Nina Kaina

Nina Kaina (Нина Каина) was the wife of Victor Kain and the mother of Maria and Caspar Kain. She does not appear directly in the game, as she died several years ago. She was the Scarlet Mistress.

Nina is said to have been much like her daughter Maria. She was self-controlled yet deeply passionate, easily bored and seemly capable of anything. When she was alive, she was feared, and after her death, she is thought of almost as a goddess. There is no clear evidence of her performing magic, although she is considered a powerful witch and Mistress. Apparently she was quite beautiful.

"The whole time that Nina was the Mistress of the Kain family, she held the town in fear. Paradoxical, but that was the cause for the increase of love towards the Kains, that took place lately – compared to Nina, all the other members of the family looked extremely humanist. Nina broke and crippled dozens of lives, families broke up because of her, and houses were taken down on her command. Any who she didn’t think to be her equal weren’t worthy of taking into consideration at all – people for her were some kind of ants. When Nina was bored – and that was quite a frequent event – she behaved as if she were Dracula, simply went around the city looking for situations that could interest her and solved different things according to her understanding of justice. She could easily take a child from a stupid mother, give him to the Master of the Abattoir for him to make a steppe scout out of the child. She could enter a house and order its inhabitants to show her the most precious thing they had and if the people tried to conceal the real item, she would order for the liars to be dealt with. No matter how strange, but the people were quite patient about this. Nina was taken for a beautiful and awe-inspiring protector of the town, who had to be propitiated by means of bloody sacrifice. When Nina died, the inhabitants took a deep, easy breath, but continued to treat her as before, in fact, even with more piety, because now she obtained another quality that was added to what she already had – she was dead.”