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Published: 2014-09-17 11:42:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 1746; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 14
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I decided to draw pictures of all the good and neutral gods from Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition that are presented in the Players Handbook. I have been working on and off on this for months. I have tried to take inspiration from several different cultures and time periods because I figure it would be illogical to have a bunch of white guys representing all the cultures found in D&D. Some of the depictions are close to how they are presented in official books, some are based on how other GMs have presented them and some are just made up because I couldn't find any good descriptions.The Raven Queen is the goddess of death, fate and winter. Very much drawn as described in the books, she is the only character where I used a tool to make the face completely symmetrical as I wanted a somewhat cold and un natural stillness to her.
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Nice job with the Raven Queen. She's about as much like she's meant to look like as I can tell. The Raven Queen may, or may not, having literal wings, I'm not sure. She was possibly the first mortal being to become a deity. She's secretive, lives in a plane apart from the gods. She seems to do little or nothing with the gods, but plays the game of gods very well, over time, her portfolio has grown and grown. Claiming death from her former master, the previous, evil god of death, claiming winter from an angry goddess, and fate from Lolth.
Feathers bursting out of her cloak, and her pale body, and mask like face work well for a goddess of death.
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Well, she's a goddess, so she can probably have wings whenever she feels like it, I always pictured that she'd wear them if she needed to look particularly regal. I think the Raven Queen is one of the best death gods D&D has offered.
I'm thrilled that you noticed the face, I purposefully made it mask like by giving it high cheek bones and mirroring it instead of drawing both sides for a more natural look.
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The black eyes are right from the description, and the mask like face works so well for her being beautiful enough to ensnare a death god, Persephone like, calculating and mysterious enough to overthrow that god and take his stuff, and sort of gives the impression of a death mask as well. As she was a great sorceress queen in mortal life, who after her death of a plague, Nerull turned into his exarch and consort, one wonders if she too, might be designated as 'undead' rather than resurrected?
As his exarch, having wings makes sense in making her a sort of 'dark angel'.
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