#gloomstalker ranger folk hero

[rowlynne]

I'm new here friends, but, I just love her (Kaladin) so much and we both love Gale and she deserves to be immortalized forever online.

[whitegoldtower]

Poor Tam'lin. Constantly eating shit :(

Give the poor old szarkai a break, it's hard enough just looking like Skwisgaar Skwigelf RIP

[imperator-titus]

What have I been doing instead of writing or classwork? Modding BG3 and making my OCs, of course!

I posted pics before when I only had the vanilla game assets available.

First is the story's interpretation of what Astarion looked like before turning. Yes, I accept other interpretations of what he looked like, such as different eye colors or even his hair color. This is not what I believe to be the most-likely scenario for canon pre-vampirism Astarion.

(If you don't care about my story's OCs, then don't bother with the read more break. It is there as a courtesy to those who just want Astarion as well as to avoid how loooong this post will be.)

Mods used: Toarie's New Character Creation Presets (Andrei head, which I'm fairly certain is a tweaked Astarion with no bite marks, clearer skin, etc), Vessnelle's Hair Collection (M3, it's still not what I wanted but it was the best I could find, his hair should be more like ringlets and in a higher ponytail and no/different bangs) Other settings: Pallid Tone 1 Skin, Elf Gold 2 Eyes, White 3 + 75% Greying (Grey Neutral 2)

Eletha Nightstar/Lorelai Irithyl

Mods used: ASTRL Hair Color Supplement (Eletha has some more greying/highlighting involved) Changes for Lorelai: Toned down the make-up that was making Eletha look "tired", two blue eyes, No scars, No piercings, Less aging, Hair is vanilla "Sorcha Curls" Notes: I ended up not changing Eletha pretty much at all, all I would change is making her lips thinner Character Notes:

Class: Ranger (Subclass: Hunter)

Born: 1224 (268yo as of BG3), Dalelands

Race: High Elf (Moon elf)

Sex/Gender: Female/Cis

Orientation: Bisexual/Demisexual

Approx. 5 years older than Astarion

Last saw Astarion 1259 (233 years ago from BG3)

Fey's curse: Burns in a white flame every new moon

Highly skilled with Eladrin longsword, high pain tolerance, bitter old lemon of an adventurer

Folk Hero: not as famous as the Blade of Frontiers, but has probably done more and has a little following of adventurers, despite her best efforts to dissuade them

Left her family in 1260 after being forced to give birth

Magic Left (Gold) Eye: allows the wearer to see things as they were in memories

Quynn Irithyl

Mods: Toarie's New Character Creation Presets (Falorin head), Trips' Accessory Collection + Jerinski's Piercing Edits, Cerberry's Simple Hair (Hero) (Current Hair), Tav's Hair Salon (163) (Old Hair), ASTRL Hair Color Supplement

Pronounced "kwin"

Last name: Eletha's original last name

Born: 1260 (232 yo), Dalelands

Race: High Elf (Moon Elf)

Class: Ranger (In-game: Gloomstalker, 5e Monster Slayer)

Mellia (Melliana)

Mods: ASTRL Hair Color Supplement, Trips' Accessory Collection + Jerinski's Piercing Edits, Vessnelle's Hair Collection (F18), Frosty Faces (Allani Head)

Race: High Elf (Vampire)

Age: Unknown (Eletha thinks she's over 1000)

Sex/Gender: Female/Gender-fluid, but mostly Hyper-Femme

Orientation: Homosexual (Lesbian), but is known to hit on anything

Class: Sorcerer (In-game: Storm, 5e Shadow Magic, from being a Vampire)

Eletha's oldest friend (met 1268, 224 years ago) "Your Sanguine Companion"

Aluin of Suzail

Mods: ASTRL Hair Color Supplement, Kay's Hair Extensions, Frosty Faces (Divine Head)

Pronounced: All-win ("Win" or "Winnie" for short)

Race: Human

Class: Wizard (Transmutation)

Age: 232 (Met 1283, 209 years ago)

