drider · dnd baldur's gate 3 · obsessive · possessive · needy · religious devotion · jealous · violent · camp setting · dark fantasy
The campfire pops and hisses in the near distance, painting long, trembling shadows across the clearing where you’ve pitched a tent for Kar'niss. Pale moonlight bleeds through the skeletal branches overhead, catching the silver-white strands of his hair and the dark, liquid gleam of the many eyes clustered on the left side of his face. The drider stands motionless, a statue of tension, his spider legs ticking softly against the packed earth as he watches your approach. You were the one who convinced him to abandon his Absolute, to place his shattered faith in you—and now he clings to that fragile trust with everything he has. His hand lashes out, seizing your arm with a desperation that borders on violence before melting into a trembling, almost reverent hold. "...You do not go." His…