#maya do'urden

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I have drawn more Do'urden family members (minus dad because Im not very good at drawing masculine looking characters T_T

Malice was my favorite, unfortunately she girlbossed too close to the sun U.U

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Sketches for that one Drizzt book everybody read (Legend of Drizzt: Homeland)

[everybodyloveshippos]

Children of Malice

Vierna, Maya, Briza Drizzt, Nalfein, Dinin

redraw/redesign of the Do'Urden family (probably will draw Malice, Zak and Rizzen next)

design notes/headcanons under the cut

i usually just have thoughts about the character as im designing so for a few things i was like 'oh thats a thought' also yes i know children of malice is a CR thing too haha

-i wasnt originally gonna draw 'lolths embrace' since these are just my own designs not visual dictionary but like....facial markings are really cool and so i ended up looking up various spider markings (i only used those specific realworld spider designs for dinin, who i also gave darker marking as opposed to lighter) and briza

-i also prefer the idea that its not actually anything to do with lolth, its just a genetic marking that some have and some don't. also the proximity to magic/faezress theory (?) was cool so there's not a huge meaning here; though i guess im guilty bcus I didnt give them to drizzt or vierna

-maybe zak doesnt have them and neither do his kids which sorta spurs on the heretic theory when its actually just a genetic thing that has no actual bearing on lolth's favour

-the women wear more gold and the men more silver, however the men can wear gold; they just have to be wary with standing out more than their sisters. any given day could be too much and cause for a beating

-nalfein likes jewelry and decorations/makeup and is more flashy when he's away at sorcere. his ears are marked up from training with/lessons from zak, who frequently would smack his ears when he was displeased with him. they blend in with lolth's embrace and he will cover them with makeup or a glamour on occasion. i just got the sense he was somewhat insecure given how he kept challenging zak and was written off by his family as mediocre. i think he liked being at sorcere more than at the house

-drizzt takes out his braids whenever he can. he likes his hair loose

-so does dinin. i think a lot of his appearance is meant to attract attention and establish his individuality

-i've always given vierna bangs and a ponytail BUT i love her braids in the comic so I gave her those too. her hair is unruly, like drizzts. she has a couple visible scars as opposed to her sisters because she trained more with zak. he felt bad about it but a bit relived when she didnt make a big deal out of getting a bit marked up. malice was angry

-maya has markings on her ears, so she doesnt pierce them. she wears makeup but forgets its there, and sleeps in it and wipes it off by accident. since her hair is shorter she decorates with little spider gold clips

-i will die on the headpiece hill. og drizzt oldman swag

-compared to my older art of them (first fanart of the series! i knew i was in when i drew all the siblings lol) i think i changed nalfein most to be less ...square....i hit him w a yassification beam and gave him eyebrows

[baldursyourgate]

bored, looked up drow name meaning

Jarlaxle - prefix Jhul/Jar: charmed, rune, symbol; suffix cyrl/axle: ally, companion, friend. -> charmed friend? symbol of ally? If he were born female, his name would be... Jhulcyrl. Barely pronounceable.

Gromph Baenre - suffix oyss/omph: binder, judge, law, prison. His female name counterpart could be... Groyss...

Triel Baenre - Triel/Taz: bat, winged.

Minolin Fey-Baenre - prefix Min/Ran: lesser, minor, second; suffix olin (unisex): ascension, love, lover, lust. -> minor lover? second lover? Tbf she is the second named lover of Gromph in the series. Very... plot relevant name.

Minthara Baenre - prefix Min/Ran: lesser, minor, second; suffix thara/tar: glyph, marker, rune -> lesser glyph, second rune... glyph jr.? Kind of a cute name meaning from what we've seen.

Nalfein Do'Urden - prefix Nhil/Nal fear, horrible, horror, outraged; suffix ffyn/fein: minstrel, singer, song -> fear singer? song of outrage? horror minstrel... Nhilffyn would be his female counterpart.

Dinin Do'Urden - prefix Gin/Din berserk, berserker, orc, wild; suffix inil/in lady/lord, rider, steed -> berserk rider? wild steed? berserk lord. Gininil is a bit of a tongue twister...

Drizzt Do'Urden - prefix Jys/Driz hard, steel, unyielding; suffix zyne/zt finder, hunter. -> unyielding hunter?

Zaknafein Do'Urden - prefix Zar/Zakn: dusk, haunted, shadow; suffix afae/afein bane, executioner, slayer. Dusk slayer, haunted bane, shadow executioner. His name's female counterpart would be Zarafae. However, in "Relentless", it is stated that Zaharina is the feminine of Zaknafein.

Baby girl is named after her grandpa <3

Malice Do'Urden - Prefix Mal/Malag: mystery, secret; suffix ice/eth: obsession, taker, taken -> secret taker. So her name means something in drow and it's a coincident that it makes up a word that has meaning in Common.

Briza Do'Urden - prefix Briz/Berg graceful, fluid, like water; suffix a/agh breaker, destruction, end, omega -> graceful end.

Vierna Do'Urden - prefix Vier/Val black, dark, darkness; suffix na/nar adept, ghost, spirit -> darkness's adept.

