Lolth, also known as the Demon Queen of Spiders, the Mistress of Lies, and the Lady of Shadows, is a cruel, capricious goddess who revels in betrayal and bloodshed. The Spider Queen demands absolute obedience from the drow, presiding over their manifold schemes and betrayals, and is sovereign over all arachnids.
Lolth’s favor is fickle; she manipulates those in her service and expends them without thought. Lolth claims control over every aspect of drow society. Her particular areas of influence involve spiders, evil, darkness, chaos, and assassins.
Lolth favors the guise of a lithe drow woman dressed in a gossamer gown woven from spider silk. Her long, silvery hair frames a face of exquisite beauty and cascades down her back. This appearance is a deception, however: Lolth’s true form is that of an enormous arachnid with a body bloated on the souls of her petitioners and the torso and head of a drow.
Lolth’s domain is the Demonweb Pits. True to the deity’s nature, the Demonweb Pits is a vast expanse of woven and tangled webs. Creatures, buildings, vessels, even chunks of land torn from various worlds are caught in the webs, dangling like trapped insects waiting for Lolth to feed on them, or lying like empty husks already drained of life.
There she is served first and foremost by the demons called yochlol, known as the Handmaidens of Lolth. Though one can appear as a beautiful drow female, the true form of a yochlol is a hideous mass of putrid slime with several ropy tentacles.