It was land of eternal darkness lying to the east of the Crescent and occupying a great, volcanic pit in the sheltering mountain ring.

Home to the forces of darkness in the most literal sense, Nod was ruled by the might of the most powerful warlord at any given moment until Horde Gi brought religion to the East.

Worshippers of the primordial death god of the long-lost Titans, Horde Gi invaded Nod through the lava tubes that connected the dark place to the lands of the Great Reptiles on the far side of the mountains.  With the blessings of the Unlord upon them, no mere mortal army could oppose them and, while many forces conspired to overthrow the new lords of the land, Horde Gi ruled Nod until the Age of Darkness.  Indeed, they helped bring it about.

Not easily pacified and never truly defeated, the night-skulking Scyldi were a source of constant greif to the masters of Nod.  The Scyldi pledged no allegiance to the death god of the new state religion having long ago offered up their very long lives in service to a much more ancient and malevolent force:  the Dark.

Humans would eventually come to Nod, banished from Eden for terrible crimes.  Humans in Nod changed, over time, into something else:  Noddites.  Positioning themselves close to the seat of power, the Noddites were the lackeys and lapdogs of the Gi until the very end when humanity would finally learn the fate of those they had cast aside and reap the whirlwind.