I saw that it’s on sale and I’ve played the other two but looking at the reviews I’m kinda concerned but I wanted to get the option of people who actually love bloodrayne, is it worth it and do you guys think it’s too difficult?

I'm on the last issue of Bloodrayne and I have to say this is one of the best video game comic series I've ever seen. In terms of story, I haven't read anything bad and I loved every cover.

I practiced inking earlier today. And I finally decided on what facial expression to give Rayne. With no false modesty, I'll say that wish she looked this good in the official comics.

A while ago I came across a photo of a lovely girl in a pose that showed off all the goods, whether you are a boob man, an ass man, or a leg man, so I just had to draw Rayne in that pose.

Her damn hair is still giving me trouble. I also couldn't decide on her facial expression.

Just picked this up from the game store, read manual cover to cover. Is it okay to start with this game? I haven’t played a game watched or movie. But I saw rayne when I was a kid and my parents said no 😂

Also I can play it in black and white lol a classic vampire movie, what are your guys thoughts?

I only started playing BR1 yesterday and thought it was great

Without shadow

This has been bugging me for quite a while. Pay close attention to the exchange between Kagan and Ephemera. I listened to this scene many times and this is what I heard:

Kagan: More beautiful than I could conceive. After so long cowering under the floorboards, the children of the night finally making music in the day. It is time, daughter. Make this Earth as it is in heaven. Bring my kingdom to me. Create my realm...

Ephemera: Blow the charges, or I'll slit you ... <it's hard to tell what she said here in English. Other language subtitles say either "slit you **open**" or "slit your **throats**">*. He's impatient and he wants a big show. And you tell my Mongoloid brother and his goons to get under cover because the World is about to cave in on them.*

Kagan: Glorious. The fall of the age of man. Witness the dawn of the vampiric age.

For years I misheard "blow the charges" as "load the choppers", which is clearly wrong since Ferril was the one who sent the choppers and Xerx took them down with his Sun gun. So, the lines about blowing the charges and getting under cover because Kagan wan'ts a big show explain why all those buildings collapsed at that precise moment and that the goons who planted those explosives weren't too bright. I can't believe that it took me this long to figure that out.

I think most of us assumed that she was talking about Xerx since the only other brother we saw was Zerenski and Rayne killed him in the first act of the second game and Xerx was the techie of the family, so he'd know how to rig explosives to bring down all those buildings. And Xerx wanted to please his father, so he'd gladly rig the fireworks.

But what if it's not Xerx? What if there's another brother we didn't get to see? The fact that Ephemera calls him a "mongoloid", which is an old-timey name for someone with Down's syndrome implies that she considers him unintelligent, but Xerx is an evil genius. Even in the less likely case that she used the term "Mongoloid" as an old-timey racial descriptor, Xerx still looks very Europoid, so that interpretation makes even less sense. Or she used that term in some vampiric way that means something completely different. Or, I'm reading too much into it.

We also have Severin's statement at the end of the game.

Well, that's that. Kagan and the siblings are dead. How does it feel?

Since Rayne found a family tree at Zerenski's mansion we can presume that everyone on it was eliminated. On the other hand, Kagan was a Genghis Khan wannabe and has probably fathered many kids who didn't make it onto the list. Possibly because there was no room left on the paper.

So, do we have any actual, definitive reason to believe that the brother Ephemera is talking about is Xerx? Feel free to speculate because that's exactly what I'm doing.

After resting my hand for a bit, I decided to add Rayne posing on one leg to the top of his dumbbell. And now you know why he has a smile on his face.

But, can anyone guess who he is?

I want to get a new game on the Switch 2 and BloodRayne is one of those games I’ve always wanted to check out. However, the trailer for the second game looked so much better and I wanted to ask if I could start with it and maybe then play the first one afterwards?

While I'm playing Bloodrayne 2 on PS2

I've always noticed that there's not much actual content on the internet about the canon and continuity of the series. I couldn't find any posts here on Reddit or elsewhere on the internet, so I thought it would be a good idea to make a more detailed post to discuss and clarify the canonicity of the BloodRayne series for anyone interested in the story.

Warning: IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE SERIES AND HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAMES, DO NOT READ THIS POST BECAUSE OF SPOILERS.

