Nameless Ghoul (Sodo)

* IMPERA Era
* Prequelle Era
* Meliora Era

**Sodo** is the moniker currently used by the lead guitarist of Ghost.

## Introduction

Lead Guitarist Sodo is the shortest of the male ghouls. He is typically placed on the front right side of the stage during rituals. He has his own platform on stage left with guitar expression pedals which he commonly uses in solos, but also for various other song bits when performing. He was two children whom he loves dearly, Oliver, and Lily, whom he had with his ex-wife, who will not be revealed.

## Names

Also known as "Dewdrop", Sodo has many names that fans use for him. All names of current that fans use for Sodo are: Sodo, Dewdrop (Dew), Stompy, Gremlin, Drew, Ember, and Fire.

## Appearance (Era 5, current era)

Sodo is usually recognized by his Arctic and Olympic White, and also his Ed O'Brien Cream Fender Stratocasters. The neck and head of the guitar is maple with a rosewood fretboard. If seen close enough, you may see 1-3 of his custom white Tortex guitar picks stuck to the bottom right of the guitar body, which have a golden Ghost logo on the front, and a golden grucifix on the back, and they also have grip cut into them for better stability. Sodo is the only ghoul with a completely white guitar, and also the only ghoul who plays Stratocaster electric guitars. For the Pre-IMPERATOUR he switched from a white Hagstrom Fantomen to Fender Stratocasters. This allows him to use a Schaller LockMeister Tremolo which is necessary for the various portions of songs that he and the rest of the band have to perform on-stage. The guitars are also his personal equipment, though modified specifically for the band's performances. Another ghoul, Rain, is mistakenly mixed up with Sodo as they both play a similar shaped and coloured instruments. Rain is the band's bass player. The main difference between these two ghouls' instruments is that Rain's bass guitar is white with a black pickguard, and only has 4 strings as opposed to Sodo's completely light coloured 6 string guitar.

At the end of the show though, all ghouls put away their instruments which is the primary way of differentiating them. This is also a problem with out-of-concert photos, art, and other similar media where instruments are not required. Luckily, there are other small details to tell them apart - such as their masks. All Nameless Ghouls wear Victorian style outfits, with customized steampunk-esque masks. The differences for these helmets are the material on the top sides of the masks - which is a different shape or style for every ghoul. Another difference is the horns - though only two ghouls have different colored horns from the rest of the ghouls, Sodo included. Sodo has white horns - with the left one being slightly discolored with grey colors included - instead of the normal black, and his different material shape on the mask is a long, curved triangle-shape with a notch where the point of the triangle would be. This is only a minor difference and most of the time very difficult to see. A major detail for Sodo is his arms - the usual long-sleeved ghoul outfit is most of the time rolled up to his upper arm, but he wears a tight black undershirt to cover his tattoos.

Sodo is the only ghoul with his balaclava over his nose. All other ghouls - aside from Rain - have their mouths uncovered, as they are backup singers. Rain, Mountain, and Sodo are the only ghouls who do not do any vocals, but Rain's nose is visible, and Mountain does not have any covering at all. Another way to differentiate Sodo is by his bold personality. Sodo is by far the most confident, social, and one of the more energetic ghouls compared to others in the lineup.

Sodo was also formerly known to come over to Aether's microphone from time to time towards the end of Mary On A Cross to take part in backing vocals, although he would sometimes do the same with one of the multi-ghouls Swiss to sing a lyric or two of Ritual.

## Personality

Sodo is one of the most active ghouls in the group. He interacts with fans and the other band members a lot, usually messing with them. He is also known to do many not-so-PG actions, which can include caressing the other ghouls, choking them, licking things (in era 4, where his mouth was uncovered), and sexual gestures. He is known for his famous guitar duels with fellow former ghoul Aether. The duo was seen messing with each other throughout the live performances. In between songs, they did guitar duels with each other, with the two taking turns playing guitar riffs, getting more complex as the duel goes on.

