The Church of Lolth - Forgotten Realms Lore
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Today we venture into the hallowed halls of Melee Magthere to hear about the Church of Lolth. Let the Judicatory Dex teach you about his goddess and all the great things you can do for her.
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Sad to see this channel so inactive, when it's so informative :(
I know right ! And I miss that intro music…
I really love how you speak as a Drow male speaking to other Drow males. I would love to see more videos like this.
Glad to see someone picked up on this 😊 - We had a talk between all the creators and defined some core rules around what a Faerun History video should be. We always had the idea that the speaker should be a character, telling the story, but after some investigation into storytelling technics, especially verbal storytelling like we do, we were lacking audience as part of our script.
We always viewed you guys as our audience, but we now have a rule around writing scripts asking, “Who is the speaker, and who is he speaking to?” and both answers need to be in-world, not out of character.
i know Im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a trick to get back into an instagram account..?
I somehow forgot the login password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me
@Bruce Aries instablaster ;)
As I suspected... A completely accurate and very useful look into the fascinating world of the Underdark and Lolthian lore. As usual excellent work. :-)
Our channel seems to be very fascinated with Underdark creatures. Not sure what is says about us :)
The Underdark is so much more interesting than anything on the surface. Most from the surface world have no conception of all the marvelous things going on in the Underdark far underneath their feet.
And people ask me why I'm a Tiefling...
One of my favorite subjects. Love the Abyssal denizens. Especially the 666th layer and any demoness that ascends to godhood. It's pretty awesome
So you've got the hierarchy wrong here. There are 8 great houses in Menzoberranzan and each is ruled by a matron mother. These great houses are ranked within the city by the standing armies they are able to field as well as their favor with Lolth, and their deeds in recent memory. Each has her "progeny" although this does not imply direct parentage as the drow prefer to reproduce in large orgies. The 9th, unofficial house of Bregan D'aerthe serves as a spy and mercenary network who will broker information and aid to those they wish to empower within the city or those who pay the best. Each matron mother has a number of daughters who are all priests of Lolth. They vie for the chance at eventual succession of the matron mother, often through violent insurrection. While there is a stratification of rank in the daughters of a matron mother, they are considered 2nd, 3rd, 4th and so on after the matron mother until we come to the highest ranking of the males - the blademaster. This individual is the highest ranking male, and is responsible for training and leading the loyal garrison of the great house. Merchants and commoners make up the lowest ranks under soldiers of the garrison, and gender matters little this low in drow society. After all they are one step above slaves.
Cool, we are playing a drow campain at Menzoberrazan, these vídeos are the better tool for me to make my players understand some strange social "rules".
Thanks for the hard work, hope you make some more videos about drow stuff.
More drow stuff in upcoming videos. Glad to see this be used for its intended purpose :)
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory I love Menzoberranzan and all but there is a lot more drow cities out there ! Would like to hear about those too!
@@kalsaari4670 Although of course The Forgotten Realms Menzoberranzan city of Drow is the best known thanks to the R.A.Salvatore books, the Drow in D&D started in Greyhawk.
Eclavdra is a priestess of Lolth, the leader of House Eilservs and a native of the Drow city of Erelhei-Cinlu.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greyhawk_characters#E
If you would like to learn more I suggest you read the old G1, G2 and G3 modules, followed by the D1 and D2 and then Q1. Or the 'supermodule' GDQ1-7 (Queen of the Spiders)
Awesome, just as I'm setting up following the lmop module with an underdark campaign.
Incredible work, as always. Thank you so much!
Thank you, glad to see it being used for intended purpose.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory do you have any plans for a video on helm's deep by chance?
Excellent video.
I will soon be starting an old-school D&D campaign (2nd edition with some AD&D, Unearthed Arcana rules). The plan is to (eventually) get them into the 'Against the Giants' series and then on into the underdark. Eventually our poor fools will go to the Demonweb pit and perhaps against Lolth herself, if we live that long.
This will be set in a Greyhawk campaign however.
Soooo? Did they make it all the way to the Demonweb Pit?
@@manfrommaine Sadly, no. I brought them through Keep on the Borderlands and then Corona kept us from getting together for games night, I said "Who's gonna know?" And "Are the cops gonna come and arrest us?" But they still wanted to wait.
We just recently started gaming again but they wanted to do something different so we started a Marvel Super Hero's campaign instead. We've only played once and skipped out twice due to people having other commitments.
Lolth, not where my heart lies I hear the song of the Dark maiden. Yet it is useful to know about my underdark kin.
I really enjoyed the passion that the narrator evoked in this video good work.
This is one of the videos I’ve been excited to see y’all do.....awesome job please finish and the other members of the Dark Seldarin that were in MToF please you guys do excellent jobs of keep it up🕸🕸🕷🕷👍🏼👍🏼💯
More Dark Seldarin in the works. Selvetarm should be up next.
Very nice, well made and informative. As expected.
Thank you.
From the point of view of a male.....unexpected but interesting.
We have been doing this with a lot of our Drow videos, really comes down to our voice actor supply.
He sounds so confident lol be careful buddy.
@@thuglyfetorkoal397 Even a blademaster is entirely dispensable. Lest we be reminded of Zechnafine.
I always think this when reading Drow stories, the stories are so male-centric!
Just a small opinion a woman narrator as a priestess of Lolth would have been a cherry on top of this beautiful and wicked video😈🕸🕸🕷🕷👍🏼👍🏼💯
We know, we have been rewriting a lot of our scripts as we lack female vo.