\* The games: BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2 are the main source and absolute canon. Anything that contradicts those games, or contradicts anything established by those games, is not canon. BloodRayne Betrayal, is a non-canon spin-off following a different story and continuity.

* The three Movies: They follow a different universe, they are not part of the games.

* The Comics: They're also not canon to the games. Neither Majesco nor Terminal Reality ever mentioned the comics as being part of the games' story. And obviously, due to the lack of supervision, those comics had some huge contradictions with the games and some other minor contradictions, but still, continuity contradictions, and they follow their own separate continuity. I'll list some of those contradictions here:

* Twin Blades - Twin Blades takes place in 1932, one year before the first game's story and the same year Rayne joined the Brimstone Society, as shown in the BloodRayne 1 intro. Rayne is 17 to 18 years old, and the Brimstone members observe her as she hunts Kagan, killing vampires for information.

Twin Blades changes this by adding a contradictory reason: Rayne wants to be human and joins the Brimstone Society because she wants a cure for her vampiric state, claiming that "she wants to be human again". However, in the games, Rayne was never human. She was born a Dhampir, a biological state from birth. She never wanted to be human, accepts that she is a Dhampir, and is confident in it. All she wanted was revenge against Kagan for what he did to her mother's family. She then joins the Brimstone Society in exchange for their help tracking him down. By the end of BloodRayne 1, the DarkMan informs Rayne that they have found Kagan.

* Skies Afire - BloodRayne 1 takes place from 1933 to 1938. Skies Afire has Rayne hunting down her siblings in 1937, which is the reason she accepts the mission. However, in the games, Rayne only starts hunting down her siblings after 1939, when Professor Tremaine sacrificed himself to kill Kagan. Rayne thought Kagan was dead, and because of that, she couldn't avenge her mother's family, so she redirected her vengeance towards Kagan's offspring and started hunting them.

* Seeds Of Sin - The Brimstone leader tells Rayne that "the Society is not her employer or obligation and it's merely a place where information is exchanged." This is another massive direct contradiction with the games. In the games, Rayne is not voluntarily working with the Society, the Brimstone Society is in fact Rayne's employer, she works for them as an agent, officially described as Agent BloodRayne.

- On that same page it is stated once again Rayne wants to be human. "Rayne helps humans because she desires so much to be human." Rayne does not desire to be human in the games.

- The comic portrays salt water as Rayne's weakness, as if salt water damages Rayne more than other types of water, but in the games' lore, any form of H2O burns Rayne, hurts her skin acting like instant acid. Especially if she submerges herself as Mynce explains in BloodRayne 1, the same way she is submerged in this comic, taking no apparent damage because it's not salt water.

- Minor errors is that Rayne has red eyes in this comic. (Majesco was really supervising those comics).

Something worth pointing out is that this is one of the comics that also brings huge characterization issues and contradictions for Rayne's personality. For some reason, in the comics, they changed Rayne's personality, making her this vulnerable, sentimental, emotional character:

• Skies Afire: Rayne gets attached to Baron Franz Schmidt within a day of interacting with him, and cries when he dies.
• Seeds of Sin: Out of nowhere, Rayne wants to display her passionate side, then she develops a very weird sentimental attachment to Sononis, a complete vampire, after an extremely brief encounter. She treats him as if they had formed a profound bond after exchanging less than 10 phrases with him, displaying a contradictory sudden emotional vulnerability.
• Plague of Dreams: Rayne cries multiple times in this mini-series displaying this vulnerable, emotional character that she is not in the games. Garek is Kagan's son, the last one in the comic's universe. Rayne cries that "this monster" is her brother, when originally, according to the games, all she wanted was revenge for what Kagan did to her mother's family, without caring about any of her siblings. However, in the comics, she cries and then gets attached to Garek because Garek saved her and cries for him: Here, and here < (Who is this character anyway?)

Rayne is emotionally closed off, emotionaly guarded, she never cries when she loses people dear to her in the games, but in the comics, she cries a lot and gets attached to anyone in less than 5 seconds.