Sex/Gender: Male/Cis

Orientation: Asexual/Panromantic

Loves sweets and has a bad back

Bromthrum Starkhammer

Mods: Andmetta's Bulky Dwarf Heads (Thrain), Trips' Accessory Collection + Jerinski's Piercing Edits, Bububull's Big Dwarven Beards

"Provider of Fine Crafts" (Merchant)

Race: Dwarf (Gold Dwarf)

Class: Fighter (Champion)

Age: 120-ish (met 100 years ago)

Obsessed with Elves and Elven artifacts

Collects Elven longswords to show to Eletha

Tyrlumin

Mods: Trips' Accessory Collection + Jerinski's Piercing Edits, HGY Heads (Xan Head), Bububull's More Dreadlocs Vol 2 (Disowned Warlock)

"Lumin" (loo-min) for short, "Your Melodic Cha" (Cha = "Half")

Race: Half-drow/Half-human, seemingly

Age: Unknown (Eletha thinks he's a fey or lich or something)

Sex/Gender: Seemingly Male/Has claimed to be anything and nothing

Orientation: Asexual/Aromantic

Class: Bard (In-Game: College of Lore, 5e: College of Glamour)

Specialty: Harp, but commonly plays the lute

Very Gandalf, arrives exactly when he intends to

Heilar Moonstone

Mods: Ghoul's Customization Compendium (Shaved Head)

Race: High Elf (Moon Elf), Dalelands

Class: Fighter (Battlemaster), Longsword Master

Sex/Gender: FTM Trans

Orientation: Homosexual/Aromantic

Taught Eletha, Astarion, and Quynn

Eletha's pseudo-father-figure

Praises Eletha as his best student

Maephina Greensong

Mods: HGY Heads (Uche Head), Trips Accessories + Jerenski_Piercing-Edits_Trips, ASTRL Hair Color Supplement, Bububull’s More Dreadlocs

Race: Halfling (Lightfoot)

Sex/Gender: Female/Cis

Class: Merchant (not a fighter, except when she has to be)

Travels with Ravan the Loyal

Ravan the Loyal

Race: Orc

Class: Barbarian (Berserker)

Missing half his brain, undergoing a personality change

Incredibly loyal to his friends- just who that is can be unclear sometimes

Loves giving his friends shoulder rubs and picking them up like cats/babies

Zespira Hartford

Mods: Trips Accessories + Jerenski_Piercing-Edits_Trips, Bububull’s More Dreadlocs (twin hills)

Race: Zariel Tiefling

Class: Paladin (Oath of Devotion)

Deity: Tyr

Young and full of life, a natural do-gooder like Wyll

Fairly new to Eletha's list of adventuring followers, she was rescued when she bitt off a little more than she could chew with an evil necromancer

Travels with Gin, Nei-Fonn, and Venxiatel. They met through Eletha

Nei-Fonn Shiaong

Mods: Trips Accessories + Jerenski_Piercing-Edits_Trips, ASTRL Hair Color Supplement, Tav’s Hairpack (84)

Race: Human

Sex/Gender: Female/Cis

Class: Rogue (In-Game: Thief, 5e: Inquisitive)

Highly intelligent

Sister to Gin

Used to work with a traveling circus with her brother, met Eletha when she tried to pick her pocket (Eletha: Unlucky for you, I have a lot of experience with pretty faces attached to sticky fingers.)

Gin Shiaong

Mods: Trips Accessories + Jerenski_Piercing-Edits_Trips, ASTRL Hair Color Supplement, Vessnelle's Hair Collection (M23)

Race: Human

Class: Barbarian (Wild Heart)

Sex/Gender: Male/Cis

Orientation: Homosexual

In a relationship with Venxiatel

Brother to Nei-Fonn

Strongman in a circus, also tried his hand at fire-eating

Venxiatel

Race: Dragonborn (Brass)

Class: Druid (In-Game: Circle of the Land, 5e: Claims to be Circle of the Scale, which no longer exists)

Sex/Gender: Male/Agender

Orientation: Doesn't understand the assignment (Just likes Gin)

Very aloof, seemingly "forgetful", easily distracted

I think that is probably all for GftP OCs. I did a pretty thorough sweep of mods so I doubt I'll change anything anytime soon.

