Zephon

ZEPHON IN SOUL REAVER

In Soul Reaver, Zephon was Kain's fifth vampire lieutenant - the weakest, except Melchiah. He witnessed Raziel revealing his wings to Kain, and he was also present at Raziel's execution.

When Raziel returned from the Abyss, he sought revenge on all of his former brethren. After sparring with Kain in the Sanctuary of the Clans, he turned his attention to Zephon. He infiltrated the Silenced Cathedral - the Zephonim stronghold - and started to work his way up the building. Zephon's personal chamber was at the top. As Raziel saw, centuries of mutation had changed the fifth-born greatly.

Zephon's evolution had made him the largest of the vampire lieutenants in Soul Reaver. He towered over Raziel, and he had very long, thin limbs. He was clearly an insect-creature (as he said himself), but he was less spider-like than his descendants. With his bulging egg sac, Zephon had the look of an insect hive queen. He was actually very reminiscent of the Alien Queen (from the movie Aliens ). As Nosgothic vampires were unable to procreate in any natural way, it was strange that Zephon developed like this. It is unknown whether his eggs ever hatched into offspring, but one would suspect not.

Zephon claimed that the cathedral had become his body over the years. Coupled with his size, this probably meant he was unable to leave his chamber. Not that he needed to. Zephon didn't require freedom of movement to survive - there were plenty of humans in the levels below, wrapped in thread for easy feeding. Raziel accused him of "only scuttling from the shadows to devour a victim already ensnared in [his] cowardly trap". He also commented that Zephon's visage was "an appropriate reflection" of his corrupt soul. In return, Zephon mocked Raziel. Raziel was no longer handsome, and simply a morsel for him to devour.

Raziel used Zephon's curious eggs as a weapon against him. At some point, a human vampire hunter had found his way up to the chamber, armed with a flamethrower. The human was dead, but the flame still burned. Raziel set the eggs alight with it, and threw them at his huge sibling. Eventually, the fire took hold, and Zephon burned to death. Raziel consumed Zephon's soul, and gained the ability to scale walls.

Later in Soul Reaver, Raziel discovered that Zephon, like himself, had once been a Sarafan warrior-priest.

ZEPHON IN SOUL REAVER 2

In Soul Reaver 2, he uncovered more evidence of their shared history in the Sarafan Stronghold. Zephon's chapter house mural revealed that he had been red-haired in life.

When Raziel travelled back in time to meet Janos Audron, five centuries before the events of Blood Omen, he encountered the living Zephon. Zephon was one of the five Sarafan Inquisitors who broke into Janos' aerie and murdered him. Raziel chased the men back to the Sarafan Stronghold, and killed them all with the Reaver. Zephon died in battle alongside Melchiah, in the open air courtyard. His corpse was interred in the Tomb of the Sarafan, where it awaited Kain's arrival around a thousand years later.