FR: What's up with Lolth? (Spoilers, please)

[Darkness]

Okay. I don't know City of the Spiderqueen and I haven't read FR novels in ages. I heard there was something about her not granting spells or something, but that's all I know.

Get me up to speed, please: What happened recently to Lolth and her clergy in the FR?

 

[Goose]

She went in to a kind of hibernation. At the end of book 5 (still waiting on book 6) she re-emerged as a greater goddess instead of the intermediate goddess she was when she went silent. It was pretty much just a growing period for her and all drow.

 

[Darkness]

Back and badder than ever, eh? I see. Well, good for her.

Thanks, mate!

 

[obsidianelf]

I don't remember the book 5 saying that she had come back as a greater goddess. She did however move the Demonweb out of the Abyss.

 

[saucercrab]

I don't remember the book 5 saying that she had come back as a greater goddess.

Neither do I.

 

[Kirin'Tor]

Hmmm...does anyone have a difinitive answer? I'm running a Realms game that is parallel to these events, and it would be fun to have Lolth return...if I knew the proper reason!

 

[saucercrab]

Only R.A. Salvatore & his crack team of drow-lovers (the other authors) know for sure at this point in time. Everything else is conjecture & guesstimates.

 

[kuje31]

The novels don't say she's a greater goddess, so three of us agree with that.

Also the City of the Spider Queen module ties in with the novels. Or you can get a general summary of up to about novel 3 or 4 in the Player's Guide to Faerun.

 

[Nightfall]

My only gripe, Kiaranselee is STILL alive.

 

[maransreth]

And in an interview with Mortality Radio last year, Salvatore denied any knowledge of his involvement with the Spider Queen novels. I think that is what he said anyway about it.

He knew about the novels, but says he didnt have any involvement in what occurred or the writing of any of the novels.