[mr-inkslinger]

My gloomstalker ranger/assassin rogue.

His name is Sarros, he's a half-elf (wood elf) folk hero with very questionable morals. Teehee should I gush about him and his backstory?? I have all of it in my head.

[birdhousekey]

thought i would lay out a little bit about my dnd / bg3 ocs since they'll be featured pretty heavily and i'm bad about creating narrative / lore related drawings or comics so:

🏵️lilirune rue of the il’yuelwyr: acolyte light cleric of ilmater. escaped cloistered commune after a false accusation of consorting with the devil. high priestess and haruspex. struggling with her faith and navigating the outside world for the first time ever.

🪸solene courtes jacquemin seillière: urchin warlock of the fathomless. more commonly known as captain meremyth of the wandering eye. dread pirate from athkatla. caught up in a bad deal.

🪲 kirsche chevbel: folk hero circle of spores druid/ gloomstalker ranger. monster hunter and necromancer despiser. traveler from the north who does good under the cover of night. hunting a particularly dangerous quarry while running afoul of cultists.

🐈‍⬛cloelia amatore: guild artisan knowledge cleric of oghma. magical tattoo artist that is most concerned with paying rent and getting back to her apartment in one piece after saving the world. bearer of the curse, plagued by answers. aware that her estranged father and his minions wants her dead for the theft of a family heirloom obtained in the divorce. also aware her death is inevitable, and actively attempting to avoid it.

🦢yves outhier: sage paladin bound to the oath of the watchers. once devoted to a land that not only no longer exists, but obliviated as cosmic law rewrote itself so it never existed. sole survivor (nearly). broke his oath in the past, took a new one, and devoted himself to lathander. born again, but we don't have to talk about it.

[gingervitis69420]

The Tavs and Durges

A list of my Tavs and my Durges

A little about them because I always want to know about other people's.

Unmarked spoilers below, read at your own risk

Ulla, Half High Elf Wildheart Barbarian, Tav, Background: Outlander, Uthgardt Barbarian from the Tree Ghost Tribe, high elf mother, human father, Romanced: Gale, Primary Party: Gale, Astarion, Shadowheart or Jaheira, Unique: Let Shadowheart kill Lae'zel because she annoyed me and missed a lot of the Gith content because of it/ trusted the guardian when he said to not go to into the Gith creche, intended to let Shadowheart become a Dark Jusiticar and let Astarion ascends even though it was their bad endings/ended up not going through with them/they deserve good endings, Happily Ever After: Ends up with Gale, Scratch and the Owlbear cub live with them in Waterdeep, Completed playthrough, Mods: No,

Waerva, Seldadrine Drow Spore Druid, Tav, Background: Folk Hero, Grew up in Underdark in ,saved someone with her knowledge of mold, Romanced: Shadowheart, Primary Party: Astarion, Wyll, Karlach, often switching out someone for Shadowheart when I cound, Unique: Made her with plans to romance Astarion, but went with Shadowheart so they can be cottagecore goth lesbians together, Happily Ever After: TBD/ in progress, Waerva and Shadowhear go on adventures and become cottagecore lesbians, currently in Act 1 Mods: None

Verity, Tiefling Sorcerer, Resist Durge, Background: The Haunted One, Durge storyline, details TBD, Romanced: TBD, probably Wyll or Karlach, she needs someone who is nice right away, maybe have them be polycule, idk Primary Party: TBD, Unique: TBD, still pretty early in act 1, Happily Ever After: TBD, probably goes to Avernus with Wyll and Karlach, currently in Act 1, Mods: Polyamory mod?

