Talk:Ruined City

Though this is highly speculative the ruined city has some resemblance to the fortress of the Nemesis from Blood Omen. Both lie in snow covered regions and while in some timeline of Blood Omen the big statue of the Nemesis guarded the entrance to the land of the Nemesis, in Soul reaver there are two crude horned statues guarding the entrance to the city. The main problem with this theory however is that in Soul reaver the ruined city lies west of the oracle cave while in Blood Omen it was in the uttermost east. This might be due to gameplay reasons however, since there was plans for another region, Dark Eden, where Kain should have fought his brother Turel. Since Dark Eden didn't make it to the game, perhaps the developers 'moved' the ruined city to this region.

The other snowcovered fortress in Blood Omen which resembles the ruined city and which actually lies in the west of the oracle is Malek's bastion. Both have a big throne room with a lifeless body sitting on the throne, Malek's body in Blood Omen and Dumah's body in Soul reaver. But while Malek's bastion was on top of an unclimbable towering mountain peak the ruined city can be reached easily by just walking to it. It is also unlikely that the developers of Soul reaver had Malek's bastion in mind when they created the ruined city, since they already planned to add Kain's mountain fortress which would very likely have been Malek's bastion.

I am aware of the possibilty that the ruined city might be just a city which was built by the vampires after the fall of human civilization in Nosgoth. But since almost every place in Soul reaver has its origin in Blood Omen (the Pillars of Nosgoth, Nupraptors retreat, the necropolis/graveyards near Ziegsturhl, the lake of the dead/the vortex, the oracle cave, the sarafan keep/the drowned abbey) I think it's very likely that the developers had another Blood Omen-based location in mind when they created the ruined city. If anyone has any ideas or perhaps sources of the developers to the background of the ruined city, I'd be happy to have them added here.

92.203.223.198 19:11, November 26, 2016 (UTC)