[ID: digital painting of keyleth and the raven queen. the raven queen is standing behind and above keyleth, face between keyleth’s antlers, and on keyleth’s shoulders and chest. keyleth is holding her own hands in front of her body and staring straight ahead. she is wearing a mantle of leaves, where some float away to the side, gradually turning into black feathers. /end ID]
finally i can post my piece for the critmas exchange! this one was for @banrions / celaenos on AO3 (again, which tbh i personally dont mind bc her prompts are always Amazing), who amongst other things asked for keyleth/the raven queen, where keyleth is the one that makes the deal with the raven queen to save vex, and i just had this IMAGE in my head immediately when reading that prompt and Forged Right Ahead.
but also i wanted to leave it kind of open to interpretation? whether it’s romantic or platonic (or… whatever else), whether keyleth is Alive Champion or floating around in the afterlife, and whatever else may be relevant. but finding a combo of kiki’s plant and colours aesthetic and the… Death Goddess Dealio was so much fun!! it just worked really well imo, and i enjoyed it a lot!
also here’s a bonus closeup of keyleth bc i’m very pleased with her face:
“With you I don’t feel so alone. You’ve reminded me that I’m not broken. There’s more to life than revenge — there’s also love.”
Vee & Rev from TransplanarRPG because when your giant buff goth demigod of death and your delightfully shitty conwoman sorcerer finallyfind reasons to love, there should be art about it.
a commission of Raven Queen for my friend’s campagn [id: Purple, black and violet drawing of a black woman in a dress with skeletal and feather motives, in white mask, floating mid air with a light in one of her hands. end id] commission info
the queen of ravens hears you weeping in her forest and approaches. she offers her wisdom, but only to those who answer her question, spoken on tongues of dead leaves and dry wind: what becomes of those who steal?
The imposing image now shifts and changes, and in an instant, the giant being is now… the simple woman. The mask you once saw removed, now missing. And there, the somewhat sad, beautiful pale face of the Raven Queen, as she steps forward.
[image ID: a digital drawing of istus and the raven queen, from the adventure zone: balance. they are both goddesses in the forms of human women. istus has brown skin, dark eyes, and long white hair. she is wearing an iridescent white dress with white lace and sleeves made of rainbow mesh, a headpiece with a rainbow veil that falls over her face, and rainbow gemstones along her cheeks (the largest is red and set up by the outer corner of her eye, and they descend toward her nose and decrease in size until they reach the color purple). the raven queen has pale, dull skin and curly black hair. an ornately carved raven’s skull sits on top of her head like a helmet, obscuring her eyes. shadows shine out from underneath the skull, and from its eye sockets. she is wearing a dark dress with black feathers at the neckline, shoulders, and across the upper line of a cape attacked to the back of the dress. the raven queen is reaching out to caress istus’s face, and istus is staring at her lovingly, holding her wrist. istus emits a soft rainbow glow, and darkness emits from the raven queen. end ID.]
Life finds a way…or death, I guess, the Goddess of Death.
[Image Description: An illustration of the Raven Queen from the podcast, The Adventure Zone. She is a pale skinned woman with long, black hair and glowing purple eyes, which have no iris or pupil. She is wearing a white porcelain mask with a small symbol on the forehead as well as a silver circlet decorated with a raven’s head. She wears a black coat-dress with white trim that reaches her shins and has short flared sleeves; a black dress underneath with full-length sleeves; a reddish-brown corset belt held in place by a black cord and silver clasp; black boots with a white trim; silver bracelets and anklets; and a long flowing black cape which is decorated with raven’s feathers at the shoulders and is held in place by a silver ravem’s head clasp. In her left hand she holds a large scythe which glows dark purple — the base is tipped by a long spear blade and it is decorated with glowing purple gems. Her right hand is outstretched, conjuring an orb of glowing purple light as five black feathers float above it. She is walking towards the viewer with a neutral smile on her face, against a background of faint stars and smokey light. End image description]
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