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| - 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.
- The Land of Nosgoth, usually abbreviated to Nosgoth, is a fictional setting in which the entirety of the Legacy of Kain series takes place, originally conceived by Denis Dyack, Ken McCulloch and Silicon Knights, then expanded upon by Amy Hennig and Crystal Dynamics. First entering production in 1993 and appearing in 1996's Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, it has since been further explored and developed by ensuing entries in the series, and derives inspiration from various literary sources, including Shakespearean drama, vampire mythology, Gothic culture, Gnosticism and steampunk.
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| - The Land of Nosgoth, usually abbreviated to Nosgoth, is a fictional setting in which the entirety of the Legacy of Kain series takes place, originally conceived by Denis Dyack, Ken McCulloch and Silicon Knights, then expanded upon by Amy Hennig and Crystal Dynamics. First entering production in 1993 and appearing in 1996's Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, it has since been further explored and developed by ensuing entries in the series, and derives inspiration from various literary sources, including Shakespearean drama, vampire mythology, Gothic culture, Gnosticism and steampunk. Nosgoth is regarded by characters in-game as a dying world, and each game in the series depicts different moments in the transition of the land from abundance to desolation, though in a non-sequential order. The ultimate fate of Nosgoth, and its potential redemption and restoration to its former glory, is the most-prominent and oft-recurring theme in the storyline of the overarching series, and has yet to be resolved as of Legacy of Kain: Defiance. As the majority of the games take place in the same limited area, it has consistently remained ambiguous whether Nosgoth is the name of the entire world, or a region. Generally, the term "Nosgoth" is used to refer to the conceptual setting overall.
- 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. Nosgoth is inhabited primarily by humans, but other sentient species have existed as well. Before recorded history, Nosgoth was home to the Ancients (now simply referred to as Vampires) and the Hylden. The Hylden eventually cursed the Ancients with bloodlust and immortality, thus creating the Vampire race that exist in the modern era. Nosgoth is also the home of the enigmatic Elder God. In Blood Omen, 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. Thirty 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 to another dimension (sometimes referred to as the 'Demon dimension' in-game). 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. 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, existing only in minor, primitive bands. The last large-scale settlement is hidden deep within the mountains, under the earth where heat is retained in the lower levels of the crust. The world is barren, dry and devoid of life, with a rocky landscape and frigid climate. Vampires have scoured the world clean of nearly all living things and completely choked the air with the black smoke and soot from their massive death-furnaces, blocking out the sun and sky permanently, poisoning the waters and causing massive acid rains. It is not known what future, if any, is possible in the world of Nosgoth.
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