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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7090051" data-attributes="member: 6775477">Spoiler Alert, but at this point, I think anyone this far in is too late anyway.It makes sense for there to be a Lolth faction, since they know the temple is just a smokescreen to gain followers (i.e. there is no real EEG). Lolth would want to have a way to pull followers away from Zuggtmoy and Iuz while expanding her own power base. There were only 2 NPCs that I recall that were part of her faction (there may have been others, but none came up when I ran it last time), Laerath and the male magic user that hid the Orb of Golden Death from the Iuz High Cleric. Laerath should probably be switched over to Zuggtmoy (or used as a dupe by Eclvdra as I did to setup GDQ1-7), but the male magic user needs to stay as a servant of Lolth for him to make sense. Oh, as for the use of human males by Lolth, please realize that 99% of what you know about Lolth was written after this adventure, mostly by RA Salvatore and other Forgotten Realms authors. Drow were not a matriarchy initially, nor limited to only female clerics; all that came later. Originally, Lolth wasn't even a goddess, just a demon lord, since in 1E there was little difference between a lesser god and a powerful demon lord or archdevil.</blockquote>