Moebius the Timestreamer
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| Moebius the Timestreamer | |
|---|---|
| Game series | Legacy of Kain |
| First game | Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain |
| Voiced by | Richard Doyle |
Moebius is a video game character in the Legacy of Kain series. He is one of the Guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth, and in the first title in the series, the Oracle of Nosgoth. Throughout the series, he has been voiced by Richard Doyle. According to bonus features in the games, Moebius was known as "Bridenal" in the series' development stages.
Although Moebius is only one of nine Pillar Guardians, all of which have supernatural powers, Moebius' position as Timestreamer affords him the power to travel through and observe time, granting him incredible insight and wisdom and allowing him to manipulate others to his own ends. Because of this, Moebius develops into an antagonist during the Soul Reaver part of the series, especially when Raziel realizes he serves the Elder God.
[edit] Character History
Moebius was born five centuries before the events of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Born to guard the Time Pillar of the Pillars of Nosgoth, the Elder God contacts Moebius and convinces him that the Vampires are a scourge. Moebius thus rebels against the Vampire guardians and places human guardians in their place. Moebius later arranges for both William the Just and Kain to possess the Soul Reaver, in turn causing a paradox that ignites a war against vampires when Kain travels back in time to kill William before he matures and becomes an evil king called Nemesis. Moebius is later killed during the events of Blood Omen.
In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Kain has taken control of Moebius' Chronoplast time machine and uses it to orchestrate an attempt to undo the corruption of the Pillars his past self condemned to collapse in Blood Omen. Moebius appears to Raziel during the ending of the game, leading into the events of Soul Reaver 2.
In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, Raziel and Kain travel back in time thirty years before the events of Blood Omen. Moebius urges Raziel to kill Kain, but Raziel stays his hand several times, especially when he discovers Moebius serves the Elder God. Raziel later forces Moebius to send him to the past to find the Vampire Janos Audron, but Moebius instead sends him to the future, although the reason is unclear; Raziel surmises it is to both reinforce his drive to kill Kain after seeing the corruption he has caused, and to keep him from discovering his destiny. Moebius appears momentarily as a specter and again urges Raziel to kill Kain. After traveling to the past five hundred years before Blood Omen, Moebius arranges for the Sarafan vampire hunters to follow Raziel, allowing them to find and kill Janos. Moebius appears to taunt Raziel once more before the end of the game.
In Legacy of Kain: Defiance, Kain has drastically altered history, and he seeks Moebius for answers, but the Timestreamer evades him and answers his questions cryptically. Five hundred years in the future alongside the events of Blood Omen, Raziel meets the vampire Vorador mere hours before he is killed by Moebius' vampire hunters. Moebius taunts Raziel about recently killing Kain before teleporting away. During the ending sequence, Moebius is revived by the Elder God, but killed by Kain who had survived Raziel's attack. After his death, Moebius' soul materializes in the spectral realm before Raziel, who promptly shows him the true, horrid face of the Elder God. As Moebius is horrified over seeing his "god's" true face, Raziel tells him to feed it and then consumes his soul, sending Moebius' soul into the Wheel of Fate and ending the Timestreamer's existence for good.
