Miscellaneous Deleted Dialogue - Blood Omen 2 - Legacy of Kain: The Lost Worlds

Miscellaneous Deleted Dialogue

A large amount of incidental and alternate dialogue is present in the data file for Blood Omen 2, but unused in the game. It would actually be impractical to host it all online, but it can be extracted using instructions in the How To section.

Some of the more interesting clips are available at the end of this article. The most surprising omission was Kain's "vae victus!" battle cry from the original game. Perhaps when Blood Omen 2 was made, a pronounciation couldn't be decided upon. Most modern Latin scholars believe that the Romans would have pronounced it something like "way wiktus!" - which sounds less than fearsome. The lack of an unbroken line of Latin speakers makes it impossible to know for sure. I prefer to think that the Romans sounded awesome, and therefore was pleased that in Defiance, the phrase makes an appearance with its Blood Omen-style pronounciation.

Continuing the Nosgothian Latin tradition is another bit of unused speech where Kain exclaims "mors mortuibus... death, for the dead". This phrase was cut from the end of his sequence with The Builder.

A number of sequences are present with more or less the same content as in the retail version of the game, but performed by Crystal Dynamics employees as temporary versions before the real dialogue was recorded. This offers a rare glimpse of the difference between a game in its development phase and when it finally hits store shelves.

Deleted Audio
File	Size	Author
Death for the Dead	29 KiB	Crystal Dynamics
Unused audio extracted from Blood Omen 2. Would have gone at the end of Kain's scene with The Builder.

Deleted Audio
File	Size	Author
Die, Mortal	14 KiB	Crystal Dynamics
Unused audio extracted from Blood Omen 2.

Deleted Audio
File	Size	Author
Kain and Sebastian (1/2)	184 KiB	Crystal Dynamics
Unused audio extracted from Blood Omen 2. Performed by Crystal Dynamics employees.

Deleted Audio
File	Size	Author
Kain and Sebastian (2/2)	234 KiB	Crystal Dynamics
Unused audio extracted from Blood Omen 2. Performed by Crystal Dynamics employees.

Deleted Audio
File	Size	Author
Lower City dialogue	913 KiB	Crystal Dynamics
Unused audio extracted from Blood Omen 2. Performed by Crystal Dynamics employees.

Deleted Audio
File	Size	Author
Vae Victus!	23 KiB	Crystal Dynamics
Unused audio extracted from Blood Omen 2. Simon Templeman doing several variations on the "vae victus" pronounciation.