This trophy was later seen in Command & Conquer: Renegade by a GDI commando who had managed to infiltrate the Temple grounds, and who discovered a sarcophagus bearing the name of Abel along with the parable of Cain and Abel carved in ancient Hebrew deep within the foundations of the structure, which according to Kane marked the site of Nod's original temple. Before this can occur, however, Kane shoots Seth in the head as he is briefing the player on the planned assault his body is preserved in the Temple of Nod as a "trophy" and a constant reminder to any who would plot against Kane.
Seth then plots to have both Kane and the player removed by attempting to usurp Kane's position within the Brotherhood, while ordering the player on a suicidal invasion of the United States of America. As the player progresses through the campaign, Kane is shown as beginning to favour him over Seth, who subsequently becomes increasingly enraged with the player following each consecutive success. Perhaps most importantly, in the Nod campaign of the original Command & Conquer game, the player's superior initially is a man named Seth, Cain's second and youngest brother according to the Bible and Islamic hadith, who is shown to act as Kane's right-hand man. Additionally, in the Soviet ending of Command & Conquer: Red Alert, one of Kane's followers suddenly cites the very passage in the Bible which describes how Cain settled in this Land of Nod. He uses names like "Jacob", "Amir al-Quayym" and "Caine" as his aliases, the Brotherhood of Nod's first stealth tank prototype was called "Ezekiel's Wheel"-in apparent reference to the angels witnessed by Ezekiel-and the name of "Nod" itself appears to be alluding to the so-called "Land of Nod", a place Cain was made to wander by God as the punishment for having slain his brother Abel allegedly the first incident of murder in humanity's history according to the faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The notion of Kane being none other than the figure of Cain is exemplified by numerous Judeo-Christian and Islamic allusions to Kane's nature which are found within the C&C games. As the character doesn't appear to age, and this despite the fact that his activities within the modern to near-future settings of the C&C games are shown as spanning at least an entire century, there somehow appears to be a possibility of this claim being legitimate. This in holding true with the tradition of equating the man with the figure of Cain the eldest son of Adam and Eve, the first human who was born out of the Garden of Eden and also the first murderer according to the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions. Since the inception of the Command & Conquer franchise in 1995, the storylines of the successive video games have consistently been portraying Brotherhood of Nod characters who are holding both Kane and the Brotherhood to be thousands of years old.
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