The Dark Grotto is one of the many conducts which lead to the Shadow Lands, mystic demiplane of darkness created by the wyrm himself which has given no little trouble to many scholars of the planes. Once you venture through such complicated maze it's impossible to escape and so many have spent their whole lives trying to find an exit. Only if the Dark Ruler wants you are allowed to escape it, just to find yourself (un)fortunate enough to be summoned at his presence.
Canned food ain't that good but thankfully the raising fear, seasoned with despair and awe, will certainly spice up that puny mortal who dared to trespass. Noxious aethereal breath engulfing the mind while life abandon the spoil of what once was a man and his soul morph into Essence for exclusive use of the Lord only.

An awe-inspiring commission by the ever awesome (and felllow GM) blacktalons featuring the Dark Lord in his feral form, ain't it best? I've always wanted to get something from BT and this certainly won't be the last time, not only did he do a great job on this but also he is so nice to talk to on his streams (and he is a D&D freak like myself with a passion for Lockwood's dragons, so.) We dragon definitively love to hoard precious and what you see it's just a fragment of the belongings I've accumulated through my whole existence (dated prior the existence of the universe itself, so it's quite a lot indeed.) Poor little knight jumped into the wrong hole and how he is going to suffer for his ignorance, may he reast in pIeacIeS, rawr!
I just wish I could quantify how much I love this really, it seems to come from a book (no I am not mimicing Smaug here,) or, as I pointed out to BT, the D&D Draconomicon, one of the most eyegasming book for a nerdy dragon lover like myself. Expect more feral art to come boys, and go to fave BT's submission (linked below) and be sure to watch him unless you don't want to be slain by the Dark Lord himself (NB: Not nomed, cause some of you might like it 8v..vore..ewww.)

Original submission is located here

Masterpiece by the ever awesome blacktalons
The gargantuan blue hoarder©