#Warlock and her Patron

[nemo-in-wonderland]

omg I actually managed to finish this for Halloween, I cannot believe it fml.

But yeah, a while back @gravecleric0900 and I came up with a BG3 VTM!AU for the BG3 canonical characters AND for the our Tavs/OCs and their LI.

and well.

THIS WAS BORN.

Allow me to present Councilor Mephistopheles, member of the Inner Council of Seven, a former Member of the Order of Hermes, and a Methuselah turned by Tremere, not long after Tremere himself turned into a vampire; and Aranea, High Regent of the Vienna Chantry who has been holding it for Mephistopheles from the middle of 1800s until modern days (we do not take in consideration what the SI did in Vienna in 2008, that is not canonical in my own version of this). They have A HUGE BEEF with the Ventrues in Vienna, and Mephisto has a well known rivarly with the Ventrue Methuselah Asmodeus.

Aranea was sired by Mephistopheles sometimes in early 1800s, when Aranea, a German Occultist with the obsession of the myth of Faust and Mephistopheles, found herself following the path of Faust and found, at the crossroad, the Devil awaiting for her.

In this artwork, for what concern the garments, I decided to lean more into modern for Aranea and more into 1800s for Mephisto, for one simple reason: Aranea, in virtue of being the High Regent of the Chantry, is the one that has to spend the most time around people, so she needs to try and blend in, somewhat.

Mephistopheles, instead, is always busy with his experiments and machinations somewhere in the depth of the Chantry, and seldom venture outside, so he prefers to wear the garments he used to wear when he fell in love with Aranea (such sentimental).

They obviously share a blood bond, something that Mephisto insisted upon when Aranea was still a fledgling, but with a small twist: Mephistopheles drank from Aranea, which made her his Regnant and he her Thrall.

Also, do not let their height difference fool you: Aranea is still 183 cm tall, so it's Mephisto that is SUPER TALL LOLOLL.

Well, that is all that I have to share for now <3

I hope you will like this!

--Nemo

[artharakka]

Beautiful, But Broken

[hajizomenoise]

stay with me

[manyunhappygreenies]

Rouge Leo? NAH, Warlock Leo. [she/her for Leo]

[dmbakura]

sometimes i wonder if bg3 fans know what a warlock is but then again the game barely knows what a warlock is so

[cyancees]

long time no dnd dump

[meonlyred]

Lads we can't make merry and jingle our way outta this one!

[communistfries]

Re wyll: listen i barely ever play dnd but you gotta understand. A lawful good warlock is not common. Generally people play warlocks super edgy and morally questionable. The fact that he's very much lawful and very much good is an interesting characteristic in itself methinks

[silverhyenaart]

Okay, this Idea just wasn't leaving me alone, so over the course of two evenings, I scribbled this down. (I also managed to kill not one, but two mechanical pencils!) R.I.P piece of crap mechanical pencils.

Anyways, I wanted to do the cartoon style of Beetlejuice with just more of that Keaton edge. Even though this variant of Beej is considerably friendlier, Michael Keaton said so himself that "Beetlejuice WILL fuck you up!" He's a poltergeist; an exceptionally powerful undead fiend. I wanted that sinister nature to come through. (Plus I love that ratty-ass guide outfit!)

This is part of something that I've already begun drafting on paper, a fic series where Lydia becomes Beetlejuice's warlock and he is her patron, (after an unintentional pact is made.) Besides, if anyone would have the aptitude for Necromancy, I think it would be Lydia. I mean, my girl summons a ghost on the regular.

Among my current ideas are how the pact is made, Lydia realizing that SHE'S doing stranger and unusual things while Beetlejuice is unaware that he's giving her these abilities, and then something involving accidentally summoning a zombie apocalypse in Peaceful Pines... I swear this all sounds better in my head.

This was a ton of fun to work on and my hand is a mess!

[hanas-hues]

Marigold got down to 4 hit points (mauled by an undead ice bear) and her staff got a little upgrade today!

[tinycowboyart]

Hello and welcome to “my friend made a new mini campaign so I get to make and obsess over a new dnd character”

Introducing Saffron, who is such a girlfailure her patron, Gladius, has to take over her body to get anything done.

