Talk:Conversion Resurrection/@comment-24441215-20140617065621/@comment-4867780-20140617222401

The mutations happened for a very different reason : the corruption of the Pillars of Nosgoth, to which Kain was bound from birth as one of their guardians, the mutative curse passed on to all his vampire descendants (every single vampire in Nosgoth since he was the last survivor) while he himself was spared the degenerative aspect, growing ever stronger with little visible change.

This vampiric mutation is one of the most fascinating aspect of the series, both their impressive extent and large diversity. After all, vampires are supposed to be unchanging walking corpses forever frozen in time.

The Soul Reaver vampires have a very dynamic biology, more so than any other life-form in the series, birthing very different sub-species depending on their environement/lifestyle, and even transcending the natural weaknesses that would normally kill them in seconds.