Editing Kar'niss

{{Infobox creature
| name = Kar'niss
| title = Light of the Absolute
| image = 
<gallery>
Kar'niss.webp|In-game
Portrait Kar'niss.png|Portrait
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| race = {{FRWiki|Drider}}
| faction = [[Cult of the Absolute]]
| role=[[Moonlantern]] bearer
| va = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9157161 Joshua B. Sklar]
| size = Medium
| type = [[Monstrosity]]
| level = 6
| ac = 19
| e hp = 128
| hp = 184
| t hp = 239
| extra init = 5
| movement m = 9
| weight kg = 150
| str = 16
| dex = 16
| con = 18
| int = 13
| wis = 16
| cha = 12
| dex save prof = yes
| conditions = Spindleweb Fanaticism
| passives = Darkvision, Sunlight Sensitivity, Opportunity Attack, Sting The Helpless @ Cruel Sting, Dual Wielder, Multiattack: Wounded Target, Improved Critical Hit, Dark Devotion, Alert, Web Walker
| t passives = Cull the Weak, Darkvision, Sunlight Sensitivity, Opportunity Attack, Sting The Helpless @ Cruel Sting, Dual Wielder, Multiattack: Wounded Target, Improved Critical Hit, Dark Devotion, Alert, Web Walker
}}

'''Kar'niss''' is a {{FRWiki|Drider}} in service of the [[Absolute]], whom he serves after being cast out by [[Lolth|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 {{cond|Shadow Curse}} makes it stronger.

Can be spoken to in death with the {{SAI|Speak with Dead}} spell.

==Encounters==
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 [[Minthara]] to arrive and summon the guide. The party can use the [[Spider's Lyre]] to summon Kar'niss, then follow the convoy to [[Moonrise Towers]].

Otherwise, if the party reaches the Shadow-Cursed Lands through [[Grymforge]], they 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 [[Jaheira]] 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 will also be encountered if the party followed the caravan from the start. In each of these scenarios, the party may 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.

If Kar'niss and his convoy are convinced to leave without the Moonlantern during the ambush in [[Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse]], they can later be encountered as {{cond|Shadow-Cursed Undead}} in [[Reithwin Town]], south of the statue of [[Ketheric Thorm]] 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 will still appear as {{cond|Temporarily Hostile}} if attacked. He will be joined by several [[Shadow]]s, undead [[Harpers]], undead prisoners, etc. thus making the fight unnecessarily difficult. 

If Kar'niss survives the road to Moonrise, he will run 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 the party storms the tower at the end of Act 2.

==Attacks and abilities==
{{Feature box|Venom Claws}}

{{Feature box|Multiattack (Drider)}}

{{Feature box|Sanctuary}}

====Tactician Only====
{{Feature box|Spindleweb Sanctuary}}

==Related quests==
*[[Follow the Convoy]]
*[[Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse]]

==Notable loot==
*{{RarityItem|Cruel Sting|30}}
*{{RarityItem|Moonlantern|30}}

==Speak with Dead==
Kar'niss can be spoken to with [[Speak with Dead]].

'''Player:''' Who are you? 

*'''Kar'niss:''' Erased... forgotten... we are... ''drider''...

'''Player:''' What happened to you?

*'''Kar'niss:''' Lolth... cast out... Absolute... ''saved''...

'''Player:''' Who killed you?

*'''Kar'niss:''' Traitor... heretic...

'''Player:''' Where are you from?

*'''Kar'niss:''' Moonrise...

'''Player:''' What were you doing?

*'''Kar'niss:''' Shepherding... the faithful... carrying... our Lady's light...

'''Player:''' You walk the shadows safely. How?

*'''Kar'niss:''' Lantern... our Lady's ''light''...

'''Player:''' How did you trap that pixie in the lantern?

*'''Kar'niss:''' Always... many voices... her... the LOUDEST...

'''Player:''' How did the shadow curse come to be?

*'''Narrator:''' *The corpse remains silent. It does not know.*

==Gallery==
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File:Kar'niss Model.png|model
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==External links==
{{FRWiki|Kar'niss|long}}

{{Shadow-Cursed Lands}}
[[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]]