Astarion, Origin playthrough, still on mindflayer ship, maybe romance Karlach and Wyll (whoever I don't romance as Verity),

Agrippina, Wood Elf Gloomstalker Ranger, Embrace Durge, Background: The Haunted One, Durge storyline, details TBD, Romanced: Minthara (planned), Primary Party: TBD probably Minathra, Lae'zel, Shadowheart maybe Astarion, idk Unique: Recruited Minthara, ate Gale's hand, killed Arabella, evil options basically, Happily Ever After: TBD, probably doing evil shit, Mods: None atm

Morag Tavares, Half Wood Elf College of Lore Bard, Background: Noble, human mother, wood elf father, mother dead, father remarried, Cinderella situation where dad is not around and step mother is a bitch, Romanced: Astarion, Primary Party: Gale, Astarion, Lae'zel, Unique: first playthrough were I found Alfira and the Sirens, did the Goblin camp as one of the last things in Act One, maybe skipping Ethel because fuck her smoke screen shit it's annoying, Happily Ever After: Goes on some adventures with Astarion, finishing up Act One, Mods: Yes, mostly cosmetic

Planned Lae'zel Romance, probably ise cosmetic mods,

Planned Halsin Romance, probably use cosmetic mods,

[illarian-rambling]

you sent in an ask to somethingclevermahogany recently about what dnd classes his characters would be, and i could not help but notice that per your tags, you have made full on dnd character sheets for your OCs as well. as a fellow dnd girlie (gender neutral), i both deeply admire this and must know:

what are their builds? i want full details, race class stats backgrounds feats, everything :D

Hey, sorry this took a second, but here you go!

Izjik is a gloomstalker ranger with a little dip into barbarian. Her main stats would be strength and wisdom. Would a strength based ranger have shitty spells? Yes. But Izjik doesn't know shit or fuck about magic anyways. Her race would be selkie, which I homebrewed for my own setting, and her background would be outlander. I'd give her proficiency in nature, insight, and athletic, and the tough feat.

Sepo is a full assassin rogue. High dex and charisma, though it's all going to intimidation. His race could also stay as siren, as I homebrewed that too. His background is acolyte, and he'd have proficiency in intimidation, stealth, perception, and investigation. I'd give him the alert or healer feat as well.

Twenari is a human scribe wizard. Yeah, I know she's a sorcerer and has magic in her blood, but she feels like a wizard and I couldn't get away with giving her high charisma. Intelligence and dexterity would be her highest stats, with proficiency in arcana and history, and a sailor background. I'd also give her the war caster feat.

Djek, I'd say, is a human thief rogue with a three level dip into shadow sorcerer. He's got high charisma and dexterity, and proficiency in sleight of hand, acrobatics, persuasion, and deception. I'd also give him disadvantage on sight based perception checks because it's funny. He has the urchin background and the inspiring leader feat.

Astra is hard because she's flavored like an artificer, but would play like a wizard. I'd say she has three levels in artillerist artificer and the rest in evocation wizard. She has high intelligence and charisma, but awful wisdom. Her background is folk hero, she's proficient in arcana and history, and she has the skill expert feat. She's also a human.

Mashal is a warforged battle master fighter, with the maneuvers bait and switch, disarming attack, and menacing attack. He'd have stupid high strength and constitution, but shitty dex and charisma. He'd be proficient in athletics and animal handling, with a solider background he doesn't remember, and the keen mind feat.

Ivander is an inquisitive rogue, with one level in celestial warlock for flavor. I guess I'd make him an astral elf for his race. He'd have high intelligence and charisma, but low constitution and a reduced movement speed. I think he'd be proficient in investigation, deception, persuasion, and sleight of hand, have a noble background, and the gunner feat.

Elsind (are you sensing a theme yet) would be a changeling mastermind rogue, but I think they're only 3rd level. She'd have high dex and ok charisma, despite her charisma based subclass. They'd be proficient in acrobatics, insight, performance, and intimidation because they're creepy. I'd give him the entertainer background and the actor feat.

Avymere is also difficult to place, but I'm going to go with shadow monk, even though I think they're flavored more like a dex based paladin. Their race is elf, with high dex, intelligence, and charisma, and the noble background. They'd be proficient in athletics and insight, and would have the martial adept feat, giving them the maneuvers precision strike and tactical assessment.

So yeah, moral of the story, I like rogues. They're my second favorite class after artificers. I'm just surprised half of them didn't end up as fighter multiclasses too, because that's what's happened to my last two characters (action surge so goooood)

Hope you enjoy!

