I Draw Lady Npcs That I Really Like, From Critical Role, Campaign 2, Sporadically: Part Three (3)

Thinking about the shadowgast crumbs we got in the Lucien boom. And how Essek was holding Caleb’s body. So he was literally guarding Caleb until Jester killed Lucien and her and Cad came over to revivify him.

What’s very “fun” to think about it based on the in game combat and combining the new info we got, this is how that scene went down:

First Essek gets pulled away from his original position by Caleb due to Elatus. Then Caleb gets impaled like 3 times in front of him and tossed aside. He then would have to have run back or floated back to get to Caleb as the book says since he was pulled away by like 15ft(?)And then be holding onto Caleb’s body so the city didn’t consume him until Jester deals the killing blow and was waiting for the healers to come and help.

So….if Yasha had to literally rip the city away from Veth cuz Veth was prone on the ground and it was gonna swallow her, we could feasibly say either Essek did the same and just kept ripping away the city until it died.

Or! Essek was holding Caleb in his arms bridal style to keep him off of the ground.

"Fearne...are you with me?"

"Always."

#FUCK YES

I AM FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

folly

i've drawn eight billion Esseks but never my version of his shadowhand outfit that he wore when tm9 first met him, so i watched his intro ep to get the description and was like an elaborate mantle? YEAH YOU WANNA SEE HOW ELABORATE?

gotta admit, I'm impressed with their dedication to the bit

[ID: A digital illustration of Laudna and Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role. Laudna is leaning on Ashton’s chest and crying “She’s mad at meeeee”. Ashton is looking down at her with some concern and alarm and has a hand on her back as she gets goopy tears on their jacket. End description.]

The jacket’s seen worse

its about the yearning... the touch-starved yearning...

decided to give Bells Hells some proper winter clothing <3