Drow Assassin (Vakara N'thara) Bust by DM Stash

From the lightless cities of the Underdark, she ascends — draped in the web-worked armour of a matron's favoured blade, her expression cold with the calm of someone who has already decided your fate.

• ✔ Large-scale display bust — significantly bigger than standard 32mm
• ✔ Resin printed fresh to order in the UK
• ✔ Supplied unpainted — ideal as a centrepiece painting project
• ✔ Designed for display shelves and painting competitions

Vakara N'thara is sculpted as a bust: half-figure, all presence. Her armour is extraordinary in its detail — every plate etched with interlocking spider-web motifs, spined pauldrons swept back like a predator mid-stalk, and a breastplate bearing the unmistakable sigil of a spider at its centre. Her hair falls loose behind her, framing a face that is composed, calculating, and entirely without mercy. The base of the bust echoes the architecture of a Drow noble house — angular, geometric, and laced with more webbing. Front and back, the sculpt holds its detail.

As a display bust, this piece is designed to reward painters and collectors with a canvas for blending, OSL from below, gemstone effects on the armour sigils, and the kind of skin-tone work that only a half-figure gives you the room to explore properly. She also serves as vivid visual inspiration for a Drow villain, an Underdark spymaster, or the masked face behind an assassination contract your players have been chasing for three sessions.

A good fit for adventurers who:

• Paint display pieces and want a character with genuine narrative weight
• Are building an Underdark-themed collection or campaign visual library
• Want a striking centrepiece for a shelf or display case
• Are running a Drow-focused arc and want NPCs that leave an impression
• Enjoy the detail challenge of web-worked armour, layered plate, and fine facial features

Encounter Hook:
The party has been hired to deliver a sealed message to a Drow noble in Menzoberranzan — but when they arrive, the noble is dead, and Vakara N'thara is standing over the body, perfectly still, watching them with the expression of someone who has already calculated their threat level and found it wanting. She didn't kill the noble. She's there for the same message. And she's prepared to negotiate — once.

Details

What's included:
One Vakara N'thara bust, printed at high resolution. The sculpt includes the detailed web-etched armour, full hair, and the angular spider-motif display base. As with all our busts, this is a display and painting piece rather than a standard tabletop combat mini. Minor support marks may occasionally be present and are easily addressed before painting.

Sculpted by DM Stash — visit their page to see more of their work.

A soft purr of approval from the studio cats means this one passed quality control.

Complete your Underdark delves with fey creatures from across our range — or find more from DM Stash.

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