Forgotten Realms History the video was awesome on its own just a little thing I feel could have made this already awesome video perfect👍🏼👍🏼💯🕸🕸🕷🕷
Pay some ho u know a 50 and keep it moving
Love this channel! Excellent work, as usual.
Thank you :)
Quenthal not Quenthes Baenre. You insolence is unforgivable
Quenthel with an "e" actually. Neither is yours!
Eric Simoneau Grammar.
You are only mere males after all.. 🤷
Hey, my guy. Great video. Love the drow and the drider to a lesser extent.
Also, there’s a typo in the description. It says “near” instead of “hear”. Just letting you know.
Updated - thanks :)
The voice sounds a bit too much like the comic book guy from the simpsons to me...
I'm gonna tell you the truth ... the voice actor is a huge nerd.
Oh no. I didn't notice it till I read this comment. lol
This is going to be awesome!
This fantasy franchise is so cool, I want some of their books, the art of the Drow city is gothicly beautiful and creepy, not a place you want to be.
If you hate spiders, you'll never wanna visit their city. Ever.
I love this. You really do get into the characters
Wow, everything is cool and all, but i got really curious about those detecting rebellion tactics you mentioned and the end XD.
Love it as always you guys are fan fucking tastic!
Thank you :)
Oloth plynn d'jall, kivvin!
Lolth tlu malla!
Loth reminds me of Luther like concept, fall from Grace, also includes her kids and conspirators too
Where did you draw your quintas knowledge. Last I read ,, triel was matron mother, and Yvonnel reborn was trying to adventure with drizzt.
He also calls her Quenthis instead of Quenthal
Yvonnel was not reborn, but her mind absorb by a illithid, who transferred it into Quenthals mind, forming a symbiosis - She still rules Menzoberranzan as far as I can see from my stats (Out of the Abyss seems to have the latest info I can find)
Quenthal Baenre rules Menzoberranzan as of the novel Archmage. There seems to have been a time jump between the events of the War of the Spider Queen and Archmage because Triel was still Matron at the end of the final novel, Resurrection. Yvonnel had the option to displace Quenthal, but like every other female in the Forgotten Realms, she has a crush on Drizzt and decided to tramp around on the surface with him instead.
No spoilers but you need to read timeless
Lolth tlu malla!
Nice! But I went with Veins of the Earth.
Sounds like my old job.
The Guard, or the Priestess? Either sounds like a horrible experience if you ask me.
Thnx
Lolth. The original goddess of wahmen!
Just say'in.. feminism would be a lot cooler with more sexy half-spider ladies.
It’s pronounced (kwenthell) Quenthel. Her last consonant syllable is an ell sound not an iss sound.
I just finished homeland and wow was it great
"Only the strong deserve to live in freedom." 😵 I like the script, but the voice actor sounds more like a human noble, not a drow. To much snobbish ness and not enough mania. In effect a drow sadist(all drow are sadists) has the privilege of potentially feeding new recruits into the grinder of his darwinion society. He should be over joyed at the idea of all the carnage that will follow.
Fear the priestesses
Drow are the most badass race ever
What awful people.
That's the idea
There are things in the underdark that make drow look like the Sun Elves ;)
Dont visit then.
It's Quenthel not Quenthes
A weapon master and not a Yath?
Originally we wanted a Yathrin or even a yathtallar, but female voice actors is not something we have in large supply :(
👏👏👏👏
Yeah but none of htem are ACTUALLY worshiping Lolth or doing it FOR Lolth, they are doing it for all for personal gain and greed NOT for Lolth or her favor all that is a fasade.
Lmaoth > Lolth
Ya, I was curious to learn more about the drive but I couldn’t listen more than a minute with the way over the top voice.
{ unto Incánusīl}
How’d you make this video?
After Effects and lots of time :)
Is there a version of this but without the cringy voice? Very well done on every part but the very very forced voice acting.
Always tweaking our characters who speak, I don't think we will re-do this one, (like we did on last video) but will take the feedback on going forward.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory I think of drow as having a slight French accent... don't ask why, prolly Jarlaxle in the books.
Odd they worship strength yet thinking nothing of men. Even Lolth was easily beaten by a male god.
Betrayed by her own children, and circumvented by a trifecta of elven gods. - More on this in our video on the Fall of Lolth.
@@ForgottenRealmsHistory Vaheraun did his best, he didnt betray her and Eilistraee was tricked by Loth, she never would have helped her Mother willingly. Araushnee was unable to bring down Corellon with all the cunning she could muster.Excuses don't count, the Spiderqueen would nerver accept any herself.She failed period. She never tryed to confront him directly for she knew that he was far more powerful. Otherwise she just would have crushed him and that would have been the end of it.
As far as I know Corellon is a greater deity, while Araushnee was just a lesser one when she attempted her betrayal.
I suspect that her perceived glaring inferiority in comparison with Corellon is the reason for her misandry.
It is quite the tragedy. I bet Corellon didnt see her as inferior. He must have loved her a damn lot, or else he would never have been so blind to her treachery. He probably just thought that she was beautiful and amazing and would have loved and protected her for all eternity. His strength could have been hers, if she just would have let him.
Whoever wrote this story knew his business well.
@@Lolgram It is indeed a heartbreaking tale. Lolth is believed to have used her powers to make female drow grow larger than males(like female spiders) so that they may more easily dominate the males. Pretty much forcing her ideology on the species as a whole for all eternity.