xopilli

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hello hello! i’m xopilli/ xó you can find me on twitter and tumblr as xopilli. i am a bit more active on twitter, but i usually post my pieces/longer rambles here :]

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been thinking abt halsin and my tav meeting pre canon.. poor arch druid has to put up with a bog witch watching over him. he is NOT giving directions

are u allowed to tag your tav art as bg3, or does john baldur’s gate kill you dead

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close your eyes and i’ll kiss you…

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attack on @loola-a ‘s tav, tsabraena! meow

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🕷️ Drow Lore

Hello! Here is the list of my posts about D&D drow lore, organized thematically - it will be regularly updated. Feel free to take a look if you are interested in a particular character or topic, or if you are looking for inspirations for your fanfiction or artwork 🙂 I also have Ask Box open.

☕ Ko-fi - link for those who feel like leaving a tip. It is totally not obligatory, though - all my posts are free to read and everybody is equally welcome to send a question!

🕸️ BG3 Drow Lore:

🕷️ Character: Minthara

• Minthara's Social Station in Drow Society

• Minthara About Slayer

• Minthara's alurlssrin

• Minthara's ust-nor

• Minthara's Tattoo

• Nightwarden Title new

🕷️ Character: Nere

• Nere's Social Station in Drow Society

🕷️ Character: Araj

• Araj's Past and Ambitions

• Araj and Her Army

🕷️ Character: Dhourn

• Dhourn's Social Station and Past

🕷️ Character: Kar'niss

• Kar'niss' Past: Szarkai Theory

• Kar'niss' Past: Eilistraean Theory

• How to Feed Your Drider

🕷️ Cult of Lolth:

• Prayer to Lolth

• Sacrifices and Adjuration to Lolth

• Order of Soul Spiders

🕷️ Cult of Eilistraee:

• Prayer to Eilistraee

🕷️ Other:

• Eliette / Phase Spider Matriarch

🕸️ Drow Culture:

🕷️ Language:

• Glossary from Drow of the Underdark (2e)

• Official and Unofficial D&D Drow Scripts

• Drow Names (sources)

• Common Drow Phrases / Sayings (and their translations)

• More Drow Phrases and their translations

• Drow Phrases from Icewind Dale 2 drow sound sets (and their translations)

• Prayer to Lolth (translation)

• Prayer to Eilistraee (translation)

🕷️ Sign language and gestures:

• Sign of Dead Spider (quote)

🕷️ Drow social relationships:

• Gender Roles

• Transgender Drow + Typical Professions For Noble Females

• Hierarchy of Noble House

• Marriages in Drow Culture

• Female-female and Male-male Marriages in Lolth-sworn Drow Culture

• About Pregnancy and Labour in Drow Culture

• Education of Drow Children

• Children of Drow Commoners

• Drow Bards, Sorcerers and Warlocks

• Arachnomancers of House Melarn new

• Drow Terms of Address: Companions, Superiors, Subordinates

• Drow Terms of Address: Lovers

• Matron's Love: Zhindia and Sornafein

• Love in Menzoberranzan (quote)

• Spider's Kiss - Drow Bedroom Game new

• Favors and Debts

• Drow Diplomacy: Invitations and Hostages

🕷️ Drow spirituality:

• Lolthite and Eilistraean Clergy and Dogmas

• How Eilistraee Feels About Lolth

• Eilistraee and Corellon (and Seldarine in general)

• Followers of Other Gods in Lolth-sworn Drow Cities

• Eilistraeans in the Underdark

🕷️ Drow cultural values and worldview:

• Eilistraean vs. Lolth-sworn Drow Worldview

• Drow Culture And Menstruation new

🕷️ Drow and surfacers / other races:

• Drow And Sunlight

• Drow as "Beautiful" People

• You worship what? (quote)

• Dangerous Drow Merchants - History of Nym new

• Drow And Slavery

• Half-drow in Drow Communities

• Valas the Black Raven, half-drow from Rilauven

🕷️ Drow free time:

• About Menzoberranzan Festivals and nedeirra

• Drow Games: Sava And Charhylniss

🕷️ Drow appearance and fashion:

• About Drow Height

• Drow And Vitiligo

• Drow Fashion and Hairstyles - various information

• Drow Textile Markets

• Drow And Spider Silk: Part 1 , Part 2

• Drow Haute Couture - Matron's Robe

🕷️ Food and drink:

• Poisoned or Not?

