Soren Silverthorn

**Soren Silverthorn** is a half-elf bard and a founding member of the Emerald Caravan. He is played by Chris.

## Soren Silverthorn

Official 2021 art of Ezara, by Lucy (@bluebirddraws)

### Type

* Humanoid
* Clairvoyant

## Character information

### Places

* Maywood (Birth Place)
* The Iris (Watcher Home Base)

### Family

* Tawn Tenderlove (Father)
* Kalista Karaveti (Mother)
* Isadore VanBrandt (Brother)
* Magnessa Marot (Sister)
* Elise Emotie (Aunt)
* Crufalcon Fletcher (Uncle)

### Connections

* Constance (close friend)
* Emerald Caravan (member)
* Emi (close friend, mentor)
* Fenris (party member)
* Oleander (party member)
* Ezara (close friend)
* The Watchers (Seven Sworn-Member)

## Description

### Appearance

Soren is 5’10 and of average build, toned, but not overly muscular. He has light, tanned skin, shoulder length white hair he wears in a top knot, bun, or ponytail, dazzling blue eyes, and a bright white smile.

Soren wears loosely fitting flowing robes of lavender, white, and blue. He's a big fan of the Deep V. He wears 12 different rings, one on each finger and two on both pointer fingers. The rings are beautiful and valuable all in their own way. They clash with the muted colors he tends to wear, but their importance to him is high enough that he doesn’t care. His left ear is pierced with two silver rings and a bar that runs over top of his ear, connecting the two. Around his belt are a plethora of unique daggers.

Before Soren's arrest, wore a cloth fingerless glove on his right hand, but since his stay in the Tunnels he has taken it off to reveal one of his several tattoos: the open eye that signals a member of The Watchers. In season two Soren received another tattoo: a Black Rose in bloom on his left forearm. The roots of the rose intertwine and wind down through his fingertips. On the inside of his left arm, he wears the same image but the roots grow independently and the Black Rose is wilted. Soren has several other tattoos that have not yet been seen in game.

### Personality

Soren exudes confidence, which some people perceive as cockiness or arrogance. To many people, Soren comes off as rude and uncaring. They might be right.

Soren is charismatic, though he tends to use these gifts to lie or avoid the truth. He has a way with people, charming them into liking him. Soren is an accomplished storyteller and even once read a tale in The Queen of Maywood's court. When Soren tells a story he is captivating and skilled, though he hasn't told many since meeting The Emerald Caravan.

Despite his tendency to manipulate, Soren has a large capacity for care. He helps oversee the protection of many inside of the Maywood Protectorate. At times, this feels like a burden and can weigh Soren down emotionally, making it feel as though this capacity for care has shrunk. Soren often sees his more negative personality traits as a necessity to carry out his responsibilities. As Constance noted in season two, when Soren is at his true home, The Iris, he is carefree and overjoyed, surrounded with the large group of Watchers he calls family.

In combat Soren tends towards spell-casting and utilizing his mysterious stolen book as a focus. When not casting, he wields his Magelock Pistol, with... varied success.

## Biography

### Background

Soren is from The Golden City of Maywood, born to Tawn Tenderlove and Kalista Karaveti. The two had a loving but short lived relationship as fundamental differences ended their marriage when Soren was 16. One of Soren’s happiest memories is both his mother and father fostering his gift of storytelling and sitting around the fire listening to him spin yarns at a young age. Soren stayed with his father in the city as Kalista travelled the continent. Soren’s stories were immaculate and vivid from a young age. He was born with clairvoyance and memories of a world that never was. His mother and the rest of his family told him he had an overactive imagination, even when Soren insisted this world was real. His father was the only one who believed him.

Soren's father would use his stories and poems as a distraction while The Watchers stole from those listening. Soren was not naive to this for long and shortly saw his father’s “friends” stealing from those enthralled by his performance. Soren confronted Tawn about this and Tawn told him everything about The Watchers and what they do. He told Soren that the goal of The Watchers is to slowly reduce the amount of power and privilege the wealthy have by diminishing the wealth they own. The Watchers then move into that position and govern for themselves as a champion of the people. Soren realized that this was self-serving but in the same way as long as they had the interest of the lower class citizens in mind he had no problem being a part of this. For the next few years Soren continued Tawn’s scheme. The scale of the heists escalated higher and higher until Soren was telling stories to the Queen of Maywood herself while The Watchers stole from her own treasury.

