>>5415926>>5415976>>5416051>>5416061>>5416418>>5416785With your copy of Demihuman Deities in hand, you find a bench in a city square and seat yourself. Where you are from, entering such open spaces carries the risk of being hunted by nobles for sport, captured by slavers to be sold off, or accosted by priestesses and sacrificed to Lolth. However much the sunlight roasts your eyes and irritates your skin, it is an undeniable fact that its radiance makes it prohibitively difficult for any would-be assailants to conceal themselves in the usual places, a welcome deviation from the norm.
Thumbing through the pages, you take 'demihuman' to mean 'non-human,' as the powers referenced in this work are arranged by pantheon, each specifically relevant to a certain race. Dwarves, gnomes, elves... even a section dedicated to the full 'Drow Pantheon.' The choice of diction makes it painfully obvious that human hands penned these words - you will simply have to trust that the authors did their research, then. Here you find sections dedicated to Ghaunadaur, the Elder Eye, and even Vhaerun, the Masked Lord. For good reason, Lolth's chapter is the largest, and... right here, information about Eilistraee.
Eilistraee (pronounced Eel-iss-TRAY-yee), known also as the Dark Maiden, the Lady of Dance, and Lady Silverhair, is the goddess of those drow who wish to return to the surface world, to inhabit the woodlands they left behind so long ago. Being the daughter of Corellon and Araushnee (who would later become Lolth), her portfolio includes song, dance, swordwork, and hunting. The book describes her personality as melancholy and moody, with a great love of peace, though wickedness stokes a burning anger in her soul.
