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Nosgoth legacy of kain10/28/2022 ![]() The one and only being worshipped by the Vampires was the emperor Kain who was considered divine. Few were understood as dominant and many smaller cults offered differing visions, with the truth or dominance of any belief always open for question. Ultimately naphtha was also used for a number of weapon technologies including several varieties of grenade and is the root of the word "napalm".Ī variety of legends surrounded worship and religion in the events of Soul Reaver Nosgoth. In many languages in the real world, Naphtha is a word for any of a number of flammable liquids containing hydo-carbons, as such oil, petrol and coal tar which all contain the substance.Naphtha was only introduced in Nosgoth, though given its associations it is possible that the weapons of the flamethrower wielding Vampire hunters in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver were also powered by Naphtha. ![]() Elustra dedicated her life to the last human known to have knowledge of the power of alchemy, Anarcrothe and thus created the red sisters of Anacrothe and the first human Alchemists in centuries, who now used Naphtha as fuel for their weapons. When she was found by her fellow human nomads, Elustra was glorified by the humans as a saviour and attracted many followers. Killing the Vampires and humans alike, Elustra burnt the facility to the ground with Naphtha she discovered. īefore Laderic could make use of the weapon however, he was attacked and killed by close human slave Elustra, who had feigned madness for decades and got close enough to allow her to understand and recover the substance and use it against him. Intending to use it to strike against his enemies, Laderic kept the discovery secret. In their exile the vampires continued their experiments in a secret laboratory, oblivious to the vampire civil war in Nosgoth's heartlands, until eventually the vampire Laderic was able to make a breakthrough and create Naphtha. Originally, the developments that led to the discovery of Naphtha were pioneered by a group of Melchahim Vampire alchemists after their self-imposed exile across the Great Southern Sea for inadvertently poisoning human breeding stock. Inert when stored, it could be a tremendously powerful and devastating weapon when excited, producing deadly "liquid fire" which caused major damage to Humans and Vampires alike. Naphtha was used to fuel the pyrotechnics of the Alchemists in the mid- events of Soul Reaver and War for Nosgoth seen in Nosgoth. The gameplay of Nosgoth too place during the War for Nosgoth. ![]() In the aftermath of the routing of Coorhagen and the re-emergence of the Razielim, the vampires realised the threat a reformed human order could pose to the empire itself and put aside their differences to combat the human threat in a battle for control of the ultimate fate of Nosgoth. The War For NosgothĪ conflict between the reunited vampire clans and the resurgent human armies that followed in the wake of the vampire civil war. A bloody human uprising in Coorhagen and the re-emergence of the fledgling Razielim caused the vampires to re-evaluate their infighting and put aside their differences to put down the human threat. Ultimately infighting caused by dividing the spoils of this victory and deciding the succession of the empire erupted into a war between the clans which allowed the Humans time to escape and rebuild their shattered civilization. Believing they were following Kain's intentions, the clans turned on and virtually wiped out the adult Razielim, unaware the fledglings and pupating members of the clan had been moved to the Fane and the underground city. A conflict between the six vampire clans in the wake of Raziel's execution and Kain's disappearance. ![]()
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