Rayne (BloodRayne)

Rayne (born 1915) is the main protagonist of the franchise. She is the daughter of the Kagan and an unnamed human woman, making her a . She was an agent of the Brimstone Society, a secret fraternity who works to protect humanity from all supernatural evil, under the agent code name: BloodRayne.
She was voiced by .
==Biography==
===Background===
Rayne was born in the in 1915 due vampire lord Kagan raping her mother. After then, she lived with her mother's family for a while, before Kagan found them and killed her mother and maternal family. It was his policy for the women he raped to create an army of dhampirs for his evil goals. It's implied that he nearly drove young Rayne crazy. At some point after her mother's death, she was taken in by Prof. Tremaine in before she could have become like most of her evil siblings, though she probably didn't know about his connections to Brimstone.
She had spent a few of her teenage years trying to hunt down and kill her father to avenge her family. She hunted all across Europe, where she murdered vampires for information on her father before being apprehended by police in 1932. She claimed that her victims had been vampires but was disbelieved by the authorities. She quickly managed to escape from them and continue her hunt. Not long after, in 1933, news of her vampire-slaying caught the attention of the Brimstone Society. She had been watched by Brimstone for some time, her potential as a powerful agent of the organization being highly needed. After pursuing a vampire couple, she killed them. She was nearly ambushed by a group of alerted vampires lured in by a distress call from the female vampire Rayne had subdued, interrogated, then immediately afterward decapitated. She escaped to a nearby rooftop where her Brimstone observers had been and left behind a grenade to kill them all. She discovers the Brimstone necklace left behind by them, looking at it curiously. The mysterious piece of jewelry was an invitation, and then she was soon after recruited at 18 years old.
===BloodRayne===
Her first official assignment is to find survivors in the town of Mortton, and eradicate a supernatural infestation of the mutates, with the help of her mentor Mynce. The source of the infection were the spider-like maraisreqs. After rescuing the survivors, Rayne returns to safe point only to see them and Mynce being eaten by maraisreqs, but one of them leads her to a strange source of energy. Upon destroying the source, the Maraisreq Queen, she discovers a strange glowing rib in its body. The rib immediately moves on it's own as Rayne touches it and forces itself into her own rib cage as she falls over in pain. Shortly after, a man by the name of Jurgen Wulf finds her and pulls the rib out of Rayne's chest with his own gloved demonic hand and leaves her for dead. She somehow survived.
Five years later in 1938, Rayne is assigned to infiltrate a Nazi sub-bay and mining facility on the coast of to gather information on lost demonic relics and kill officers of a secret branch of Nazis, called the Gengeist Gruppe, which is investigating the supernatural for military purposes. In the chapel she met Von Blut, a hight priest of , who told her that they were looking for a skull and the other parts of Beliar, "an ancient Aryan king from ". 
Later, making her way through the base, she hears Nazis being attacked by somebody but finds nobody. In search of living people she found daemites, the demons who can possess humans' bodies. Then she has to fight with both daemites and nazis and continues her way before running into the Kommando and a squad of the elite soldiers. After killing them, she meets Dr. Bathory Mengele, a nazi scientist responsible for the experiments. She told her that they had found the daemites in the underground and wanted to use them but the situation got out of control. After a fight, Rayne kicks her into a pit with the daemites and burns them by using a control panel. After that she jumps there herself and goes deeper. 
There are a lot of fights between nazis and daemites and even a returning Kommando, now possessed by a daemite. Later on, in an undergound temple, Rayne finds the relic the Nazis are mining for, a crystal skull with the left eye of Beliar. As soon as Rayne takes it, the eye forces itself into her. It was painful but Rayne got an ability of extruded view. Immediately after, nazis dug their way here and were gonna explode the temple. Rayne quickly gets out of here and is running away from the explosion. On the way back she stumbles upon Mauler, a cyber-enhanced G.G.G. officer, who tells her the truth. Beliar was the original ruler of Hell before Lucifer and Wulf has almost all artifacts. Rayne kills him and goes to a sub-bay just as Jurgen Wulf begins to sail away.
To continue her mission, she stows away on a U-boat that took her to , where she learns the G.G.G. were searching for the most powerful and dangerous relic in Castle Gaustadt, the Black Heart of Beliar. In the castle she found an Unholy Mecha and used it to kill its creator G. Gosler and other mecha pilots. In the other part of castle she sees Mynce, now a nazi officer working with Wulf. Enraged, she kills the soldiers and afterwards fights Mynce, eventually Mynce seemingly dies again falling down into a chasm. 
