Lolth, The Spider Queen
Lolth
Titles = The Spider Queen, Queen of Spiders, Demon Queen of Spiders, Demon Queen of the Abyss, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, Weaver of Chaos, the Hunted, the Mother of Lusts, Dark Mother of All Drow, Lady of Spiders
* Domains: Chaos, Darkness, Drow, Evil, Destruction, Spider, Trickery
* Portfolio: Spiders, evil, darkness, chaos, assassins, drow
FOLLOWERS = Militant Myrlochar; Order of Soul Spiders; Handmaidens of the Spider Queen;
Power Level = Lesser deity
Alignment = Chaotic evil
Symbol = Spider
Home Plane = The Abyss
Portfolio = Drow, spiders
Domains = Trickery, War
Channel divinity = Invoke duplicity; Cloak of shadows; Guided strike; War god's blessing.
Natha (town) = is a Drow town, in Ru'Mal, at fork in path - contains a Drow Manor
Just outside Ragett, on Kutloc, is a black monolith to match one near Labés City, on Kutloc.
In Ghaste , a hamlet on Kutloc = The workshop of a female elf stonemason named Gamili, who is rumoured to lead a sector of the cult of Lolth (the spider Queen), an aberrant god who the Enchantress did align herself with.
The Enchantress Ezmia was the lover of Vhaeraun, Lolth's son - until the rift between mother and son made The Enchantress chose. Surprisingly, she decided to side with Lolth.
This brought Lolth into a cautious alliance with Acheron - The two dieties have plans for Kutloc.
On one hand, Lolth encouraged her son's rivalry with her, for it appealed to her love of chaos. On the other hand, her son's successes at swaying the drow to his cause of destroying her, her followers, and her version of society, led her to consider him a threat. He amassed the second largest following among drow overall (the largest on the surface), and was an ever expanding force, to the point that Lolth considered Vhaeraun her real enemy and rival.
The two have no common ground:
* Lolth promoted favoritism towards females, while Vhaeraun promoted gender equality;
* the Spider Queen wants surface Elves to be sacrificed by her worshipers, while the Masked Lord urges his followers to cooperate with surface Elves;
* Lolth ordered her followers to keep Drow society stagnant in every regard, while Vhaeraun attracted those who wants change in their societal progress, economic growth, and territorial expansion;
* Lolth wants to extinguish the drow race's desire to return to the surface, while Vhaeraun encouraged settling the surface.
* Vhaeraun's masked traitors, clerical spies Lolth had mistakenly believed members of her own clergy, were enough of a problem that she considered their discovery, and warning her clergy of their existence, worthy of her personal attention. Indeed, Lolth, who normally gave worshipers of other drow gods a second chance on being found out, made an exception for Vhaeraun's followers, who were killed right away.
ORDERS
Militant Myrlochar, Order of Soul Spiders
The Militant Myrlochar, sometimes known as the Order of Soul Spiders, is an elite fighting organization composed exclusively of male crusaders, with a female in-charge, and found in the dark Elven cities where Lolth is worshiped, and males are allowed entrance into her priesthood. Mirrors are stictly forbidden - considered to be a vanity of the High Elves. They directly serve the reigning Matron Mothers of the city and are employed to kill their targets. They are usually used without pause until they get killed.
Handmaidens of the Spider Queen
The Handmaidens of the Spider Queen are an order of female crusaders. Also called the "Daughters of the Yochlol", they have no ties to specific cities. They do not ever use mirrors. When Lolth wants an entire city to brought back into line, she sends in one or more of her Handmaidens. At least three times in recorded history has the Handmaidens of the Spider Queen destroyed entire drow cities to prevent them from straying too far from Lolth.
One of their usual tasks is to terrorize merchants who took Vhaeraun as their patron, as well as settlements run by the followers of Vhaeraun (or where those faiths becomes prominent).
