Does one ever truly have free will? One can only match move by move fates machination

Kain is deified. The Clans tell tales of Him. Few know the truth. He was
mortal once, as were we all. However, His contempt for humanity drove him to
create me, and my brethren.

I am Raziel, first-born of his lieutenants. I stood with Kain and my brethren
at the dawn of the empire. I have served him a millennium. Over time, we
became less human and more, divine. Kain would enter the state of change and
emerge with a new gift. Some years after the master, our evolution would
follow. Until I had the honor of surpassing my Lord.

For my transgression, I earned a new kind of reward...

...agony.

There was only one possible outcome - my eternal damnation. I, Raziel, was to
suffer the fate of traitors and weaklings - to burn forever in the bowels of
the Lake of the Dead.

Tumbling, burning with white-hot fire. I plunged into the depths of the abyss.
Unspeakable pain, relentless agony, time ceased to exist. Only this
torture...and a deepening hatred of the hypocrisy that damned me to this hell!

An eternity passed, and my torment receded, bringing me back from the
precipice of madness.

The descent had destroyed me, and yet I lived.

[A disembodied voice bellows]

Elder God:
Raziel. You are worthy.