00:20The Queen of the Demon Web Pits
00:26Loth is a goddess, she's not a demigod, she's not a powerful demon only, she's a full-on goddess, that
00:41means something in the D&D world, meaning she's a very, very powerful character and a very famous character.
00:46Loth has her drow followers working on this very large plot that she has to basically take over Tyrell, the
00:55planet that they're actually on.
00:57And one of the ways that she's going to conquer this world is with this ritual that the drow do,
01:05it's called the Darkening.
01:07Darkening is a magical form of night, it's almost like an eclipse or something, that follows the drow with them
01:15wherever they go.
01:16The drow are much less powerful when they're not in the darkness, they've become acclimated to living in the Underdark,
01:22they're used to living in total darkness and it gives them an advantage over their enemies.
01:26And when they attack the overworld of Faeran, they bring the darkness with them, and this is something the players
01:31will encounter.
01:31In designing the demon web, we heavily relied on the writings of Wizards of the Coast, they basically have some
01:38short snippets of what the demon web should look like, and so we took those writings and we tried to
01:45realize them with a concept artist.
01:47We heavily collaborated with Wizards of the Coast to make sure we were hitting the right vision and it was
01:53in line with what they thought as well.
01:55It was very much wide open and so we just took a creative brainstorming approach of what we want this
02:02space to be like.
02:03The biggest challenge with the demon web is it's a large space, it's basically a demon web is a void
02:10that has a bunch of asteroids and planets that have been destroyed under the reign of Lolth.
02:17Her main layer is the main gravitational force that binds it all together, everything's kind of held together with webs
02:23and whatnot.
02:24And how do you like represent such a large space and walk around it and show the chaos that is
02:32Lolth all at the same time?
02:34The cool thing about the demon web is it's really not like any other space in that it's this kind
02:41of free floating void in which there are all these broken pieces of world that have been sucked into this
02:52space by Lolth and almost caught in her web.
02:54And the players, you know, are traveling through this space where it's like there's no up, right?
03:01So what's really important for Jeff and I is to give the players that sense of vertigo, of disorientation, obviously
03:10without making anybody sick, but we want to capture that to help make this space feel very unique.
03:15For me, it's just the epicness of it that's really hard, you know, we set our bar really high from
03:22basically the concepts and the CG videos we've done.
03:25So we want to hit that bar, we want the players to be wowed when they walk into space and
03:29really feel, wow, not only is this scary, but wow, this is pretty cool looking too.
03:46Schon teoi is a big piece about it so as you can see, it definitely will help look nice as
03:48you can see it all aren't going to affect your47s and fix it.
03:49Come be attached to the helicopter.
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