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Legacy of Kain Official Encyclopedia and Tabletop Role-Playing Game

Created by Lost In Cult

Return to the gothic fantasy that defined a genre with Legacy of Kain: The Book of Nosgoth, the official encyclopedia and archive. Then, forge your own path through Nosgoth in Legacy of Kain: Scourge of the Sarafan, a brutal tabletop role-playing game.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

🎉 £425k UNLOCKED - 3 new stretch goals!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 03:46:07 AM



We flew past £400k last Friday, which unlocked the highly-demanded vampire ruleset for Scourge of the Sarafan.

Thanks to your continued support - and some videos from content creators like Skill Up, Asad Anjum, Monty Zander, and Beer and Board Games over the last few days - we've actually already blown past our £425k secret stretch goal.

We planned on revealing them today and didn't expect to hit the first unlock so quickly, so with that, we're proud to unveil the next 3 stretch goals leading to £500k...




🔓 £425,000: Art expansion #3 for Scourge of the Sarafan (UNLOCKED)

We previously announced Lukasz Kowalczuk and Alexey Gorboot as all-new artists for the TTRPG, and now thanks to your incredible support, we're proud to announce (and confirm!) the addition of a third artist.

Godmachine is a UK-based Welsh graphic artist raised on 2000AD comics, will now be creating new artwork for the Scourge of the Sarafan!

A legendary artist of poster art, band merch, skateboards, alternative clothing, and more, his modern horror illustration style is simply one of the best out there. Godmachine's sensational, detailed, gothic metal art is going to be the perfect match for our tabletop RPG.

We've shared a few examples of Godmachine's work below, but check out his site for more artwork, prints, shirts etc!

The Scourge of the Sarafan is now bigger and better than we ever could have imagined, with a horde of amazingly talented artists on board to bring the world of Nosgoth right to your table. Thank you! ❤️


🔒 £450,000: Dice bag upgrade

At £450k, we'll be adding a high-quality dice bag to hold your dice, for those that have backed an edition of Scourge of the Sarafan that includes dice. We'll share some more information on this and other details soon!

🔒 £500,000: ?

We're keeping this jump up from £450k to £500k as a surprise for now, which we'll reveal later on with a potential next list of stretch goals after 500k is hit. We know this is a lofty goal - and if we hit it, we know later stretch goals are going to be a... stretch!

❓£500,000+

We're always shooting for the moon. With 10 days or so left on the campaign, we'll need every soul available to get us to a point where we can add even more stretch goals. We're already rummaging through some new ideas, as of course we never expected to get this far - and yes, we see all your popular requests and suggestions. 

Fingers crossed, we can make it here to add in a few more extras before the campaign wraps up! 🤞

🎉 £400k vampire ruleset UNLOCKED - new stretch goals coming!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:35:15 AM



They are beings of dark earth and night air, and so flame and pure water are inimical to their unholy flesh. 

And rarely does the wise man in Nosgoth stray from the banks of the river, or the pool of torchlight...


We've done it.

You asked for it, and due to popular demand, we worked quickly to make it one of our stretch goals.

We genuinely had no plans for this initially, but if there was one suggestion that came up again, and again, and again when we asked what you wanted to see from this campaign, it was to be able to play as vampires in the Scourge of the Sarafan TTRPG.

Thanks to your incredible ongoing support and sharing with the wider community, we're beyoooond excited to say we have reached our £400,000 goal, and thus will be including a new ruleset with the ability to play as vampires in the official Legacy of Kain tabletop game - set before the events of Blood Omen.

We'll be providing more details about this in the future!

To clarify, while Scourge of the Sarafan is based on the MÖRK BORG ruleset, our tabletop game is entirely, 100% standalone. We've used a third-party license to adapt the basic ruleset premise of that game, tweak it to fit a Legacy of Kain format, and everything you need to play is right here.

This is not an official MÖRK BORG product, nor is it sponsored by them in any way, or required to play Scourge of the Sarafan. However - you should support the game still if you wish and are able. The team there are wonderful, the game is fantastic, and their kindness to offer the TTRPG community a third-party license in adapting their ruleset is beyond admirable. We hope to see many more MÖRK BORG adapted games in the future, but none would exist without the original - please check them out and offer your support.❤️)

Lastly... we've now locked in our next set of stretch goals. 🎉

We'll give this one room to breathe, but join us next week as we reveal the next set leading up to the £500k mark. There's just two weeks left until our campaign closes - but you gotta believe! 🙏

Vampire ruleset almost unlocked! 👀
about 1 year ago – Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 10:45:33 AM



We know you're all particularly excited for our £400k stretch goal, which will add a vampire ruleset to the tabletop role-playing game book! 🙏

At time of writing, we are less than £10k away from our goal... it's well within sight now before the campaign closes at the end of the month. 

