#c:caelryn

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When you're half drow and your parents are deep gnomes and also both women

Modern AU Caelryn, one of Aldiirn's buddies who's been growing on me and I need to draw him more but its gonna be AGES before he appears in canon so. Modern it is.

Also bonus modern babbydiirn at school:

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i never finished these refs of aldiirn's mates' camp outfits (and i want to revise cally's anywho) but here's a dumb thing i did for bluesky

left to right caelryn (he/him) - aldiirn (he/him) - zahne (N/A)

i could get more nitty gritty on aldiirn's labels but he's never forthright about them himself and i didnt wanna be there forever he's just a little guy who likes guys but not that way unless?

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It's personal quest time for Aldiirn! Just gotta get this cheese hurdle out of the way. Wizards, always asking for handouts.

I figured I should introduce Cally and Zahne more so it's less "who the heck is this guy" when Aldiirn runs into them again. It's gotta suck to have to face a mind-controlled friend knowing you might be forced into combat. And then having to tell your new friends how to fight them! Aldiirn's team is small, stealth-based, and relies on surprise and bluffs, you know he hates having to out their tactics but it's gotta be done. Also so I can draw Cally with that cool cloaked action shot.

Thanks to my friend Kobold for letting Cally try to feed their Tav poison with their stew! You take it mild or medium?

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Bonus: what if you asked Zahne and Cally how to fight Aldiirn:

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Don't attack Cally in his sleep unless you can finish the job.

I picked up Caelryn's playthrough again and like, he's the nicer of Aldiirn's mates, he's underdark-minded but still a good guy right??? well here I am down to half the origin companions because I figured he would just go right to defending himself when Lae'zel threatened to kill him and then felt I couldn't make an exception for Astarion. Oh, and Gale was left in the portal because Cally didn't like his vibes. 💀

if Cally's playthrough is this chaotic without Aldiirn to reign him in, lord knows what chaos he's causing in canon 😭

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The half-drow dream delivery team, Aldiirn, Caelryn, and Zahne! Caelryn warns the others of a hook horror interrupting their discussion of delivery details, and, well, the others only need to know that if Cally's excited it means some sort of dangerous critter is on the way. He just thinks they're neat!

I've been wanting to introduce Cally and Zahne for so long I had to turn their introductory piece from Reintroductions into a full illustration and I'm soooo happy with the result. The underdark is such a fun environment! I finally got a hang on how the modified drow courier armour looks, too.

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Lonesome gooberstalker considering how his friends would handle a given situation. Aldiirn really just hired his besties and signed himself up to keep them on a tight leash constantly.

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Some backgounds for the Exposition Mode part of Reintroductions, as Aldiirn recounts his abduction, the distribution outpost he was meant to ascertain the fate of, and discovering a clan crest on one of the dead drow at Waukeen's Rest. All of these are on the rougher side for the sake of time constraints but got spruced up with some transition effects.

Architecture is my enemy and I struggled a bit to design the Iaurrhen Distribution Outpost. I knew I wanted something blocky and abstract in the way that the Death Stranding distros vaguely look like going into the belly of a while. I ended up finding an image of a trapdoor spider perched at the entrance of its den and was inspired by that. It may be revised later but for now, good enough!