#drow characters

Drowcember, Day 6

I don’t know that many traditions there are in House Fey-Branche, but having too many kids seems about right.

Doodling my two current D&D characters~ 

Theodore Eshter, the Drow Alchemist specializing in Creation~ 

Ok, I have a lot of drow characters so I’ll try to keep this...short.

So a few of my characters were NPCs in campaigns I took to writing while working with certain original characters but eventually the characters morphed their own personalities separate from the NPCs they came from and honestly the only similarity left is like, they have the same name, class, and gender.  This includes like, most of the main characters of Page Prince.

The Xilbrindas brothers are numbered at three, Xandaer or Xan, Soluun or Sol, and N’arl.  Their house was destroyed when the youngest was around 8 or 9.

Xan is a few years short of 270 and is a fighter, he’s the oldest of the Xilbrindas brothers and is the most removed from drow society, deliberately so.  Xan is quiet and reserved, it’s pretty much a large question as to whether or not he’s actually nice or just doesn’t like murder.

Soluun is the middle brother at around 150, is a fighter as well and a gunslinger.  Soluun is the most typically drow-like of the brothers, basically, he’s clung to drow values as a way to cope with not having a family anymore.  Soluun and Xan hate each other but Soluun’s relationship with N’arl is a touch more complicated.

N’arl is the youngest brother, being only about 50 or so, and is the only spellcaster; he’s a wizard.  N’arl, separate from his fairly confident brothers, is a nervous wreck.  He’s constantly anxious and has a very low opinion of most of his skills, a sole exception being his skill with poisons and antidotes.

Nym is N’arl’s father, but he’s kinda the worst.  Nym doesn’t actually care about N’arl beyond “this is mine” and left N’arl to be raised by Soluun because he was constantly running around.  He’s a thief, backstabber, and all-around sucks.

Fel’rekt is one of two drow that are invested in making sure N’arl is safe and happy, he is the one better at that job but in fairness, Fel’rekt has the conviction of a bull and I love him for it.  Fel’rekt, as a side note, is also trans, thought that would be a good detail to add.

Krebbyg is that second drow, he’s also Fel’rekt’s boyfriend and is...he’s kinda quiet.  Like he cares about N’arl but that amounts mostly to him prodding N’arl in the ribcage and telling him to eat or threatening Soluun with sharp weapons when he’s a jerk.

Varis Baenre is a precious spoiled brat blessed by the drow gods and is fucking smug as hell about it, he’s great, he’s such a little shit I love him so much.

Lyssa is a drow rogue who is a ball stubborn anti-Lolth sentiment and her rejection of Lolth can be succinctly summed up by her own words: “Fuck the Bitch Queen of Spiders”.  So yeah Lyssa’s fun.

Jysanna Myafin is actually my only drow matron.  Jysanna is basically just a drow ranger and a mom at the same time.  Like a good mom, she knows what she’s doing and doesn’t treat her kids like crap.

Myrae Myafin is Jysanna’s eldest daughter, she’s a bard and is superbly extra, like, too extra for her own good but I love her anyway.

Vierda Myafin is Jysanna’s middle daughter, she’s a sorcerer-rogue multiclass and her motif is, surprise surprise, spiders.  Come on I needed one drow that had the spider motif might as well give it to the one whose nickname is Matron Slayer.

Nalfein 100% gets his name and premise from the Legend of Drizzt character that dies in chapter 1 of Homeland and I have no regrets.  He’s a drow necromancer blessed by the drow goddess Kiransalee, he is charming and frighteningly intelligent.  He’s basically the person that threatens you with a very happy smile on his face.

December is one of my first drow characters, she’s a sorcerer/fighter and has silver dragon blood in her veins.  December is best described by the anecdote of her both cowing an entire room of kobolds into submission and also by adopting like four of them.

Zarifrax is a lich, he is a dramatic as fuck lich and is also blind, like his matron stabbed his goddamn eyes out because he did something he wasn’t supposed to but she didn’t cut out his tongue, which is a only downside for the people who don’t like getting murdered with words.

Morgan technically doesn’t count because he’s only half drow but since the other half is sun elf I’m counting it.  Morgan is Xan’s boyfriend and a wizard.  He’s friendly and cheerful and has a biting wit, mostly to disguise a lot of self-worth issues because being half drow among sun elves is not a recipe for a happy childhood.

Savan is Varis’s technical guardian, he’s the drow in charge of Varis when Varis’s actual guardian, his uncle, is doing stupid shit, which is, granted, most of the time.  The best way to describe Savan is “Rosa Diaz if she were a drow”.

Mindra is a paladin of Eilistraee and is very eager to prove herself.  She’s that gay paladin in love with the moon, by the way.

Eryn Fey-Branche is a drow warlock who made a pact with a celestial being; she’s the drow I play for Curse of Strahd.  She’s a smartass with generally good intentions and has a small gift for mimicry.  She’s mimicked her boss on several occasions and also cusses people out in drow sign while talking to them.

Varis Baenre, 50, a drow rogue, chaotic good

Taika Liadon, 115, a eladrin ranger, chaotic good

Sly, 21, a tiefling warlock, chaotic neutral

Shimmer, 23, a tiefling bard, chaotic good

Zarifrax, over 8 centuries, a drow archlich, true neutral

Bryn Xolarrin, 95, a drow fighter, neutral good

Happy day 3 of Transfember!

Liriel hates when their household hosts parties, because then it's back to the closet :/