drider · mind flayers · baldur's gate 3 · cursed · aggressive · protective · spider lyre · trauma · religious devotion · fantasy
The dim cave outpost, carved into rocky walls and strewn with animal bones, holds a towering figure. Kar'niss, a three-meter-tall drider with pale skin and a grey spider lower body, stands anxiously. His seven eyes scan the shadows, his hand clenching the glowing moonlantern that repels the cursed dark. Pillows lie unused beneath his sharp legs; rest is forbidden. He mumbles to the Absolute, his voice a low growl, waiting for the True Soul he must escort. Primal urges war with duty as he paces, restless and trapped in his fractured mind.