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comm of my guyy barnabas by @ratscrap :3

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Magnolia Commissions | Etsy

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This is actually a pretty good shout considering there are still people are Obsidian who worked at Black Isle, who originally published Baldur's Gate and developed Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment.

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Drow Lore 🕷️ Drow Phrases from IWD2

Some drow phrases from Icewind Dale 2 with translations, collected from two drow sound sets for player characters.

Lines from these sound sets are mainly in Common - er... English - with an occasional addition of Drowic word or short phrase.

Drowic in IWD2 is sometimes gramatically confusing, at best, or plainly incorrect, at worst. I guess that game creators just did not care that much 😅 Still, it generally makes sense - at least it is not as nonsensical as some of Viconia's lines from BG1 and 2.

🕷️ Phrases in drow language from IWD2 sound sets, with their in-game translations :

Aluve ust - I go first (aluve is apparently translated here as "I go", "I leave" instead of more lore appropriate "I / we leave you", a typical farewell)

Bautha tan - Dodge this

Elendar - Continue

Elghinn ulu darthiir - Death to traitors

Ish zhah usstha ilindith - It is my goal (usstha used here is apparently a variant of more appropriate ussta - "my")

Plynna usstha velve - Take my blade (plynna - apparently from plynn - "take"; plynna - made-up imperative variant...?)

Rothé iblith - Bovine crap (bullshit)

Usstan elgga dos - I will destroy you (elgga - apparently from elgg - "kill", "slay", "destroy"; made-up future simple variant...? Meh, whatever)

Usstan quartha dos elghinnan - I order you to die (quartha - apparently from quarth - "order" or quarthen - "ordered"; elghinnan - from elghinn - "death")

Usstar ilindith zhah ussta ilindith - Your goal is my goal (usstar - incorrect, should be dossta - "your", or at least something similar)

Usstar quarth? - Your orders? (usstar - again, incorrect, should be dossta)

🕷️ Nice detail - both drow voice sets have unique lines when a character is made a party leader. In such case, a female drow is (ominously) pleased:

Usstan tlu valsharess? Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! (For non-drow heathens: "I am to be queen?" Patented evil laughter as per humans)

In-game translations of drow lines in IWD2 appear in dialogue window like this, preceded by "for non-drow heathens" 🙃

When a male drow is made a party leader, on the other hand, he is suitably bashful about it:

I... I am not fit for such a role.

Also, male drow refers to the player / party leader as ilharess ("Matron Mother"), while female drow uses the term jabbuk ("master").

For more of my drow lore ramblings, feel free to check my pinned post 🕷️

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this dress rly was not made for people with little to know tits or ass. anyways xan

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He’s my little guyyyy

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Some requests from the Baldur’s Gate forums.

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the flow state of drawing continues to escape me. but i continue to eep out sketches of jaheira and khalid. I think an astarion is hiding in here somewhere..

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drow xan? much 2 ponder

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sketch of my bhaalspawn dah'lia from bg1 & 2!! bg2 one of my favourite games i'd recommend ye to play it tho i understand if most can't get past the 90s graphics of the first two games. still needa beat act one of bg3 🤣

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One thing that I think is really overlooked (and that probably has permanently altered the way I think about fantasy character design in general) is that BG2 portraits went ham with piercings.

Elf, dwarf, dude, lady, it doesn't matter. If they had visible ears it was a very good probability they will have earrings (sometimes multiple) and apart from that, a stray brow or nose ring. It isn't class motivated either, and seems to span multiple cultures.

Anomen, human aspiring paladin? Earrings.

Korgan Bloodaxe, dwarven warrior? Multiple earrings.

Minsc? Earrings.

Haer'Dalis, tiefling bard? Dude has long, pointed ears and makes the best of it.

Yoshimo, human rogue? An earring, plus a brow piercing.

Edwin, human red wizard of Thay? Nose ring, eyebrow piercing and implied ear piercing too.

Jaheira? yep, earrings.

Aerie? Not much of her ears are visible, but under her left earlobe that's an earring for sure.

And then we get to BG3 and apparently the fashion has changed, because you don't expect a random member of the thieves' guild to have multiple piercings.

My point? It's highly probable the BG3 party members who are over 100 years old have piercing scars, even if they don't use them anymore. Jaheira has some for sure, Halsin and Minthara very well could have them, in case of Astarion it depends whether or not piercing was as popular among the non-martially oriented people at the time.

Also, there's a good possibility that if you meet an elf who wears 3+ pairs of earrings paired with a nose or brow piercing, you deal with someone who's at least 100 years old, probably more.

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OH AND ALSO, me and @clericnortke decided to headcanon our charnames in one universe and so here they are - chaotic-neutral rogue wizard Beatrice and neutral-good priest Sylghe

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topic was brought up with oomf and so i wanted to draw it...drow xan 😊

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sceleritus fel has absolutely nothing on cespenar tbqh

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brought some more of these two idiots

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I needed to draw a proper picture of Edwin's mother so I forced myself to design more than just a portrait. There's more info about her on TH because I use it as a giant info dump. I have the memory of a goldfish. Sort of, kind of associated comic I did under cut because it's just long for no good reason lol Commissions | Etsy

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There is a slight, but meaningful difference between English and Polish version of this dialogue - in the original the sentence reads "You pause, knowing you may not survive the battle to come" and in the Polish translation it's "You stop, aware that You will not survive the coming battle". Whether it's a simple translation blunder or an intentionally more dramatic approach, considering Charname has to take battle after battle in their weakened state that's getting worse, it makes sense they'd feel they've reached their limit.

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