The Elder God's origins are shrouded in mystery, and few in Nosgoth even know of its dark existence. Its tentacles coil throughout the deep and remote places of Nosgoth's murky underworld, but its subtle influence reaches across the length and breadth of the land.

It is the Elder God who saved Raziel from the Abyss, resurrected him as a devourer of souls, and unleashed him upon Nosgoth to wreak his revenge. The Elder God urged his newly fledged "soul reaver" to reap the vampires' unholy souls and end Kain's death-grip on the decaying land.