She is considered the supreme goddess of the Drows. Scheming and treachery are her commands, and her clerics are a constant force of disruption in the otherwise stable society of the evil drow.
In fact, why can’t I use it for literally everything?” Take a look at what it does: Nothing about this template is meaningfully, irrevocably proprietary to Lolth. But, as seen by the end of the War of the Spider Queen series, it is shown that the Demonweb Pits had, while Lolth was "evolving," separated and became its own plane. It gives the players pause, challenges them, and makes a monster special regardless of the words you use to describe it. She displays formidable power and great cruelty with an affection for arachnids. Her clerics wear red and black, and drow tunics and helms. Again, Lolth broke Corellon's heart with this Descent.
Lolth's residence in this realm is a mobile iron spider-shaped stronghold. Temples dedicated to Lolth dominate drow society, and her clerics are always women. This myth seems to have been suppressed for thousands of years, either by the surface elves or the drow who wished to maintain the hatred and resentment felt by their kind, but it has been gaining rapidly in popularity among the youngest generation. For more information about Wizards of the Coast or any of Wizards' trademarks or other intellectual property, please visit their website at (www.wizards.com). Lolth was banished to the Abyss by Corellon Larethian, who has forevermore been her enemy. The drow or dark elves are a generally evil, dark-skinned, and white-haired subrace of elves in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.
Great temples and cities were built in Lolth's name, foremost among them Menzoberranzan.
Lolth is a recurring character in the comic strip Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic.[23]. Many of them included sacrifice. [17] Dragon #359 (September 2007), the final print issue of the magazine, described Lolth as one of the 20 most memorable villains of the Dungeons & Dragons game.
Now she focuses on using the drow to conquer the vast cavern-realms beneath the surface of the earth. Lolth's reputation of giving great rewards to her most effective servants certainly applied to yochlols, and greater versions of their race did exist. In the Abyss, many millennia passed by as Lolth raged bitterly over her failed plans, along the way rejecting the advances of Ghaunadaur and sending it into a terrible rage, during which it stole the intellect of many of its followers, effectively robbing itself of most of its power, power which it has only recently regained.
Though the duaral were more skilled, the unelect were more numerous, and ultimately the duaral retreated beneath the world, where their enemies were too cowardly to follow. Lolth-Touched creatures are people and monsters given power by Lolth, goddess of drow and spiders and best friend to every author who couldn’t think of a more interesting villain in Faerûn. Lolth is also worshipped by spidery creatures called chitines and araneas, and by some human cultists such as Lareth the Beautiful. Sutherland III, David C; Gygax, Gary (1980).
Lolth's re-ascension to true godhood has basically elevated her above competition from the Lady of Fungi, but the two still harbor hatred for one another.
They are defended by priestesses, soldiers, and often spiders of various kinds.
When I first read the template, my first thought was “this is really useful, but it’s too bad it’s bound to Lolth.” The Monster Manual 4 came out while I was playing World of Warcraft and I’d been looking for a way to make monsters rare or elite*. Lolth teaches her children that fear is strength, while love and respect are weakness.
Lolth can take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action as a bonus action.. Discorporation. [21], Lolth was named as one of the greatest villains in D&D history by the final issue of Dragon.[22].
[7] Lolth was detailed as a deity in the book Monster Mythology (1992), including details about her priesthood. They are granted the powers of demigods. By custom, only females are permitted to attend these rituals, which take place in a sacred room.
Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Lolth is spoken of in many of the books by R. A. Salvatore, and actually appears in the novel Siege of Darkness. Althoug… Having lured the heroes into her subterranean trap, Lolth transforms into her demonic spider form and drops her victims onto a giant web. I love taking a creature the players know and putting a twist on it so they understand part of what’s going on but not all of it, like making a regular gorilla into a savage, ice-breathing yeti. Lolth was created by Gary Gygax for the World of Greyhawk campaign setting, later appeared in the Forgotten Realms setting, and in 3rd edition became a member of the default pantheon of D&D gods.
Corellon looked upon the defeated form of his betrayer, mother of his children and once beloved by him, it was then that the First of the Seldarine broken-heartedly cursed his love, Araushnee the Weaver of Destiny, into the form of a hideous spider-bodied Tanar'ri, stripping her of her divinity and branding her with the name Lolth and cast her into the Abyss, never to return. I’m a little sad that Pathfinder doesn’t use templates as much as 3E did, though I think my favorite application of them was in 4E, where you could give a monster a template without changing their CR and often without changing much at all, adding flavor while keeping the core creature intact.
Upon confronting the Weaver of Destiny, Sehanine Moonbow was imprisoned by the traitor goddess. Goddess of Darkness, Drow, Evil, and Spiders (and assassins and chaos in the Forgotten Realms), Lolth has, through deceit and domination, garnered the ears of the dark elves and eventually established herself as their foremost deity, keeping them under her thumb by creati…
During rituals, clerics of Lolth are nude or clad in black robes with purple and deep red trim. She is served by Selvetarm, who is too weak to oppose her, and nominally by Kiaransalee, though she and Lolth hate each other and recently this rift has deepened when Kiaransalee stole many of Lolth's worshipers, especially in the case of the city of Maerimydra. TSR Inc. ISBN 0-935696-20-2.
Redman, Rich, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. In their natural form, yochlol resemble molten blobs of wax with large, glaring red eyes. In 1372 DR, Lolth fell silent, not answering the prayers of her priestesses, and causing chaos amongst the drow, particularly the drow of Menzoberranzan—led by House Baenre, whose own High Priestess of Lolth, Triel, commanded her sister Quenthel to investigate—and Ched Nasad—which was destroyed.
Long before the elves first travelled to Abeir-Toril from the original elven homeland of Tintageer on the magical world of Faerie, Lolth was known as Araushnee, the "Weaver of Destiny", a Lesser deity of the Seldarine, the elven pantheon of gods.
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