Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game

This is your final call: our campaign for Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game ends today at 6pm GMT/ 1pm ET.

Thanks to the efforts of our wonderful backers, all stretch goals have been unlocked, so our collection is the biggest and best it can be! Seeing our Encyclopedia and all-new TTRPG resonate with you all has been so incredible, and we cannot wait to see our products in your hands.

Still on the fence? You’ve only got three hours left to own a rare piece of Legacy of Kain History!

This will be your last chance to get the Legacy of Kain: Complete Edition. The Complete Edition will not be available post-campaign, so today is your final chance to get hold of our biggest ever Legacy of Kain collection!

What’s in the Complete Edition? Everything! All books and ephemera from the campaign, and all stretch goals. Includes:

📖 Book of Nosgoth Deluxe Edition (ornate slipcase, encyclopedia, artcards)

🎲 Scourge of the Sarafan TTRPG (GM screen, dice, character sheets, deluxe box)

📜 Certificate of Authenticity from Crystal Dynamics

🔓 ALL stretch goals

We want to thank you all again for your support. Not just for backing, but for spreading the word, chatting with us and each other in the community tab, and for sharing our love for Legacy of Kain. See you at the finish line!

Hi,

Unbelievably, we have just entered the FINAL 24 HOURS for our Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game! 🔥

Thanks so much to everyone for your support for our official Legacy of Kain campaign so far. Your passion, your suggestions, your words of encouragement - all of it has meant the world. At time of writing, we have blown past our latest £500k stretch goal. We've listed all the unlocked stretch goals below - what an incredible achievement.

Remember - while we are looking into ways to make our Legacy of Kain items accessible in the future post-campaign, the Complete Edition will forever remain a BackerKit campaign exclusive - it will never be available again after these final 24 hours.

If you want to be one of a handful of people in the world to own the ultimate all-in-one Legacy of Kain keep-sake, we recommend backing it (or upgrading to it) in these final 24 hours. Please note, we will not necessarily be able to honour requests to upgrade to it after the campaign closes. 

The Complete Edition includes: 

📘 The Book of Nosgoth hardback book

📕 Scourge of the Sarafan hardback book

📓 Slipcase

📖 GM screen

🎲 Set of 7 dice

📝 Character sheets

📦 TTRPG box

🎁 Complete presentation box

📜 Crystal Dynamics Certificate of Authenticity

🎨 Set of 4 art cards

📱 Scourge of the Sarafan eBook

Whether you picked up the Book of Nosgoth, Scourge of the Sarafan, a standard or Deluxe edition - thank you. It's been an honour. Of course, our journey isn't over when the campaign closes - we'll keep you posted on the production progress. We are looking into add-on options post-campaign.

Here's all the stretch goals unlocked during the campaign, making our LoK collection bigger and better for everyone.

 🖼️ £250,000: Art prints for the Encyclopedia

🎨 £275,000: Art expansion for Scourge of the Sarafan from Lukasz Kowalczuk

📖 £300,000: Marbled end papers for the encyclopedia

🎨 £325,000: Art expansion for Scourge of the Sarafan from Alexey Gorboot

🔖 £350,000: Bookmark for all backers for use in either book

📔 £375,000: Front cover embossing for Scourge of the Sarafan

🧛 £400,000: Vampire ruleset for Scourge of the Sarafan

🎨 £425,000: Art expansion #3 for Scourge of the Sarafan from Godmachine

🎲 £450,00 - Dice bag upgrade

📌 £500,000 - Premium set of pin badges for the Complete Edition
(due to your feedback, we are currently exploring possibilities to include this in other editions, to be confirmed)

See you on the other side.

You've done it! Our final stretch goal has been unlocked: Legacy of Kain pin badges with designs inspired by you.

We honestly cannot believe we have reached this level of support. We know how passionate the Legacy of Kain community is, but this is truly on another level. In fact, some of these stretch goals were not included in our initial plans, so this campaign has exceeded every expectation we held!

We hear your suggestions for add-ons and we are absolutely looking into it. Read more about this in our previous project update.

With 48 hours to go, we're aiming to reach every Legacy of Kain fan who would be interested in an Encyclopedia and all-new TTRPG experience. You've been incredible this entire campaign; help us spread the word for this final push!

