Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered Trophy Guide & Roadmap

You will have to reach the Human Citadel (See A Breach From Above how to reach it) without killing any human enemies throughout the game. You will encounter a few human enemies with crossbows throughout the game and you are not allowed to kill them. Should you reach the Citadel without killing any humans, the ones inside the Citadel will worship you when you get close to them.

Note: The human-looking enemies inside the Silent Catedral do NOT count as human and can be killed (the one throwing knives at you).

Once up there open up all 3 of the pipes and the 2 enemies at the bottom of the room will die. Do not get this trophy confused with the 2 sets of 3 pipes you have to open to break the small glass lids.

During the fight against Zephon you will have to cut all 4 of his long legs with the Soul Reaver. Should you get hit and no longer have the Reaver, you can just switch to the Spectral Realm and refill your health there. Once you cut out all 4 of his legs, the trophy will unlock.

Jumping into water will send you straight to the Spectral Realm. You have to do it before you defeat Rahab because afterward you will be immune to water.

After defating the Tomb Guardian you will be told to go to the sunken abbey. Once you reach it you will see a cutscene introducing you to Rahab’s spawn. From now on you are not allowed to touch water until you pull a chain to ring a bell. From the cutscene glide to the right and glide from platform to platform until you can reach a ledge. From there follow the path that is water-free for a few rooms, until you reach a sunken room with a few small platforms on the surface. There once again glide from one to another. At the other side follow the path until you reach an unavoidable water pool. Instead of going in, switch to Spectral realm first to turn water into air, avoiding it in the first place. Follow the path up, switch to physical realm and climb the wall next to the realm switch. Now carefully glide from one wooden beam to the next until you reach a room with 2 vampires, kill them and shoot the window. Glide very carefully from one gargoyle to another and from there to the roof. From the roof again to another platform with the chain which you have to pull.

Ariel will first appear after you defeat Kain at the Pillars. After her initial cutscene you will find a glowing circle on the floor that will let you talk to her. She will give you hints about where to find the next boss. You have to hear all 5 of the dialogues throughout the game, this makes the trophy highly missable.

1. Right after defeating Kain she will tell you where you find Zephon: “Far in the eastern mountains…”
2. After defeating Zephon she will tell you where to find the Sarafan Tomb: “Like a corpse in a shallow grave, …”
3. After you defeat the Tomb Guaridan she will tell you where to find Rahab:  “North of the Sarafan tomb …”
4. After you defeat Rahab she will tell you about Dumah: “Beyond the Cliffs….”
5. After Dumah she will tell you about Kain: “In the bowels of an inverted clockwork…”

The trophy was tested and is confirmed to work against:

• Melchiah
• Kain 1
• Zephon
• Final Kain battle

It seems not to work against:

• Dumah

Not tested:

• Rahab

It’s best to do it against either Zephon or Kain 2 since the runback to their boss arenas is by far the shortest, because of Warp Gates very close to the fight.

Once you find Dumah pinned to the throne, switch to Spectral Realm and talk to him.

Save before the fight. You will have hit Kain 3 times without being hit. You have enough time to run up to him and hit him every time but it is better to be safe than sorry.

During the Melchiah boss fight, get behind him and hit him in the back.

1. Jump inside the eye of the huge skull.
2. Follow the path in that area, that includes platforming up some wooden beams.
3. At the top follow the path until a balcony from where you will have to glide towards a cliff with a burning bonfire/torch.
4. There at the end you will find a mural block puzzle in a room with a stone statue.
5. Solve the puzzle and the statue will give you the Stone Glyph. (one block is outside the room up the ledge on your left when leaving the room, you need to push it down from there and push it back into the room).

• Switch to Spectral Realm and phase through the gate.
• Run to the end of the room, switch back to Physical Realm.
• Grab the Golden Hammer/Mallet from the wall.
• Throw the Hammer to one of the alcoves, way up high on either side of the room (you need to step back a bit to be able to throw it up there).
• Climb the wall next to the gate you came from.
• Up there switch to Spectral Realm and glide to the first pillar.
• Switch back to physical and grab the mallet you threw up here.
• With the hammer glide towards the third pillar and throw the hammer through the window there.
• Switch to Spectral Realm on the third pillar to reach the place where you threw the hammer through the window.
• Switch back to Physical Realm, pick up your Golden Hammer and use it to hit the Bell at the end there to obtain the Sound Glyph.

• Go through the wooden door that leads to a room with small stairs and 2 Dumahim vampires, kill the enemies (this is also a great area to farm the 10 Stealth Kills, should you still need them).
• Pull the crank and switch to Spectral Realm.
• Run through the doors that are blocked from closing in Spectral Realm.
• Switch to Physical Realm, jump down and pull the crank to open the gate.
• Go through the other wooden door down the slope in the banner room now.
• In the room with pillars switch to Spectral Realm and jump the pillars to the other side where you switch back to Physical Realm.
• Submerge Soul Reaver in flames to get Fire Reaver and head back to the room with the spikes, where you opened the gate with a crank.
• Use the Fire Reaver at the Statue by hitting it.
• Grab the Fire Glyph.

