It’s a torture to see them be together… and to know that if he wasn’t heterosexual, Caleb would most certainly turn toward Gabriel who so obviously fancies him too or toward Ishmael who is so attractive. Slowly, frustration takes the best of Tchernobog as he spends his time watching his four best employees enjoy their work together. Problem is, being Caleb’s boss, it’s hard to try something, it would be very humiliating to be rejected by an employee and it would also be humiliating to have to confess his homosexuality. He is happy and he slowly becomes attracted to his best guy: Caleb. Tchernobog takes it as a compliment to his greatness. Ophilia, Gabriel, Ishmael and Caleb work there, they are the best employees, that which infers that they like their job and care for the company or for their boss. Imagine the cult as a company of which Tchernobog is the boss. So, let me tell you a funny story which could be a more realistic version of the plot of the game:
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Is there a homosexual subtext to… Blood ?Īnd yeah, the story can very well be read as a metaphor of a fight for love between several people, including a homosexual Tchernobog. Is Tchernobog gay ? Was he waiting for Caleb to return… oh wait, that’s the first thing he says “I have awaited you.” Is he gay ? He killed Caleb's girlfriend. When I heard “Let us embrace at last” it made me chuckle.
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With the power you bring, I shall throw open the door between the worlds and inherit the earth. Can you not see? Every life you have taken has made you stronger, and you have returned to me with a greater sacrifice than I ever could have wished. TCHERNOBOG: Because I knew you would return. Now, the second element that had me think is the wonderful line of Tchernobog at the end of the game when Caleb eventually comes back to him:ĬALEB: Why did you cast us down? How did we fail you? He is the stupid guy who does everything for the crazy woman who will never love him as much as another guy who isn’t there. His love for Ophilia felt strange and now that I’ve read the story I wonder if he wasn’t just so much in love with her that he would have done anything to obtain her love in return… that is entering a sadistic cult and killing people. Caleb is a killing machine with no respect for humanity whatsoever, but he seems to be ready to accomplish anything for the woman he loves. I mean, Duke Nukem is supposed to be a good guy and he is incapable of acknowledging the tiniest feeling. So, I wasn’t too interested in this but at the end of episode one, when Caleb finds Ophilia crucified and he seems to honestly mourn her death, the display of emotions felt incoherent and therefore intriguing. And Caleb is sent in a grave… from which he rises at the beginning of the game. Ophilia is taken away by a stone Gargoyle, Gabriel by a spider and Ishmael is burnt alive by two Cerberus. This I learnt in the introductory cutscene in which we can witness Tchernobog getting rid of his four henchmen for no particular reason. I didn’t read this before playing the game but the simple fact that the misanthropist psychopath that serves as a “hero” should be in love with a character intrigued me. Together they rose to the highest ranks and became "The Chosen ", the four most esteemed generals of Tchernobog's army (the other two bein g Ishmael and Gabriel ). It is implied that she later became Caleb's lover, and introduced him to the cult. Half-crazy and rambling, Caleb nursed her back to health. She blamed her spouse for their deaths, because he wanted to rescind his membership. Caleb joined the cult after meeting Ophelia Price, a woman whose homestead was burned down by the Cabal, killing her husband and baby son.
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The game's main character is a man named Caleb, a merciless gunfighter born in Texas who serves a cult called "The Cabal " that worships the dark god Tchernobog. I’ve just finished the good old game that is Blood and was a bit surprised at my being somewhat interested in the plot of this Build Engine FPS of 1997.īlood tells the story of Caleb… well, let’s just steal the Wikipedia summary: