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Jarlaxle by kakakatana

#Jarlaxle #Jarlaxle Baenre #legend of drizzt #Forgotten Realms #drow #fantasy art

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It just takes a second to turn on "Prevent third-party sharing" for AI training:

On Desktop: "Blog Settings" then scroll almost all the way down

On Mobile: Click the Settings gear icon, scroll down to "Visibility"

Repeat for each main or secondary blog

#psa #AI

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All I Want for Christmas

#Artemis Entreri #Jarlaxle #my art #Christmas

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but can you please post links to your review of Lolth's Warrior? I love your reviews and can't find your Lolth's Warrior one. Thanks!

[[ Greetings!

Not a dumb question at all! ^_^ The reason that you can't find it is because it doesn't exist. XD In fact, I still haven't read the book yet, and I don't know when/if I will. I'm thinking that this is a good thing, as apparently even among the most diehard Drizzt fans there have been some very negative reactions to Lolth's Warrior, more so than ever.

If you follow me, you've probably noticed a significant drop in my activity. I've been greatly enjoying investing my time in other things, which is something I've been wanting to do for a while now but my brain wouldn't stop being hung up over these characters. It's no secret that I've been tired of Salvatore's BS for a long time, but I was too invested in the characters to be able to move on.

I think what finally helped me flip the switch is WotC investing a shitload of money to make Drizzt products, especially with whitewashed Artemis even though it's 2023. With the context of them also giving the excuse that they couldn't pay the other creatives who worked on their setting at market standard rates in the past along with their actions with the OGL earlier in the year, well, suffice to say that while I haven't respected Salvatore for a long time I did respect WotC, however after everything that happened this year, that has changed. I'm not sure how much WotC execs are responsible for the recent mass lay-offs, which in itself is really bad, but the fact that Mike Mearls was finally let go doesn't really help WotC's case for me because it only serves as a reminder of how Mearls wasn't fired earlier for assisting his sex abuser friend (he was instead quietly shuffled to the video games division for a while). When Mearls returned to the D&D division, about half a dozen female D&D staffers quit at the same time. This says to me that WotC cares more about a male sex abuser supporter than they do about all those female members of their staff, and it makes me question whether they care about women and oppressed groups in general. I've really started to question how much hypocrisy is present in their making a huge show of being LGBT+ inclusive; recent D&D products do indeed include a lot of LGBT+ representation, but how much of that is due to Jeremy Crawford having to fight to get it in there each time? How could WotC continue to march in Pride parades with pomp and circumstance while allowing the Mearls incident to have transpired?

When the OGL snafu happened, a friend made the comment that WotC may have had its ups and downs in the past but overall was generally viewed in a positive light by many, but that the OGL fiasco has probably bankrupted them from a "good will" perspective for a while. This is basically where I'm at with the company now. I still care a great deal about Ed Greenwood and the authors who penned the works that led me to fall in love with the world so hard, and while I still play D&D and care about FR, I'm at a point where I feel like WotC has demonstrated a clear lack of regard for their own Drizzt franchise, so much so that they don't even bother to get basic facts about one of its primary characters correct. As such, what's the point in me continuing to care? While I also don't care about how WotC feels about me as an individual fan, I've long been distasteful of how dismissive they are of their most dedicated fans, the ones who have spent hundreds of thousands of unpaid hours curating the (in)consistencies of their universe that they themselves can't be bothered to maintain. I can understand the reasons for WotC actively instructing their creatives to not use the FR Wiki, but it's painfully obvious that those creatives including Salvatore still use it to keep their facts straight because there is no comparable official resource for them internally with the company itself. Furthermore, the stuff that WotC is continuing to do suggest that they have no intention to change that, quite the opposite in fact. It was quite eyebrow-raising when WotC compared their D&D franchise to the Marvel universe, because what makes the Marvel universe so compelling and successful is the very self-consistency that WotC is trying to do away with in D&D. A big part of the reason why Marvel movies are loved is because it's the same characters that recur, and you never know if a character from a different movie will show up in the movie you're currently watching, but it's always a delight when they do. And, of course, it's so epic when all of those storylines across many different movies all come together and culminate in truly astounding ways. Despite the usage of an infinite multiverse in Marvel, there's this big sense of consistency, which is what makes the franchise so impressive and compelling. Marvel's world is everything that D&D's is not, at least in D&D's current iteration. Even though many different stories across a shared world is part of the draw of FR for me, I don't need D&D to be like Marvel, however because WotC made that comparison of the current D&D world to the Marvel world, I can't help but feel like WotC is more talk than action. I'm not at all saying that D&D isn't a quality product, it's just for me the shine of WotC is no longer there.

I think the biggest indicator for me that I was ready to shift my focus was my lukewarm reception of Baldur's Gate 3. It is everything that I hoped for and more for a current generation Forgotten Realms/D&D video game, and yet I was just ok about it. Here is FINALLY something that I spent so many years dreaming about, getting more and more hungry for it following the flops of Sword Coast Legends and the Dark Alliance reboot, but when it finally happened, I was just ok about it. It's a fantastic game and 110% deserving of its awards and its huge fan acclamation, and yet I was just ok about it. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the game, but I can't see myself playing it again.

I'm still happy to help and support the people in this fandom, be it by answering lore questions, suggesting novels to read, pointing the way to resources, or with more serious matters. I don't know how much new content I'll make though, I've got a bunch of WIPs in terms of art and writing, as well as miscellaneous drafts containing information about the world, but I don't know if I'll ever feel like finishing them/polishing them up to post. It's very freeing to no longer feel compelled to read each new Drizzt book because the drop in quality with each new installment has really been immense, and I'm a lot happier not spending those hours consuming really badly-written media. I do feel bad for no longer providing for those who want to know what's happening in the newer books but don't feel like reading them and who want to know a non-sycophantic summary of them, but hey, maybe someone will step up and fill in the summaries for the books. I'm not really sure why none of the diehard Drizzt/Salvatore super fans have undertaken the task since Hero. Wikis are editable by anyone, but the Wiki staff do try to make sure that everything is objective and factual.

If you're trying to find my old stuff, I'm sorry that my tags are kind of all over the place, I never got around to organizing them better. 😅 I *think* I've reblogged all of my LoD art to my otp-jartemis sideblog, but now that I look at it I see that's probably not the case. If you like my art though and want to continue seeing it even if it's not in this fandom, it'll be on my non-fandom specific blog: sno4wy.tumblr.com

This isn't goodbye, as I'll still be here now and then, I just won't be as invested, which is honestly a really great feeling. :> ]]

#Artemis Entreri #legend of drizzt #Forgotten Realms #Lolth's Warrior #WotC #ooc #ama #anonymous

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[[ Fuck bigots, love wins. ]]

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #Nexus Mods #love wins #love is love #although technically not an RP post it wouldn't be OOC for Artemis to agree

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[[ Transcript:

Razu: I was slowly falling in love with Minthara and now I love her more than anything I love Sorn Orlith when he mimicks Drizzt My first Tav is my LoD OC who is Drizzt's sister and she'd 100% join Sorn Orlith in mocking her brother

sno4wy: Her face if one of her party members asks the male escort drow to pretend to be Drizzt: 🤮

Razu: No no she asked him She was amused instead And told Sorn "my brother is not at all like that! He's more like insert heavy mockery"

sno4wy: Oh goddddddd I'm loving this Sorn being like, I MUST TAKE NOTES SINCE SHE IS HIS SISTER the next time someone comes to request Drizzt he does the lamest, most turn-off RP EVER 🤣 actively quoting passages from his journal entries In the middle of foreplay just suddenly says, "I am dying. Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk."

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#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #sorn orlith #Drizzt #Drizzt Do'Urden #Minthara #legend of drizzt #the legend of drizzt #ooc #crack

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[[ FR novels author Erik Scott de Bie summarized this really well:

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#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Forgotten Realms #Erik Scott de Bie #ooc

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[[ Wizards of the Coast: "We can't afford to pay at market standard rates the authors responsible for the hundreds of novels depicting and bringing to life the rich tapestry of the Forgotten Realm's lore and history that we use for the official setting of D&D."

Also Wizards of the Coast:

🫠 ]]

#Drizzt #Drizzt Do'urden #legend of drizzt #the legend of drizzt #Forgotten Realms #Wizards of the Coast #ooc

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Meet the newest Dungeons & Dragons party in the first epic adventure of The Fallbacks. To become renowned adventurers, this party needs to survive their first job.   Tessalynde is an ambitious young rogue who dreams of leading Faerûn’s foremost adventuring party. While the crew she’s gathered isn’t the stuff of legend yet, she’s confident her guidance can get them there.   The team: Anson, a fighter too stubborn to stay down, even when the odds are stacked against him. Cazrin, a self-taught wizard determined to test her theoretical mettle against the real world. Baldric, a cleric who refuses to tie himself to a single deity when he can trade favors with them all. Lark, a bard with as many secrets as songs. And, of course, Uggie, a monstrous pet otyugh who loves giving hugs and eating trash.   Their first job: recovering a mysterious spellbook from a lost temple for a hefty payout. Tess hopes this assignment can turn her group of fledgling freelancers into a true team. But when their client is killed, their coin and his murderer both vanish, leaving the party to take the fall.   Stuck with a sentient, bloodthirsty grimoire and pursued by mercenaries and the undead, this is hardly the mission Tess envisioned. Her crew must save the day, get the gold, and clear the party’s name—which they haven’t even agreed upon yet! With the threats against them mounting, a single mistake will see this party over before it even begins.   Can this band of mismatched misfits stay together in the face of danger? Or are they bound for ruin?

[[ owo What's this? A new Forgotten Realms book that isn't about Drizzt? Are FR novels making a return? Will it last? Only time will tell! ]]

#Forgotten Realms #fantasy novels #ooc

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[[ A much more recent post I made regarding Artemis not being a white guy and how Lockwood illustrates this in the original book covers. It also addresses some common misconceptions that I shared regarding Calimshan's roughly real world equivalency, however the overarching message is the same: Artemis Entreri is a person of color. ]]

Artemis Entreri is not a white guy... but not for the reason you might believe

[[ Foreword: As a BIPOC, I care a lot about proper ethnic and racial representation. During my early days in this fandom, I’ve encountered people who felt that properly representing a character’s skin color was unimportant, and these people attempted to silence my views on the matter. Nonetheless, I’m the one responsible for specifying Artemis Entreri’s skin color as dusky brown in the FR Wiki (my attempted edits of his article on Wikipedia.org to include his skin color have been repeatedly deleted). I’ve written numerous posts regarding Artemis’ status as a fantasy POC, even when his own creator seems to have forgotten the fact (i.e. as seen here). I’ve worked on my art skill for the sole purpose of depicting Artemis better, and in the process of doing so I’ve studied the theory behind depicting different skin colors accurately. I still have a long way to go, but what I’ve learned has helped me to see and understand much differently from before.

Recently, I saw a forum post about fan castings for a hypothetical live-action Drizzt show/movie. This kind of thing is pretty common, but I’m always perturbed when I see that most commenters suggest white actors for Artemis. Thankfully, more people these days understand the importance of proper representation and diversity in media and their suggestions come from a place of ignorance rather than bigotry. I couldn’t stop thinking about my most recent experience though, so I decided to re-check my sources and reassess everything that I thought I knew.

There’s a widespread belief that the Realms’ Calimshan is the equivalent of the real world Middle East. I subscribed to this belief until recently, and used it as a basis for arguing why Artemis is a POC. However, as it turns out, Calimshan is not the equivalent of real world Middle East. Ed Greenwood doesn’t draw direct parallels between Realmsian locations and real world locations, but Calimshan’s closest analogue is Al-Andalus: the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. Due to its geographical location, that would mean that the people of Al-Andalus would look similar to modern-day Spanish and Portugese people, in other words, mostly white.

That being said, it does NOT mean that Artemis and native Calishites are not people of color. They still would be, but not because Calimshan is the equivalent of the Middle East. Calishites are brown-skinned because they descend from a line of people adapted to living in a desert environment. 

So then, where does the belief that Artemis is white come from? Unfortunately, it’s due to some of Todd Lockwood’s illustrations, or rather, untrained and/or unthinking examination of his illustrations. One of the few things that I agree with Salvatore about is with regards to Todd Lockwood’s illustrations as the go-to visualization of Artemis. However, it is also these depictions that seem to throw a lot of people off about Artemis’ intended skin color. 

Why is it that other people see differently? I think the first reason is that in most cases, people see what they want to see, they see an affirmation of what they’ve assumed to be the case. Historically, the bulk of Salvatore’s readers have been white. However, for those readers who aren’t white, who also aren’t of a similar ethnicity to Artemis, might look at those covers and assume he’s white because they live in the US, or because they assume that he’s the same ethnicity as his creator. Most of Lockwood’s covers are on a varied palette that makes it difficult to isolate the exact skin color of the characters. A lot of people don’t know color theory, and they don’t think about skin colors from the perspective of how to illustrate it accurately. They’d look at Artemis from the cover of Servant of the Shard:

And perhaps they’d think, oh, his face is in the shadow of his hood, and he’s in a cave, so dark on top of dark would mean that his actual skin color is very light. However, this line of thought is faulty, because if the above illustration was made to be accurate to the situation, then all we’d see of Artemis’ face would be a few highlights from Crenshinibon’s glow. Furthermore, the fiery breath in the throat of Hephaestus, the dragon in the background, should be so bright that it’d create a backlight so strong that Artemis’s features would be even more strongly hidden in shadow, causing an effect like this:

Crenshinibon could very well illuminate his face, but it would do so by splashing it with its own greenish hue. Here’s a very rough illustration of what I mean:

As you can see, that isn’t depicted in Lockwood’s painting, which leads me to believe that Lockwood’s chose to basically install an artificial white light source so that we can see Artemis’ face clearly. It looks very much like he intended it so that he could paint Artemis as though he were in natural light. 

What people often don’t think about is that what sets different skin colors apart is how they react to light. Painting a very tan white person might start with the usage of the same palette as for painting a naturally brown-skinned person, but assuming proper application of the undertones, shadows and highlights, the difference becomes clear. The dusky brown skin of a desert native would be layered with a mix of darker reds and yellows, compared to the pink/lighter reds and yellows for white skin. This is the case with Artemis’ face on the cover of Servant of the Shard. Furthermore, the shadows on his face are dark, desaturated browns, flirting with gray but not quite there. If Lockwood were depicting a white character, he’d sooner use shades of blue and even orange than gray, as it is a lot easier to play with the versatility of depicting white skin. Any artist worth their salt would know that using grays to shade a color painting is very bad as it muddies the colors, so even approaching gray is to be avoided unless absolutely necessary. It isn’t necessary to tread that dangerous line to depict white skin.

It is most clear on the cover of Promise of the Witch-King that Artemis is not white. In this rendition of that cover art, while the background is lightened more than the foreground, the foreground is nonetheless lightened. As such, we are basically looking at Artemis in bright light:

Even here, in my opinion, he is clearly not white. A white man in bright light would not have shadows in shades of dark desaturated browns. His highlights are also more yellowish than pinkish, which is what is done for depicting dusky brown skin:

Although what has been discussed holds true to Entreri’s depiction on the cover of Road of the Patriarch, yet again it’s something that can fall to the misconception of, “Oh, it’s sunset, which means it’s dark, and he looks dark, so he would not look dark if it weren’t sunset.” 

WRONG. Consider this video of an actual brown-skinned man at sunset, and note how the shadows on his face are unsaturated dark browns, and the highlights yellowish (the picture is a preview if you don’t want to look at the video):

What I’ve covered also applies to Artemis’ depiction on the cover of Starless Night, so I won’t repeat it again. 

Some might believe that Artemis is painted with desaturated shadows (grays) because of the absorption of the shade turning him grayish. However, I don’t believe Lockwood chose to depict that, as Artemis’ skin is too vivid even with the grayish-brown shadows. Salvatore specifically wrote:

Lockwood was at that time no stranger to illustrating supernatural skin types, he certainly could’ve made Artemis’ skin look like that of a corpse’s if he wanted to. It looks very likely however that there was a conscious decision was made not to. 

What I haven’t discussed is that some will pick up what looks like a very dark red on Artemis’ cheeks and nose on the Servant of the Shard cover. He could be flushed from exertion, anger, heat from the breath of Hephaestus, or perhaps it’s just a color choice to make his features pop more. However, even there, he’s no white guy with his face flushed, which if we look closely, would actually be more of a pink despite the phrase, “red-faced with anger”:

Meanwhile, Artemis’ “red” is more of a brown:

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. ]]

#Artemis Entreri #appearance #[[ The first time I posted this it made someone who didn't understand color theory SO MAD that they sent me anon hate lmfao ]] #[[ Like go out and touch grass or better yet learn2art FR XD ]]

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[[ Bringing this post from 2016 back because, well, Artemis' skin color being gotten wrong isn't anything new. The sad thing is, even though it's almost 2024, the fight to get it right feels as futile as it did back then.

The only bright side is that nowadays it's less likely to be sitting in a Skype server where two people loudly argue that getting POC's skin colors right isn't important while everyone else watches silently, so I guess that's a plus. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

There's a more recent post I made about this subject matter, which I'll reblog at a later date. ]]

Artemis Entr-who?

[[ R. A. Salvatore August 27, 2015 Reddit AMA Commentary 

(Part 1: On the physical appearance of Artemis Entreri)

Shortly before the official release of “Archmage”, I attended an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit with R. A. Salvatore. These virtual question-and-answer sessions with the author of the Drizzt novels have become routine with the release of each new installment in the ongoing dark elf saga, now nearing thirty books in total. With two new books coming out each year, one in the spring and one in the fall, this means that readers have the chance every six months to ask Salvatore anything on Reddit (I specify Reddit, as Salvatore does respond to e-mails and Facebook messages much of the rest of the time), but whether he answers or not is up to him. Regardless, Salvatore has been good about at least providing some sort of reply to as many questions as he can tend to within the one-hour time allotment he gives to each AMA session. He’d even answer follow-up questions, which was something that pleasantly surprised me. A quick glance over all of the AMAs to date shows that it’s truly a matter of the early bird gets the worm, for the pages of unanswered questions sprawl on after the time allotted for the session has passed. 

I’ve been fortunate in being one of the first people to post questions in the last three AMAs and thus have had all of them answered. As I have a great deal of interest in some of the more non-conventional topics pertaining to Drizzt’s world, the Forgotten Realms, I spend a fair amount of time before each AMA preparing my questions. My objective has always been wording my question in such a way as to increase the probability that I’d garner some insight pertaining to my interests while retaining enough humor to avoid being provocative. A casual glance at this blog may not lead one to garner immediately how much I celebrate the diversity of the Realms, but it is exactly FR’s lack of one of the biggest types of bigotry that plague our real-world society that makes it my fantasy world escape of choice. 

I noticed fairly early on in my journey through the Drizzt books that Ed Greenwood’s vision as far as equality for all sexualities was not embodied in Salvatore’s works. The first AMA that I attended was also the first time that I brought up the point with Salvatore. While I received promising results from that AMA with regards to the dearth of fair sexuality representation in his works, I quickly realized that those results didn’t extend much farther beyond “promising”, and indeed fall rather flat when held up to scrutiny. I suspected that Salvatore would only increase the ambiguity of his answer were I to present him with a more straightforward question. At the next session that I attended, I phrased a more humorous scenario while hoping, through disguising my constriction of potential wiggle room within shameless flattery, that I could get a more definitive answer out of Salvatore. Unfortunately, all I got was more vagueness. Apparently, the direction of Bob’s stories has more possibilities than Jarlaxle has for date night.  

