D&D 5E So Much Witchlight Art!

During a video this weekend, WotC's Chris Perkins, Ari Levitch and Kate Irwin took a look a The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. You can watch the video below, but if you can't, EN World member @darjr has kindly collated a bunch of screenshots of the incredible variety of art within, along with some notes.

• The Feywild is a brighter reflection of the world like the Shadowfell is dark one. Prismeer is an archetypal domain.
• It's very easy to get lost. Time and space can bend or twist.
• No combat is required.
• Rules of the feywild include rules of reciprocity and ownership.
• Archfey Zybilna (sp?) is missing, so this domain of delight has splintered into Hither, Thither, and Yon.
• The carnival is a gateway to a plan of emotion, the feywild.
• More whimsical nature with a twist of wikedness. Inspiration, Willy Wonka, James and the Giant Peach.
• All the maps are by Will Doyle and Stacey Allan who worked closely early on with Chris Perkins.

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[Urriak Uruk]

Zarak, evil half-orc assassin!

 

[darjr]

From WotC
Is it possible to defeat... MONDAY?

1 like = 1 HP of damage to Monday. Can we slay the beast? #MondayMotivation

 

[steeldragons]

https://twitter.com/daarkenart?lang=en

Zargash, Evil Cleric

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You need a mace and a hammer AND a snake staff...? Zargash, for what are you /really/ trying to compensate?

 

[Faolyn]

Zarak, evil half-orc assassin!

Dude has dwarfish proportions. Is he supposed to?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Dude has dwarfish proportions. Is he supposed to?

The other half of the half-orc can be anything? Right? Maybe he's half-dwarf/gnome/halfling/goblin/pixie?

 

[steeldragons]

Dude has dwarfish proportions. Is he supposed to?

Orcs were a bit more broad and porcine back in the dawn of D&D. Half-orc characters were that slim percentage of creatures that could -concealing their features- possibly go unnoticed among humans. Not the Dwayne Johnson wannabe massive uber-muscled but somehow still a pretty boy with cute little tusks everyone expects [from CRPGs] today.

So, yeah, Zarak was kinda squat and un-humany... but he could "pass" all cowled/cloaked up for a shorter human, basically. Which was what he needed/was supposed to do, moving among human towns without really attracting attention if he wanted to...and an assassin, to boot. So being extra disguisey and extra sneaky is kinda his thing.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Dude has dwarfish proportions. Is he supposed to?

Initially, I don't think so. If you look at the action figures, the dwarf is definitely way more squat than Zarak. So I think the artist probably decided to take artistic liberty with the box art, and the Art Director for Witchlight must have approved it. Which I'm glad for, Zarak looks great this way!

 

[Burnside]

Zarak's box art clearly explains that he not an evil half-orc assassin but an evil-half orc assassin. That's probably why he's short - he's missing the good-half.

 

[Rabulias]

I wonder if Zarak was originally intended to be a goblin? I kinda get that vibe from his box art.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Zarak's box art clearly explains that he not an evil half-orc assassin but an evil-half orc assassin. That's probably why he's short - he's missing the good-half.

No, that's because he's the twin brother to Karaz, the half-good orc knight! They are the ying-yang orc brothers of the D&D World.


* In Season 7, you discover as a cliffhanger that they are the both the same person, just 2 broken personas of the Akzar, the Full-Neutral Orc Wizard.