The campaign takes place in Paltry, the last settlement in the material realm, located at the bottom of “the tower of gods”. As a last effort to save everyone in the material realm, the city council sent out a reward to any parents willing to offer their child to the ascension program, a program dedicated to training heroes to ascend the tower, as its speculated whoever gets to the top will be granted a wish

These are all mostly sketches and concepts to figure out her character so they’re not top quality

[nemo-in-wonderland]

"How you turn my world, you precious thing You starve and near exhaust me Everything I've done, I've done for you I move the stars for no one

You've run so long, you've run so far Your eyes can be so cruel Just as I can be so cruel Oh, I do believe in you Yes, I do

Live without your sunlight Love without your heartbeat I, I can't live within you"

"WITHIN YOU" - David Bowie

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And this, my fellow friends, is how The Lord of Cania asked Aranea to be his most beloved Consort and rule over Cania (and possibly overthrow Asmodeus) with him.

BECAUSE GODSDAMNIT, THAT ARCHDEVIL HAS SURE AS HECK FOUND HIS PROPER MATCH IN ARANEA, AND HE GONNA BIND HER TO HIM FOR GOOD.

I like to imagine that this sort of happened mid-lovemaking, while they are hidden away in one of the termal bath that ever present around Mephistar.

AND YES, I HAD A HUGE ITCH THAT I NEEDED TO SCRATCH, BECAUSE I MISSED THESE TWO AND FML THEY GIVE ME LIFE.

LIFE.

Also, do not mind, this is a quick thing that I did in a couple of hours.

Because again, I had a huge itch that I needed to scratch.

AND YES, I WAS LISTENING TO LABYRINTH, BECAUSE FML YES, IT FITS THEM TO A T.

Anyway, I hope you will like this! <3

--Nemo

[clover-mouse]

Magpie and her patron, The Lady of Fallen Snow. Another with a ramble under the cut ♡

The Lady of Fallen Snow is a tilted winter court fey noble, cold and cruel by nature of the role she plays as a titled court noble. Each titled fey of the courts Summer or Winter acts as their title demands, and the more powerful fey are able to see how this influences them, while those of less power don't see the bigger picture for what it is. Winter is bound to cruelty, to scarcity, to selfishness and cunning. Summer is bound to passion, to ferver, to merriment and to promises made with righteous intent. They represent warring sides, cyclical, unending. A narrative made literal, personifying the change of seasons as a battle that is doomed never to end.

The Lady of Fallen Snow, for whatever reason, seemed to have chosen to betray her nature to help Magpie in a time of need. She'd cloaked her intent with ominous promises, and took something deep and dear to Magpie to protect something even dearer to her. Early in the game, she'd told Magpie to deliver sorrows on her behalf, to take dear things from people during her travels. And later, when Magpie said she couldn't do it, she was instructed simply to "Do as she must."

Even still, Magpie never really stopped treating her as if she was a dear friend. Naive optimism, maybe, but she thought it was best. Beyond her pact, she'd offer little gifts of trinkets, twigs, rocks. Shiny little things to show her appreciation.

When they met face to face again for the first time since the sealing of their pact, The Lady of Fallen Snow stole a moment of time, quite literally freezing it just for a bit to step outside her title as it binds her, and greeted Magpie as herself. Kicking off her shoes, sitting in a frozen garden with her. Ever since then, it's been made clear that she's very deeply endeared to Magpie. This silly little all-too-optimistic goblin girl, doing anything and everything within her power to rewrite her own story. When Magpie asked what she wanted from her this time, she was told, "To cause chaos, silly."

So tl;dr, that's her spooky powerful fey mom. In the session that prompted this drawing, she showed up just to help soothe Magpie to sleep during a brief visit to the feywild. I care about them so much so bad

(I should note that The Lady of Fallen Snow is a character of my DM's making, I knew nothing about her going into the game. Did not know they'd take it in the direction of "Magpie is her daughter now." I am not complaining whatsoever.)

[hajizomenoise]

be with me

[srarlight]

Finally got to show off Gourami's glamor form recently! She's the cursed Arch Fae steering the show with my 2 in one player character. Sadly she's still very cursed to remain as a small school of little boring fish on a treant's back, but with the help of Maggie, they were able to conjure illusions to use to talk to a group of fish folk that have been struggling to be a unified force lately. It's getting really important that they get their act together. A world set to have an Armageddon sometime soon and all that, so maybe hearing from one of their goddesses that has been missing for near a century, would help light some fires.

As for the design! I had help from my friend mainframe110 several years ago with her initial look. I told him I'd like her to be mostly inanimate looking, being made of coral that eventually gives out to shaped water that houses the fish that also make up her entire being, since she is a kind of hive mind. It's only since like march 2022 I started trying to learn how to draw people but I've been getting the hang of some things! I was able to finalize the design by that point from his initial sketch, getting her body shape and little details in order! I'm happy to have her look out!

[delarpix]

Some moments from DND campaign