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Eilistraeeby *Isriana

Digital Art / Mixed Media / Fantasy

"Eilistraee, also referred to as The Dark Maiden, is a goddess in the drow pantheon, and her portfolios are song, swordwork, hunting, the moon and beauty. Her worshippers are good-aligned drow hoping to escape the Underdark's evil, Lolth-worshipping matriarchal society, and regain a place in the surface world. She is worshipped by song and dance, if at all possible, in the surface world under the moonlit night among the woods. She takes great pleasure in bards learning new songs, craftsmen at work, and the doing of kindhearted deeds. Among her followers are drow, humans, gnomes, elves, shapeshifters, half-orcs and half-elves. She is the daughter of Corellon Larethian and of Araushnee, later known as Lolth. Eilistraee was cast down along with the rest of the drow pantheon for her apparent part in the war against the Seldarine. Once she was cleared of any wrongdoing, she insisted to her father that she be punished in the same manner as her sibling Vhaeraun and mother. She realized that the drow people would later need an escape from the malevolent priestesses of Lolth."

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I've been reading Elaine Cunningham's books and played a lot of Neverwinter Nights 2 lately, so they would be my main inspirations for this piece.

Eilistraee is one of my favourite deities of Faerûn, and I felt like trying to depict her. This time I used more references, I simply couldn't resist the beautiful model pose.

Many thanks for the beautiful references to:

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~nioniosbbbb Feb 4, 2013

BEAUTIFULL MAJESTIC STUNNING! She and Aerdrie Faenya are MY FAVORITE GODESSES! Aerdrie Faenya is because she is the Godess of Aerie from Baldur's Gate and yes i know she worships Baevarn Wildwanderer too.

*Rau-Le-Creuset Jan 6, 2013

lol It sucks to be one of her male priests though.....

*RAIS1 Jul 28, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

AWSOME WORK

~IceQueenofMitera Jul 5, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I want to play Never Winter Nights now...

~DaggerXIV Jun 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

one of my favourite god of faerun

Wonderful!

~dejesusscott Jun 3, 2012

Beautifully done yo... Keep up da great works....

~Tsuki222 May 30, 2012

Beautiful!

~Squeek434 May 12, 2012

Very very nice!!! She was one of my all time fav deities in FR... Too bad that she ended up getting offed...

But I love the work that you put into it... But where are the "tears of Slune"? ( yes, I know I misspelled that, sorry)

*Celestialhost Feb 4, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Very good

~VinnyVin Dec 31, 2011

very nice and so beautiful. I haven't played NW2 yet but I hope to get it soon. I don't kno which to get either that or SKyrim

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