Your preferred name for the Queen of Spiders

[woodelf]

IIRC is also called Loethe in Zhakara, so however the variation started, they ran with it.

Where do drow/Lolth come up in the Al-Qadim stuff? [just curious]

 

[darkelfo]

Lilith is a demon of mythology. In one of her forms and legends she is covered in insects and spiders.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I call her "Graveyard dust". Since that's where I want her and most of the drow panethon.

I agree. Down with those pretenders. Then, when Vhaeraun has unified all drow, they can start to take care of these short pests in the Night Blow, and then in the Night Above.

'Unloading your longbow'...so that's what the kidz are calling it these days.

"Honey, I need to unload my longbow..."

"Sure, sweetheart, you know where to go for that. There's a certain street where you can do it."

 

[Trickstergod]

Gnolls!

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I call her "Graveyard dust". Since that's where I want her and most of the drow panethon.

Or call her Belsameth...

 

[Thanee]

In FR it's also written Lolth, dunno how that double-L got sneaked in there.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Trickstergod]

Or call her Belsameth...

Ahh, but then, that wouldn't be the proper name.

The Scarred Lands goddess for the Spider Queen is Sethris.

Who, appropriately, is a weak, contemptible, scuttling thing who barely even qualifies for a god and was essentially laughed at by all the elves when she tried winning them over to worship her. All she ended up getting was some snot-nosed goblins.

It's actually one of the things I rather liked about the Scarred Lands; the settings seemed to be poking deliberate fun at Lolth by making the Spider Goddess for the Scarred Lands pretty much a joke whose status doesn't rate much higher than "angry social outcast."

 

[Staffan]

Where do drow/Lolth come up in the Al-Qadim stuff? [just curious]

Not very much, fortunately. The Land of Fate box set refers to the forgotten gods worshipped in the fallen river empires of Nog and Kadar, including:
[bq]Lotha, a human-headed spider venerated by evil elves who were burned alive for their sins.[/bq]
The name isn't mentioned in the Ruined Kingdoms adventure (which takes place where the empires of Nog and Kadar used to be).

 

[Gez]

Googling for "Lolth Lloth Loethe" I found this site:
http://www.enhorn.com/kampanjvarlden_eleria/drow.htm

Lolth.

(Lloth, Loethe, Zinserena, Araushnee. Hon har många aspekter och namn), Spindelgudinnan, Alla spindlars Svarta Moder. Panteonens Huvudgudinna och den Gudinna som de flesta Drow tillber och den utan tvekan starkaste av dem. Vill få alla Drow under sitt styre och härska över alla från Underjorden. Försöker snärja andra raser till att tillbe henne under andra namn och aspekter för att få mer makt. ”Den som överlever Vinner”.​

What amuses me is that I don't even know what language that is, yet I can parse it well enough to understand parts of it.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Googling for "Lolth Lloth Loethe" I found this site:
http://www.enhorn.com/kampanjvarlden_eleria/drow.htm

Lolth.

(Lloth, Loethe, Zinserena, Araushnee. Hon har många aspekter och namn), Spindelgudinnan, Alla spindlars Svarta Moder. Panteonens Huvudgudinna och den Gudinna som de flesta Drow tillber och den utan tvekan starkaste av dem. Vill få alla Drow under sitt styre och härska över alla från Underjorden. Försöker snärja andra raser till att tillbe henne under andra namn och aspekter för att få mer makt. ”Den som överlever Vinner”.​

What amuses me is that I don't even know what language that is, yet I can parse it well enough to understand parts of it.

For what its worth, Svartalf is the Old Norse for dark elves, and so seeing Svarta there makes me think it is a Scandinavian language