History Characters / DungeonsAndDragonsUnderdarkDeities

* AntagonisticOffspring: Lolth, her mother, is also her greatest enemy. The animosity between the two is mutual -- Lolth tried to trick Eilistraee into killing her father Corellon with an enchanted bow. It was only by luck that Corellon wasn't killed, but the betrayal caused Eilistraee to hate her mother.
* AntiMutiny: An odd case in that she was tricked by her mother Lolth into helping with the coup, then turned back, atoned and began to convert the dark elves (now turned into drow) back to the old path as she saw it. [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5812&whichpage=67#159733 And succeed with a lot of them]].
* BackFromTheDead: Restored to life in the Fifth Edition version of the setting, alongside her brother Vhaeraun, after the event known as ''The Sundering'' (not the elven one, but [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19841&whichpage=13#468322 the one happened during the 1480s DR]]). She is also mentioned as a currently active deity in Ed Greenwood's novels ''Spellstorm'' and ''Death Masks'', and in the ''Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide''.

* EvilVirtues: Vhaeraun advocates for equality between male and female drow and desires to weld them into a united people, rather than a squabbling gaggle of rival houses, clans, and aims.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: One would think somebody whose goal is to liberate a whole race from a crazy tyrannical goddess would have more redeeming qualities. But no, he's quite a bastard; for one, he wants to enslave every non-drow race and conquer anyone who opposes him. Still, he isn't ''as'' bad as Lolth.

* VillainHasAPoint: Women make up less than one percent of his clergy, but it's ''still'' less gender-exclusive than his Chaotic Good sister's LadyLand. It's not surprising he has more appeal to the disgruntled male drow seeking escape from the Dark Dancer. Although this is minor case of DependingOnTheWriter, as some sources describe Eilistraee clergy as not so gender-exclusive, and in 5th edition (as of the 1490s DR), Eilistraee's clergy is open to both genders.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Ilsensine's proxy Lugribossk is named and modeled after the deity of the same name from the Astromundi Cluster in the Spelljammer setting. While this could be taken to mean Lugribossk was retconned into being part of Ilsensine, the text for Astromundi Cluster doesn't support the idea, as Lugribossk is attributed with feats far beyond what a proxy would be capable of. Thus, the question of whether the two are one and the same is left in the air

* EldritchLocation: The Caverns of Thought echoe with stray thoughts that are inaudible but nevertheless clear to any sentient mind. Most of these thoughts are so horrible that creatures lingering too long near the caverns are quickly driven mad.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Lolth encourages cruelty and ChronicBackstabbingDisorder levels of treachery on the grounds of SocialDarwinism. But whenever such behavior proves to be a ''terrible'' foundation for a society, she'll rein her followers in until they're stable enough to start backstabbing each other again. It's said that she raises her followers to do one thing, then openly punishes them for doing what they were raised to do. It's one of the many reasons that [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating nobody actually likes Lolth]], since it's impossible to know where you stand with her if you're a drow.

* StupidEvil: In case you're wondering where the Drow got their own lessons in moronic behaviour from, look no further. While very competent at what she does, Lolth has a tendency to foil her own schemes simply because she chose that moment to indulge in her double-crossing bloodlust to the point of blatant stupidity. She's been described as this in-universe, and it's the reason why her schemes generally don't go as far as she wants them to. Lolth is AxCrazy and has ChronicBackstabbingDisorder something awful, which means that it's impossible to trust her. Any plans she makes might be abandoned on a whim simply because it indulges in her bloodlust or need to inflict pain and suffering on people, if only just for a moment. She's burned every bridge she's ever walked on with other gods (including her own offspring, who are actively trying to bring Lolth down thanks to the aforesaid tendency of betrayal). She has [[TheSociopath no empathy or compassion whatsoever]], and is such a monstrous sadist that she would find wrecking everything out of spite to be a perfectly rational idea. And the only people who worship Lolth do so out of fear rather than genuine love. Lolth's goals of sowing as much chaos and anarchy as possible, as well as basing a society on [[TheSocialDarwinist intentionally culling the weaker members of it]], mean that her cities in the Underdark are always just a stone's throw away from falling apart due to enforcing betrayal and scheming among everyone there. Combine all this together, and you have a god that is seen by most non-drow races as a violent psyhco, at best.

* StupidEvil: In case you're wondering where the Drow got their own lessons in moronic behaviour from, look no further. While very competent at what she does, Lolth has a tendency to foil her own schemes simply because she chose that moment to indulge in her double-crossing bloodlust to the point of blatant stupidity.

* DarkIsEvil: The most influent dark-skinned elven deity is a ChaoticEvil monster who encourages her followers to be just as bad as she is.

* SmallStepsHero: She believes that [[GoodSamaritan the drow on the surface doing small acts of good will spread their reputation far and wide]], thus making them more accepted among the Forgotten Realms and eventually regaining their rightful place on the surface. However, Eilistraee openly admits that this is an uphill battle.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She's the only Good-aligned deity in the drow pantheon. She was offered a chance to stay in the Seldarine after Lolth's betrayal was uncovered, but [[AFatherToHisMen Eilistraee chose to leave anyway to give the drow a guide and a beacon of hope in the darkness]]. Eilistraee's father Corellon, the leader of the Seldarine, was sad to see her go but admired her conviction and ultimately accepted her decision. Whether Eilistraee eventually rejoined the Seldarine or has remained in self-imposed exile is unclear -- the moving of her divine realm from Ysgard to Arvandor suggests she might have been brought back into the Seldarine, since that's where every other ChaoticGood elven god resides -- but nothing's been confirmed. In any case, she's definitely on friendly terms with rest of the Good-aligned elven pantheon.[[invoked]]

* SpiderPeople: One of her most common forms she takes is a centaur-esque creature with the upper body of a Drow and a huge abdomen and legs of a spider, referred to as a Drider. Lolth's Drow worshipers who failed the rite of passage called The Test of Lolth would be transformed into Driders and were considered outcasts in Drow society.

* DropTheHammer: Laduguer wields ''Grimhammer'', a war hammer that engenders hopelessness on any successful hit.