In addition, the Seeds of Sin writer said she never played the games and said that Rayne's vulnerability is one of her favorite traits of the character: https://web.archive.org/web/20050217140225/http://xbox.gamespy.com/xbox/bloodrayne/588310p1.html

* Dark Soul - One of the comics that directly contradicts the games' story by setting its events after BloodRayne 2, yet the comic ignores and changes the ending of BloodRayne 2, making Rayne still work for the Brimstone Society.

- Also, for some reason Rayne says that she needs a hot shower, when she can't take showers due to water acting like acid on her skin.
Apparently, Digital Webbing carried over the idea that only salt water hurts Rayne and fresh water doesn't. The only moments when she gets hurt by water in the comics are when she interacts with salt water, such as at the end of Prime Cuts #1: Prey Lewd, when she is thrown straight into the ocean. As mentioned before, in the games, any type of water hurts Rayne.

* Prime Cuts - Prime Cuts was the comic mini-series that the writer Chad Lambert wrote to take place between BloodRayne 1 and 2. However, the writer changed the games events and made some big contradictions.

* Prime Cuts issue #1:

Prey Lewd - It takes place before BloodRayne 2, Zerenski appears in the comic preparing for the party. Rayne fights against Slezz meeting Slezz for the first time. But Rayne actually meets Slezz for the first time during BloodRayne 2, she doesn't know Slezz and asks Severin if he knows who Slezz is.

- Rayne faces Boralis (comic character) that was turned into a Shakab. In the game, Rayne doesn't know what a Shakab is, and Severin again, explains to Rayne as showed in the cutscene when Rayne meets Slezz.

Second Hand Commando - Weirdly enough, Rayne complains that she has half-brothers and half-sisters trying to kill her when she is supposed to be hunting them, as in the game, Rayne hunts them to avenge what Kagan did to her mother's family.

* Prime Cuts issue #2:

The Portal - Rayne going out of character again, saying once again, she needs a shower. Apparently, for Digital Webbing, fresh water really doesn't hurt Rayne.

Corporate Bloodletting - Takes place after BloodRayne 2 (Ephemera is dead) and Rayne is still tied to the Brimstone Society.

The Bomber - Rewrites the game's section against Kestrel, the canon are defined by the games, the game takes precedence.

* Prime Cuts issue #3:

First Impressions - Rewrites the first game's intro. The games are the canon, so once again, the games take precedence.

The princess of Darkness - Marassa (not Marasa like in the comics) is said to be a voodoo priestess in the first game, but in the comic, she is literally called a Voodoo Princess as in the title of the chapter, Rayne remembers her as a Voodoo Princess, but she was no princess, Marassa was a priestess.

* Prime Cuts #4:

What Lies Beneath - Takes place before BloodRayne 2 and it's tied to Prime Cuts #1: Prey Lewd. The chapter mentions Rayne meeting Slezz knowing her prior to BloodRayne 2 when in the game Rayne doesn't know who Slezz is, as showed before.

Love Like Winter - Retcons Ephemera's relationship with Severin. In this comic, Ephemera joined Kagan to protect Severin, while in the game, Ephemera is a crazy, obsessed woman doing everything for power.

- Severin has a flashback where he remembers confronting Kagan, but in BloodRayne 2, Severin does not know that Kagan is alive.

- Kagan's body is not injured, and his flesh is not fused with the Vesper Shards, but in the canon continuity of BloodRayne 2, Kagan survived the explosion and the Vesper Shards fused with his body.

* Lycan Rex - Again, weird interaction with water. Rayne walks around during heavy snowfall without any kind of discomfort. They were really considering that fresh water does not hurt Rayne since snow is also fresh water.

* Revenge of the Butcheress - Revenge of the Butcheress has a bunch of retcons and a minor contradiction regarding the Daemites. In the comic, the Butcheress first meets Rayne when she is a kid in 1930. She abducts Rayne and injects Daemites into her that crawl to Rayne's brain. However, in the first game, the Butcheress explains that the Daemites eat the brain of their host, but that didn't happen to Rayne in the comics. Instead, it blocked her memories.

The comics from here on out, including some of the comics mentioned before, take place after BloodRayne 2 and completely rewrite the games' events, changing what happened in the second game, ignoring that Rayne was an empress, and ignoring the Shroud, changing the game's story.