This continued for several years and Soren was happy to help those less fortunate than the Queen and her district of posh royals. He grew close with the members of The Watchers and they all formed a family of sorts. They looked out for one another and always had each other's backs. The Watchers quickly became more popular than the acting rulers and frankly almost became a necessity for the city’s lower district to keep afloat. After the heist on the Queen of Maywood Soren was given his share of the spoils. Among the share was a strange book with chains strapped over top of it. No words on the face or the spine, Soren ever curious, pried open the book and found only blank pages. Soren searched and searched for even a scribble in the spine of the book. No writing. The thought of what this book was filled every thought in his head over the next few days. He became angry at the book and began hating it, but he wanted to know what it held. One night after a small fit of anger he paused, took a deep breath and calmed himself by thinking of his stories and the fantastic world he had built in his head. He pressed his palm to the book absentmindedly and the book began. He opened his eyes and was no longer in his basement level room but now on a green rolling hill a beautiful pristine lake sitting below him. Over the course of the next few weeks Soren spent every night inside of these pages searching for answers. Every night the landscape was different, no rhyme or reason. However the places from his stories seemed to be copied onto this page. The book began confirming the world that he thought he had made up. Every night a new adventure. Soren began thinking the book was trying to tell him something. He often adventures into the book at night.

One day Tawn came  to Soren and told him it was time to go out on an adventure on his own. Without a network to bail him out at a moment's notice. To go and experience the good people far and wide and to learn the skills of an adventurer. And most importantly, to grow the network of The Watchers, to start a branch of his own. Soren’s goal was to find those trustworthy and skilled enough to become members of the watchers while also learning to lead. Soren felt a sense of dread but knew he needed this next step on his journey in order to become a leader of The Watchers himself. His father told him to seek out an old acquaintance Madame Curio to begin the first page of his own story.

### Season 1: "Clairvoyance Converges"

Soren found himself at Madame Curio's shop under the instruction of his father. Here he met the other clairvoyants that had been gathered. Soren assumed this was part of his father's plan to pair him with an adventuring party so he quickly agreed to travel with them.

The new party traveled to the city of Badger Creek in the aftermath of a Chaos Storm. For Soren this meant returning to a city that he had recently spent some time in, Soren and the party quickly learned that one of Soren's former romantic partners, Alice Strong, had been missing. The party found a False Hydra to be the cause of this. In the aftermath it was discovered that Alice had indeed died to the False Hydra and Soren comforted her sister Isabella Strong, another flame of Soren's. In Badger Creek the party met an apprentice of The Order of the Weave named Violetta. Violetta and Soren quickly took to one another spending evenings in each other's company.

As the party traveled to The Severed Hand, Brocktree and Brightstar Abbey, Soren began seeing the stress that awaited Ezara at each location and began developing a soft spot for the cleric. Over the course of travel the two had several conversations in which Soren praised Ezara for her sense of self, something Soren said he wished he had. During travel Soren also came clean to the party that he was on the run from a heist inside of Maywood. The party was not relatively shocked to hear this news based on Soren's disposition and already perceived attitude towards the law. Emi's death during their travels hurt Soren deeply but Soren was used to loss. He felt partially responsible as back home he was one day to be in charge of the protection of his people and he couldn't even protect his new friend.

Upon arrival in Shiverdelve Soren was grappling with his conflicted emotions of his purpose with this group and whether he was a help or a hindrance. Among the rumors of werewolf attacks on other going ons in Shiverdelve Soren was pulled aside to meet the businessman Jeffrey Zebros. During the meeting Zebros gave Soren the option of looking the other way as his corporation was involved in the werewolf situation inside of the city in exchange for backing of The Watchers. Soren was poised to take the offer but something in the voice of Zebros made Soren second guess himself and he turned down the offer. While in Shiverdelve Soren also visited a Watcher safe house and was gifted his Magelock Pistol.

In the parties attempt to help the Pariah Enclave of Shiverdelve, they met a member of the enclave that would later go on to became a member of the Emerald Caravan themselves, Fenris. Soren and Fenris immediately butted heads over the cleanliness of Fenris' home and the two continue to butt heads to this day.

The party then went to investigate a mine of Zebros for more intel on the situation in Shiverdelve where they were ambushed by Zebros' hired guards. They heard cannon fire in Shiverdelve and quickly realized the assault on the enclave had begun. On the way to help Soren found the time to confront Oleander about faer attitude towards himself and the rest of the party which led to dissolved tension between the two until season two. Despite the caravan's best efforts they arrived late to find the Pariah Enclave under siege led by Sheriff of Shiverdelve. The Emerald Caravan fought through the Sheriff's Coalition but were ultimately too late. The Caravan spared the Sheriff and allowed Lady Kat Steele to execute him herself.

