Lolth, the Spider Queen

The god of deceit, shadows, and spiders, the Spider Queen weaves a complicated web of schemes and treachery through her worshipers, deceiving allies and enemies alike to gain power. The Spider Queen’s worship is entwined with the society of dark elves across much of Exandria, even as the drow fall ever deeper into the thrall of the Chained Oblivion’s aberrant minions. It is said that the Spider Queen can see through the eyes of all spiders and that she is truly all-knowing.

Divine Domains

Province. Deceit, Spiders
Domains. Many of the Spider Queen’s clerics are granted powers of Knowledge or Trickery.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Depiction. Ancient icons and idols dedicated to the Spider Queen show an alluring woman with deep purple skin and silver hair, her abdomen swelling into the terrifying body of a monstrous spider. Her depictions are highly polarized between her elite devotees and her wretched supplicants. They are either opulent gilded statues, or deranged cave paintings.

Tenets of Faith

Commandments of the Spider Queen

• It is better to be loved than feared, but you may certainly try to be both.
• Misdirection, slander, and shadowed steps have more function than direct conflict.
• Death to the elves who live under the sun, and death to all their allies!

Social

Contacts & Relations

Enemies. The Spider Queen holds a searing grudge against Kord, the Stormlord , for with one throw of his mighty thunderspear, he impaled her against a cliffside, leaving her drow armies leaderless during the Calamity. The Spider Queen and Gruumsh, the Ruiner also share a burning hatred for Corellon, the Archeart, whom she claims drove her children below the earth. Despite their shared enemy, the Spider Queen often manipulates the Ruiner’s followers into attacking her foes, so that the drow may remain safe. The only being the Queen fears is Tharizdun, the Chained Oblivion; she dreads its alien mind and is furious about how its madness has gripped her children.

Divine Classification

Betrayer God

Alignment

Chaotic Evil