[coldshrugs]

someone asked for a bit more info about ulysse, so here are some quick facts under the cut!

Name: Ulysse Bishop

Ancestry: Half Wood Elf, half Human

Class: Ranger > Gloomstalker

Background: Folk Hero

Preferred weapons: dual-wielding; currently an enchanted long sword and a short sword

Romancing: Shadowheart

Ulysse was born and raised in Baldur's Gate, and still lives there, with her family, when she's not traveling. Her father is human, her mother is elven, and she has three siblings. Her parents are simple folk, and very decent, but I'm undecided on their occupations.

She's exceedingly earnest in her relationships, and very kind with strangers - people and animals alike! She is strong and sweet and very protective of those who need it. Will go out of her way to save and help folks without expecting or accepting payment.

Her altruism is known well in the surrounding regions, at least among the smallfolk! I like to think of her as like a D-List celebrity traveling all around for adventure and to meet people, but also taking more urban jobs as well. She's definitely celeb material; she has the look, physicality, and skill to charm folks, but she doesn't have to - she just treats them respectfully.

Ulysse is a nonbinary lesbian, and if I could have selected two sets of pronouns, she'd use both feminine and neutral ones. She/her is preferred, but I'll probably interchange them a little.

[bigolbard]

"Beware, the Seldarine Shadow with fire for hair." -- the final line of a popular child's song in Menzoberranzan.

I'm in love with my new BG3 character: A Seldarine Drow Gloomstalker Ranger, well-known amongst Seldarine Drow communities in the Underdark as a folk hero of sorts. A silent protector who keeps their communities safe from predators, both the monstrous and the mundane. She might be my first BG3 character to get some proper backstory lore.

[screamingtofu]

I'm bored as hell and wanted to yell about my current dnd characters, so y'all get to hear about my various actively used babies

First up we have Sylvie Baneblade, a once evil alligned Goliath paladin who was stolen as a young child and raised by cultists who has since run away and broke her oaths. She's learning how to be a person, loves writing poetry and gets very flustered when having to interact with a specific apple farmer that keeps reappearing.

Next up Locke, my very blunt warforged locksmith turned rogue for a ongoing one shot/mini campaign they were initially made as a one off pun from Police Squad of being a locksmith called Locke Smithe. and made by a family of kobold artificers as an offering for a red dragon and is somehow caught up in a whole plot to possibly kill/become a god.

Helyg ar ben y mynydd Clan y Coed Di-swn aka Helyg, my noble tabaxi Eldritch Knight fighter. The newest and sweetest boy for an online campaign I'm in. The boy is incredibly welsh, 99% fluff, out of touch with the common folk despite wanting to help out and has a habit of going off on meandering tangents at every given opportunity, much to the dismay of literally everyone else in the group

Ari Mistvale, my very heavily Sailor Moon inspired Earth Genasi barbarian. Ex town guard who accidentally found a corrupt priest in her small town who was flaunting that he was untouchable and nobody would ever take her word over his, so she snapped his neck and went on the run and has accidentally become an apprentice bounty hunter. She's an absolute show off and refuses to admit when she's wrong about things

Tristellian Daxos aka Trist, Drow gloomstalker ranger and ex child grifter and vehemently "not a hero" despite constantly going out of their way to violently help others, they definitely don't have a complex about being hella short, hate not understanding things which may have caused them to have spent time as an Aaracokra, Grung, Lizardfolk and werewolf in a very short amount of time. Also they forcibly made a mental connection with an aboleth to call it a bitch because it kept beaming weird dreams to the group

[verbjectives]

basic info about my little rangers of pelor team because i love these kids

teru: half elf. monster slayer. favorite enemy: dragons. favorite terrain: mountains. background: urchin

the rookie. a bit of a punk, but he’s driven and is incredibly determined to be strong enough to kill the dragon that killed his parents. 

natasha: human. hunter. favored enemy: elementals. favored terrain: arctic. background: outlander.

the heart of the group and the most balanced and in tune with nature. probably would have been a druid had she not been the sole survivor of her tribe’s destruction. 

