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I did not make this, Steve Ross (art director of Blood Omen 2) did. Here is his online portfolio: sxross.com/I was looking for this picture on the net but I never found it. In the Prima eGuide for Blood Omen 2, there is a picture of Faustus. I clicked "Prt Scrn" and made the background black with Paint. It took me time!
For those who would like to know, yes, Steve Ross has authorized me to post this. See his words here: i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc…
(C) Faustus - Crystal Dynamics
I remind you: all credit goes to Steve Ross, not VipericVampire!
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Hey man, I didn't do this. I put this on deviantART with Steve Ross' (the original artist, the art director from BO2) permission. But, on his behalf, thanks!
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awe thats really cool you got to talk to the director of blood omen 2 thats fucking epic dude.you are in some way connected to the blood omen world now you aint just a fan that rocks
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I don't want to worry you and sorry to bring this, but you shouldn't post this even if you write that this work belongs to Steve Ross. It's not yours and i doubt you got a permission from him to post it. You should remove this one.
Read the DA copyright policy about it:
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Here, he said yes.
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You're right. I've actually considered taking it off many times, but the only reason I chose to keep it is because it is available nowhere else. He did not even put it on his website. And I have thought of contacting him, but he usually takes about a month to reply (I've chatted with him before), but I suffer from laziness. Tell you what, since someone else finally urged me to contact him, I will. If he does not want this to be here, then it will be taken off immediately. But if he asks me to take it off, then he should at least save the image and put it on his website. I mean, this picture cannot be found anywhere.
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Would you mind if i use this pic as a drawing reference? I can't find any good pics of Faustus. I will give you credit for allowing me to use this.
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Of course you can use it as a reference! This drawing isn't even mine, so I can't even give you permission, it was made by Steve Ross (Art Director of Blood Omen 2), so please give the credit to him. But, please do show me what your drawing will look like, I just am really curious.
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Excellent, I can't wait! 
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You're welcome! 
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Faustus looks great, sad he is one of the weaker ones in BO2...for some reason he looks like a Mortal Kombat fighter to me though, lol.
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I liked him a lot. Well, only his look and his jumping ability. I hated his personality.
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Yeah, he is quite arrogant, but also seems to have a cowardly side hidden behind that, although I remember Sebastian being any different(in personality) =/...but mostly I hate the fact that he was a traitor...
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I hated Sebastian and everything about him.
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Yeah that exalted bastard...but Berserk was one of my top fave attacks, jumping on people with Faustus' ability was awesome...it was so "out of nowhere"
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Well said! I felt Sebastian wasn't using his berserk in a proper manner and that it made Faustus look like a monkey.
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lol
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I'd say I liked the spike club, the sound was funny. There was also the Darth Maul style sword, the hits in stealth mode and when choking someone were great. The scimitar was nice too. I also liked the giant swords you would get from Sarafan Knights, you can chop heads with them. The battle-axe was cool too for throwing people off great distances. I would love to try the Scythe of the Guardians in the Eternal Prison, but I guess you can't. And, of course, the Soul Reaver was fun.
You forgot about Immolate in the game. Man, I'd kill for that ability in real life. Telekinesis was funny in the game, when you'd mess with people. Charm was cool too. So was mist. I'd love to have all those in real life, except enhanced telekinesis (like in Defiance) and better charm. As for mist, I'd love to go through doors and sneak up on people, but you couldn't do that in BO2.
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Well I have two fave weapons from there...The first and most efficient, as far as I'm concerned, was the huge sword of the sarafan/glyph knight...if you grabbed your enemy and it wasn't too heavily armored like the knight you could just decapitate the poor thing
I didn't forget about immolate, actually I wanted to say I felt a tad bad for Magnus...but then I was like "nah...". Well immolate is high level pyrokinesis, instead of killing practice for 2-3 decades and you should get there, good luck^^. Modern quantum mechanics confirm that stuff works by the way. Just thought I'd mention it since you display such passion
Oh yes mist ruled!! Death from nowhere, or something...in fact I preferred to kill the enemies like that when I had the choice, it took more time but it paid off. Mist ruleZ0r!!
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Yeah, I do know about pyrokinesis. But I don't have 20-30 years to practice. I'm very impatient.
Berserk was good too, so was fury. The attacks in Defiance were mind-blowing.
About mist, the blood stays the same. Whatever attack you use, it's the same. But in theory, your suggestion would work.
I did like telekinesis. If you were on a box and in front of an enemy who can't reach you, all you have to do is TK them... and it's funny.
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Well 20-30 is to get powerful enough for an immolate attack...nowhere near as powerful as Kain's though, we couldn't beat that guy if we tried, lolz. But yeah, is your typical fireball too bad for you?
