Nosgoth

Nosgoth is a fictional realm that serves as the setting of the Legacy of Kain series. Nosgoth is a vast realm with a diverse landscape, including mountains, forests, plains and swamps. The land appears to have a temperate climate, similar to that of northern central Europe. This is corroborated by the fact that the places and people of Nosgoth have Germanic names, and are entirely Caucasian.

Related Topics:
Legacy of Kain - Mountains - Forests - Plains - Swamps - Europe - Germanic - Caucasian

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Nosgoth is inhabited primarily by humans, but other sentient species have existed as well. Before recorded history, Nosgoth was home to the Vampires, also known as the Ancients, and the Hylden. The Hylden eventually cursed the Vampires with bloodlust, thus creating the Undead race which stalk the world in modern nights. Nosgoth is also the home of the enigmatic Elder God.

Related Topics:
Vampires - Hylden - Elder God

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In ', Nosgoth seems to be in a social era half way between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a common setting for gothic fantasy stories. The world is in relatively good health, although has become sickly as of late, due to the corruption of the Pillars of Nosgoth. Fifty years prior, during the reign of King William The Just in his vast mountain kingdom to the north of central Nosgoth, the Pillars are in good health and the world seems to be lush and vibrant, and even before that, it is seen that during the time of the original Sarafan priesthood, the world is just as healthy. Several historical periods are shown after the collapse of the Pillars in Blood Omen, and the decay of the world is evident in all of these. For example, in one, we see that much of the world has become wild and overgrown with rampant new mutant species of plants and animals, monster plagues cover the land and death is everywhere; the world looks as though weeping in a constant deluge of mythic proportions. In Blood Omen II, 400 years later, the land seems to be in the middle of an Industrial Revolution, brought on by the technology of the Hylden. However, this revolution is halted by the destruction of the new Sarafan order and the banishment of the Hylden back to Hell. Ecologically, the world is quite frail. From what can be seen of the outside, the more visceral portion of the world's death has passed, and has now given way to an arid and barren desert-like environment, with only minor, diseased shrubs remaining of the plant life, and nearly no animal life remaining at all, having been squeezed from existence by the rampaging Demons and other Hellish beings invading the world from their respective planes of existence. Several thousand years later, in the time of Soul Reaver, the death of the world seems complete and discernable history has ended. Humanity is nearly extinct, the world is barren, dry and devoid of life, with a rocky landscape and an undoubtedly frigid climate. Vampires have scoured the world clean of nearly all living things and completely choked the air with black smoke, blocking out the sun and sky permanently, and poisoning the waters acidic. It is not known what future, if any, is possible in the world of Nosgoth.

Related Topics:
Middle Ages - Renaissance - Pillars of Nosgoth - Hell

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