(Transcript in case the screenshot is illegible:

Me: I’d like to take a second and just note that I think its extremely awesome that you have embraced Ed Greenwood’s interpretation of sexuality in the Realms. Not only have you shown us several overtly non-heterosexual characters, but you have created a dynamic tension between two of your main story driving (anti) heroes, Entreri and Jarlaxle. I find the subtle romantic underpinnings in their relationship both moving and courageous. My question is somewhat to the side of that however, as what I really want to know is, when they do marry, if you intend to have them formally do so, I’m relatively confident for various reasons that it would be one of the extremes. However, which will it be, a huge wedding or a tiny one?

RAS: Hmm, I think you may have read something somewhere that I didn’t write. While Entreri and Jarlaxle are indeed pretty close, and while Jarlaxle is certainly…ambiguous and adventurous, I haven’t indicated any of that with Entreri.There are others, though, and I’d be doing this even if I wasn’t writing in the Realms.

Me: Are you stating officially that Entreri and Jarlaxle will never be romantically involved with each other? ;P

RAS: I would never state anything definitive officially. The books take on a life of their own and I just follow that storyline. I would be surprised, however…but then, i often am.)

I was pretty crushed when first reading Salvatore’s answer to my question. Other than what seemed like the invalidation of my “One True Pairing” (or, in the hip internet lingo of the cool kids these days, “OTP”), “ambiguous and adventurous” is a pretty vague statement, not even as definitive as “not completely straight”. I’m a believer in the concept that sexuality exists on a spectrum rather than falling into one of two binaries, and while I’m not looking to specifically define even a fictional character’s sexuality, it did feel like the progress that had been made in the previous AMA had been all but lost with that one phrase. After all, that phrase could be used to describe something as insignificant as one’s dining preferences, e.g. “I’ll try anything exciting in the area, surprise me, I’m feeling ambiguous and adventurous!”. It was pointed out to me later that my sadness was entirely unwarranted, as a closer look at Salvatore’s reply confirmed nothing other than that his answer was vague and that he’d, “never state anything definitive officially”. I hated accepting the conclusion that Salvatore will write whatever will get him the most money, as I’d like to think that he’s above that. Then again, I do have a tendency to expect too much from people that I’d like to respect, which is sadly why I’ll always have a love-hate relationship with Salvatore and his works. Its a shame however that a well-established author leaves moving forward with issues of sexual preference in a shared world to younger writers like Erin M. Evans. For all the criticisms I could state about Evans’ work, I’ll always give her credit for making one of her prominent male protagonists gay. Given how parts of today’s society are sadly still virulently homophobic, sometimes even in the geek community, where intellectualism is theoretically more prevalent, I doubt that Evans’ decision to make Mehen gay was driven by financial considerations.

After that long of an introduction, I’m afraid to say that this entry isn’t about queer elves, or, more seriously, the lack of complete sexuality representation in Salvatore’s dark elf series. That isn’t to say that the matter isn’t an important one to me, as you can see here if you feel like reading another long post after this one. While I’m certain that I’ll write about the subject again and often in the future, for now, I’d like to talk about the inspiration for this blog and my globally favorite fictional character, the assassin Artemis Entreri.

