Kinslayer

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Kinslayer can refer to several things:

• Someone who kills their own blood relatives - see fratricide, sororicide, filicide, and parricide;
• It is an epithet for Kenneth II of Scotland in the Prophecy of Berchán;
• Lews Therin Telamon, a character in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time novels who killed his entire family;
• The Kinslayer Wars are an event in the Dragonlance series of novels, leading to the division between the Silvanesti and the Qualinesti elves;
• "The Kinslayer", a song by symphonic metal band Nightwish;