplified 'Kain' Reaver ).
• It appears Crystal Dynamics intentionally remodelled the later scenes in Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance to resemble the Chronoplast Visions.