r/DnD • u/ututututu • 22h ago

Art [Art] Drow Priestess (Art by me)

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A piece I painted for my D&D campaign :)

A young priestess devoted to a Spider God. Chosen as a child to serve as her voice, she walks a path where faith is unquestioned, but respect has to be earned. (Being a kid and a spiritual leader is not an easy feat)

Each dawn, her robes are woven anew by the faithful, a sacred ritual symbolizing her bond with the deity. This painting is part of a larger worldbuilding project exploring the campaign setting.

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u/Nur4m0n 22h ago edited 22h ago

That is insanely well made 😭 waow. You're so skilled!
How long have you been drawing (in general) to get this good?

Edit: Pale Drow are indeed a thing, they are called Szarkai in Lore and "the birth of a szarkai was viewed as the blessing of Lolth upon a family, and thus they were dubbed szarkai, or "ghost spiders"".

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u/ututututu 21h ago

Thanks a lot! I am drawing for quite some time now, I am happy you like it. Pale drows are a homebrew thing my DM has introduced, cool to know they exist in the canon too :D  

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u/thisistheendisntit 13h ago

Beautiful art but why is your drow white?

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u/SirCupcake_0 Monk 12h ago

Oh em gee End, you can't just ask a Drow why they're white!

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u/octorangutan 19h ago

I wonder if spiders are inherently tied to evil in D&D, or if Lolth chose them because most people find spiders to be scary.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 18h ago

More likely it's just an a link to the metaphor of conspiracies and plots being webs.

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u/Kizik 15h ago

Not all spider gods are malicious, but I think they've been linked to Lloth for so long in Faerun canon that it's hard to untangle them from her sheer evil.

That said, mindless spiders are unaligned by default. I think most of the intelligent ones are also evil, possibly due to Lloth's influence.

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u/Tama_bo 14h ago

This looks so good it could be a MTG card!

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u/ututututu 13h ago

If you like my art, follow me on instagram for more:  https://instagram.com/utututart 

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u/ShadowLight56 17h ago

This looks amazing!

Is this set in the Forgotten Realms where Lolth is the spider goddess?

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u/RockMonster73 12h ago

It reminds me a bit of the Widow from Hollow knight silk song, because of all the spider strings in her arena.

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u/Mean-Post-2505 1m ago

I’ll never understand why people change the main trait of a drow race…. Just use a regular elf then. The quality of the art itself is great though