Since the start of IMPERATOUR (Pre-IMPERATOUR to be more specific) the song Ritual ends in Sodo playing a single note which goes on for minutes at a time, using a sustainer Pickup to make the guitar sound like a wailing siren to annoy Aether. Aether then walks to Sodo's platform, and stops the sound himself by pushing down on the whammy bar and manually using the volume knob to turn down the volume, which Sodo becomes visually annoyed - flipping Aether off, throwing picks at him, or simply standing there gesturing disbelief or annoyance at the rhythm guitarist. Sodo is known to throw a lot of picks, whether that be at the ground in frustration, at Aether, or to fans, he always keeps three spare picks on his guitar. As of writing, this is now done by Rain due to Aether's leave from Ghost. However, Sodo is less aggressive towards Rain and usually ends up expressing disbelief or being disappointed, or sometimes his guitar audio feed would be cut entirely by the audio technicians.

Sodo is very bold and likes to take attention for himself. This another main difference with Rain and Sodo. Rain is very introverted - the complete opposite to the very ambitious Sodo. He is seen confidently strutting around the stage, pushing in front of Papa Emeritus IV, messing with Mountains drums, or just being a chaotic being in general. In the song Square Hammer, Sodo, Aether, and Rain all go to the very front middle of the stage during the beginning guitar intro, and all three of them play their instruments in sync. When the beat comes around, Sodo does his famous stomp which is so loud that it sometimes doesn't even pick up on recorded videos! During the song Mummy Dust, Sodo reaches his hand out to the crowd, as if trying to get a fan to take his hand. Most of the time, the fans are too far away. If fans are within reach, he pulls his hand away before they can take it anyway. He is known to be very rough with his guitar. He has been seen multiple times whacking his guitar on the ground, and he is very rough strumming it as well. So rough, that he injured his pinkie finger during a live concert, and throughout the rest of the show - painted his blood on the guitar. He also smeared his blood on the setlist in an attempt to draw a pentagram and threw it into the crowd.

## Era 4 History

After the court case with the ex-ghouls, Sodo joined the band as the new bassist at the end of 2016. After former lead guitarist Ifrit wasn't contracted to work with Ghost again, Sodo took on the lead guitar role as well as the name Fire, but fans eventually began to call him Dewdrop instead. At the era of Prequelle (era 4), the Nameless Ghouls were given a slight change to their costumes. Instead of the dull grey silver devil masks that the previous ghouls wore, they were swapped out for almost identical silver devil masks, though this time they were more reflective and had mouth cuts to support the backup vocalists. In the Prequelle era, it was common to see Sodo sticking his tongue out. Before tossing picks into the crowd, he would lick them. He also has licked his guitar in multiple occasions. Just like the IMPERA era: Sodo wore a tight undershirt underneath his dress shirt to cover his tattoos.

In Era 4, he played a different guitar: This guitar is mistaken to be Rain's black and white bass, as the instruments are both black and white. The guitar was a white Hagström Fantomen - custom made as a collaboration with Ghost. He played the white variant with a black pickguard, Although, the version that was used on-stage was known to be heavily modified and reinforced for more rougher stage purpose.

During the Prequelle era live performances, he was also seen to be a lot more interactive with a couple of other ghouls due to the stage design: those ghouls being Cirrus, who he would typically come up to during her keytar solo on Mummy Dust and their duo solo on Dance Macabre. Swiss, who he would typically come up to during Square Hammer, or other songs and dance with him.

## Gallery

playing bass during the Meliora eraSodo during Prequelle era
## Trivia

* Sodo is portrayed by Swedish guitarist Per Eriksson.
* A rumor went around in 2022 that the name Dewdrop made Per uncomfortable, so fans began to use the name Sodo, which is a shortened version of Per's nickname Sodomizer. The rumor turned out to be false, as Per has never come out to say anything about it.
* Sodo's first show with Ghost was on March 24th, 2017
* Sodo plays the following guitars: Arctic White & Olympic White Fender Stratocasters & Cream E'OB Fender Sustainer Stratocaster, though, they are all modified
* Sodo uses four expression pedals, all of which are Mission Engineering EP-1
* Sodo had an injury towards the end of A Pale Tour Named Death - North America 2018 on December 5, 2018, which caused him to miss out on two live shows. The live guitar audio heard on said two live shows that he missed out on was likely playback from previous performances.