Cain

Cain (or Caine, or Kaine, or...) is a popular name for a BBEG because anyone raised in a Jewish/Christian/Muslim culture will know the story of Cain and Abel. The original Jewish names are usually pronounced "Qayin" and "Havel," and Muslims call them Qabil and Habil, in case you want your BBEG to be a little less obvious.

Cain and Abel were brothers. Cain was a gardener, Abel a shepherd. They both gathered their harvests to make a sacrifice to the one-and-only God: Cain offered the best of his crops, Abel offered the best of his herd animals. God gave Abel a four-star review in Zaggat's, but Cain's offering didn't even get a writeup in Weekly Sun. In a fit of jealousy LOVE, Cain kills his brother Abel. God is VERY annoyed, tells Cain he's cursed to never farm again, and he's to fuck off and never return. Cain complains this is too much, and whoever finds him out there is gonna do unto him what he did unto Abel. So God marks Cain in such a way that everyone will know messing with Cain will mean God will come around and do even worse to them. So Cain fucks off to the land of Nod, and despite being the only surviving child of the first humans on Earth, settles down with his wife there.

This story is where you get the quote "Am I my brother's keeper?" because God comes around after the murder and asks Caine where's Abel, as if God doesn't already know.

Used in Games

• White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade uses the legend of Caine as the origin of their vampires; God's banishment from his presence meant banishment from daylight, the curse of no more farming meant no more eating normal food, instead needing to re-create that first murder to sustain himself.

• GDW Warhammer 40,000 novels have "COMMISSAR CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!1!!one!!" who is the very worst commissar ever.

• Warhamster 40K also has the Eldar god of war Khaela Mensha Khaine. In Warhammer Fantasy, Khaine is the god of murder.

• Kane, leader of the Brotherhood of Nod in the Command & Conquer series. Aside from his name and the name of his faction, the biblical references are not hinted at until Command & Conquer 4.

• Kain from Legacy of Kain and Soul Reaver - A pretty cool guy.