Kar'niss

Kar'niss is a drider in service of the Absolute, whom he serves after being cast out by Lolth, the Queen of Spiders.
==Overview==
Kar'niss is a key character involved in the questline , since he carries a that traps the pixie . He believes that anyone who perishes to the makes it stronger, and is starkly opposed to 'feeding' it.
==Involvement==
Kar'niss may be first encountered in two different ways. While entering the Shadow-Cursed Lands from Rosymorn Monastery Trail, a group of Absolute followers will be waiting for to arrive and summon the guide. The party can use the to summon Kar'niss, then follow the convoy to Moonrise Towers.
Otherwise, if reaching the Shadow-Cursed Lands through Grymforge, the party may encounter Kar'niss' caravan mid-transit - either alongside a group of Harpers to ambush them and claim the lantern as part of a quest given by at Last Light Inn, or alone if they explore the Shadow-Cursed Lands and come across the checkpoint without interacting with the Harpers first. The Harper ambush can also be encountered if the party followed the caravan from the start. In each of these scenarios, the party can choose to follow the convoy to Moonrise, kill Kar'niss and his followers to take his lantern, or convince him through dialogue to relinquish it and walk away to his death. Disarming Kar'niss causes him to drop the .
If Kar'niss and his convoy are convinced to leave without the Moonlantern during the ambush in , they can later be encountered as in Reithwin Town, south of the statue of outside the Sharran Sanctuary and north of the bridge to Moonrise Towers. They are automatically hostile to the party in this form and cannot be interacted with other than by attacking, but Kar'niss still appears as if attacked. He is joined by several Shadows, undead Harpers, undead prisoners, etc. thus making the fight unnecessarily difficult. 
If Kar'niss survives the road to Moonrise Towers, he runs up the tower to seek the Absolute's blessing on the rooftop, where he can be encountered one final time as he fights alongside Ketheric when storming the tower at the end of Act Two.
==Combat==
===Attacks and abilities===
===Tactician and Honour Mode===
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===Notable loot===
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==Speak with Dead==
Kar'niss can be spoken to with .
Party member: Who are you? 
*Kar'niss: Erased... forgotten... we are... drider...
Party member: What happened to you?
*Kar'niss: Lolth... cast out... Absolute... saved...
Party member: Who killed you?
*Kar'niss: Traitor... heretic...
Party member: Where are you from?
*Kar'niss: Moonrise...
Party member: What were you doing?
*Kar'niss: Shepherding... the faithful... carrying... our Lady's light...
Party member: You walk the shadows safely. How?
*Kar'niss: Lantern... our Lady's light...
Party member: How did you trap that pixie in the lantern?
*Kar'niss: Always... many voices... her... the LOUDEST...
Party member: How did the shadow curse come to be?
*Narrator: *The corpse remains silent. It does not know.*
==Notes==
* As a drider, Kar'niss is half drow - which means his weapon, , grants extra Poison damage (as it does when wielded by a drow.)
==Bugs==
* If summoned with the lyre after killing the Absolute followers at the meeting point, a dialogue bug may occur: none of the skill check dialogue options works and the player character is booted out from the Kar'niss dialogue whenever one of these is selected. Currently, no solution to this bug is known.
==Gallery==
File:Kar'niss Model.png|model
Tan-burci-drider-concept.jpg|Concept art by Tan Bur-Ci
Maxime-ponslet-a00.jpg|Render by Maxime Ponslet
Maxime-ponslet-a01.jpg|Alternate render by Maxime Ponslet
==External links==
Category:Driders
Category:Monstrosities
Category:Characters
Category:Characters in the Shadow-Cursed Lands
Category:Characters in Act Two
Category:Bosses
Category:Followers of the Absolute
Category:Available to Speak with Dead