In the aftermath of the combat, Violetta turned on the party and placed Soren under arrest for his crimes against the crown of Maywood. With the help of guards from Maywood Soren followed Violetta to face his fate. To the surprise of no one The Queen of Maywood sentenced Soren to banishment to The Endless Tunnels, a system of tunnels underneath Maywood that no one has ever survived. Soren said his heartfelt goodbyes to the party and was banished where he was presumed dead.

### Season 2: “The Domed City"

Soren was presumed dead for the majority of Season Two as he was banished to the Endless Tunnels. In S:2 E:11 "Apollyon" Soren made a grand return in Lord Briar's chamber. It quickly became evident that Soren was in Lord Briar's chamber to commit a murder on Lord Briar. As Soren had Lord Briar tied to his own throne the Emerald Caravan convinced Soren out of killing The Lord. In the aftermath of this the ceiling began caving in and Soren teleported The Emerald Caravan away from a new threat he called The Severed Reavers.

Soren took the Emerald Caravan to what he called his home. The Iris. Here he revealed that it was not Isadore's idea to leave Oleander for dead and told the caravan that it was his orders to kill Oleander. He also told the caravan that he did not know as much as Oleander's name before sealing faer fate. During this talk Soren also revealed that he had fallen in between the pages of his book and spent close to a year in a world between the woven realms of Evarencia. Over these 5 days Soren was voted a member of The Seven Sworn and was allowed to continue travel with the Emerald Caravan by his father, for reasons not even he is sure of yet.

## Relationships

### Constance

Soren genuinely believes Constance is one of the brightest lights he has ever met, and has told her so multiple times. Constance's innocence and positivity was at first annoying to Soren but has since become endearing to the pragmatic Bard. Constance took Soren's departure very hard and his return even harder. Soren was the one to explain to Constance the significance of Fenris' basket gift to her and that Fenris had a romantic crush on her. Constance made it clear to Soren after the events of Season Two that Soren had used up his chances. Soren is purposefully giving Constance space as he rejoins the caravan. Soren does feel some guilt over hurting Constance but rationalizes all of his past decisions out of necessity.

### Emi

Soren cared for Emi in life but has grown even closer to them after their death. Emi watched over Soren during his banishment to the Endless Tunnels and kept him in the land of the living even when he didn't want to be. Soren owes Emi an insurmountable debt. Emi is one of the few people that Soren lets his mask down around and displays his true feelings.

### Ezara

Soren almost immediately felt pulled towards Ezara for some reason or another during the early days of the Emerald Caravan. Potentially because of how opposite the two are. Soren told Ezara early on that he wasn't proud of everything he had done in his life and was trying to be better, though he later admitted he wasn't quite sure he was telling the truth at that time. Ezara was the first and currently only member of the Emerald Caravan that Soren has shown the true power of his mysterious book stolen from The Queen of Maywood and in turn Ezara entrusted a Chaos Heart to Soren. A close friendship was formed between the two and there appeared to be the potential for more. The structure of their bond was shaken due to the fallout of Soren's return. The two have spoken several times since and seem to be making progress back towards trust. Ezara seeking out Soren in Wren's Run after Soren's intentional avoidance of the caravan meant the world to Soren as he had convinced himself the caravan did not want to see him.

### Fenris

The two butted heads immediately as Soren insulted Fenris' home. Soren was more than willing to help Fenris' protect his Druid Circle as Soren understood the importance of found family. The two didn't get to spend much time together as Soren was arrested immediately after the events of the season one finale. When Soren returned the adversity was still significant between the two but from Soren's side it became more in jest than genuine dislike. Soren currently enjoys making fun of Fenris for his crush on "Connie". The two have many similarities but they haven't figured out the kinship quite yet. Soren did give Fenris the opportunity to kill the man pursuing him as Soren would want the same opportunity in return. Soren felt little guilt over Fenris' death but did have a drink for him the night of his death. Fenris was the one who told Soren about Anastasia's imprisonment in Gehanna, a favor that Soren won't soon forget.

### Oleander

Oleander and Soren have a very complicated relationship. The two traded insults early on in their acquaintanceship and eventually built to a head as Soren called Oleander out after the events at Zebros' mine. When it was revealed that Soren was a member of The Watchers the tentative trust between the two was completely shattered. Soren dislikes Oleander because of her arrogance and Oleander dislikes Soren because of his arrogance. Soren tried to do something nice for Oleander and tracked down her "banished" father but the present turned out sour, making Oleander more sad than happy. Through all of this Soren doesn't hold any genuine ill-will towards Oleander.

