Nosgothic Realm is finally back to being operational. Due to the fact that the website has been abandoned and relinquished by its founder, (my former partner, “Wolf Reven”) I will be maintaining it on my own from now on. I have been doing work for this site since shortly after its creation in 1999, but lacked the knowledge of how to create, modify, and upload web pages on my own.  Without any idea where to start, it took me over a year to find a way of safely altering the site's online content through web design classes, books, and online help.  Even then, there was a lot to fix and redo. For this reason, I was unable to post any notice of the site’s status, or to remove Wolf’s obsolete contact information before now.  If anyone has submitted fan works to Cyborreaver@hotmail.com or Cyborreaver@nosgoth.net in the past three years, and you do not see them on the site, there is a good chance that they were lost.  Much as I regret asking this of people, please resend them to Tenaya@hotmail.com.  I have no contact with Wolf, and am unable to retrieve emails that were sent to her.  I know there are some great LoK fan creations out there, and I would love to host them. 

This update includes 28 new fan arts and 16 new fan fics. (Some of which have been waiting a very long time to get posted and are exceptionally good!)  The updates newsletter has also been cleaned out of defunct addresses, so feel free to make use of it.

While college will continue to be a priority in my life, I do hope to post updates for this site much more frequently now that I have the means to do so independently.  I am, however, still relatively new to web design, so if anyone is having difficulty viewing any aspect of NR, please let me know.  I’m very glad to be back. There are many projects that I look forward to pursuing for this site and for LoK.  I only regret that it wasn’t possible much sooner. 

I would like to express my sincere condolences regarding the deaths of voice actor, Tony Jay and LoK: Defiance game designer, Kyle Mannerberg, which both occurred since this site’s last update. As most of you probably know, Tony Jay helped bring the Elder and original Mortanius to life with his distinctively ominous voice. I only met Kyle briefly through email years ago when Amy Hennig helped put Wolf and I in contact with him after she left Crystal Dynamics, but I was very impressed by him, and I was very upset when I learned that we had lost him in this manner.

There are several people who I would like to thank for helping to make this update possible. Marie Walter, of the Dark Chronicle LoK fan site, Stephanie Reinking, who recently graduated as a professional graphic designer, and several members of the Realm’s forum all came forward to offer their assistance. Bart Przystawko, (“Baato”) whose new fan fic is included in this update, provided me with invaluable tech support. And, of course, thank you to everyone who submitted their fan works, compounding my motive to see the revival of NR through.

I don’t know if another worthy LoK game will ever be possible, but the existing games continue to generate inspiration, food for thought, and fuel for imagination. May they live on for eternity.