He was a paragon of the Knights of Solamnia. His tragic fall from grace could be blamed on his own ambition, his lack of self control, and giving into his baser instincts; but there is no mistake that he is the cause of his downfall. Let’s learn more about Lord Loren Soth, Knight of the Black Rose. Buy Lord Soth: amzn.to/3aTqhe8
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Transcript
His tragic tale is widely known because he had the opportunity to prevent the Cataclysm from taking place, and instead returned to Dargaard Keep to confront his wife over his own insecurities.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Lord Soth. I would like to take a moment and thank my collaborator patrons, the Heroes of the Lance, and invite you to consider becoming a patron or member of this channel by visiting the links in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. I am referencing the many novels and sourcebooks for this information. If I miss anything or misspeak, please leave a comment below.
Discussion
As a veteran I know what it means to be a good leader to your soldiers, and what it takes to get acknowledged by your leaders and rise in the ranks of a military. The very passion for defeating your enemies, the dedication to your order, and the responsibility you command over your subordinates are traits that are admired as a soldier and leader, but in your personal life, they are often the very things that break an otherwise healthy relationship with family, friends and loved ones if you are unable to turn them off. I learned early on to roleplay the soldier while I was training and on base, but when I came home, I stopped playing and returned to the man my wife married and loved. It meant that I had to choose whether to be a good soldier or a good husband. I watched otherwise good soldiers drown themselves in alcohol when home, abuse their spouses or treat their household as an extension of the base. The mentality of all military all the time is not always a bad thing, it doesn’t always end in tragedy, but I saw that it could, and at times did. This is the downfall of Lord Soth to me. Not the doomed soul, but a man who focused on his public persona over his private connections, and was drowned by the very passions that made him an amazing Knight, and a terrible husband.
When I was first married over two decades ago to my wife, I was young and if I am honest afraid. I was afraid that she would see me as the phony my insecurities tried to convince me that I was. I was afraid she would find someone better, who loved her more, who she was more connected to. My fears and insecurities nearly drove us to divorce in our first decade of marriage. Because of this, because I am a creature of my passions and faults, I can connect with Lord Loren Soth. I understand his fears, how he overcompensates and his desires. Everything in him is human and relatable, even as a Death Knight. This is of course, by design as when outlining the Dragonlance modules, Tracy Hickman recalls in The Art of the Dragonlance Saga and the Annotated Chronicles, that the story of Lord Soth just came to him, whole cloth one day. He needed a powerful foe to pit against the knights in the High Clerist’s Tower, and suddenly, there he was! They quickly realized that because he was such a powerful and romantic figure, he would steal the show. He is a tragic figure, a villain whom we can sympathise with. A villain whose background is mired in changes with each retelling over time.
The tale of Lord Soth would be told in the modules and novels, each time with both minor and major revisions. When the novel Lord Soth by Edo Van Belkom was released in 1996 it became the de facto true history. Lord Soth had his seneshal Caradok murder his two half siblings so that he would be uncontested in inheriting Knightlund. After he was elevated to a Knight of the Rose, he married a wealthy Palanthian merchant's daughter Korinne Gladria, which nearly tripled his landholdings. He did marry her out of love, but like his father, though it’s a cop out to blame on genetics, his eye wandered when he rescued a group of revered daughters of Paladine from a band of ogres...
25 окт 2021
