Opening the Sounding Pipes - Soul Reaver - Legacy of Kain: The Lost Worlds

Opening the Sounding Pipes

After defeating Kain (see The Final Battle with Kain), Raziel would have used The Amplified Reaver to fight his way through an onslaught of increasingly desperate vampires, to The Pinnacle of The Silenced Cathedral and there opened its sounding pipes. Unleashing the power of the Cathedral on the world of Nosgoth would have purged it of the entire vampire population, leaving Raziel the only surviving member of his race.

It is uncertain how the gameplay for this last part of the game would have been structured, or how much (if any) of it would have been interactive. Staff who worked on the game have described this final chapter as being earmarked for depiction in an FMV. Some accounts indicate that it was slated to be rendered by GlyphX (like the intro), but that Eidos was unwilling to provide the budget. Series artist Daniel Cabuco stated that an FMV would have been rendered using the game engine instead, similar to the Chronoplast cinematics.

There is a set of three sounding pipes accessible in the retail version of the game which can be used to kill the two Zephonim vampires in the same room. This may have been related to this sequence, but the actual location seems to have been a series of chambers accessed using a deleted tunnel behind Zephon, which is discussed in The Pinnacle of The Silenced Cathedral.

The small-scale sounding pipes in the final version of the game

Audio Reconstruction
File	Size	Author
The Original Ending Sequence	1 MiB	CD/TLW
Based on unused audio extracted from Soul Reaver and arranged by Ben Lincoln.