The attacks in Defiance really added the martial diversity which was missing from the previous games. Like in soul reaver 2, you didn't have many attack...or in blood omen you basically had one combo and no aerial attacks, as for special combos(aka Berserk) you had to wait for the rage to fill up. In Defiance you really had a lot more freedom in combat, which was great. I have one question however...remember in Defiance how you a reaver-shaped xp bar filled up as you beat mobs? Did this count hits or kills? and if it counted hits...would it work if kept attacking a defeated mob repeatedly, by keeping it in the air with nightmare's hammer for instance, would those swings count?
Thing is TK had abit of an annoying "cool-down-time" and usually it was quicker and less boring to kill mobs in hand to hand combat, or so it seemed to me...of course when a mob was running towards me I shot it with TK, but afterwards I turned to close combat...anyway that's just me, lol. Oh yes, TK in defiance was scary
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I'm lazy too. And I guess I fireball ain't enough.
I wouldn't know how to answer that question about LOKD, though. I only made my way to Moebius (the first encounter) before my PC crashed and refused to play it. I did see all the videos of LOKD on the net, but I so wanna beat those Sarafan warriors and throw them off to their death!
Yeah, TK wasn't unlimited like in BO2, oh well.
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This is why sloth is one of the 7 deadly sins
No problem^^
I personally never really enjoyed killing the sarafan, to me they were merely deluded..although their 'dude we are so righteous' gave me a headache and murder Janos Audron really made me sad...he was such a kind soul, according to what I've seen so far at least. Anyway, the Hylden I really disliked...and them I truly enjoyed getting rid off, lol.
Something about Janos Audron...do you always notice how is it that he always fails to protect even his own life? I mean ok he doesn't want to hurt people, but in SR2 when the sarafan find and use the staff to incapacitate him he could've just used telekinesis to throw the staff from their hands or even shatter it and then just fly away =/, c'mon he is supposed to be like demigod or something...he always seems to lose to easily and something stinks about that. Or in BO2, he just got thrown about by the Sarafan Lord and then just fed into the void as if he didn't even have wings... Maybe he is tired, from the millenia and in BO2 he remained in the device for a long time without feeding, instead being drained he did look in bad shape there if looked at his face... I don't know if in LOKD it was his fault at all...but still, he got beaten again. Always just too easily...I'm curious as to what do you think of that=/
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Yeah, well I want a super fireball like Kain.
I felt bad for the Hylden, actually. It wasn't their fault, they just didn't want to convert to the Vampires" religion and got banished for that. That's mean. And besides, the Vampires were deluded too. They didn't know what it was they so righteously worshiped, as Raziel would say. The real enemy is the Giant Squid, he needs to be killed and the Hylden need to be freed so they can have eternal peace with the Vampires.
About Janos Audron, I've always seen him as a pussy. He's not a demigod (Kain is), he's a GOD. Hes always weak, it's sad. We only see Janos as a badass in Defiance, and that's only when he's possessed. In BO2, he seems cool when he tries to fight the Sarafan Lord but he gets owned so easily. He's just weak. That also makes me think: if young Kain could kill the Sarafan Lord and the Sarafan Lord could beat up Janos Audron AND if Raziel beat possessed Janos, and Kain and Raziel are equal in power, then wouldn't it mean that Kain could easily destroy Janos?
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Start with a match size and you reach the super-special-awesome-Kain-like one ;]...
Oh yeah, I kinda forgot about that...Were the hylden in this (by "this" I mean land of Nosgoth) dimension at first? Probably yeah, right? I had forgotten about that mural depicting the history from a Hylden point of view. Come to think of it that creature has caused a lot of trouble, indeed...maybe the Hylden were right to rebel. Those two races in peace together would really rule... Crazy history those LOK series come to think of it
Maybe he's gotten old and had arthritis and Alzheimer...yeah that could explain a lot
And yes Kain, sadly even in his early stages of evolution Kain could cook Janos good... with an immolate of course
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Because of you, I'll practice pyrokinesis. (Maybe when I'll be 100 years old, I'll be able to fry humans alive
If I were in Nosgoth, I would try to free the Hylden and then ask them to help me fry the Elder God. Mmmm... Sushi...
I too think CrystalD wanted to lose him or just use his heart. However, when I imagined him I thought he was going to be a vicious Vampire with black wings.. but it turned out he was... well...
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Ha! So it's my fault now
If you were in Nosgoth what would you be? Sounds like a good plan, count me in
Janos could have been both noble and fierce at the same time... Plus he was like the only one there going "Oh no there is time", or "If we survive, should any of us be fortunate enough to live until such a time"...it's all about positive thinking
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If I were someone in Nosgoth, I wouldn't be:
Raziel - sorry, but I don't like to burn in acid
Kain - hmmm, trying to avert destiny is too hard for me
Umah - ...
