Me...one is evil the other is more evil...devils will kill you for gain...demons will kill you for fun

The biggest difference between the Hells and the Abyss? Rent.

Big spiDer or big danger Nooble

Call Sam Muel El Macjackson, who shall not deal with these MOFO snakes on that MOFO flyin' Dragon!

Sounds interesting. The possibility to prevent her fall is clearly an epic one.

Actually that is a better way to do it then destroying the world from time to time. Maybe even abandon the very idea of an offical time in a setting. You want to experience the ancient Netheril, play in that era, do not create a great cataclysm to ressurect it (yes I hate 4e).

@@michaelpettersson4919 u and us all, mate. Bloody 4e. U . U

@@zacharyhawley1693 Campaigns set in the past could be interesting. There was one for Netheril back in the day. 2nd Ed.

i guess im randomly asking but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot my account password. I love any assistance you can give me!

@Philip Brady instablaster =)

@Brentley Ryland Thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm trying it out atm. I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Brentley Ryland it worked and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thanks so much you really help me out!

@Philip Brady Happy to help xD

much easier for me to listen to this channel. the other one overdoes his inflection and it’s distracting.

@@demondogsand mispronounces stuff like he’s reading words he’s never seen before

Seized, even ;)

Damn straight.

God of weavers, spiders are weavers, also god of fate.. the fate of many insects is to die in the weavings of a spider... the elves don't consider any natural animals or insects to be evil, spiders hunt in a manner they consider to be quite beautiful and serene. Araushnee could take on a fully spider form before she went to the Abyss. When she plunged down into the abyss she landed in the realm of Ghaunadaur because of the portal path he left behind after his attack on Corellon. Corellon merely reopened it and dropped her into it.

@@AJPickett Oh! Thanks for the explanation! It actually helps put a lot of Lolth/Araushnee into perspective. Eventually, the tapestry she wove was one of lies. Also thanks for the bonus clarifying info about the portal! I love drow so much more now. Learning more about Forgotten Realms really helped me get over how I saw it as overly simple or straightforward, which used to be my biggest criticism for the setting. Araushnee's motives aren't forgivable (players need something to kill with impunity and not think too hard), but with this lore they feel a little more understandable.

Va- *cough* -der *cough*

Yeah! That IS weird.

@@AJPickett I would think that since the transformation of a Drow into a Drider is considered a disgraceful form of punishment for failure and weakness, that to be depicted as one herself, Lolth would see that as the epitome of blasphemous disrespect and unforgivable impiousness. In other words I think she'd be pissed...lol

I couldn't tell you, I would say Elaine Cunningham was inspired by a whole lot of different sources.

Yep, she is a truly noble heart.

Bravo.

Lol(th)

I will.

PETTYBLUE 24 THIS IS MY LOLTH. NOT THE LOLTH R.A.SALVATORE TRIED TO MAKE LESS THEN A GODDESS IN HIS BOOK RELENTLESS.

Kiaransalee and Vhaeraun are some real pieces of work themselves. Love to see your coverage of them.

I agree want too see more lore on them plus currently playing a follower of vhaeruan

One of the villains of my campaign runs a cult devoted to Vhaerun, you should check him out 👍

*The year 2025: Mat Mercer dressed as Vhauraun frolics across a sylvan glade, drone camera flying over the scene with a Pegasus swooping by*

I'll try, elven lore is extensive, but Eilistaee is very popular and is high on my list.

Elven lore is awesome, but I also love Eilistraee, and she needs more love.

MrRhexx has a good video about Eilistraee on his channel.

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Yeah, I have seen Rhexx's. It is indeed good.

I will be working on elven lore research in the background for the rest of this month, putting out elven videos at a fairly steady pace, with other videos in between,

Moral of the story... never attack gods on their home plane of existence,

Lol knockoff drizz,,why don't you bring his arc, into this use his followers,,n try n gain,,your own beliefs,question you trying to enter the pantheon?

Perhaps. It seems that the Seldarine could not simply kill each other, as Aruashnee told her son when she had Sehanine at her mercy... was this unique to the Seldarine? Perhaps.

She was always very jealous and ambitious, which crossed the line into evil veeery easily.

@@AJPickett Sometimes that happens in real life often enough. Anyway I had this idea of Araushne starting out out as extremly vain, jealous and ambitious but still neutral rather then evil until something starts to "whisper" to her. Could be useful as a homebrew idea where Loth are Araushne possesed by something horrible.

@@michaelpettersson4919 in our campaign I have a demon contract with lolth as a group patron. As we make her help us she is gotten to do good deeds. As this continues her alignment changes and we got her to care about us cause she is very possessive. So we are 'her' party. The contract states we will help her return to her drow form in exchange for her aid. She helped save our warlock already. We did the contract through a drider we befriended and I had to ask about knowledge of Araushnee and what she is and where now and that the drider was an avatar since they're all sharing her suffering. I rolled a Nat 20 with a plus 3 so I did know and carefully worded it so we contracted both the drider and her goddess. Party thought it was just the drider until a year later when someone got saves by lolth. You see her curse requires her to genuinely care and do a selfless action in order for her to change back. So the party provides the opportunity for change as she helps us. We do research and side quests for 'shortcuts' to breaking her curse to give her reasons to help. We agreed that for which she most desires her vanity we would get the aid we most require. So the cleric that I am caught some hell from the oath of redemption paladin till I quietly explained it helps her earn her forgiveness. We got her back to neutral we will see if we can get her to fully change back or not. The drider has looked more like an armored spider but has human legs again even if she still has spider ones they're less than the full drider she was and looks more hopeful. I'm spreading hope in hell and good deeds in the demon web pits of Avernus. It's fantastic.