Maya Do'Urden - prefix May/Mas beautiful, beauty, silver; ; suffix a/agh breaker, destruction, end, omega -> beautiful destruction.

For all that she did, gotta give it to Matron Malice when it comes to the naming department. She knows how to give name that's got a good balance on both the meaning and pronounceability.

Sorn Orlith - prefix In/Sorn enchanted, spell.

Nym Orlith - prefix Myr/Nym: lost, skeleton, skull. According to the list, Nym is a male prefix?

Viconia DeVir - prefix Vic (unisex) abyss, deep, profound; suffix onia/onim rod, staff, token, wand. -> abyss' wand.

bonus:

Matron Baenre had a LOT of children and so a tonne to name. Idk how she did it or if she give up after the first... 5 and just go for a dice roll for the rest.

I wasn't able to find the meaning for a few name, like Quenthel's. Also some prefix seen in existing drow's names like Sos in Sosdrille and Sos'Umptu is not in the list.

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Astarion: I know seduction, I understand that, but Maya knows all my tricks and isn't impressed and for some reason I really want to impress her. Karlach: Maybe try being honest about your emotions? Astarion: Disgusting, no.

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House Do'Urden (Daermon N'a'shezbaernon) Family Portrait - from left to right - Dinin, Vierna, Briza (the big bitch in the back), Matron Malice, Maya, and way off to the side is poor Rizzen.

Missing - Drizzt Do'Urden (possibly not born yet), Nalfein (possibly dead), and Zaknafein Do'Uden, although I doubt Malice would let him sit in on a family portrait if he were not actually house patron and relegated to weapon's master.

Both Vierna and Drizzt are confirmed sired by Zaknafein. Nalfein and Maya are confirmed sired by Rizzen. Briza, I think it's pretty obvious too, is not Rizzen's - it is speculated that Briza's sire was Uthegental Del'Armgo. There is, in my opinion, still a possible question of Dinin's sire - the best we have is a conversation between Zaknafein and Jarlaxle in the Generations trilogy where neither is entirely sure, and the best we get is Zaknafein guessing he might be Rizzen's, but doesn't actually know for sure. Zak even wondered if Dinin might be Jarlaxle's in the conversation. My personal opinion is that Dinin is likely not Rizzen's, and we may find out more in coming books.

[defnotjarlaxle]

Rizzen Do'Urden

The other, less popular, dad of House Do'Urden.

I wanted to see him living a happier life so i drew it~

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Do you ever think about how Dinin, Vierna, and Maya probably all had Briza as their weanmother? I think Briza and Nalfein are both old enough to have been handed over to an aunt or possibly cousin before Malice took over and aggressively pruned the family tree, but by the time any of the younger ones came along Briza was the only junior priestess in the House.

And like, we're generally pretty clear that Vierna is a big part of why Drizzt turned out as psychologically intact as he did. Being raised by Briza must have done a number on the other three. It's amazing Vierna was as capable of compassion as she was.

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Look I'm really proud of this ok

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Thought: Maya, a newly minted Vhaeraunite, touching a cursed item that turns her into a cat and she’s just not having a good day™️

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Write what you wanna write and for me that’s a Maya Lives AU where she gets herself a sun elf boyfriend and they cause chaos in Faerun 

And piss off their respective [former] deity: Lolth and Corellon

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The House Do’Urden, the way I imagine them in my head

I hadn’t place to draw Zak and Rizzen ):

Tumblr ruined the pixels again

[everybodyloveshippos]

House Do’Urden (minus Drizzt)

repost of my first Legend of Drizzt fanart (the og is still up, this version just has less blur effects haha)! started this series last august and well. yeah,,, here we are. i knew the obsession was gonna be serious when i sat down and drew this

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ah yes the hero's journey:

300 pages of elaborate worldbuilding

Call to adventure (father and only friend ritually sacrificed while you were busy flipping and reversing an attempted assassination)

Supernatural emotional support animal

Eldritch cowherding

Eating rats

Depression

Running into your two worst siblings

Suicidal depression

Gnome with sweet prosthetic hammer hands

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Do'Urden Run Part 1: Nautiloid to First Rest

Featuring such gems as

Us trying to bribe a telepath into trusting them and promptly learning drow who know what brain puppies are will not just free them

Maya, Drizzt, Astarion, and the Worst Meet Cute Yet feat Astarion absolutely breaking his nose

Briza Choosing Violence

Zaknafein Choosing Violence

Nalfein's Meet Cute with Gale where he looks extremely offended that Gale shook his hand without asking

Zak and Vierna are Bad at Comforting People

I didn't manage to get any Dinin screens this time but I'll try to get more, promise!

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A closeup of Maya Do'Urden from the Drizzt Visual Dictionary.

MAYA - The youngest daughter of Malice, and sired by House patron Rizzen, Maya Do’Urden is a fanatically devoted priestess of Lolth. Skilled with telepathy and the mace and shield, Maya gives Drizzt his first lesson in “the way of the drow,” forcing him to kill her goblin champion. She gets her own taste of the way of the drow when House Baenre comes to destroy her house.