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

[Paul Farquhar]

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?

Sithicus doesn’t make sense unless Dragonlance is a current setting. Soth is pictured under Age of Champions. Champions of Krynn makes sense. Weis was happy with what WotC were doing, and she hated Soth in Ravenloft. So no, Sithicus is going to remain destroyed.

 

[Dire Bare]

Sithicus doesn’t make sense unless Dragonlance is a current setting. Soth is pictured under Age of Champions. Champions of Krynn makes sense. Weis was happy with what WotC were doing, and she hated Soth in Ravenloft. So no, Sithicus is going to remain destroyed.

No disrespect to Weis, but . . . why does her opinion matter? She doesn't own Dragonlance, the entire setting is work-for-hire owned 100% by WotC.

I don't know if they will include Soth and his realm in the new Ravenloft book, but it makes perfect sense to me! Soth is classic Dragonlance, but he's also classic Ravenloft. Personally, I hope he's included.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Cthulhu is mentioned as a Great Old One patron in the PHB already, so this is simply them confirming Cthulhu's presence in the D&D multiverse though I would assume they would have been found in the Far Realm with Azatoth rather than a Domain of Dread.

I remember a fanon theory in 2e that Ravenloft was the prison demiplane of Tharizdun. I guess it could be true for 5e, with the change in nature of the Domains of Dread no longer being a single demiplane called Ravenloft but realms scattered across Shadowfell.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

No disrespect to Weis, but . . . why does her opinion matter

We know she has been in negotiations with WotC, so someone seems to think it matters.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

realms scattered across Shadowfell.

There isn’t really much left of the Shadowfell that isn’t Ravenloft.

Domains of Delight has the entirety of the Feywild divided into domains.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

There isn’t really much left of the Shadowfell that isn’t Ravenloft.

Domains of Delight has the entirety of the Feywild divided into domains.

Shadowfell is still the Dark Reflection plane, in much the same way Feywild is still the Bright Reflection plane. The domains on either plane exists in the "Deep" of those planes.

 

[humble minion]

One of my more out-there fanon theories is that Krynn is actually a domain in Ravenloft, with Takhisis the unknowingly imprisoned darklord. Her curse is to continually try to take over the place but to be continually and almost accidentally foiled by a bunch of bumbling 'good' gods, a gaggle of emotionally disastrous adventurers who are continually distracted by their love lives, and her own hubris and squabbling minions.

That, to me, solves the Cataclysm Paradox. Why did the 'good' gods of Krynn commit such a monumental act of mass slaughter? Because they're not the good gods of Krynn, they're shadows wrought by the Dark Powers that act as Takhisis BELIEVES a good god would act...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Shadowfell is still the Dark Reflection plane, in much the same way Feywild is still the Bright Reflection plane. The domains on either plane exists in the "Deep" of those planes.

The metaphysics isn’t what the players see, only the adventures. And they almost always happen in domains.

 

[mamba]

We know she has been in negotiations with WotC, so someone seems to think it matters.

I have no idea what the negotiations were about, but I am pretty confident that they weren’t about whether Soth can be in Ravenloft

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I have no idea what the negotiations were about, but I am pretty confident that they weren’t about whether Soth can be in Ravenloft

We know she was happy with the outcome, and we know that she hated Soth in Ravenloft.

The lore changes in VGR are permanent. WotC aren’t going to wind them back because some older players can’t abide change.