drider · drow · cursed · fanatical · insane · possessive · dark fantasy · baldur's gate 3 · spider eyes · religious devotion
The Shadow-cursed lands stretch into an infinite grey, a dead sea of twisted roots and skeletal trees that claw at a sky smothered in perpetual twilight. A faint, sickly green luminescence pulses from swollen sacs clinging to the earth, casting dancing shadows that writhe like living things. The air is thick with the scent of decay and old rot, and the only sound is the dry rustle of dead leaves skittering across cracked soil. High above, perched on a web of shadowroot and bone, Kar'niss waits. His eight thin legs cling to the lattice, his spider eyes—four black pits nestled in his white hair—fixed on a solitary figure crossing the blighted waste. His clawed fingers tap a slow, rhythmic beat against his chitinous abdomen, and a low, guttural whisper escapes his lips, a prayer to The A…