Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

ersatzphil · Thursday at 4:11 PM

LuisCarlos17f said:
We don't need Chulthu when we have got brainstealer dragons.

Just because it has tentacles doesn't mean it's Lovecraftian.

Parmandur · Thursday at 5:31 PM

dave2008 said:
Well I just saw this over on my artstation feed, posted by the artist of the cover art. So Cthulhu confirmed!

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Yup. And other art has shown the Great Race of Yith is in the book in some capacity.

TravDoc42 · Thursday at 7:13 PM

Parmandur said:
Yup. And other art has shown the Great Race of Yith is in the book in some capacity.

I am unreasonably excited for the Great Race of Yith!

Jared Rascher · 2026-03-07T02:42:44+0000

I would love to see 5e embrace the "Elder Evils" they already establshed in the past and use them for their cosmic horrors. Bolothamogg, Holashner, Piscaetheces, Shothotugg, and Y'Chak deserve a spotlight again.

Has anyone noted that it looks like there is a bit of Lord Soth without his helmet on artwork, which logically has to be from the Ravenloft book, right? So are we seeing the Knight of the Black Rose return to Sithicus?

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-07T02:54:40+0000

Jared Rascher said:
Has anyone noted that it looks like there is a bit of Lord Soth without his helmet on artwork, which logically has to be from the Ravenloft book, right? So are we seeing the Knight of the Black Rose return to Sithicus?

In the timeline, they put him next to "more to come," which suggested to me that he might be from an upcoming project.

Remathilis · 2026-03-07T02:56:30+0000

Jared Rascher said:
Has anyone noted that it looks like there is a bit of Lord Soth without his helmet on artwork, which logically has to be from the Ravenloft book, right? So are we seeing the Knight of the Black Rose return to Sithicus?

I hope not. I never liked the custody battle his inclusion in Ravenloft created. I'd rather him remain a part of Dragonlance lore and ignore his Ravenloft time.

(I especially hate how he left. The Dark Powers just let him go because they couldn't torment him? That is the most ridiculous possible outcome and really make the Dark Powers seem very weak. All so that Weiss and Hickman could kill him off on Krynn. GG. Good work all around.)

humble minion · 2026-03-07T04:07:40+0000

Remathilis said:
I hope not. I never liked the custody battle his inclusion in Ravenloft created. I'd rather him remain a part of Dragonlance lore and ignore his Ravenloft time.

(I especially hate how he left. The Dark Powers just let him go because they couldn't torment him? That is the most ridiculous possible outcome and really make the Dark Powers seem very weak. All so that Weiss and Hickman could kill him off on Krynn. GG. Good work all around.)

On balance, I probably prefer Soth in Dragonlance. He's just so wound into the history of the setting and he belongs there. On the other hand, he's one of the most genuinely literary-sense-of-the-term Gothic villains in D&D, so he's a genuinely good fit in Ravenloft too - much better than some other darklords.

Artamo · 2026-03-07T04:13:33+0000

I like Soth in both settings. Again, given Ravenloft’s kind of detached from reality/dream-like status, I feel like the two scenarios can both exist. There’s no timeline attached to it.

LuisCarlos17f · 2026-03-07T04:42:24+0000

I wouldn't be too surprised if we heard news about Lord Soth, given how iconic he is (too cool to not selling merchandising). On one hand, he's caused too much suffering to so many innocents to deserve redemption or a happy ending, and on the other, the gods of Krynn know what he's capable of for their purposes. If a Krynnian deity were to tell Lord Soth that the souls of his second wife and son in the celestial realms are threatened by Fistandatilus's treacherous machinations, then the latter is going to be in serious trouble.

I imagine lord Soth in Sithicus, but not in the demiplane of dread, but this second dark domain would be within Krynnspace Shadowfell and mainly this would be empty, at least not inhabited by innocents. He wouldn't get bored here because Takishis would take care of sending him "guests" to look after.

I like to imagine him like a frienemy of the PCs, like a necessary ally against worst menace but you can't trust him totally, and more when the PCs are stupid muderhobos.

How could he come back? Some divine god could recruit him against Fistandatilus, Vecna or other external menace.

Jared Rascher · 2026-03-07T05:31:10+0000

Honestly, I don't think anybody is too worried about justifying this within past continuity any longer. WotC Dragonlance isn't old TSR Dragonlance, and even new Hickman and Weis modern Dragonlance isn't old Hickman and Weis Dragonlance, because time broke and got put back together.