After some fights a bombardment happens. Trying to escape, she jumps down at a windmill. There also was Hedrox, a leader of the vampires, who wants to learn how to use the heart. Being unable to kill him by regular methods, because his torned parts regenerate and produce new Hedroxes, she breaks the supporting beams and lures him to a water. All Hedroxes except the original die and he has to escape. Rayne moves further, to a bridge, where she's confronted by Jurgen. He doesn't kill her but burns the bridge and quickly goes away. Despite a destruction of the bridge and the heavy resistance, Rayne manages to enter a cathedral. 
Here she sees two Siamese twins, Sigmund and Simon Krieger, fighting feral vampires. When fighting her, they're nice and flirt a lot with her. She has to kill them, though saddened by their deaths. Suddenly, a rope-ladder is lowered. Rayne climbs it and finds Mynce. Mynce explains to Rayne that all that time she was Brimstone's double agent in G.G.G. Both Jurgen and Hedrox must be stopped, otherwise Beliar will be summoned. As they move further, gates suddenly close, so the friends are separated. Then Jurgen comes and kills Mynce by ripping her heart. Rayne's very enraged and chases Wulf.
She confronts him and Hedrox standing in the middle of dead vampires and Nazis. Hedrox accidentally resurrects Beliar, who takes his body and incinerates his clones. After a hard fight with Jurgen Wulf and Beliar, Rayne manages to triumph over the both of them. She notices the still-beating heart of Beliar and kneels down next to it, reaching out her hand to seemingly take its power for herself. Before she could touch it, the heart completely petrifies and she stares at it for a moment before kicking it down into a dark pit. She walks away now that her mission is complete and was soon informed by Brimstone that her father had been found and must be stopped.
===BloodRayne 2===
The game begins on the 31st October, 2004, in Dariel Zerensky's estate, New York. Rayne works with with her new informant-partner, Severin. They enter the estate of Zerenski who is a Kagan's child. Zerensky invited city council, captains of industry, high rollers, mob bosses and other rich, influential people for tonight. He's rumored to be connected to a Cult of Kagan. While the guests are partying, Rayne starts exploring the mansion and encounters a number of Zerenski's minions, including a dhampir assasin.
Wheen looking in picture of Kagan, her vampire father, Rayne gets a flashback on Brimstone Society's library (called Blood Library) with a couple of Nazis inside. Upon entering it, she meets him. Kagan notices her, but is not moved by her presence. He knows it is his offspring (but does not know her name), but says she smells "tainted", asking who was her mother. He appears busy, looking for something. He finds what he was looking for, the "Vesper Shards".
Knowing Rayne still wants to kill him, he then brings Professor Tremaine, her stepfather, up from the floor, severely beaten, showing his own small intestine around his neck. Kagan tells her that Tremayne "stole" yet another offspring from him. During his talk, he speculates that the Brimstone Society knew the Vesper Shard's powers and was eventually going to kill their dhampir allies such as Rayne. Tremayne then pulls out a grenade, first giving time for Rayne to run, then detonates the grenade. Denied the pleasure of killing him herself, Rayne spent the last 60 years after the seeking out and destroying Kagan's offspring. These offspring, Rayne's half-siblings, have banded together to form a group called the Cult of Kagan.
After the bad memories she goes to the yard and uses acrobatics to go upper. On the roof she reaches the another end and disables electricity to open a door. Beyond it she finds Carpathian Dragons, a weapon for dhampirs. It turns blood into metallic projectiles. Being empty, they immediately took blood from her. To Severin's surprise, she survives. Since now she can use enemies' blood as well as her own as a fuel for it. As Rayne goes to the ballroom, Severin tells her that Zerenski is killing the guests. Having arrived late, she sees the slaughter. During a brief talk with Dariel he mentions his half-sister Delinda being killed (by Rayne) and hints at Kagan's children having no loyalty to their father. After a talk she goes after him and kills him with Carpathian Dragons. Then Severin arrives on a helicopter and picks her up.
