So this was something i had an idea to do a few days ago...actually i wanted to do an illustration after i finished reading Ascendancy of the Last a few months back but never got to it until now. The illustration is of a drow transformed back into a dark elf....the original ancestors of drow before they were cast down into the underdark eons before. apparently they had dark brown skin and black hair....i could totally geek out on this but i'm going to spare myself and all of you. the illustration is a sort of an accompaniment to the last chapter of the book, but not really, more of my own take on a single moment in time, not necessarily a direct depiction of a scene from the book.
If you haven't read the series and enjoy reading about drow i strongly encourage Lady Penitent. but before you read those, you need to read the War of the Spider Queen series as that prequels all the events in these books...yah i know, a LOT of reading. I've sadly read them all and it was quite enjoyable


>>SPOILER ALERT!
Excerpted from Lisa Smedman's Ascendancy of the Last--from the Lady Penitent series.

"...Alas!" Lashrael cried, his cheeks awash with tears. "Eilistraee is no more. She was slain--cut down, together with the high priestess, by the treacherous Lady Penitent."
Cavatina's soul trembled. "No!" she gasped.
"All part of the plan, " Felarathael said calmly. "There is no further need for Eilistraee. The willing were saved, the unwilling cast down. It is time for the dark elves to return to Arvandor."