One of central narrative achievements of the Legacy of Kain series is its ability to frustrate traditional videogame genre expectations, subverting them to overthrow the player’s assumptions. When observing the franchise, one is struck with its decade-long mindset of the developers in placing the story at the foreground of the experience, using the gameplay as a tool to slowly unravel the plot.

Lamia, Lilith, serpent and seductress; the rich history of the female vampire serves to remind us that she did not appear recently as a feminist response to a heterosexual male-dominated society, but has been with us since the dawn of creation. Literally.