Titles = The Spider Queen, Queen of Spiders, Demon Queen of Spiders, Demon Queen of the Abyss, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, Weaver of Chaos, the Hunted, the Mother of Lusts, Dark Mother of All Drow, Lady of Spiders
* Domains: Chaos, Darkness, Drow, Evil, Destruction, Spider, Trickery
* Portfolio: Spiders, evil, darkness, chaos, assassins, drow
FOLLOWERS = Militant Myrlochar; Order of Soul Spiders; Handmaidens of the Spider Queen;
Power Level = Lesser deity
Alignment = Chaotic evil
Symbol = Spider
Home Plane = The Abyss
Portfolio = Drow, spiders
Domains = Trickery, War
Channel divinity = Invoke duplicity; Cloak of shadows; Guided strike; War god's blessing.
LOCATIONS
Natha (town) = is a Drow town, in Ru'Mal, at fork in path - contains a Drow Manor
Just outside Ragett, on Kutloc, is a black monolith to match one near Labés City, on Kutloc.
In Ghaste , a hamlet on Kutloc = The workshop of a female elf stonemason named Gamili, who is rumoured to lead a sector of the cult of Lolth (the spider Queen), an aberrant god who the Enchantress did align herself with.
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ENCHANTRESS
The Enchantress Ezmia was the lover of Vhaeraun, Lolth's son - until the rift between mother and son made The Enchantress chose. Surprisingly, she decided to side with Lolth.
This brought Lolth into a cautious alliance with Acheron - The two dieties have plans for Kutloc.
RELATIONSHIP WITH Vhaeraun
On one hand, Lolth encouraged her son's rivalry with her, for it appealed to her love of chaos. On the other hand, her son's successes at swaying the drow to his cause of destroying her, her followers, and her version of society, led her to consider him a threat. He amassed the second largest following among drow overall (the largest on the surface), and was an ever expanding force, to the point that Lolth considered Vhaeraun her real enemy and rival.
The two have no common ground:
* Lolth promoted favoritism towards females, while Vhaeraun promoted gender equality;
* the Spider Queen wants surface Elves to be sacrificed by her worshipers, while the Masked Lord urges his followers to cooperate with surface Elves;
* Lolth ordered her followers to keep Drow society stagnant in every regard, while Vhaeraun attracted those who wants change in their societal progress, economic growth, and territorial expansion;
* Lolth wants to extinguish the drow race's desire to return to the surface, while Vhaeraun encouraged settling the surface.
* Vhaeraun's masked traitors, clerical spies Lolth had mistakenly believed members of her own clergy, were enough of a problem that she considered their discovery, and warning her clergy of their existence, worthy of her personal attention. Indeed, Lolth, who normally gave worshipers of other drow gods a second chance on being found out, made an exception for Vhaeraun's followers, who were killed right away.
FOLLOWERS
ORDERS
Militant Myrlochar, Order of Soul Spiders
The Militant Myrlochar, sometimes known as the Order of Soul Spiders, is an elite fighting organization composed exclusively of male crusaders, with a female in-charge, and found in the dark Elven cities where Lolth is worshiped, and males are allowed entrance into her priesthood. Mirrors are stictly forbidden - considered to be a vanity of the High Elves. They directly serve the reigning Matron Mothers of the city and are employed to kill their targets. They are usually used without pause until they get killed.
Handmaidens of the Spider Queen
The Handmaidens of the Spider Queen are an order of female crusaders. Also called the "Daughters of the Yochlol", they have no ties to specific cities. They do not ever use mirrors. When Lolth wants an entire city to brought back into line, she sends in one or more of her Handmaidens. At least three times in recorded history has the Handmaidens of the Spider Queen destroyed entire drow cities to prevent them from straying too far from Lolth.
One of their usual tasks is to terrorize merchants who took Vhaeraun as their patron, as well as settlements run by the followers of Vhaeraun (or where those faiths becomes prominent).
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