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RPG Character Sketches: Keira, Kord, and Company as Drow in the Underdark

Just for fun, inspired by actDave’s take on the same concept, I’ve imagined Keria and Kord’s current BG2 party as they appear disguised as Drow. The attempt is to make them look more drow-like than just changing their hair and skin color, while keeping them still clearly recognizably themselves.


Keira

Keira has to keep her signature look, while adopting a more calculating expression and getting a bit sharper features. She’s also clearly on the “purple” end of the drow color spectrum.


Kord

Kord needs to still look like his big, burly self, with the same heavyset facial features, while still getting a sharper, more angular elven look.


Jaheira

Jaheira converts very readily. You just need to give her a bit harder expression.


Minsc

Minsc just is *not* going to look like a typical drow no matter what you do. So with him we lean in to a more unique look.


Aerie

Aerie mostly needs to lose a little of that “innocent wonder”, and adopt a more angular look.


Imoen

Post-Spellhold Imoen is already a darker, more serious character than her old self. Its not hard to convert her over to a believable Drow appearance.


5 responses to “RPG Character Sketches: Keira, Kord, and Company as Drow in the Underdark”

  1. Those are awesome! I’ve always wished the game could automatically make the switch for that period, it seems even more pertinent now that we can pretty easily get the art for it.

    Minsc is the most fun, he would fit in well with my Halfling Drow team! I really like what you did with Aerie too. She can probably pull it off pretty well (as a background part of the crew) just on grounds of not being happy about being there!

    Keira is looking really good as a Drow too! I recall you saying that was her “half-elf” heritage in some settings? It works.

    1. Minsc was quite fun. I just could *not* picture him as sucessfully adopting a drow persona, so instead I imagined him as a Jarlaxle-esque drow deviant.

      Keira is normally either half-drow or half-shadow-elf, depending upon what’s available in the setting. Definitely not much of a stretch for her.

      Kord was the hardest. Make him look too much like himself – even in drow form – and he just starts looking like a particularly dark skinned half-orc. I think the one in the duo shot with Keira actually came out best for him

      1. That is a good one. But aren’t Drow males generally smaller. He busts that curve all to pieces!

        She could claim him as her bodyguard and no one would think twice.

    2. Typically smaller, yes. But there’s nothing typical about Kord. Minsc busts that sterotype too. They apparently grow them big in the hinterlands of “Ched Nasad”. I can picture Keira walking in to Ust Natha with a couple huge bodyguards – if you’ve got em, flaunt em!

      1. The idea of a few Drow doing double takes makes me laugh!

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