Frank Pierce worked as an Enviroment Artist at Ritual Entertainment while they were working on Blood Omen 3. In his portfolio, there are two screenshots labelled as being from a cancelled Ritual project. They're rendered props, very similar in style to the ones that are on Aaron Hausmann's portfolio There's a good chance they are from Blood Omen 3.
Here are Frank Pierce's props:
Here are Aaron Hausmann's renders for comparison (these ones were explicitly labelled as being from LOK6):
They might be from Legacy of Kain, there's no way to confirm. There's a good chance they are.
Now then, Frank also has a very interesting screenshot from an unannounced Ritual game that I'd like to draw your attention to.
Zoomed in:
I see a clear similarity to Raziel. Maybe I'm grasping at straws here but even without the LOK context, Raziel is the first thing I think of when I see this. Am I alone in this?
If this is a very early render of Raziel on an unfinished bridge, its a very interesting and suprising find. Ritual never contributed to the released LOK games, and thus would not have rendered Raziel unless it was relevant to Blood Omen 3. It suggests the possibility of Raziel having some role, playable or otherwise, in the cancelled game.
This is just speculation based on one interesting piece of possible evidence. Does it look like Raziel to anyone else or am I completely wrong on this?
Here are Frank Pierce's props:
Here are Aaron Hausmann's renders for comparison (these ones were explicitly labelled as being from LOK6):
They might be from Legacy of Kain, there's no way to confirm. There's a good chance they are.
Now then, Frank also has a very interesting screenshot from an unannounced Ritual game that I'd like to draw your attention to.
Zoomed in:
I see a clear similarity to Raziel. Maybe I'm grasping at straws here but even without the LOK context, Raziel is the first thing I think of when I see this. Am I alone in this?
If this is a very early render of Raziel on an unfinished bridge, its a very interesting and suprising find. Ritual never contributed to the released LOK games, and thus would not have rendered Raziel unless it was relevant to Blood Omen 3. It suggests the possibility of Raziel having some role, playable or otherwise, in the cancelled game.
This is just speculation based on one interesting piece of possible evidence. Does it look like Raziel to anyone else or am I completely wrong on this?
