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Drawing the Monster Manual #4: Banshee

Number four in my quest to draw the whole 5th Edition Monster Manual: The Banshee! According to D&D lore, a Banshee is the spirit of a female elf who, in life, used her beauty for evil ends, and in death is cursed to roam the place of her demise, weeping and wailing, reliving every moments of her life with perfect recall. In the Irish mythology that the Banshee derives from, she’s called a “fairy woman”, and the possible reasons for her curse are more diverse.