Lolth Character in Selea | World Anvil
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Lolth

(a.k.a. Spider Queen; Mistress of the Demonweb Pits)

Known as the Queen of Spiders or the Queen of the Demonweb Pits, is the most influential goddess of the Drow.   She drove the Drow into heavy infighting under the pretense of culling the weak, while her real goals were to hold absolute control over the dark elves, prevent the rise of alternative faiths or ideas, and avoid complacency (even though she found amusement in the strife that plagued her followers' communities).

Divine Domains

Darkness, Trickery

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Eight pointed star with a web motif, or a spider

Tenets of Faith

  • The strong should rule over the weak.
  • There are no other rules.
  There are actually plenty of other 'rules', but Lolth tends to overlook transgressions, so long as the transgressor is not caught and revealed by someone other than Lolth. Such a rule-breaker will be swiftly and mercilessly punished, for being stupid enough to be caught and too weak to kill or otherwise silence the spotter.   A fiendishly clever back-stabbing is a good way to earn her favor, though getting stabbed in the back by someone else is a good way to lose it just as quickly. Lolth demands results, and she is not fond of failure. Despite this there is at least one instance when she helped out someone who got stabbed in the back   Her sacred animals are arachnids. She considered them valuable enough to kill those who mistreated them.   As sacrifices go she "prefers sentient creatures over non-sentient ones, humanoids over non humanoids, elves over other humanoids, and drow over elves. She prefers more powerful (higher level) sacrifices to weaker ones, and her own priestesses over all others." Drow without influence who displease the priesthood easily find themselves on the sacrificial altar.
Divine Classification
Goddess
Children

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