Soren

Soren was the ninth Shadowone, successor of Nemekith and predecessor of Demur. Soren was the first Shadowone to express a love for the world around him, and did not want to rule with destruction and chaos. However, the longsword which manifisted from The Hilt of Lazen did not support this ideal and it had a warping effect, which would cause even more distruction around him.

History
Soren's first battle was fought against Ventriss and the Shadowclad. Ventriss had recently uncovered The Source and was attempting to overthrow The Dark Nation. Nothing should have been able to destroy the empowered Ventriss, but the warping effect of Soren's sword reacted with and consumed the vast energies and Ventriss' life force.

After defeating Ventriss and claiming ownership of The Source, Soren used its great power to travel to the centre of Darvanim the Great, the place that Kel was bound. By this time, what was left of Kel was a girl and a rabbit, having used up most of her power to watch the development of her world from afar. Soren asked her if she could expell the power of Vladamir from The Hilt of Lazen, to which she agreed. Using the last of her power, Kel banished the soul of Vladamir from the hilt, and which a screech it mutated into Darkanium. It started to grow onto Kel's arm and consume her, but with a final force she repelled the darkanium and the hilt turned into Mantallium. It thereby became The Hilt of Soren. The girl that was Kel had disappeared, and all that was left of her was a rabbit. Soren picked it up and took it back through the portal created by the source with him.

Death
Soren was assinated by one of his confederates, Demur. Demur then claimed The Hilt of Soren, becoming Shadowone. He extorted the control he had over the hilt and was able to kill every other one of Soren's loyal confederates.

Following the death of Soren, the Dark Nation became more unstable, usually led by Shadowones who were more tyrants than leaders. With the death of Soren also came The New Testament of The Book of Shadowone, which ruled out most of the rules established by the first nine Shadowones in The Old Testament.