User blog comment:Liquid speaker/Pure Opinion:/@comment-2092102-20130611152850

Let me see if I can provide some enlightenment.

1) Unlike the Soul Reaver, the Heart of Darkness appears to have no associated distortions or potential to alter history - as quoted in SR2 only the (soul) reaver has the potential to cause a paradox and change history.

2) Only one game coming out now titled simply "Nosgoth" - the obsidian blood etc stuff way back was (at best scenario) simply a survey that was ultimately unconfirmed and probably never went anywhere anyway.

3) As for what happens to Janos between Defiance and BO2, I'll quote developers: "The Hylden Lord used the body of Janos in order to open the gate. Once the gate was opened, the Hylden could enter the Material Realm directly, and so Janos was placed in the Device." or "The events of Defiance cause Blood Omen 2 to be possible. During the rift when the Pillars collapse, the Hylden Lord/Hash is able to escape his imprisonment and possess Janos. This means that not only does he have an indestructible vessel for himself, but once he gets another body in BO2, he has Janos prison to use to power The Device."

4) The Nosgoth game: "is in active development, but is not a traditional Legacy of Kain action-adventure game [...] Nosgoth is set in the same universe as previous LoK games, but on a different branch to the Blood Omen and Soul Reaver series." - so though they may sneak in a few references, it is unlikely that they'll fully concentrate on previous plot threads (and probably not on ones that have already been explained by developers.)

hope this helps.