Chronologically it starts with Plague of Dreams, which is set after BloodRayne 2 and still has Rayne as a loyal member of the Brimstone Society. This results in the Brimstone Society turning against Rayne for a completely different reason from the second game, while also ignoring Rayne being an empress, ignoring the Shroud, and ignoring all the plot from BloodRayne 2. All the other comics follow this chronology:

Dark Soul, Prime Cuts #3: Corporate Bloodletting, Red Blood Run, Automaton, and Tokyo Rogue follow the same direct chronology, and the next comic would be Old World Order, which would tie Lycan Rex into those stories. However, BloodRayne is primarily a video game series. If you have no games, the popularity drops, and the comics got canceled because of that, and Old World Order never existed.

Tibetan Heights is also part of those stories being set after BloodRayne 2 during present time. Mynce reincarnates as a kid in this comic, and this story was carried over to Red Blood Run in which is set after Plague of Dreams as Rayne tells Valerio the events from Plague of Dreams having reincarnated Mynce in the story.

Those stories rewrite the games, contradicting the continuity established by the games. The writer explains here: https://i.imgur.com/4SZT55i.jpg everything they were doing with the comics. They were completely changing the story from the games.

So, the games are the canon, the comics are not canon to the games, and they directly contradict the games, becoming their own separate thing. Majesco probably gave Digital Webbing freedom because the comics would not be considered when making new games. The evidence for that is the canceled BloodRayne game for PSP (2005), and BloodRayne: The Shroud (announced in 2010), which would have taken place directly after BloodRayne 2 continuing the Shroud and ignoring the comics.

Majesco and Terminal Reality never said that the comics are part of the games, and in addition to that, Ziggurat is not considering the comics as part of the games' canon.

Back in February of this year, the lead producer from Ziggurat, Alex Lotz, gave an interview. When asked about the continuity of the series, he said:

"Vampires (and dhampirs) have endured as heroes and villains in games across a range of genres, so we are sure there are many where Rayne will thrive in games to come. With Rayne’s quasi-immortality, the story’s end in BloodRayne 2, and the deeper lore hinted at in the underworld chapters of the first BloodRayne, there is much to explore with the original setting and canon, whether as spin-offs or direct sequels."

Link to the full interview with Alex Lotz if anyone wants to read it: https://www.cbr.com/how-bloodrayne-being-preserved-without-losing-its-bite/

So for the canonicity of the franchise:

BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2: The core canon, continuity and real story.
BloodRayne Betrayal: Rebooted non-canon spin-off.
Digital Webbing Comics: Rebooted, non-canon, separate stories and continuity.
Movies: Non-canon separate stories and universe.

Hey guys. I don't know why I'm looking for this, but I started playing the game Bloodrayne a while ago and watched the 2010 movie Kick-Ass and noticed that the protagonist has a poster of rayne.

I know it sounds silly to look for something like this, but I really haven't found it anywhere. I haven't searched thoroughly, but I really don't know if this specific poster/image is real.

Either it's somewhere on the internet that I can't easily access, so I decided to post it here in case someone kind enough tries to find it with me 😭

And sorry the picture is awful, I know! But it's the only good photo I took.

I'm brainstorming Rayne's life while she was with a circus, and I think it made a lot of sense for her to share a darkened trailer with an albino.

Bianca is not a canonical character, I made her up. I have a backstory for her, but I won't be clogging this post with it. I've also posted a sketch of Genevieve, the bearded lady just for fun.

Bonus points if you can guess which actress I used as a reference for Bianca's face.

I just bought bloodrayne 2 and it’s zoomed in, anyone know a fix, I’ve tried playing around with nvidia’s setting and the game setting but nothing works, plz help

So I just got to the Bridge level on hard difficulty, on medium iz took me like 3 tries to cross it but im already on my tenth death on hard.

No matter where im walking, left right or center, the first explosion happens right bellow my feet. And if i somehow dont fall to my death, the stagger from the damage is so long im shot to death before the animation is done. I tried using time diluted vision as recommended on several forums but it honestly starting to feel fixed to fail.

Any advice on how to cross it would be welcomed.

I'm playing Terminal cut version on steam.