pennie: halfling. beastmaster. favored enemy: giants. favored terrain: grassland. background: folk hero

physically probably the strongest of the rangers. her companion is a wild boar named barnabas and she rides on top of him into battle. she favors close quarters combat.

varis: drow. gloomstalker. favored enemy: aberrations. favored terrain: underdark. background: hermit.

the brains. he doesn’t talk much, though he does have the talent of communicating without saying a word. he needed to have special glasses made (ie, sunglasses) so that he could be useful above ground.

niobe: tiefling. horizon walker. favored enemy: fiends. favored terrain: desert. background: guild artisan.

the one who isn’t socially inept. her parents made a deal with a demon in order to ensure the success of their jewelry business and now that demon owns their souls. she’s determined to win them back.

[violetren]

As is seeming to become my usual I find myself thinking up a potential dnd character to play instead of doing any of my numerous WIPs and I’ve fallen into a hole of trying to build a cold blooded, rogue/ranger character.

Here is my plan so far since almost all of my friends start their games with the characters at level 3, and I’ve got backstory logic for it.  

Take first level as Rogue. Lower hit points, but 1 extra skill, expertise, and sneak attack right out the gate.

Backstory says they commit or are wanted for a terrible crime, so they go into hiding in a forest. Surviving the wilderness multiclasses them into a ranger. Multiclassing gets them medium armour, shields, and another skill.

Assuming this character is brought in as a level 3 as per norm I’d start the game with 1 Rogue, 2 Ranger. For whatever reason leaving my exile to join a party. While with them I take one more level as ranger, having grown used to it after being alone for so long, and I choose the Gloomstalker archetype. Dread Ambusher, and invisible to darkvision in the dark.

After that I relapse into my roguish ways. Travelling with a party means making more contact with civilisation and its easier to just slip back into my rogue life, going assassin archetype for the rest of that characters life. Yeah I miss out on the Ranger ASI but rogues get more of those faster any way and on the unlikely off chance I get to rogue 17 that’d mean I’d get Death Strike and how cool would that be?

Now I gotta decide things like which fighting style to take, (I’ve narrowed it down to archery or defense) because I’m not sure if I wanna go sneaky stabby, or sneaky shooty.

And race. Gotta pick a race, I don’t really wanna go elf, human or half elf ‘cause I’ve been those a lot lately. Ghostwise halfling might do well depending on which group I play with but I’m kinda adverse to playing halflings after this one guy I know played one and was kinda insufferable about being “the gentle hobit race but actually an edgy murder hobo” so idk. Maybe if I play it with the group he doesn’t go to? I like gnomes but dunno that any of their racial traits make the +2 intelligence over any other skills worth it... A hill dwarf could be interesting? A tabaxi’s have rogue written all over them to the point it feels like it’d be almost too cliche to take but... hm.

There is also the matter of background. I mean criminal is the really obvious fit right? But like soldier could work. Or a folk hero who became disillusioned... So. Many. Options. And thats without considering a custom background...

[whitegoldtower]

“The Most Level Sunken Chapel” - Fineliner on paper

I finally finished the big, detailed Kar’niss piece!!! It took me two whole days but I got there eventually. Calling this one “The Most Level Sunken Chapel” since it’s based on the lyrics of ‘Black Milk’ by Massive Attack (because I think those lyrics are what’s going through Kar’niss’ head the first time my ranger plants one on him and their brains connect). Also included moonflowers in the border because in my headcanon, these are what Tam’lin associates with Kar’niss.

My Tav is a gloomstalker ranger and a szarkai drow named Tam’lin. He was raised in Menzoberranzan to be ‘planted’ on the surface as a spy and an assassin, but he legged it at the first opportunity and used his ‘training’ to become a folk hero named ‘The Nightwatchman’. He’s got a soft spot for the outcasts and downtrodden, and thus fits right in with the other party members. 🕷️🖤🕸️

[whitegoldtower]

"Could be 'er blood by the looks of you."

If that poor goblin only knew...

Anywho, here's Tam'lin (Ex-Lolthsworn, Drow Gloomstalker Ranger, Folk Hero, Minthara's more agreeable cousin) looking gorgeous as always, from Act I.