Going into this most recent AMA, I decided to take a break from the frustration instilled by attempting to discuss the dearth of non-heterosexual male representation in Salvatore’s novels with him. Instead, I thought to take a different and more relaxing tack by seeing if I can get the appearance of Artemis nailed down. I could understand Salvatore’s hesitation on the subject of sexuality, for it is a sensitive topic. However, when it came to a character’s appearance, when his creator hasn’t specified it in his writing, I didn’t think it would be such a big deal. While representations in terms of gender and race are as important in literature as is sexuality, the former, being less of a “forbidden” topic, I thought would be an easier detail to finalize. I was wrong, but not for the reasons that I initially thought, reasons that, in fact, are not entirely due to Salvatore’s faults. That being said, this post does contain criticism of the author, and it all stems from this:

(Transcript in case the screenshot is illegible:

Me: Good evening Mr. Salvatore! My question has to do with a certain assassin whom I can’t help but love. :DGiven that Entreri is canonically ethnic Calishite, is it fair to say that he would have swarthy/dusky brown skin and a non-Caucasian bone structure? If so, does the fact that most artists, other than in later Todd Lockwood works, depict him as having fair white skin and a basically Anglo-Saxon face clash with your personal visualization of him? Would you describe him as a person of color?

RAS: He certainly could be, but he’s not from Calimshan and I’ve never really specified his Realms’ background.)

My knee-jerk reaction at the time (and initial follow-up question in fact) was echoed by someone else:

(Transcript in case the screenshot is illegible:

Cdawg00:  Wait, wasn’t he from Memnon, within Calimshan?)

In fact, this is where my point begins. If you thought this post was long already, you might want to avoid expanding the cut. ]]

Keep reading

#Artemis Entreri #appearance #ooc

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Bregan D'aerthe Still on a mad BG3 kick… so here I am doing more FR stuff in my spare time! Redid an old Bregan D'aerthe piece from 2010. Tried for a "Randomly stumble upon a hidden area in the Undercity Ruins only to be greeted in the dark by an unusual collection of brigands led by an even more unusual drow" type scene, because lord knows I desperately wanted that to happen.

Modelled Jarlaxle's face after Richard O'Brien (because if you're as old as I am and you've seen him on The Crystal Maze… you'll know why I can't imagine anyone else as Jarlaxle).

Mood music

#Jarlaxle #Jarlaxle Baenre #legend of drizzt #the legend of drizzt #friend's art #fantasy art #Athrogate #kimmuriel oblodra #artemis entreri

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[[ WTF is with the new e-book covers? They look like they were done by AI, and I don't mean that in a good way. ]]

#the legend of drizzt #legend of drizzt #ooc

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hello yes, i was on the ol' ao3 and noticed that um... the smutty sellswords drawings were gone. were you going to repost them somewhere else online? please and thank you

[[ Hey there, thanks for the heads up! Looks like the place where I'd uploaded the drawings to is gone, which caused the links in that work in AO3 to no longer function. I think I might've originally had those point to a forum thread in a Pillowfort community...

I'll work on updating those links, as well as posting the rest of my NSFW Artemis x Jarlaxle drawings on this Twitter account. I'm not the biggest fan of Twitter, but I'm not really sure where else I can post NSFW art. ]]

#artemis entreri #Jarlaxle #jarlaxle baenre #legend of drizzt #jartemis #my art #ama #ooc #anonymous

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[[ There has been countless articles about BG3 since its official release, and while I'm far from having read all of them, I did find a troubling trend that none of the articles that I've read contained so much as a mention of Ed Greenwood, the father of the Forgotten Realms. If anyone finds an article that includes even just a mention of his name, please link me.

I was interviewed for this article on Dazed by Alim Kheraj. I decided to rectify the above problem a little, as well as give a bit of history on the Realms in hopes that it'll attract BG3 players to the world that I love so much. ]]

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Forgotten Realms #D&D #Ed Greenwood #Dazed Magazine

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Three lizardmen find a great treasure, as three adventurers find them.  (Paul Sonju, Dragon magazine No. 66, TSR, October 1982.)

#D&D #Thieves' Cant

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The Companions of the Hall

Chipped away at this over two months while working, so the going was pretty slow, but I finally finished it. A remake of one of my favorite pieces from back in the day.

Sometimes I still can't believe that I'm actually doing official art for WotC now (literal dream job), so I wanted to do this to show myself how far I'd come.

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