With that, we have also locked in our next set of potential stretch goals. After we hit the big £400k, we'll soon after be unveiling the secret £425k stretch goal as one of our next 3 goals, from £425 - £475k. 

It'll be quite a goal, but we really think we can still hit more to make this better and better for everyone before the campaign is up! 

If you haven't already, now is the time to shout about this campaign from your socials, your rooftops, and in relevant Legacy of Kain-loving communities. Thanks so much for all the support so far... see all you vampires on the other side soon.

New trailers with the voices of Raziel + Kain! 🩸
about 1 year ago – Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 06:27:56 AM

We have an exciting little treat for you today, with our brand-new trailer cuts for the Book of Nosgoth and Scourge of the Sarafan.

You may hear some familiar voices... big thanks to Ben Starr for narrating our trailers, and guest star Michael Bell (voice of Raziel) on our Scourge of the Sarafan trailer, and guest star Simon Templeman (voice of Kain) on our Book of Nosgoth trailer. 

It was an absolute joy getting to meet, speak with, and work with the two legends themselves.


Watch the Book of Nosgoth trailer here

Watch the new Scourge of the Sarafan trailer here


We'll be sharing some more artist Q&A deep dives, details on our book foreword, and more in the coming days - and hey, possibly even the vampire ruleset stretch goal unlock? 🤞

A deep dive on artist Artyom Trakhanov! 🎨
about 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 10:55:11 AM

Today, we're shining a spotlight on one of the artists behind our Legacy of Kain collection.

Artyom Trakhanov is an exceptionally talented comic book and video game artist, with a deep love for Legacy of Kain as a franchise. We asked them to give us some insights into their work, what the series means to them, and some examples of their past work.

We've worked with Artyom before on our [lock-on] gaming journal books, and we can't wait to see their work on the Deluxe Edition box of our Scourge of the Sarafan TTRPG!

Please check out some of Artyom's work at the links in this post - remember, the more you support artists, the cooler you are! 😉


Q: Please introduce yourself and let the audience know who you are, where you're from and where they might know your work from.
 
Artyom: Heya! I'm Artyom Trakhanov, a comics artist and illustrator from Russia (but I live in Serbia now, for Pretty Obvious Reasons).

You might know my work from comic books such as The 7 Deadly Sins or First Knife, or videogames with some very cool 2D art in them (Cantata and Dread Delusion).

Q: What does LoK mean to you? What's your relationship with the series?

Artyom: Hoooo, boy - there was a time when it genuinely meant EVERYTHING. Soul Reaver 1 & 2, Blood Omen 2, Defiance - other than Silent Hill games, this was the biggest franchise for me as a kid.

I even started learning my English properly thanks to these games. So a lot of my taste in games and stories in general goes back to LoK.

Q: How does it feel to create official LoK artwork?
 
Artyom: Still feels unreal every time I open my folder of Soul Reaver pictures to pull some WORK reference out of it.



Q: How did you hear about Lost In Cult, or Cook and Becker?
 
Artyom: I've been eyeing Lost In Cult for a year or two first - licking my lips and thinking about possibly doing some work for you guys at some point of time - and then the Elden Ring issue of [lock-on] magazine happened, and me and my friend Sergey Nazarov were lucky enough to contribute a couple of art pieces to it. So, I guess it was all downhill from there!

Q: Who's side are you on, Sarafan warriors or Vampires?
 
Artyom: Oh, Vampires, every day of the week. LoK has one of the best versions of them ever.

Q: Any message for the backers/fans?

Artyom: Hold on there, people - the real-life vampires are not as immortal as they think they are.



Q: And where can they follow your work?

Artyom: I'm @vor-bokor on Bluesky, and if you're interested in seeing some of my artbooks and fanzines - you can find a lot of them on itch.io here.


You can also find Artyom's art prints on Inprint here, support them on Patreon, or commission art via BuyMeACoffee.