Editing Lord Soth (section)

==The Tragic Backstory==
Lord Soth was once a Knight of the Rose, the most prestigious rank of the Knights of Solamnia, until the day that he encountered [[ogre]]s trying to murder and/or rape a band of [[elf]] priestesses of [[Paladine]] in the forest. He slew the beasts and then rescued the elves, but tragedy struck; he and the youngest, most beautiful priestess fell in love and began having sex with each other. The problem was, Soth already had a wife back home. Consumed with lust, he sent a secret message to his seneschal, Caradoc, and had him murder Soth's wife so that Soth could secretly take the priestess as his wife.

Naturally, the disappearance of Soth's wife was deemed suspicious and he was imprisoned, his guilt assured when the elf-maid's pregnancy by Soth was revealed by her three fellow priestesses. Soth was to be executed, but his wife and still-loyal men helped him escape and flee to Dargaard Keep, where they were beseiged by the rest of the Knights. During this time, Soth's temper grew increasingly foul, until one day he struck his hugely pregnant wife; horrified by what he had done, he prayed to Paladine for redemption, and was offered a chance; he was told of the approaching Cataclysm, and told that if he were to undertake the potentially deadly quest to stop the Kingpriest before he gave the gods no choice but to unleash it, his honor would be restored.

Soth told his wife and set off, but fate tragically intervened; the same three elven priestesses who had revealed his secret love affair accosted him on the road. They had found out about his quest - ''how'', nobody knows, because surely his wife wasn't stupid enough to tell these bitches anything.

To explain what happened next, you need to understand something: the Kingpriest's plan wasn't entirely his own idea. He was secretly being manipulated by a sect of elven bigots, who truly believed that their race being created by the Gods of Good at the dawn of creation meant that they were blessed above all else. These elves believed that through the Kingpriest, they could scourge the world of all the evil races - which basically amounted to "everything but elves and their human pawns". So, these crazy bitches ignored the whole "the world will burn in divine wrath" part of the story and instead resolved to stop Soth by whatever means possible.

Doing so turned out to be disappointingly easy. Soth was many things, but he wasn't very bright. They spun him a bullshit story insinuating his wife had been cheating on him and that the baby wasn't his, and Soth immediately turned around and charged back home. He stormed into his wife's chambers, where his wife had given birth to his son not so long ago, and began accusing her of infidelity even as the Cataclysm hit the planet. Fire crashed down on his wife and she begged him to save their son... but Soth refused, still believing she had been unfaithful. With her dying breath, she cursed him and the gods took heed, devastating Dargaard Keep and turning Soth into a Death Knight and his men into [[Skeleton Warrior]]s.

At least those elf bitches got theirs; they got turned into banshees and condemned to haunt Soth's lair, constantly singing the story of how they were all damned to this state.