On a next night they go to a bar to discuss their plans. Meanwhile, Kagan's thugs go on the streets and start rioting. Police hardly fights them and the city is left without its authorities. Severin feels it and leaves. Shortly after, a police car crashes into the bar and causes fire. Rayne goes up and has to fight thugs, while fire protection system pours water on lower floor.
The streets are filled with the thugs. There is some heavy activity at a meatpacking plant, called Ray Ray's Meats. Here Rayne meets the Kestrels, the seven identical dhampir daughter of Kagan from . Despite Severin's warnings, Rayne wants to chase them and kills one of them at the streets. Then she goes to an union station. The cultists seem to kidnap people and take them somewhere.
One Kestrel, after seeing Rayne's abilities, asks her to join them but her offer is turned down and she gets killed. Going through the station, Rayne gets to a ventilation and then finds herself at the club strateges. Here, at the club, she's trapped inside a bloodfield by a Kestrel. The music is sounding loudly, while the minions attack her. By throwing them into the musical columns, she causes an explosion and destroys the bloodfield. She then proceeds to the scaffolding and the chapel. Here she meets her half-sister Ephemera, who kills a Kestrel by throwing her to the wall. While Ephemera is fighting Rayne, the gears of the chapel start to collapse. Ephemera is stronger than Rayne, but suddenly stops fighting. She tells her that they chose a bad place to fight and then goes away.
The mechanism collapses and Rayne falls down with it to the sewer. The three remaining Kestrels meet her and then go away. Rayne notices that the vampires act so obviously, kidnapping citizens, fighting the cops. Severin tells her that they're planning something big. Following the trail of the kidnappers, she meets a fifth Kestrel and her new minions - the suicide bombers. Rayne wondered how they were tricked into that, but Kestrel said that they had cut out their tongues and would do everything for their mistress. Rayne kills the bombers and Kestrel. To proceed further, she has to run away from the streams of water, climb pipes and break the pumps to lower the level of water. Severin says that there might be tunnel to a subway, used by the cult to kidnap the people.
Rayne meets a huge, monstrous creature called Slezz, who, based on the smell, mistakes Rayne for Kagan and demands the return of her children. Kagan's son Xerx took them from her. As Severin says, she is a Babylonian Winged Shakab vampire and is used as a baby factory by Kagan. As Shakabs can only be killed by destroying the heart, Rayne distracts her by turning of the water flow and throws the incoming suicide bombers at her. Having ripped her stomach, Rayne goes inside and rips out the heart with a haproon. Slezz dies, so Rayne can climb on her and go to the tunnel. Rayne says that she has bowel in her hair and needs a minute alone.
The sun is up and the next day begins. Rayne comes to Wetworks factory, which belongs to her half-sister Ferril. The security talks about some turned vampires and some "Shroud". Inside the compound she's killing the Ferril's men, vampires and dhampirs, and destroying the equipment. Some time later, Severin tells her that there's some sort of red clouds, issuing from a number of vents, under which the vampires walk freely. Vampires will be able to move in daylight freely. After learning how bad the situation can become, Rayne rushes upstairs. She sees the street people being send to be processed into the "Shroud".
It all pumps into the tower in the centre of the compound. Meanwhile, Ferril meets her and becomes enraged at her for the destruction of the factory. At the way to the tower she meets a lot of turrets. To go to the tower, she destroys the heart-like structure that keeps the blood oil in the system in motion. At the Shroud tower she encounters Ferril. Since Ferril is invulnerable, strong and fast, Rayne can only break the vents of the tower, causing it to collapse.
Rayne collapsed under the rubble, while Ferril was encountered by Kagan and his people, including Ephemera. Kagan scolds Ferril for the destruction of the tower. Ephemera responds that it was a dhampir assasin, but Kagan is perplexed. Ferril then understood that Ephemera had known about the dhampir but hadn't told about it. Kagan states that they no longer need her service, so Ferril gets mad and hits the father. He doesn't die and tells Ephemera to get rid of her. Ephemera backstabs her sister, says that she is more clever and throws her off the tower. Kagan then tells to flood the sky with the Shroud. After they left, Rayne gets out from the rubbles and tells Severin that she is glad to have the opportunity to kill Kagan.
The Shroud floods the city and then the vampires invade it. Watching the process from the balcony of his main tower, Kagan tells Ephemera to bring him his kingdom. Then the large buildings of the city are being destroyed.
