Kar'niss

"Yes, I hear them, your majesty, calling us."

"New flesh. For you... my queen. But, who are they?"

"Yes, yes... they'll do nicely"

"We have our queens favore. She speaks to us. Protects us. Graces us with her blessing"

"They are jealous of your gift, Majesty. But you gave it to us. And we always keep it close"

"Thing best avoided, shadows lurking in shadows. Now... will they follow or stay?"

"Come. Follow, and stay close. Do not leave the light. Do not feed the shadows"

"What are they doing?! We thought they were the true souls!"

Calls himself Us and others calls they/them

Kar'niss is a Drider in service of the Absolute, whom he serves after being cast out by Lolth, the Queen of Spiders. He's a key character involved in the questline Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse, since he carries a Moonlantern that traps the pixie Dolly Dolly Dolly. He believes that anyone who perishes to the Shadow Curse makes it stronger.

Driders were drow that had been transformed from the waist down so they had the body of a spider. The transformation was typically a punishment for failing a test of Lolth.

Driders were created from drow in an agonizing process. They grew physically stronger and kept all magical and other abilities and skills they learned during their lives.[6] Driders were centaur-like creatures, appearing as drow from the waist up, with their lower portions replaced by the abdomen and legs of immense spiders.[5] Driders were sexless because Lolth did not want to have a race of enemies to the drow.[7]

Driders were bloodthirsty.[5] They kept their memories and personalities from their time as a drow but added to this came a sense of shame, hatred, and fear that made them violent hunters. Most harbored a death wish that made them want to die in battle— preferably when fighting drow.[8] They were tireless hunters and there were two reasons for this. First, hunting was the only thing that could give their lives meaning, second, they needed to drink blood at least every four days or their bodies started to deteriorate from which they could die outside of a battle.[9] As a result of drow repeatedly double-crossing driders and killing them at the end of a bargain, driders attempt to take some precautions to at least take the drow down with them at the time of death.[9]

Once turned into these aberrations, driders left their homes in shame[14] for they were outcasts in drow society.[5] Driders were typically found living solitarily.[9] Though they could also be found living in pairs or in troupes consisting of one or two driders and seven to a dozen monstrous spiders.[3]