Swim through the tunnels to the very end, jump out of the water and you will reach a room with a female statue. To its right is a door, go inside, upstairs and jump across the small moat. Grab the block from the wall, push it into the moat and then to the very end of it down the waterfall. Jump down and push the block into the hole in the ground to fill the pit with water. Once you have done so, return to the statue to grab the Water Glyph.

Keep going up in the area until you reach a wooden door. Past the door you will see another cutscene. Follow the path and enter the first tunnel on the left which will lead you to a room with a machine in the middle, a Turelim vampire and a crank on the wall. Kill the vampire and climb up the vents in the middle of the machine. At the top you will find a block you can push down. Do so and push the block towards the crank. You can push the block in between the gears of the machine, but do not do that yet. Keep the block one space away from it and use the crank. You will see flames coming out of the slim pipes. Now push the block into the spot and the flames should stay on permanently.

Head back outside and keep going downwards. Do not enter the door, instead jump across the rusty platforms into a tower. Enter the door there and you will reach a silo-like structure leading downwards. Get to the bottom of the area and go through the triangular opening you see in a cutscene. After the first opening switch to the Spectral Realm to get past the other objects blocking your way. On the other side use the realm switch to get back into Physical Realm and head through the door. You will have to solve a pipe puzzle with blocks. Once you have connected the pipes, follow the pipe to a valve and turn it. This will turn on some steam coming out of pipes, which you can use to glide up to the pump and from there to a grate. Go through the door and follow the path. Get past the moving machinery and head back outside where you will find the now-operational lighthouse. Jump back across the rusty platforms and this time enter the door you ignored earlier. At the end you will find an altar. Wait until the sunlight hits the wall and switch to the Spectral Realm to stop time so the rays of light hit the wall permanently. This will unlock the Glyph for you to grab.

After finishing the Air Forge and using the time chamber to get to the Sarafan era, you will be tasked with visiting Janos. The Serafan era starts in the swamp again and instead of heading towards Uschtenheim, head back to the beginning of the game, to the lake in front of the Sarafan Stronghold where you will see a cutscene and unlock the trophy.

Greater Thrall are the enemies you often meet in the Forges, they carry a shield which also is the key for the doors they are blocking. Even though the trophy is missable, do not worry about having to carry an axe with you all the time. In Air Forge you will meet multiple of those enemies with a conveniently placed axe on the wall in the very same room the enemies are in, so use this opportunity to use an Axe Finisher on a Great Thrall.

Chances are high that you will not see those enemies in your entire playthough, because they are very rare and situational. Groundlings can be summoned by Fire Demons but Fire Demons are stubborn and a bit glitchy, which makes the trophy a bit glitchy itself. Fire Demons tend to have issues with their animations so they often skip them, causing a move to just stop mid-animation. The best way to have them spawn a groundling is:

• At the pillars where you talk to Ariel you will meet your first Fire Demon. Ignore it for now in the Spectral Realm and run past it to eventually get back to Physical Realm.
• Head back to the Pillars and kill the other enemies except Fire Demon.
• Stay at a medium distance from him, when you are too far he will shoot projectiles, if you are too close he will rush you.
• Wait and get lucky that he spawns a groundling.

If he does not spawn one for a long time, head back to Spectral Realm and repeat the process of running back to the Pillars so he respawns. It might take a while. If you are lucky he will do it fast, if not, you might spend 10-20 minutes here.

After Fire Forge your task will be to navigate back to the Sarafan Stronghold. Save in the room where the Elder God keeps talking to you, since the trophy is missable. Back at the Pillars you will be ambushed by 3 Fire Demons. Use the Reaver to kill them fast. They only require about 5 hits each and you can dispose of them in 15 seconds easily, but they also hit hard so the save beforehand is a good insurance.

This trophy is extremely glitchy but it can be obtained with some preparations and a some tricks. During your first visit to the Swamp you will see a short cutscene of Vorador watching Raziel from a balcony. On this balcony you will find some crows sitting on the railing and you will have to scare them off for the trophy, but it will most likely not unlock for you if you do it unprepared. For some reason, not all the crows will spawn most of the time which will make the trophy unobtainable since it requires you to to scare ALL of them off.
Workaround:

• After leaving the Sarafan Stronghold keep your eyes open for crows sitting on your path and scare ALL OF THEM off, there will be some sitting on the path, some of them will be on a bridge, there are a lot of them in the Pillars area (many sit to the right of the Pillars and there are also some on the small pillars on the staircase). Just make sure to scare off as many as you can see.
• Scare off the crows in the swamp itself, there are 2 on some broken pillars as well but one of them is unreachable so only run into the one you can actually reach.
• Before heading to the balcony, make sure to save at the Swamp Save Point.
• Quit to the menu after saving and reload your game again.
• Now all the Crows needed should be on the balcony and the trophy will unlock.

