The Subjugation of Nosgoth

With his lieutenants raised and operating their own clans, Kain had effectively raised six separate armies to storm Nosgoth. One by one, humankind's bastions fell to his might, blood farms being established to house the mortal prisoners so they might provide food to the vampires, with forced breeding to insure the food supply was steady.

After the last major human settlement crumbled, it was time to render the land fit for vampiric reign. The sunlight washing over the land proved fatal to fledglings, forcing them to live beneath the earth until they grew strong. To remedy this, Turel and his clan were tasked with the acquisition and command of human slaves who would build a massive smokestack to pour thick blackened clouds across the land. Over time, the devastating light was increasingly muted by this eclipsing pollution, and the vampires were able to spread more freely throughout the land.

Those slaves who were spared the grueling and often fatal construction of the Smokestack were instead put to work building a grand monument to Kain's wretched kingdom. This place would come to be known as the Sanctuary of the Clans. And at the center of this palace, Kain carved a throne from the fragmented remains of the Pillar of Balance, a seat of power from which to oversee his empire with the specter of Ariel as his unwilling yet eternal audience.