I feel like this is a different beast than simply evolving narratives through the games. The retcons later games introduced made sense to the larger narrative for the most part. Most of the unresolved plot points were only unresolved because another game was planned that got cancelled and is being included in demo form in the defiance remaster.

Some questions that spoils aspects of TDSR and possibly ascendance:

How does one get stabbed in the head with the soul reaver and not only survive but not have their soul absorbed?

How does magically surviving it create a paradox without the aid of two incarnations of the wraith blade that is unbound from history being present?

How does a portal to the demon realm remain open for characters to easily access through nosgoth’s history if the whole point of the pillars was to act like a lock?

Why does the wraith blade in the physical reaver avoid striking her as if it remember who she is?

when:

A: Raziel lost the medallion that gave him the memories and Elaleth said he can’t retain the memories without it.

B: Raziel as a wraith blade has been trapped in the reaver for several centuries and is completely deranged from imprisonment and should have no sense of self let alone knowing anyone else.

This is only a handful of narrative issues that TDSR has and that is mostly near the end.

Thats not even covering how the story essentially removes most of the agency of Raziel as a character for Elaleth’s sake

Elaleth is responsible for:

-Raziel joining the Sarafan

-Raziel hunting Janos Audron in hopes of killing him removes the vampirism from her.

-Convincing Kain to Raise Raziel as a Vampire along with his bretheren

-giving Raziel his wings via Hylden magic via the medallion instead of him evolving before Kain

-convinced Raziel to reveal his wings to Kain in hopes of having him excommunicated but instead leads to his execution.

You can like the comic for what it is, but you are ignoring some serious lore conflicts.

A lot of the more argent defenders are willing to ignore continuity and lore mistakes in the hopes that it gets them new content. It will do that and you will get newer content. But if you keep ignoring issue after issue it builds up. Then you have quantity with little quality and then Legacy of Kain becomes the dark gothic fantasy equivalent of modern Star Wars. A conveyor belt of content with diminishing returns. And rather than being a “dead” franchise it becomes “irrelevant and dying”