If you just scare the crows on your way, there will not be enough of them on the balcony. And only after saving and reloading the savefile they will appear. This is likely a bit glitchy, it might not work 100% everytime but this is the only method that worked repeatedly after hours of trying. The whole trophy is pretty ironic since it is a reference to a game-breaking bug from the original game, which softlocked the player from leaving the Dark Forge if they scared the crows on the balcony and now it appears to be the most glitchy trophy in the game.

In the Air Forge you will be tasked with bringing 3 colored hearts to their corresponding places. Simply bring one of them to the incorrect tunnel and you will be punished by being sent to the spectral realm. You can miss it if you place all 3 hearts correctly immediately.

This trophy is highly missable since every weapon has a specific time or a place where it appears. There are a total of 12 (13 if you count your bare hands) weapons you have to use for the trophy:

1. Long Sword – enemies in the early game use it.
2. Halberd – enemies in the early game use it.
3. Torch – can be found on walls throughout the entire game, just make sure to use it sometimes.
4. Dark Forge Staff –  a staff with a purple crystal on top, which can be only found in the Dark Forge.
5. Short Sword – it is wielded by enemies in the Dark Forge and also later in other Forges.
6. Gold Grip Axe – can be found exclusively in the Light Forge.
7. Trident Staff – can be found exclusively in the Light Forge.
8. Big Axe – enemies will start using it after the first time travel.
9. Black Axe – can be found only in the Air Forge.
10. Scimitar – can be found only on the enemies in the Air Forge.
11. Sarafan Sword – enemies will start using it after you time travel to the Sarafan era.
12. Sarafan Trident – enemies will start using it after you time travel to the Sarafan era.
13. (Bare Hands) – not sure it counts as as a weapon, but you will use it automatically anyway.

You will enter Janos’ Aerie through an underwater tunnel. Inside the first room grab the Air Reaver and destroy the wall in the tunnel on the second floor. Outside grab the Dark Reaver and head back inside to blind the eye so you can grab the cup. Transport the blood from one cauldron to the other to open the path to the next section BUT before you continue, make sure to grab Air Reaver again in this room before leaving because it helps in the next room, which will be the one you have to finish in 15 min or less. After the next cutscene your time starts so here is the solution to the room:

1. As soon as the cutscene ends take a step back and look up. Shoot the bigger circular medallion up there and then aim to the left to shoot the window.
2. Go up the slope to the second floor and once there shoot the other blue window, afterward jump down and grab the Light Reaver from the bottom floor.
3. Go up the slope again, head right and right again, jump over the other balcony and head left. Once you are on the path that leads to a door locked by a red crest, look left and you will see 2 crystals you can shoot with the Light Reaver, do that.
4. Glide to the left of the locked door so you land behind it, kill the enemy and use the shield to open the door.
5. After opening the door, turn around and head in the opposite direction, over the bridge you lowered by shooting the crystals and follow the path to the small cup you can grab. Fill it with blood from the cauldron and head back to the door you opened with the shield where you follow the path to a cauldron you have to fill with the blood from your cup.
6. Go up the new path and head right. Stop where the 2 small cups are and look opposite direction of the cups to see another 2 crystals to shoot. Shoot them and then look even further up to see another set of 2 crystals, one of them swinging. Shoot them as well. You have just released 2 more bridges.
7. Grab a cup and head back down to the last blood cauldron. With your cup now filled head back up, right, right at the end again, right again to the next empty cauldron. Pour the blood in. Grab the Dark Reaver in front of you.
8. From the cauldron go forward and this time go right towards the corridor with an eye watching you. Shoot it with Dark Reaver to blind it and kill the enemy behind it to grab its shield. With the shield head back a tiny bit and go over the first bridge to your left to use it. Afterward, jump back to the bottom to grab the Light Reaver again.
9. With the Light Reaver head back to the third floor and grab a cup, with it run to the last cauldron you filled, turn back and bring the blood to the cauldron you just made accessible with the shield door.
10. Go up to the fourth floor and once again glide to the left of the shield-lock door to reach its backside where you can kill the enemy and open the door. After opening the door, run forward and at around halfway through the corridor look right to see another set of 2 crystals to shoot. Shoot them to release another bridge.
11. Head to the end of the hallway to the next shield door and glide over the broken bridge to get behind it. Kill the enemy and open the door again.
12. With the door now open, grab the cup from where the enemy was and run back to the stairs leading to third floor where you can fill it up. Do so and with your full cup run upstairs again, to the left and at the end there you will find a cauldron.
13. Run back to the 2 small cups and grab another one. With the empty cup run back to the cauldron you just filled and then go over the bridge you just created, follow the bridges to find the final cauldron you can fill. Go upstairs and once you interact with the door you will unlock the trophy.

15 Minutes are very generous once you know where to go. You can do it in half the time easily.

This is missable since it is a speedrun trophy spanning across an entire playthrough. You have to beat the game in under 6 hours. If you are not familiar with the original game, you might not make it in time. If you know where to go, however, the game can be easily finished in only 3 hours, so the time is very generous. If you miss out on it on the first run simply do another speedrun to get it easily.