Vorador - I like my head when it's with my body, thanks
Kain's LTs - NEVER. Especially NOT Melchiah or Zephon. Maybe Turel...
Elder God - Kain's gonna make sushi out of him anyway, so I don't want to be in his place
Janos Audron - pussy
Hylden - I like them, but they're just too skinny
Ancients - I'm not into suicide... especially for some squid
Demons - w00t!
Human Guardians - NO, except for Mortanius. HE IS COOL, but Kain kills him.
Sarafan - nah...
Human Peasant - LMFAO.
So that leaves out everyone but my own character... Viper. I want to be myself in Nosgoth, a vampire that seeks knowledge and that nobody knows about. Not even Kain. I operate in secret and stalk Kain and maybe I'll talk to him someday... if I have the courage.
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Basically I asked 'what' meaning nature and not 'who', so you answered me pretty clearly.
It's funny when as my OC slowly came into "realization" I understood that he's story was something between Raziel from LOK and the biblical angel Raziel...of whom I didn't know anything back then, lol. He's story leads to my current life eventually. I'm getting into a tad crazy stuff though, lol sorry^^...he's full name is Diabla Sylvan Senkrad, which is nothing more than a description rather than an actual name, in no certain language. He is a plainshifter like Raziel, but with an undefined nature. How did you first come up with Viper? I find talking about such interesting... Stalk Kain? You think he hasn't noticed?
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Hmmm... Sorry I didn't say ''what''. Vampires - no, they're all dead, Hylden - skinny, Humans - pathetic, Wraiths - nah. I'd be part human, part vampy, part Hylden.
Well, Viper is just my name, so I guess my character's name could change. Viper doesn't sound Nosgothic. I'll have to think up of something else. And about getting noticed by Kain, my character is a stealthy guy, and he's not in love with Kain (O_O), he's just stalking him so he can learn as much as Kain can about Nosgoth's destiny.
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You just said "a vampire who seeks knowledge" or something in the previous reply that's why I assumed you would be a vampire. He will have to be more than just silent and invisible...to avoid being noticed by a vampire of Kain league. Viper, is like your actual name? If so it is the first time I hear that name...did you change it on your own or did your parents actually name you that...Don't get me wrong, I'm just a bit surprised... it's actually pretty cool and not you conventional Matt, Alex, George or Mr Whatever...lol.
Lol...for my character the only thing that comes even close to him in Nosgoth is a wraith, lol.
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Well, first my actual name isn't (Lord) Viper. It's my fake name. I'm growing tired of it, for some reason. LOL
And about the stealthnees, my character has powers of digsuise, illusion, lightning/pyro, teleportation, mind control, invisibility, camouflage, shape-shifting, blastwave, TK. Mostly mind powers. He is only 250 years younger than Kain, so he's probably as powerful as Kain, but he doesn't use his powers arrogantly like Kain, my character is smarter.
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Had to ask...I've seen weird names, so yeah hehe...Well just by using it all the time you'll feel like you need a change at some point doesn't matter how awesome it would be. That's why I've given my character nothing but a vague description, so he can have endless aliases...lol
Hmm, well if he is that old yeah, it's only natural he's progressed that much...I see you have slightly made the chronology, in what part of Nosgoth's history would his vampiric beginning be? Was he turned or resurrected as a vampire? Weird chat huh?
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Hmm, he was born 50 years after Kain died in BO2, and became a Vampire/Hylden 50 years after. I guess.
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How did he become a Vampire/Hylden? I've never heard of anyone being turned into a Hylden...unless he was Hylden who was turned into a vampire...or something, lol I'm not making sense, am I?
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No, you're not.
First, he was offered the gift by Vorador. Then, he spoke with the Seer and she gave him part of the Hylden gift. Over time, he would drink from vampire chicks and take their gift. He would then steal gifts from dead vampire bodies, trying to recover what gift is left from them. Like a little parasite. Over time, though, he would evolve into something stronger. But, unlike Kain, wouldn't grow arrogant, but rather, careful.
Simple, isn't it?
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Oh that explains it..lol why only vampire chicks?
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I dunno, cause he's dude. LOL, I guess he could do it with guys too. LMAO. Immortal beings are vile creatures indeed. Or he could just kill them. I'll consider that when I write. He will use Umah too.
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There are many opinions on Umah... I still don't have one
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*** Oops, error: I don't hate her. I don't love her. ***
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I don't like her, I don't love her. I'm neutral about her. Her intentions were good, but Kain is the emperor and this is HIS legacy not kingdom of the vampires'.
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Yeah pretty selfish if you think about it...but hey it made for a great srory, didn't it?
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