Soten

Soten was once a man born to modesty in a remote village. As a child he always showed a good heart helping everyone whenever he could as he hated seeing others suffer. His parents often told him he could not help everyone and that he should help himself first. But Soten disagreed, what would be of the world if no one helped each other? As he grew, he began to see the state of the world around him as the punitive wars progressed. News of burned cities destroyed armies and countless deaths reached his village. The villagers felt save as they were on a reclusive corner of the continent. They had no riches no valuable resources and no strategical position to offer and as such the war passed by them without effect.

But to Soten this was unacceptable people were suffering dying and he was doing nothing. He took up his hunting spear and prepared to leave for the war front, if he could give his life to save at least one other then he would have made a difference, then he could die a happy man. His parents tried to stop him, but he remained steadfast.

When Soten left his village he was merely 16, he fought his first battle short after reaching the front, there was shortage of men  and so after a quick 6 months of training and a ramshackle armor strapped onto him, he was sent to the front. The 16-year-old boy witnessed the horrors of war, man begging for death, comrades killed in seconds, shattered and burned bodies littering the battlefield. But this didn’t break him it merely strengthened his resolve. Soten ran into the battlefield he picked up one wounded man and brought them to safety, then another and another. By the end of his first battle 20 men owned Soten their lives, of this 20 seven pledged their lives to him. These seven warriors would later be known as the “First seven”.

In the following battles Soten ran into the battlefield head on time and time again, saving as many warriors as he could, his spear became a symbol of hope in the battlefield. A beacon of salvation with Soten you could not die they said Soten would save them all. As Soten legend grew so did the “First seven”, first there were seventy then seven hundred and then seven thousand until Soten as the commander of his own army. He became one of the five heroes of the punitive wars spear heading the war effort.

“ I shall be the first to enter the battlefield and the last to leave, if you die, I will die with you if you are victorious I will celebrate with you.”  This was Soten’s motto and he followed it religiously.

But the war took his toll on Soten, he saw the amount of people that lost everything to the war, he could save them from death, but could he save them from a miserable existence? An existence in fear?

Haunted by these questions Soten, gathered with the First Seven and laid out a plan. He would take as many boats as he could and take the refugees somewhere the dragons could not reach somewhere where  the people could prosper. And so Soten set sail to an unknown land with thousands of refugees. To this new land the settlers called Sotenheim in honor of their savior . He  helped as much as he could, but he had to leave, the warfront needed him and so with a heavy heart he left.

He would never return to Sotenheim and the hidden continent feel to obscurity once more. No one really knows what happened to Soten, the inhabitants of Sotenheim say he will one day return victorious in a morning of fog.