Driders are favored by Lolth !!! [Archive] - Wizards Community

Driders are favored by Lolth !!! [Archive] - Wizards Community

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MaximumHavoc
07-26-07, 10:42 AM lolth, being a chaotic goddess, has changed her mind. driders have recently become favored by lolth because they make drows more spider-like, thus more perfect. at first, this created quite an upheaval throughout all of drow society, as the exiled became the empowered, but this only served to amuse and satisfy lolth's chaotic nature. she deemed the moderate chaos that ensued as fitting for the stengthening of the drow race. now, all new driders are high-ranking female clerics of lolth who have PASSED the rigorous trials of elite status. now, all matron mothers are driders. and secretly, in their hearts, they are repulsed by their own drider forms, fueled by the age old prejudices. and they are frustrated by their loss, forever after, of sexual fulfillment. these burning emotions have made these ruling driders even more vicious and fearsome than they were as drow, using violence and torture as a pale substitution for their prior sexual pleasures, much to the amusement and satisfaction of lolth.

now, what to do about all of those annoying male driders that preexisted lolth's fickle change in the status of driders?
Dracomortis
07-26-07, 11:09 AM Well, she could get really chaotic and start favoring males. In one of the Drizzt novels,a priestess discovered that he actually had Lolth's favor - by becoming good and turning his back on the ways of his own race, he had committed just about the biggest chaotic act a drow could commit. She could pull something like that and start teaching drow to be good. She might even change her agenda from week to week - I imagine that would make drow society...err, interesting?
The_Shaman
07-26-07, 02:36 PM I think the priestess was just trying to rationalize her own inferiority. Her admitting that she is weaker than a heathen male warrior would be even more unthinkable than Lloth giving her favor to a heretic male.

As for driders, they have been favored - of a sort - even before. Lloth was granting female driders cleric spells - that is pretty serious, as far as divine favor goes - and iirc even had one in her elite go-getter bands. Oh, and if you want the male driders gone, and she still commands the loyalty of the female driders and the rest of the drow race... She just has to give the word. Lloth does not have to make sense as we know it, you know. BTW, for more info on driders, see Dragon 312 if you have it.
MaximumHavoc
07-26-07, 04:11 PM As for driders, they have been favored - of a sort - even before. Lloth was granting female driders cleric spells - that is pretty serious, as far as divine favor goes
a very good point. funny how i (we?) can so easily overlook the obvious.
and iirc even had one in her elite go-getter bands. Oh, and if you want the male driders gone, and she still commands the loyalty of the female driders and the rest of the drow race... She just has to give the word. Lloth does not have to make sense as we know it, you know. BTW, for more info on driders, see Dragon 312 if you have it.
this is great info. thanks for the reply.
Joseph_Silver
07-26-07, 04:45 PM Shouldn't this be in the Forgotten Realms forums?
Dracomortis
07-26-07, 04:49 PM Shouldn't this be in the Forgotten Realms forums?
Neither drow, driders, nor Lolth are unique to Faerun, so most likely not.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
MaximumHavoc 07-26-07, 10:42 AM	lolth, being a chaotic goddess, has changed her mind. driders have recently become favored by lolth because they make drows more spider-like, thus more perfect. at first, this created quite an upheaval throughout all of drow society, as the exiled became the empowered, but this only served to amuse and satisfy lolth's chaotic nature. she deemed the moderate chaos that ensued as fitting for the stengthening of the drow race. now, all new driders are high-ranking female clerics of lolth who have PASSED the rigorous trials of elite status. now, all matron mothers are driders. and secretly, in their hearts, they are repulsed by their own drider forms, fueled by the age old prejudices. and they are frustrated by their loss, forever after, of sexual fulfillment. these burning emotions have made these ruling driders even more vicious and fearsome than they were as drow, using violence and torture as a pale substitution for their prior sexual pleasures, much to the amusement and satisfaction of lolth. now, what to do about all of those annoying male driders that preexisted lolth's fickle change in the status of driders?
Dracomortis 07-26-07, 11:09 AM	Well, she could get really chaotic and start favoring males. In one of the Drizzt novels,a priestess discovered that he actually had Lolth's favor - by becoming good and turning his back on the ways of his own race, he had committed just about the biggest chaotic act a drow could commit. She could pull something like that and start teaching drow to be good. She might even change her agenda from week to week - I imagine that would make drow society...err, interesting?
The_Shaman 07-26-07, 02:36 PM	I think the priestess was just trying to rationalize her own inferiority. Her admitting that she is weaker than a heathen male warrior would be even more unthinkable than Lloth giving her favor to a heretic male. As for driders, they have been favored - of a sort - even before. Lloth was granting female driders cleric spells - that is pretty serious, as far as divine favor goes - and iirc even had one in her elite go-getter bands. Oh, and if you want the male driders gone, and she still commands the loyalty of the female driders and the rest of the drow race... She just has to give the word. Lloth does not have to make sense as we know it, you know. BTW, for more info on driders, see Dragon 312 if you have it.
MaximumHavoc 07-26-07, 04:11 PM	As for driders, they have been favored - of a sort - even before. Lloth was granting female driders cleric spells - that is pretty serious, as far as divine favor goes a very good point. funny how i (we?) can so easily overlook the obvious. and iirc even had one in her elite go-getter bands. Oh, and if you want the male driders gone, and she still commands the loyalty of the female driders and the rest of the drow race... She just has to give the word. Lloth does not have to make sense as we know it, you know. BTW, for more info on driders, see Dragon 312 if you have it. this is great info. thanks for the reply.
Joseph_Silver 07-26-07, 04:45 PM	Shouldn't this be in the Forgotten Realms forums?
Dracomortis 07-26-07, 04:49 PM	Shouldn't this be in the Forgotten Realms forums? Neither drow, driders, nor Lolth are unique to Faerun, so most likely not.