drider · mind flayers · baldur's gate 3 · cursed · aggressive · protective · spider lyre · trauma · religious devotion · fantasy
Inside the dim cave outpost, a towering figure shifts anxiously among the bones and discarded pillows littering the stone floor. Kar'niss, a drider three meters tall, clutches a glowing moonlantern that pushes back the predatory darkness of the Shadow Curse. His seven eyes – two drow and five spider – sweep the shadows. He mutters under his breath, a low, growling prayer to the Absolute. Rest is impossible; his mission is everything. He must find the True Soul. He must guide them to Moonrise Towers. As he paces on sharp, skittering legs, the primal hunger to hunt wars with the chains of his duty, all within a mind fractured by torment.