If I remember correctly Araushnee was the Goddess in charge of making and weaving the fate of the elves but her threads were always chaotic with many loose and broken strands. This could in a way tell us that her original alignment could have been Chaotic neutral?

@@AJPickett What does Lolth think of Drizzt

Sehanine makes up one third of the combined goddess which is Angarradh, so, I'd say that still counts. As for the elves in the very early years (the pre-history), at least on the world of Toril they worshipped nature and the fey lords, not the Seldarine, but, there are MANY worlds with elves on them, and we just don't know. If the elves are all descended from the native entities of Arvandor and Arboria and such, then in the very early pre-history, perhaps many of them returned and reformed as living beings back on those planes if they were killed on a prime material world, and if they were close to dying of old age (rare) back then, maybe they travelled back to Arvandor, where the days were one year or so long? It's a very interesting question, but the answers are just speculation.

@@AJPickett true, I guess it would still count. Yeah, it is an interesting question. I know the "pre-history' elves didn't worship the Seldarine (at least on Toril), but since you said Arvandor used to be the home of the elves (at least that is what I thought you said), it made me curious about whether the living and the dead lived side by side (ie, what would happen if an elf died in Arvandor). As you said, it's all speculation at this point, but it piques my curiosity lol.

@@feylights166 If they die in Arvandor, they die permanently, the soul is gone, same with any of the outer planar beings.

Noticed that one too, that seems like a very interesting bit of information.

same though the tenari are a type of demon native to the dnd reality the original demons are essentially a invasive species so it makes more sense if consider that not too mention even lessor beings then gods have the ability to turn souls and such into demons

Its very important from a D&D scholar perspective, to note that this lore comes from a Novel, not a game/rules source book... novels can be wrong, but the result can be so cool that we just slide the "Yeah but" under the carpet and run with it, in this case... run with it quite hard. Generally speaking, gods can't turn each other into demon lords, the elven gods are quite close to nature and the elements, and demons are VERY corrupted elemental beings, so, there is a little bit of logical wiggle room to fit some reason into what Corellon did... but it is Sketchy, very sketchy. He did it because He is a Mighty fey god, in a realm where fable and story are way more powerful than physics and we don't know if any other god could have done the same thing... it was perfect punishment, and it was cool, and it was probably a one off... otherwise, he probably would have done the same to Malkizid.

Glad I could help!

I don't think she gets lonely.

@@AJPickett She does get bored, so she "compassionately" keeps others around to amuse and-or challenge her. I mean, if you were an evil god/demon, wouldn't you have the same motives?

Bow chika wowow

Kiaransalee is very interesting indeed! I have a bit of very obscure information on her origins as the 'First Drow' in the next lolth video, I think you will be suitably amazed. Ghaunadaur is far more important to the early history of Drow on Faerun than most realize as well.

Long Live Lolth!

Someone's never been to Australia. . .

Not all spiders are equal. Lolth is obviously a webspinner. Not one to chase down prey

@@jacobfreeman5444 So what your saying is she's easier to hit. Good to know.

@@Sgt-Wolf exactly. And safer than the typical Australian spider.

You think there is a husk of Araushnee’s old avatar laying around?

Could be.

I actually made this somewhat a thing in my campaign now story! The original title of hers was able to survive and thrive in a small portion of elves that managed to avoid being cast into the underdark through an illusion cast on their woods. They became pure black with white patterns, and it creates a false silhouette of animals/creatures among the trees. They are devout followers of Araushnee, and these forgotten followers allow her to keep her title and powers from the surface world. EDIT: forgot the name of the elves. I called them Shadow Elves, the first kind that took after her form. Drow evolved from them after being in the dark for so long.

I’m going to run AAW’s Rise of the Drow this summer, and I plan on adding lots of Araushnee’s plot hooks and items. There are a lot of Drow refugees fleeing to the surface in that story, so a lot of room to play with all this lore.

Whoops. Didn't realize that this was covered in the video. *Turns away sheepishly*

Then she started dating that Chad dude.

How about a horrific mutant abomination?

@@AJPickett Don’t threaten me with a good time

@@AJPickett those are preferable to snakes and spiders honestly

@@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar Coming right up!

My understanding is that the creators of several Dragonlance and Eberron wanted their settings to be separate from the D&D 'multiverse', of course Wotc couldn't help themselves, so we get little crossovers here and there. IIRC the Dragonlance folks were so against it that they killed off Lord Soth in retaliation to him being put into Ravenloft.

I thought Keith homebrewed Lolth into an Overlord?

@@catoblepasomega Dragonlance, at least, was officially part of the shared D&D multiverse all the way back in 2E, in the TSR days. Spelljammer had official Krynn content in it. The Soth stuff is true, though, and that also started in the TSR days, although the novels where he "dies" wasn't until WotC bought TSR.

Oh yes indeed, and he was far from finished with his involvement with elves. forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malkizid