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<blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 7653850" data-attributes="member: 61182"><p>Spidertaur! Spidertaur! Does whatever a spidertaur does! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good spot, but it was not <em>quite</em> like that.</p><p></p><p>Lolth was angry at the drow (who were Faerûnian drow who got stranded under Maztica and then abandoned her to worship Zaltec). After realising that drow were living under Maztica she was trying to gain access to the realm. She finally managed to gain power in the second Maztica novel (pages 303-305 of <em>Viperhand</em>) and put a curse on the drow and the Maztican humans that were serving them. The curse turned all of the drow to change into driders (but had different effects on the various humans in the cult of the Viperhand that the drow were in charge of).</p><p></p><p>Echohawk might be interested in the description of the drow-to-drider transformation process, so here is a quote:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Note that nobody performed any sort of ritual to change these drow into driders. But the drow, and the cult of the Viperhand had been making human sacrifices, so I think that Lolth might have been able to hijack all of the energy that the sacrificial rituals had created. So this could have been a one-off special effect that would not be repeated if other drow travelled to Maztica.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Mac, post: 7653850, member: 61182"] Spidertaur! Spidertaur! Does whatever a spidertaur does! :p Good spot, but it was not [I]quite[/I] like that. Lolth was angry at the drow (who were Faerûnian drow who got stranded under Maztica and then abandoned her to worship Zaltec). After realising that drow were living under Maztica she was trying to gain access to the realm. She finally managed to gain power in the second Maztica novel (pages 303-305 of [I]Viperhand[/I]) and put a curse on the drow and the Maztican humans that were serving them. The curse turned all of the drow to change into driders (but had different effects on the various humans in the cult of the Viperhand that the drow were in charge of). Echohawk might be interested in the description of the drow-to-drider transformation process, so here is a quote: Note that nobody performed any sort of ritual to change these drow into driders. But the drow, and the cult of the Viperhand had been making human sacrifices, so I think that Lolth might have been able to hijack all of the energy that the sacrificial rituals had created. So this could have been a one-off special effect that would not be repeated if other drow travelled to Maztica. [/QUOTE]
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