They also cursed them with sterility, ensuring the extinction of the species and the discontinuation of the magic that preserved the Pillars. However, on their departure, the Hylden cursed the Ancients with immortality, cutting them off from the Wheel of Fate that demanded their souls be returned to their God and re-spun in the wheel. As long as the Pillars could adequately be served by the Vampires, the magic would be strong enough to keep them banished. The Ancients constructed nine pillars representing the most fundamental elements of their world, and, using their magic, used these Pillars to send and lock away the Hylden in the Demon Realm. This ignited a war between the two races, with the Ancient's ultimate goal being to banish the Hylden from their land altogether. The Hylden rejected the god of the Ancient vampires and their laws regarding the Wheel of Fate. You must right the Pillars of Nosgoth." ―Ariel Now he spreads misery and pain among the Circle, crumbling the very foundation of Nosgoth. But never again could I give Nosgoth back her innocence." ―Kain History The Very Foundation of Nosgoth "My murder at the hands of this beast drove my love Nupraptor mad. Was it still possible that with the right knowledge, the right moves, I might one day see Nosgoth restored, the Pillars pure once more? My answer – according to Moebius – lay somewhere to the west of this place. I would cause their fall, and build my empire upon their ruins. In the future, these edifices would be condemned to darkness and decay. centuries before the corruption set in that would poison the land, and put me on the treacherous path I still followed. Profile "How strange to see this place long before my birth. Furthermore, the Elder God lurked in the Subterranean Pillars Chamber beneath their central dais, its tentacles coiled around the nine ancient edifices, and its intentions inscrutable. The Binding which the Pillars maintained ensured the integrity of the barriers between Nosgoth's Material, Spectral, and Demon Realms. It transpired that they were much more than a human edifice: they had been originally raised by the Ancient vampires, as a weapon of war against the Hylden.
Most of Kain's existence was devoted to seeking out a means of restoring the Pillars, leading to numerous discoveries concerning their origins and purpose. As long as they remained unrestored, corruption seeped into the land like a poison they were inexorably linked to the redemption of Nosgoth. However, the dire ramifications of their fall extended far beyond one individual. His decision had implications for Ariel, the specter of his murdered predecessor, who was thereafter condemned to haunt the ruined stumps of the Pillars indefinitely. The Pillars were corrupted by the machinations of " dark forces" in the history preceding Blood Omen, and they later collapsed when the Balance Guardian, Kain, refused to sacrifice himself to restore them in the events of Blood Omen. Each Pillar, and their respective Guardian, was assigned to a principle: Mind, Dimension, Conflict, Nature, Balance, Energy, Time, States, and Death. From their genesis before Nosgoth's recorded history, the nine Pillars were represented by an oligarchy of immortal sorcerers known as the Circle of Nine. They have appeared in each game, reaching infinitely into the sky and deep into the earth, and their well-being was inextricably tied to the spiritual and physical health of the land. The Pillars of Nosgoth were a landmark, and the focal point of the entire Legacy of Kain fiction: the "mythological and geographical hub" of the series.
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