#kelothac

[exiledsummer]

High Sorcerer references for my favorite narrative haunters of Azerim

Close-ups under cut + some rambling

– I headcanon that out of all the DM NPCs, Billandra Laethil is the one that would look the most like Rob. Fitting, being the supposed BBEG if not for Lako'thec. The DM is the BBEG type shi

– The only real description of Kelothac came from Rob's short description of him and the BRIEF mention of Kelothac being a Svartholm Elf in a random episode of the Into the Darklands campaign. The IMPLICATIONS of him being what is Azerim's equivalent of Drows, outcast in the Darklands... It makes his goal of bringing Giants and other humanoid races together so much more impactful.

Also, I gave him green eyes like what Adam/Baradun have. I love the idea that Laethil, despite loathing Baradun for upstaging him and hating Kelothac for "spoiling" him, he sees his old friend in Baradun and is distraught once he got his empathy back. He betrayed the man who believed in him twice.

– In Azerim lore outside of SkyCraft as a game, I think Baradun is a tragic character too. Not only did he at 10 years old stop the Gerdawn siege but he was also placed in a position of power so young and lost. Kelothac, the only person who could've guided him in being a High Sorcerer disappeared, and the one person left who should be helping him wants him dead.

I also imagine that's why Baradun treats Laethil as a "best friend." Aside from Adam joking, there is a very real chance that Baradun grew up with Laethil as his guardian since Kelothac's disappearance. There's barely any mention of his life outside of being High Sorcerer, he could be an orphan for all we know.

Gods, I would kill for an Azerim Lore Bible.

[the-princess-of-vodka]

Laethil to Kelothac:

Drow hate surface elves, which may explain Kelothac's bad attitude towards Laethil. But should Laethil tolerate this since it's part of drow culture? I don't think he should. Besides, he couldn't physically harm Kelothac. At the same time, Laethil's plan was definitely not to make Kelothac an evil deity, who will destroy the world. Everyone always forgets that. And twists the facts as they please.

[elayarus-alderrest]

Maybe I'm not so good at drawing, but I want to see more content about the characters that I like. Fanfiction, fanart, anything. And since it is almost non-existent here I must post this. Laethil and Kelothac (whose hand is visible here)

[the-princess-of-vodka]

Now, those who want Laethil dead have decided to take a different approach, claiming that Kelothac needs to be saved, which means Laethil must die.

But:

• Why do people think Kelothac was ever good? He’s a drow. Who are often not implied to be the ones who are the good guys. Besides, he is a drow who abused Laethil. The hag’s line about this, if I remember correctly, was similar to what was said in BG3 about a wizard who abused his apprentice.

• Why does BatD need to choose who to save if Kelothac wasn’t evil? Can’t they try to save both?

• Why do people even think that Kelothac, who knew about the prophecy and was actively seeking it, wasn’t trying to become a deity himself? Maybe he’s content with the fact that he’s now a god of revenge (or in this non-classical D&D the dark lord, but in fact it is the one who has the functions of a deity) and doesn’t need to be same as before .

In the meantime, there’s still an option to save Laethil and leave Kelothac (Lako'thec) as he is or make it the same as he was before (I doubt he'll even want to). Any decision can be made without the need for either of them to die.

P.S. And yes, they might even try to persuade the hag to break the pact. I’m not sure how they would manage that, though. But who knows what they could come up with. In any case, it's still a possibility.

[exiledsummer]

Post-canon Kelothil stuff :)

For Laethil, I gave him the dark veins thanks to Talia Vex from Into the Darklands. It's more of a Dark Lord curse thing but I figured since she's related to hags, I could give the feature of veins to post-canon Laethil. Fits his depressed state too.

For Kelothac, I wanted him to be scarred from what the Shadow Realm did to him. You're telling me he became a large fuckin skull head thing with 500 appendages and he comes out looking completely fine? Ain't no way

I do want to draw a full body of him in the future tho. Rob mentioning he had to use leg braces to stand is interesting to explore.

I love my doomed high sorcerer toxic secret-third-thing bond