The Elder describes the Wheel of Fate and the demise of Nosgoth.ĭwelling simultaneously within the Spectral Realm, where time was described as irrelevant, and the Material Realm, where time flowed linearly, the Elder God was capable of interacting with other entities in a chronologically-inconsistent manner. The Elder God addresses Raziel beneath the Lake of the Dead. Become my soul reaver, my angel of death.' ―The Elder God - Listen ( file info) Free their souls and let the wheel of fate churn again. I can not spin them in the wheel of fate. And that Raziel, is the demise of Nosgoth. It is this soul that animates the corpse you ‘lived' in. I am the hub of the Wheel, the origin of all Life, the devourer of Death.' ―The Elder God - Listen ( file info) The Echoes of a Tortured Mind 'The birth of one of Kain's abominations traps the essence of life. Profile 'I am the Engine of Life, the source of Nosgoth's very existence. 1.6 In the Pointless Round of Existence.Thus, as vampires were immortal and their souls did not flow with the Wheel, they, and especially Kain, served as his greatest enemies. Although this was not confirmed or denied, a consistent fact was that the Elder God was sustained by the Wheel's turning.

However, Raziel later accused the Elder God of merely being a parasite on the Wheel, not its hub. By the conclusion of Legacy of Kain: Defiance, he is regarded as the cause of 'all of the conflict and strife throughout history', and as the central antagonist of the series as a whole.ĭepicted as a sentient, writhing mass of tentacles and eyes dwelling deep below the land of Nosgoth, the Elder God claimed to be the hub of the Wheel of Fate, the preternatural cycle of birth, death and rebirth to which all souls were drawn. Though initially a mysterious benefactor and ally to Raziel, the Elder God's portrayal becomes increasingly malicious as the series progresses. The Elder God is a major character in the Legacy of Kain series, first introduced in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, and returning in Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.

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