DnD Gods: LOLTH THE SPIDER QUEEN

About this episode

This episode explores the origins and impact of Lolth, the Spider Queen, in Dungeons & Dragons lore.

She is chaos incarnate. She is the web that holds an entire civilization in its grip. She is the reason the Underdark trembles — and she wants it that way. In this episode of Roll for Lore, Sean and Jessica descend into the Demonweb Pits to explore one of the most iconic, terrifying, and endlessly fascinating figures in all of Dungeons & Dragons: Lolth, the Spider Queen . Before she was the Demon Queen of Spiders, she was Araushnee — a goddess of the Seldarine, consort to Corellon Larethian himself, and patron of fate and artisans among the elven pantheon. So how does a goddess of such standing end up ruling the 66th layer of the Abyss, commanding an army of drow, driders, and demons, and becoming the single most destabilizing force in Faerûn's history? That fall — and everything that came after — is the story of one of D&D's greatest villains. We trace Lolth's origins from her betrayal of Corellon during the Crown Wars, through her banishment to the Abyss and her transformation into the Spider Queen, all the way to her role in shaping the brutal matriarchal society of the drow and her apotheosis into a greater goddess during the War of the Spider Queen . We also dig into…

People in this episode

Host: Sean McDonnell

Guest: Jessica

Topics covered

• Dungeons & Dragons
• Lolth
• drow society
• mythology
• gods and goddesses
• Abyss
• character origins

Keywords

• Lolth
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Spider Queen
• drow
• mythology
• Abyss
• Corellon Larethian
• Eilistraee
• Vhaeraun
• Dark Seldarine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Seldarine, Dark Seldarine

Books & works: Dungeons & Dragons

Places: Underdark, Abyss

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