Editing Lord Soth (section)

==Character Arc==
Soth first made his real mark on the world as part of the War of the Lance, when he allied himself with the Dragonlords of [[Takhisis]] at the behest of the Blue Lady, Kitiara. In reality, he had nothing but contempt for Takhisis; he followed Kitiara because he had fallen in lust with her and wanted her for himself. As a result, at the end of the War, he waited for her to perish in battle and then took her body before fleeing back to Dargaard Keep.

Whilst he did this, he had his seneschal, Caradoc, who was condemned to eternity as a ghost, visit the Abyss to retrieve Kitiara's spirit. Unfortunately for them both, Caradoc tried to blackmail Soth into giving him payment for Kitiara's spirit; in the resultant rampage, the mists of [[Ravenloft]] reached out and swallowed them both, ultimately leading to Soth damning himself to a prison in the new domain of Sithicus. There, he ruled over a populace of tormented elves and [[kender]] vampires, but his home was a permanent ill-fit, and the banshees that followed him singing the story of how he was damned kept getting the details wrong until even he couldn't remember what happened. It doesn't ''sound'' like much but even in death he was still a man accustomed to rigid military order, and it actually drove him nuts. 

Eventually though, Soth realized what few others (and no other Dark Lord) ever had: the only way to win at Ravenloft's Dark Powers' game is not to play it. Rather than rage impotently at a domain that tormented him, he sought solace in oblivion. He had multiple magic mirrors crafted that allowed him to dwell in magically shaped memory-worlds that were either close enough to the truth for his peace of mind, or pure wish-fulfillment. Being undead he could spend his entire time locked in such dream trances, completely ignoring whatever happened in Sithicus and relatively happy. In the end, though, a combination of an uprising instigated by his rivals, the intervention of his late wife's ghost effectively re-enacting the destruction of Dargaard Keep and the will of the Dark Powers (who were actually [[butthurt|a bit miffed]] at him giving them the middle finger with his dream trance escaping his punishment) forced him out of his dream mirrors for good. And he accepted it. He accepted the punishment set before him, and accepted all the evil he had done. So the Dark Powers sent him back to Krynn. 

Dealing with Ravenloft's Dark Powers was already one hell of a feat, but once back where he started he did even better: he eventually attained redemption by [[troll|basically flipping off and triggering Takhisis so hard]] she proceeded to restore his mortality for the special purpose of having the satisfaction to kill him herself. [[rage|Bitch was royally pissed off]]! 

The Hickmans infamously were furious about Soth's stint in Ravenloft, as they have long hated the idea of "crossovers" and so despised the setting that had sprung up from their original Ravenloft modules. They have constantly tried to retcon Soth's trip out of canon in their novels, but thanks to the screwy way time works there, the Ravenloft writers were free to ignore it until they [[butthurt|purposefully eradicated one of the most iconic villains in ''D&D'' through divine intervention]] so that no one else could ever have him. Despite this, in his [[Dragon Magazine]] "hall of fame" appearance, it is pointedly noted that Soth spent time damned to the [[Demiplane of Dread]] as the lord of Sithicus. Additionally, it is said that the current [[Darklord]] of Sithicus is at times tormented by visions of the redeemed ghost of Lord Soth.

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