#And Jarlaxle is like

[epiclad]

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

#my art #forgotten realms #bregan d'aerthe #squeezed in as much members as i could remember who weren't currently dead #valas hune is the one with the bow #angsty drow wizard is up on the balcony if only because after rai-guy i can't seem to remember any other wizards in their little club #and lord knows any good party needs its spellcaster #also i had fun dressing jarlaxle up like a pirate

[snacobie]

Exit pursued by bear

#jarlaxle baenre #artemis entreri #we’re on book 2 of the sellswords trilogy and hoo wee #lod #sellswords trilogy #entreri and jarlaxle scramble across your dash #I wanted jarlaxle to look like a Lisa frank notebook #forgotten realms #my art

[everybodyloveshippos]

Baenre men seeing kimmuriel: my dear

#gromph called him that and i was like girl did you hear jarlaxle call him that or did you just decide to do it yourself #....down bad! truly! #jarlaxle baenre #gromph baenre #dnd #dungeons and dragons #kimmuriel oblodra #legend of drizzt #clare's art

[rukafais]

Peeking into the drow tag is incredible because people really do just be out here saying shit like BEFORE LARIAN DROW HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SEXY AND EVIL AND NEVER NUANCED EVER

Like damn I don't expect anyone to read an almost 40 book series but if you're going to do big informative rundowns you should at least do your research and look at a couple modules or something

#like even if u dont wanna look at novels... waterdeep dragon heist...jarlaxle's right there.......?? #out of the abyss also has drow stuff that isnt Auto Evil? #i'm cursed with knowledge and i dont expect anyone else to page through a mind-numbing amount of sourcebooks #but like idk i bring a 'do some fucking research' vibe that half the ppl on here positing themselves experts dont like

[owlpellet]

my son gromph and his brother jarlaxle

#gromph baenre #jarlaxle baenre #forgotten realms #dungeons and dragons #drow #we are dealing with these characters a lot right now #we sort of #gave them a city #niram hasn’t seen another non-tower drow in his life #he has imprinted on gromph like a baby bird #this ancient autistic man is being followed around by a weird little kid with no hands

[dreamyren]

Artemis is like. Let’s play a game called ‘who can be quiet the longest’

#every time they have to go on some sort of mission together Artemis is like #jarlaxle why is your boy like this #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #dnd #dnd oc #drow #artemis entreri #jartemis #well #jartemis implied #aurelia #the legend of drizzt #legend of drizzt #forgotten realms #dnd art #silly #2023

[discourteouscuttlefish]

Please believe me when I say Zaknafein is my favorite but he’s so funny and I think about that joke and him all the time

Also while I’m makin memes have a Jarlaxle

#zaknafein do'urden #jarlaxle baenre #legend of drizzt #couldn’t decide who to put with Jax so I was like uhhh wow athrogate be upon ye #I love Zaknafein you have to believe me I love him so much #but he’s ridiculous

[tiny-huts]

I love Jarlaxle so much and I think the fact that he likes to cook is one of the most endearing things about him. But you know his ADHD ass is up at 2am making some Tik Tok ass crazy food experiment because he was curious

#jarlaxle makes that triple layer tik tok ravioli asmr #jarlaxle baenre #im picturing him in his andArtemis' shared apartment #because hes especially unwell in sellswords #like i made pasta with cheeto dust in the sauce #try #Artemis like i will not try #also on a serious note cooking is a such a loving act i bet he loves to cook for his friends #and i love rhat he loves sweets #probably didn't get ti have many #the legend of drizzt #one of my waterdeep part members did that too #my bard walkinf in on Jarlaxle and the party rogue making meat cupcakes together #hey guys what rhe FUCK is happening here

[solvicrafts]

I'm not over the official art for Bregan D'aerthe from Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue

Just... just look at Valas over there on the left.

Take in that expression for a moment.

#legend of drizzt #kimmuriel oblodra #valas hune #jarlaxle baenre #rai'gy bondalek #bregan d'aerthe #Valas looks like he's smelling a really rank fart #he has the grouchiest most disgusted expression of any character I've ever seen #and like... it'd make sense given all the shit he went through in WotSQ #but when he's not around Quenthel and Jeggred he's actually really chill and laid back #he smiles a lot when he's with Jarlaxle #he smiled more in that one Gauntlgrym cameo than he did in all of WotSQ #and he feels safe enough around Kimmuriel to gently tease him #my man is actually a sweetheart #and to be clear I'm not saying the art is bad because quality-wise it's not #it's just that the expressions on his and Kimmuriel's faces are hilarious

[pinacoladamatata]

the Tav that's out here balduring my gate

#bg3 #bg3 tav #listen im in love w her #how do you take a baenre chosen by lolth and turn her into a cleric of ellistraee? #you infect her and her sister with mindflayer tadpoles and have cazador kidnap her baby brother #all while making her save the realm and learn about friendship #post act 3 she and minthara are training vampire spawn to invade menzoberranzan #like even tho she's technically following ellistraee she's still chaotic at best #her uncle is jarlaxle she can only be *so* good #pina art #never drawing that dress again btw

[splat20]

Another part of Icewind Dale that's been fucking grueling so far though... Ngl a part of me is actually fascinated by the historical fantasy worldbuilding done by A Certain Kind Of History Dude who clearly has no idea how history has ever actually worked. The hoops they jump through to convince you that history has never been what might be called "political" is, in its own way, kind of impressive.

Conflict has never been about stuff like colonialism, it's all about nebulous human themes like Tradition. Conflict is about Economy and Economy never involves anything like class or culture. Only trout. The entire machinations of this society revolves ONLY around trout. (I'm now genuinely harping about the trout, it's just really dumb ok.) Conflict is about different groups just being fundamentally different, usually with a clear evil one. Conflict is about all groups being greedy about THEIR FUCKING TROUT because it's just a nebulous human condition to be greedy. Racist also. And poor people are just poor because they aren't ambitious, as a little aside.

