My apologigiesage!

I know I haven't updated this in the last three days, but they have been rather busy and I have been giving alot of thought to the content of my next line of posts.

So, the topic to be covered is the history of Nosgoth; the gothic styled world of the Legacy of Kain series of videogames.

If you do not enjoy massive spoilers, then stop reading here!

Thousands of years before the first game in the series, there were the ancients. They ruled all of Nosgoth, and worshipped the Elder God. This deity was connected to the so called Wheel of Fate; the cycle of birth, death and rebirth upon which the Elder God fed.

These ancients were blue-skinned and had large feathered dark-gray wings. As they were described in old murals, they were beings of great beauty and magnificence.

Ultimately, however, another race rose up against the Elder God and refused to feed him, leading to a great conflict between them and the ancients. This race, the Hylden, cursed the ancients with a great thirst for blood, transforming them into vampires. While this was a terrible fate for the proud race, the real doom of the curse was that they became immortal and sterile, and were forever cut off from the Wheel of Fate and lost the favour of the Elder God.

A small note; the kind of immortality we are talking about is akin to that of Tolkien's elves; they do not suffer diseases or aging, but they can die through other means, but never be reborn. Many of them also took their own lives in response to being cut off from their god.

Since they could no longer reproduce, one of the ancients, by the name of Janos Audron, decided to turn a human into a vampire for the very first time. This man, named Vorador, helped the vampires by forging the blood-draining weapon called the Reaver.

In the end, the vampires managed to banish the Hylden with the help of the Reaver, and locked them inside a demonic dimension by erecting the Nine Pillars of Nosgoth, and binding guardians to each pillar. The pillars represented the different elements that made up the world; mind, dimension, conflict, nature, energy, time, states, death and balance, the latter being the most important one.

Each of these had its own vampire guardian, but there was one other; the guardian of all of the pillars and the Reaver; Janos Audron.

However, at some point, the humans of Nosgoth rebelled against them, and managed to overthrow them. With the loss of the pillar guardians, humans were chosen at their birth to become the new guardians.

This sets the stage for the coming story, which will be covered further tomorrow!