In the park, Rayne feels bad for letting the Shroud be unleashed. Severin says communication with Brimstone is gone and they're left on their own. She proceeds further into the twisted park, seeing vampires slaying the civillians, and meets Ephemera's ninjas. In the zoo she meets the elite ninjas, the Shadow Legion. Going north through the zoo, she eventually spots the corpses chained to the walls. When Rayne gets attacked, the corpses erupt mutated cockroaches who together form a humanoid mass. The cockroaches die only from fire. On her path to Ephemera's lair, there are some fights between the insects and the vampires.
Confronted by Rayne, Ephemera says she thought that Ferril killed her. As she says, there can be only one traitor at the top. Rayne chases her and ends up in her ese-style lair. Ephemera uses shadow portals to recover health but Severin informs Rayne of that, so she can destroy them. Before dying, Ephemera says it isn't possible and calls Rayne a mongrel half-blood. Rayne responds by telling her to rest in hell.
On the exit, both Rayne and Severin see Ferril alive. Enraged at Kagan for betraying her, Ferril has gathered her followers and is encouraging them to fight for her. They're going to Kagan's tower. Severin compares Rayne to Ferill but Rayne disagrees. As the Ferril's minions are about to leave on helicopters, Rayne clings to a helicopter's legs and flies with them.
Near the tower the helicopters get attacked by Kagan's forces, but Rayne manages to jump into a window. Here she meets her half-brother Xerx Mephistopheles. Kagan's punks and sun guns attack her but she fights back. Xerx goes away. As Rayne walks through the floors of the towers, she sees a lot fights between the minions of Ferril and Kagan, including Kagan's elite guard of vampires and bio-suits. Some time later, she fights the vampire monster Unraveler.
On the way to the roof, Rayne meets Ferril who wants a cruel revenge on Kagan. Rayne says she's been wanting to kill him for 75 years and Ferril only got this idea yesterday. Ferril thinks it's time to extract her inheritance, but Rayne compares the world Kagan's created to leprosy. Ferril doesn't listen and runs forward. However, she quickly gets killed by a sun gun. It was Xerx in his bio mech who killed her. He tells that the Vesper Shards, which Kagan has found at the Brimstone's library, taught them to harness the sun's lethal power and pierce the Shroud. While falling down, Xerx says he doesn't understand why Rayne doesn't like the vampire's paradise. Rayne responds that she liked the world better when she didn't know about the vampires.
Rayne jumps down and goes TO Kagan's throne room. Kagan meets her and wonders whether it was worth the effort to create him. The Vesper Shard became part of him, which was unpleasant but made him stronger. During the fight, the father tells the daughter that the Shroud can't be reversed and there are some vampire overlords besides him. Rayne kills him, kicks in the groin, saying this is "for her mother, for her city and for her angry little misspent life". She cuts off his head and calls him a rat-sucking son of a bitch.
Kagan and the siblings are dead. Unfortunately for Rayne, the world didn't return to normal when Kagan died. Severin tells her that a lot of people desperately need help and leadership. She's never cared about humans, but her human half is enough. Rayne agrees and is looking for work now. They need to assemble a larger team and deal with the vampires in the city. Besides, they control a sungun.
However, if Kagan was right, then there are other powerful vampire overlords. Once they learn of his demise, they'll come to claim his property for themselves. They won't come alone and won't negotiate. Severin doesn't have news from Brimstone, but if they still exist, it's because they're prepared for this. They probably declared a war on everything supernatural, including Rayne and Severin. Rayne says they'd better get started, since there's a lot to do. She's never worked with a whole team before. These next few years are going to be very interesting...
In the outro, the vampire overlords are shown and they learn of Kagan's death. In the next scene, a boy is running from the vampires, but gets knocked down by a soldier. The soldier and the turrets kill the vampires. He then takes the boy to a Brimstone HQ.
==Personality==
Rayne is a very complex person. She's brutal, cynical, solitary, vengeful, but only because she's lost her mother and her family whom she loved. Rayne kills villains without mercy but doesn't kill innocents just like that. Even though she has few friends, she gets along with them and will be very angry if someone harms them. Deeply hating Kagan and his vile clan for their atrocities towards her mother's family and other people, she doesn't even treat them as her family. Rayne doesn't like humans and their society, but would stop any supernatural force which goes against humanity.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Rayne" article on the BloodRayne Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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