It's so...... ashistorical but also deeply uncurious about our own actual real life world right now.

So many "high" fantasy books are like this. The Certain Kind Of History Dudes have too much power in this genre. They get praised for their worldbuilding and it's just the most shallow understanding of how anything works ever.

And more nefarious is the way this seemingly innocent ignorance so quickly and easily justifies stuff like "well, it's totally chill for good guys to kill bad guys... because they're from a bad guy society." Drizzt will tie himself in knots if he has to kill the worst human you can possibly imagine, but swats down random orcs no problem. The way that seemingly creates no cognitive dissonace at all for these writers needs to be studied in a lab. It's all fun and games when we're talking about monsters, but then you think about how that translates into the real world using the exact same mechanisms and that isn't fun at all is it? The ways racist men can tell themselves they are good people follows similar mental gymnastics. Why are "humans" deserving of infinite grace and forgiveness even at their most evil but "orcs" are understood to be inherently a lost cause? Why really? What is that mechanism really? It's been particularly egregious as I'm trying to slog my way through The Crystal Shard because, like, we can generously say that the "barbarians" are based on vikings, but ngl all I'm getting from this dynamic is Salvatore playing "cowboys and indians" but with white people. The general underlying vibes... And maybe that's what I'm trying to get at with what I'm describing in the fantasy races too. If you take off the mask, it all just feels like "cowboys and indians." A trope so deeply embedded in American genre fiction which has always just been incredibly racist this whole time.

These books are such whiplash because unfortunately I do love the characters but boy I wish I could save them from these books sometimes. The Crystal Shard has been soooo much worse than the other books so far imo, so I'm hoping the series chills tf out again generally.

#this has soured my enjoyment considerably but unfortunately i am cursed with investment at this point #jarlaxle come back #everything's going to shit without you babygirl #also where is catti brie tbh #i feel like catti brie isn't in this book because if she was she'd just be like 'everything happening here is macho and stupid' #im just saying maybe we didnt need wulfgar at all and you couldve just given the cool hammer to your daughter just saying #legend of drizzt #racism cw #fantasy racism cw

[princefleabitten]

Today it’s Shamelessly Shipping Time with Kimmuriel and Faeryl (oc)

Imagine ✨Psionic Love✨

#they thought share like gelflings because they are cute #myart #my art #art #drawing #fanart #digital drawing #kimmuriel oblodra #kimmuriel #bregan d'aerthe #the legend of drizzt #legend of drizzt #faeryl #drow bard #dnd drow #aberrant mind sorcerer #oc x canon #mind flayer #ship art #dungeons and dragons #dnd character #dnd oc #dnd art #dnd #forgotten realms #jarlaxle baenre #oc #psionics #illithid

[auberginesdonthavelimbs]

Sellswords headcanon/thing that is amusing to me to imagine.

When Artemis and Jarlaxle were adventuring together, if someone asked Artemis about his "friend," he would immediately respond, "He's not my friend."

Jarlaxle overheard this of course and started playing along, also denying that they were friends when asked. Unlike Artemis, though, he always elaborated.

e.g.:

We met five minutes ago

I'm just following him because he owes me money

Who - Oh Hells, I thought I lost him

I've never seen that man before in my life

He's my husband

He's my twin brother

That's an automaton I built

We're members of rival factions tasked with spying on each other

"It's just that it's mostly my fault he got cursed so I feel obligated to help him find a way to break it." "In what way is he cursed?" "That's very polite of you to pretend not to notice."

He's a shape shifted red dragon and he's planning to eat me. Please help.

You can see him too??

#legend of drizzt #the legend of drizzt #jarlaxle #jarlaxle baenre #artemis entreri #what i am on the fence about is whether artemis also started playing along #on the one hand he was not much for talking to people #on the other hand he was much for being mean to Jarlaxle #so maybe not really jokes but just telling some part or version of the truth. like. #he's not my friend he's the asshole who enslaved me. #he's not my friend i'm just cursed to travel with him until i can figure out how to kill him #probably specifically when Jarlaxle was clearly listening or even just standing right there #like Jarlaxle makes a point of introducing him as “my friend Artemis” to set him up #so he can immediately say “we are not friends. words cannot express how much i hate this drow." #and Jarlaxle is smiling like *ain't he a scamp* while Artemis does not look remotely like he's joking

[everybodyloveshippos]

I would suffer no betrayal but yours

#in a poetic way i too was betrayed bcus photoshop crashed during this #and now its called 'betrayal-recovered' like okay unsubtle.... #also i kept drawing their lineart on the same layer by mistake entagling them together.....wow #jarlaxle baenre #legend of drizzt #clare's art #kimmuriel oblodra

[rukafais]

Jarlaxle stuff. The first one is a warmup, the second one is based on some lines from Road of the Patriarch:

when Lolth had magically granted Jarlaxle the memories of his infancy of that fateful night in House Baenre, he had keenly felt his mother’s desperation. How she had ground that spider-shaped dagger on his chest, terrified that the rejection of her sacrifice had portended doom for her supreme House.

#like the fact that jarlaxle at least once prayed to Lolth presumably for answers #and she answered #in the most 'careful what you pray for' way possible presumably lol #legend of drizzt #rukart #jarlaxle baenre

[defnotjarlaxle]

Look at the lil guy~

#Not a digital artist #Just wanted to see what the lil guy would look like #Result: he still cute #jarlaxle #jarlaxle baenre #the legend of drizzt #legend of drizzt #dnd #dungeons and dragons #forgotten realms #dnd drow #drow elf #drow #my art