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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8206900" data-attributes="member: 52734">A refinement on my thoughts about Soth/Sithicus:Soth’s story is great - a great hero with a secret, dark blemish on his soul who damns the world to keep from his secret being outed is an excellent backstory for a dark lord.I just think that pulling Soth out of Dragonlance was as bad an idea as pulling Vecna into Ravenloft (it already had Azalin!).I’d prefer if they changed the story of the fallen knight and gave him/her the realm formerly known as Sithicus (no sequel, just retcon the story/lord) would be a better idea.Pehaps change the story to be she was a former Lord in a realm adjacent to Barovia, and during one of the ancient wars she had a fling with Strahd during an old campaign.  Later, that realm went to war with the slowly corrupting Barovia and she was assigned generalship over the attacking army against her former lover, and held her forces back.  When she was commanded to deliver an ultimatum to Strahd at the head of her army, she hesitated - until one of her lieutenants learned of and threatened her child born of that tryst.  However, in the end she made a secret bargain with Strahd to surrender her forces (and the blackmailing lieutenants) at the waiting hands of Strahd’s own forces.  However, rather than accept surrender, Strahd prepared an ambush.  The Lady managed to escape the ambush, but so did her blackmailers, who she perused back to her manor-keep.  Upon, the walls of the keep, the Lady could not prevent her blackmailers from taking her child hostage, and as they proclaimed her treason, she took a bow from one of her home guards and shot at the blackmailer - only for child and blackmailer to fall from the wall.  She was seized by the citizens despite her bodyguard’s attempts to hold the mob off, and she was burned at the stake for her crimes by the mob.  Now, cursed, she arises as a death knight in the ashes of her fortress, unable to exact revenge with her undead forces as she is instead distracted by the hunt for her lost child...</blockquote>

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