🕸️ Driders:

🕷️ Driders in drow culture:

• Driders of the House Melarn

• Sorn and Nadal, Drider Brothers: Part 1 , Part 2

🕷️ Habitat:

• Cavern of Driders (quote)

🕷️ Feeding habits:

• How to Feed Your Drider

🕸️ Drow Lore in D&D History:

• Drow First Mentioned (D&D 1e)

• Drow and Concept of Evil Matriarchal Society - about possible inspirations new

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coyotl wip bc i think he looks cute… totally erased halsin bc he looks so bad

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i haven’t finished any of my AF attacks… eughhhhh

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i think coyotl walks behind halsin and steps in his tracks… halsin stopping so coyotl will bump into him bc he wants to hold hands and coyotl is too busy trying to hide his footprints…

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doin art fight for the first time since high school!! wahh plsplspls add me if you have your tavs up, i rlyrlyrly want to draw cool tavs and durges this year

https://t.co/20KsK70N81

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thinking abt how coyotl is given up as an offering to queen mab so she’ll stop tormenting their village. how his full name is probably stitched onto the blanket he’s wrapped in. a token placed in his blanket, a silent hope that he might one day find his way back to his mother. the desperation that must’ve driven her to trade her child so mab’s dreams would stop tormenting her people, and how little coyotl cares.

he doesn’t even know his last name, the embroidered name too tattered by the time he can read it. how he wants nothing to do with his parents, that village, none of it.

thinking about how he does not want to see mayrina as a victim. she’s sobbing, tells him her husband was afraid of the dark, how they were sweethearts. she’s not malicious. she’s younger than he is, her brothers are dead, and she’s saddled with a child she’s not sure how to raise. coyotl hates her and her tears. how she’s not evil, just scared. it’s the worst thing he can imagine, that his mother might’ve been just as desperate, just as afraid.

thinking about how she gives him her necklace, thinking it might be worth something, how it’s only worth one coin, and he can’t help but think of his mother and the useless token tucked in a child’s blanket.

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some tav + durge references for art fight this year! yes, the options are twink and butch lesbian… also I spent so long looking for outfits and making mood boards for coyotl only to draw him only in camp clothes…

Johnny technically belongs to my little sister, but she can go up on my AF, as a treat.

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does this make sense… i’m babbling because i like them very much. like they’re both these little guys who are weird, but it’s the same reason they’re good at what they do!!!

on that note, i think coyotl is almost viciously envious when he finds out thaniel was halsin’s childhood best friend. he wishes he could’ve been running around with fairies, running buck wild in meadows and forests instead of stuck in a bog, enthralled by his hag. what do you mean it didn’t cost you your entire childhood to be fey touched? what to you mean the fairy was your friend and not your tormentor?

coyotl’s life revolves around essentially being tormented by the fey. he’s a hag’s thrall for most of his early life and is, by all accounts, belongs to a fey court.

it’s the reason he’s so good at magic. its in the same vein as arabella being irrevocably changed after she touches the idol of silvanus. he’s just this powerful mage (pre-tadpole, at least) that’s just inherently a bit off because of his proximity to feywild magic.

i think it’s a funny contrast to halsin whose childhood best friend is a fairy. like, that’s what causes him to become a druid and is why he has such a deep connection to the land. he wins silvanus’ favor and ventures through the shadowfell, which is no simple feat.

i think that’s part of what fascinates coyotl about halsin at first. they’re both fey touched, and he can almost sense that in halsin, but not quite.

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coyotl’s life revolves around essentially being tormented by the fey. he’s a hag’s thrall for most of his early life and is, by all accounts, belongs to a fey court.

it’s the reason he’s so good at magic. its in the same vein as arabella being irrevocably changed after she touches the idol of silvanus. he’s just this powerful mage (pre-tadpole, at least) that’s just inherently a bit off because of his proximity to feywild magic.

i think it’s a funny contrast to halsin whose childhood best friend is a fairy. like, that’s what causes him to become a druid and is why he has such a deep connection to the land. he wins silvanus’ favor and ventures through the shadowfell, which is no simple feat.

i think that’s part of what fascinates coyotl about halsin at first. they’re both fey touched, and he can almost sense that in halsin, but not quite.

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genuinely my toxic trait is using minimum 2 canvases to sketch one piece,, i also could not figure out how to do coyotl’s face in this 😭😭

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close your eyes and i’ll kiss you…

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been thinking abt halsin and my tav meeting pre canon.. poor arch druid has to put up with a bog witch watching over him. he is NOT giving directions

are u allowed to tag your tav art as bg3, or does john baldur’s gate kill you dead