Thank you all so much. This is a bucket list project for us, and we're just getting started!

We're on the home stretch! Just THREE days left until our campaign comes to a close. We are so thankful for your huge amount of support throughout it: from chatting in our community section to spreading the word on social media, Discord and beyond. As Legacy of Kain fans ourselves, we know how special this series is, and we are grateful for your trust and support in bringing our ambitious project to life.

Our final stretch goal is a premium set of pin badges! While we have some design ideas in the works, we'd love to hear from you: what would you like to see on your Legacy of Kain pin badges? It's only right that you have a hand in choosing the design for our final (ish) milestone. We'd like all your suggestions – from your favourite characters to most obscure Legacy of Kain iconography.

Pin badges will be exclusive to the Complete Edition. As a reminder: while we're looking into ways to make our Book of Nosgoth and Scourge of the Sarafan available in the future, the Complete Edition will always remain exclusive to this BackerKit campaign. For the ultimate, all-in-one, must-have Legacy of Kain collectible, these are the final days this edition will ever be available.

This may be our final stretch goal, but we are far from finished here. Even after 28 February, we will be working hard to add even more to this blood-cursed collection. You have suggested so many excellent add-ons that we are determined to make at least some of them a reality. We'll share more about this after the campaign.

But first, let's get to £500k!

(update: please note, while we cannot guarantee it, we are looking into packaging options for including pin badges in other editions - please read our pinned comment on this and add-ons etc!)

We caught up with the immensely talented London-based illustrator and creator of our striking Legacy of Kain Encyclopedia cover: Eileen Kai Hing Kwan.

From Vampire Hunter D to Castlevania, and now Legacy of Kain, Eileen is renowned for her stunning portraits of the night's most beautiful creatures. When she is not bringing vampires to (un)life through her illustrations, Eileen runs The Little Mandarin: an independent art and sweets shop in East London.



Q: Please introduce yourself and let the audience know who you are and where they might know your work from.

Eileen: Hello! I'm Eileen Kai Hing Kwan. I'm an Illustrator who loves to draw haunting dream-like moments, with a soft spot for vampires. You may know my work from Warframe for Jade Shadows' in-game art, or book cover/illustrations for Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. You may also know my Vampire Hunter D, Bloodborne or Castlevania fanart floating around the internet!



Q: The Legacy of Kain series was new to you but what were your initial thoughts when you were commissioned to make the cover for the Encyclopedia? Did it feel in some ways familiar considering your history illustrating other famous vampires (like your amazing Vampire Hunter D images) or did this feel different?

Eileen: I was really excited to draw for a vampire game when Shaun from LIC first got in touch, and I immediately loved the look of Legacy of Kain! It did initially feel different to the usual vampires I draw, but I loved the storytelling and quickly fell in love with the characters and the world. The opening cinematic of Soul Reaver was so stunning and I knew I had to draw something inspired from it for the cover. I was also over the moon when Steve and the team asked me to draw Kain and Raziel!



Q: Your works leans toward themes of horror and you capture such a unique delicate elegance and beauty in your depictions of the characters that inhabit those worlds, have you always been enamoured with this genre?

Eileen: Thank you and I have, although it took me a while to realise! I've always had a love for vampires, gothic romance and beautiful detailed designs, but I don't think I clocked I liked horror. Over the years though, I drew what I liked and I sort of stumbled into the horror genre by chance, found I enjoyed being here and I've absolutely loved it since!

Q: If you could work on any series what would your dream project be?

Eileen: Vampire Hunter D. With all of Fromsoft and Castlevania too haha I can't pick one!



Q: Any message for the backers/fans? And where can they follow you and buy your artwork?

Eileen: Thank you so so much, the support has been overwhelming! It was an honour to be a part of such an amazing project and it has meant so much to see everyone’s reactions. I really loved drawing Kain and Raziel and their world, and am certainly a Legacy of Kain fan now too! You can find me on X/twitter, Instagram and Bluesky as @whereiseileen and you can buy prints from me via INPRNT and The Little Mandarin. I'll also be opening an online shop soon with more prints in the next few weeks!