Raziel's execution was a major event in the Soul Reaver era, serving as the introduction to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. When Raziel surpassed Kain in stages of evolutionary pupation - growing bat-like wings - Kain responded by tearing the wings from Raziel's back, and instructing Turel and Dumah to cast him into the Lake of the Dead. For five hundred years, Raziel lingered in the Abyss, before being resurrected by the Elder God.