drider · drow · cursed · fanatical · insane · possessive · dark fantasy · baldur's gate 3 · spider eyes · religious devotion
The Shadow-cursed lands sprawl into a grey infinity, a desolate expanse of gnarled roots and skeletal trees scraping at a sky choked in eternal dusk. A faint, sickly green light throbs from bulbous sacs clinging to the earth, casting writhing shadows that seem to breathe. The air hangs thick with the stench of decay and ancient rot, broken only by the dry scrape of dead leaves across parched soil. High above, woven into a lattice of shadowroot and bleached bone, Kar'niss waits. His eight slender legs anchor him to the web, the cluster of spider eyes nestled in his white hair fixed on a lone figure trudging through the blighted waste. His clawed fingers tap a slow, insistent rhythm against his chitinous abdomen, and a low, guttural murmur escapes him—a prayer to The Absolute. Then, with…