[whitegoldtower]

My BG3 OC, Tam’lin:

(Lolth-Sworn Drow (by birth, not choice) || Szarkai || Ranger (Gloomstalker) || Folk Hero)

(High DEX, CON, WIS. Medium INT, STR. Low CHA. Proficiencies in Insight, Stealth, Arcana, History, Medicine and Athletics. Uses a Longbow and Dual Daggers.)

🕷️ He was raised to be a Lolth-sworn Szarkai in Menzoberranzan for House Baenre. Once he matured, he was sent to the surface as a spy, but did a runner when he realised how much nicer it was on the surface (no female drow ordering him around), and became a gloomstalker ranger. His familiar is a spider named Janet. Personality-wise, he’s a bit like if you crossed Aragorn with Geralt of Rivia.

🕷️ He has a little bit of beef with Shadowheart when she makes the comment about Lae’zel’s people when they first meet (“more like the Gith have a problem with everybody else”), at which point he gets quite arsey with her (“Ah, well, then I should have a major problem with both of you, because I am a drow. Yet I freed you, and I’ve made a friend of this one. Make it make sense.”)

🕷️ He has good intentions but has a habit of saying the wrong things (or saying the right things, but saying them too harshly). He gets misread a lot, a good example being when Matthis asks him whether it’s true that Drow “steal children”, to which he leans down and asks “Do I frighten you?” - it looks threatening af but he’s just trying to be nice and sympathetic

🕷️ Aradin says “Put your claws away, under-elf.” Tam’lin socks him one, right in the mouth.

🕷️ Kagha tries to bootlick him (“A beloved child of Lolth!”) not knowing that he’s literally run away from Menzoberranzan and his duties, and he’s so offended by her brown-nosing and disgusted by her treatment of Arabella that he offers to assassinate her for Zevlor. But that’s not to say that he thinks Arabella is entirely innocent; when he meets her afterwards, he tells her off (as gently as he can)… and (purely out of distress bc Teela could have easily killed Arabella) snaps a little at her parents.

🕷️ He’d rather reason with / at least hear out a ‘monster’ than just kill them. Hence why he stands in front of the crossbow aimed at Sazza, gives Astarion the benefit of the doubt after the bite scene (even though he pitches a teeny weeny fit at first), tries to talk to the Owlbear, talks to the spiders in the goblin camp instead of instantly killing them, etc.

🕷️ Minthara scares the shit out of him, but as per the above statement, he’s willing to hear her out (he views the surface as neutral territory, where she has no power over him, and he can do what he likes), and also because he recognises her. Yes, she’s his cousin. Yes, she tries to get a bit Targaryen with it when he speaks to her. So he provokes her on purpose, and whilst holding her off, is shrieking repeatedly at Gale “MAKE HER SLEEP! MAKE HER SLEEP!”, to which Gale panics and spams the spell like “GOODNIGHT! GOODNIGHT GOODNIGHT! GOODNI-“

🕷️ Isn’t romancing anybody. But he viciously wants driderman. He sees Kar’niss for the first time and a fruity, pocket-sized party tiefling sets off fireworks in his brain. 🎉🕸️😍🕸️🎉 he’s touching his chicken about it.

🕷️ deeper than that, though, he wants to look after Kar’niss. Because Kar’niss seems like he’s suffered the fate that Tam’lin should have suffered. By all accounts, Tam’lin should be a drider, too. He’s not just attracted to Kar’niss; he has love for him.

[whitegoldtower]

I don’t actually think Lolth would forsake Tam’lin for legging it and betraying House Baenre, because what he’s done is essentially flipped the infiltration around and backstabbed the backstabbers, which is something I think the spider goddess would approve of. Tam’lin decided that instead of being a wriggling fly caught in Menzoberranzan’s web, he’d rather be the spider.

As a gloomstalker ranger and folk hero, how does the szarkai assassin explain his craft? How is he possibly the correct candidate to be a folk hero??

“I’ll be the huntsman spider you want in the house when you find yourself with a wasp problem.”