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Ellywick triggers my cute aggression. I gave her the gnome tag on top of her seldarine drow tag, because 1) she was raised by gnomes, and 2) the seldarine drow dialogue options arenβt much better than the Lolth sworn options. Which is silly to me, youβd think Larian would have distinguished them more.
portrait of an amorous couple
So all my drow/half-drow Tavβs are related via one very slutty assassin dad. None of them ever meet, itβs just a bit out outside lore for them.
Their dad is a son of House Auvryβval (cousin to Nymβs bio dad) and is an assassin usually sent to hunt outside enemies who make it to the surface. He has CHA 20 and does not believe in protection. His name is Szindahrys.
Ellywickβs mom was from a rival house whom he seduced. Sheβs rather young for a matriarch and due to some cutthroat politics couldnβt risk an illegitimate child from a rival house so she abandoned her newborn in the underdark where a deep gnome expedition party from BG found her and one of them adopted her.
Jenβs mom is a sheep farmer/herder with a lineage to a silver dragon. Was a widow with one daughter already and remarried after Jenβs birth with a second daughter.
Victyrrβs mom is a priestess of Lathander who lives in the underdark, protecting a community of escaped slaves from Lolth ran cities. She has a lineage to devas.
Havenβt played her since EA but hereβs Ellywick Glitterfoot. Sheβs my wild magic sorcerer drow who was adopted by gnomes as an infant.
Her father (a deep gnome) and her mother (a forest gnome) have a jewelry shop in Baldurβs Gate. Her father found her on one of his mining excursions where she had been abandoned in the underdark. His wife had just given birth to their second daughter (out of 5 kids) so Ellywick was raised like one of their own.
She grew up and became an underdark cartographer, designing maps to help expeditionary folk like her father navigate easier in the underdark.
On one of those excursions, she met a handsome drow man who claimed to be an Eilistraeen refugee living in a hidden community in the underdark. It was about a year of repeated contact with this man and she fell for him. Unfortunately he was actually a scout for a Lolth community and he tries to kidnap her once he has the chance.
Her wild magic surged and she escaped but unfortunately was then abducted by the mind flayers.
She romances Astarion and sheβs a huge nerd.
Astarion wonβt be able to escape the family bbqβs with all her cousins, nieces and nephews.
Ellywick is like if Jane from Disneyβs Tarzan, Milo from Disneyβs Atlantis, and Brea from The Dark Crystal: AoR had a baby.
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I love this piece you'd done of Dris before, and if you ever want to draw him again feel free π₯Ί
Thank you for the ask! I love him! <3
More pics of my unicorn Tav, Lua, and then some background pics of my boi, Flint.
I imagine her blood sizzles on Astarionβs tongue like a Dr. Pepper, lol.
Gave my unicorn Tav, Iluatria (Lua for short), an update. I'm a The Last Unicorn hoe.
Her lore:
Lua was a unicorn who lived on the coast before an old dying wizard made a deal with a sea hag to capture her so he could force her into healing him and giving him more life.
He went to the local sea hag and had her help him capture and transform Lua (wild unicorns are notoriously difficult to capture otherwise). It worked obviously, but he betrayed the hag and killed her (who cursed him to be killed by his own folly soon enough, aka Lua).
He basically had her captured Calliope style in the Sandman, trying to persuade/intimidate/force her to give him power but she refused because itβs not something that can be taken. He gets drunk one night and tries to take it by force (by sawing her horn off which would kill her) and she instead impales him with her horn.
She then returns to where her sisters and brothers are like βhey, help me turn backβ but then they said they canβt and thatβs when SelΓ»ne is like βactually Iβm going to need you to investigate Moonrise/the Absolute cult thatβs forming and then I can turn you backβ, so then Lua is forced to investigate which is then when she gets captured and tadpoled.
Since the gods were already sending their clerics and agents to check out whatβs happening, SelΓ»ne would be like βactually this works in our favor for a bitβ and is taking advantage of the situation.
I imagine Lua got nerfed a bit when she was transformed, then the tadpole nerfed her the rest of the way.
She knows sheβs a unicorn (horn makes it obvious) but her memories of her life as a unicorn are starting to fade and the more connections she makes in her new form, the more she loses her old self. Iβm using it as a form of meta too, since Tav is such a blank slate and feels like they didnβt exist before the events of the game, this is my meta of her literally being a new person.
Sheβs old, like older than Raphael old, but since Iβm stealing so much from TLU, to quote Prince Lir, βshe has a newnessβ.
She was a unicorn under the service of SelΓ»ne specifically, and she helped guide sailors and lost souls home along the coast. Keeping with the sea and navigation themes.
Sheβs not only trying to remove the tadpole but also trying to return to form before she βloses herselfβ forever. But of course she makes connections and once she and Astarion fall for each other, itβs when she has to make a decision. His spawn route is him deciding to try living again with his old self dead and buried, and with her itβll be deciding to let her old self die as well.
She doesn't get on with Gale at first because she thinks wizards are selfish and power hungry but over time they become friends and they have interesting discussions around magic.
Right now her goal is βyes, I want to go back, this form is unnatural and tortureβ but sheβll start to develop an independent sense of self that starts to overtake her old self.
Sheβll always have natural grace and beauty, but that ethereal otherworldliness will disappear over time.
While she's in this form she can feel her immortality and old self fade and it horrifies her but once she falls in love with Astarion she eventually comes to accept her new life. My end goal is at the end of the game, she chooses to use what's left of her powerful unicorn healing magic to cure Astarion of his vampirism. Her horn disappears and she's made fully mortal (as an elf) and they live their new lives together.
It's a cheesy idea but SelΓ»ne takes their souls (since Corellon wonβt have him), and then they get reincarnated as unicorns. Theyβre essentially new people again, the way reborn souls are, but they find each other again and mate for life once more. And now he gets to be a unicorn; wild beauty, grace, and never again tamed too.
Itβs super romantic and cheesy but sometimes I be a sucker for that.
And I do like the idea that Astarion, (who he himself and most people see as used, dirty, and corrupted), is actually seen as worthy enough and loved by a being in universe as pure as they come. And thereβs an innocence in his passion for life that would attract her.
The same team that made Glaze, a tool that prevents AI art style mimicry, has come out with an offensive tool against unwanted AI scraping:
"Nightshade [is] a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."
You don't even have to be an artist to use Nightshade. Use it on your photos, your memes, screenshots, etc.
Nightshade: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html What is Nightshade?: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html User Guide: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html Glaze: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html What is Glaze?: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html
And for Artists who don't have access to a desktop/powerful GPU: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html It's recommended to Nightshade your image first, then apply Glaze for maximum protection.
im the only one who truly understands larian's vision for this game
You put the stars to shame.