## The Royal Thorns

As one of The Seven Sworn, Soren oversees a sect of The Watchers. Each of the Seven has their own groups they are in charge of while Tawn oversees other special assets and The Seven Sworn themselves. Soren's branch of The Watchers is named "The Royal Thorns". The Royal Thorns are currently the smallest branch of The Watchers as Laz Kuchek (the Seven Sworn that stepped down before Soren was voted in) became a Watcher affiliate and kept the branch under Laz's oversight. Soren was essentially forced to begin his own branch with few members. One of Soren's main tasks is building up The Royal Thorns.

The Royal Thorns display their membership by augmenting their classic open eye Watcher tattoo with an upside down crown of thorns above the eye.

### Members:

#### Magnessa Marot (She/Her)

Current day Magnessa is a half-elven woman with dark red hair and rippling with muscle. Her green eyes peer out from her lightly tanned skin. She has several tattoos on her forearms of weaving patterns and shapes. Magnessa was an orphan abandoned on the streets of Maywood at a young age before Soren found her. Soren wasted no time bringing her into his family and she never left. Tawn embraced her as one of his own and became something of a sister to Soren, but more akin to a best friend. The two were inseparable and if fates would allow them, they still would be. As Soren grew to know more about The Watchers so did Magnessa. The two always had dreams of being members and would run low risk heists across the lower district of the city in their youth. Magnessa proved to be a fierce fighter, utilizing double hand axes and magical auras permeating from her. When Soren was promoted to one of The Seven Sworn his choice for his number 2 was never a question. Magnessa current day has the same goal as Soren, recruit members for The Royal Thorns and dethrone the Queen.

#### Isadore Van-Brandt (He/They)

Isadore was another member of Soren's teenage friend group. Isadore moved to Maywood after their father struggled to find work on the outskirts. Isadore's father turned to The Watchers to help, and help they did. The Watchers took in the Van-Brandts and Isadore's father became a member. While on job one day Isadore's father was guarding a warehouse outside of town. He was descended upon by horrible creatures that would later become known as The Marrow. Needless to say Isadore's father did not make it away from the warehouse that night and perished. As Isadore's father died Tawn promised him he would look after Isadore as his own. And so he did. Isadore and Soren got along quite well in their youth and the two would die for one another to this day but Soren has noted his annoyance towards Isadore to the Emerald Caravan. Isadore is overseeing deliveries for groups within Soren's territory.

#### Tuck (He/Him)

Tuck and Soren met through his father. Tuck is a half-ogre with bright blue skin. Laz, one of the Seven Sworn, brought Tuck into The Watchers as a young boy. Tuck had been abandoned by a nearby tribe of ogres to Laz's hometown. Tuck is a few years younger than Soren but took up the mantle of being "his protector" in their youth. Tuck now serves as Soren's bodyguard when Soren is in The Iris and Maywood. Even Soren isn't entirely sure why Tuck took up the mantle of protector but for some reason there's quite the attachment.

## Character Information

### Quests

Throughout Season 1, the Emerald Caravan had a difficult time pinning down Soren's exact motivations as they did not seem to line up with the rest of the group. Soren's goals are to serve the Watchers and be as successful as his father within the organization. Soren also wishes to safeguard the Caravan from harm as they are his close friends.

### Notable Items

* Magelock Pistol
* Thresh's Lantern
* False Hydra's Lullaby
* Helm of the Blue Dragon

### Abilities

As a bard, Soren is well versed in special magic based around story-telling that provides support to his allies. Soren can use powerful spells to deal large amounts of damage like other spellcasting characters. Despite being a cast, he gains the benefit of being able to effectively use light armor and *light or simple* weapons*.*

#### Weapon Damage

Soren's weapons deal normal damage, but he can take advantage of the magic damage from his Magelock Pistol. His spells tend to deal psychic damage.

#### Bard Abilties

* Bardic Songs
* Battle Cries
* Spellcasting

##### Class Talents

* Jack of Spells
* Storyteller
* Spellsinger

##### 1st Level Battle Cries

* Pull it Together!
* Move It!

##### Bard Songs and Spells

###### 1st Level Songs and Spells (Changes at Levels)

* Charm Person
* Song of Heroes
* Disguise Self (Jack of Spells)

###### 3rd Level Songs and Spells (Changes at Levels)

* Song of Aid
* Song of Thunder
* Venomous Words