#The other part of drow culture is drowning yourself in hedonism and fucking a lot to drown out the living hell of your life

[y-rhywbeth2]

Things Lolthite dogma demands at least one death for:

Praying to her

Not worshipping Lolth

Not following her dogma faithfully enough

Following her dogma to the letter

Daring to question a single word of dogma or the command of a priestess

Loving somebody

Killing or harming spiders

Being born amab when your parents already have two of those.

Existing whenever the whim takes Lolth and she decides it'd be funny to see you get murdered. Like, she spins a wheel and the options are stuff like "make into chosen", "kill", "turn into a drider". What are you going to get? Who knows!

She basically just wants to watch the Hunger Games 24/7.

"The Spider Queen is the subject of terrifying legend among most surface dwellers and seen as virtually synonymous with the greatly feared drow. In the Underdark, she is a well-known evil, hated for the cruel power of her priests by dwarves, svirfneblin, and other races. Few elves are even willing to dis- cuss their deep-dwelling kin, let alone the dark goddess who is blamed in large part for their depravity and for leading them into evil. Only the dark elven priests of Eilistraee are even willing to discuss the Spider Queen, and their fury at her enslavement of their kin exceeds even that of the other elven subraces. Lolth is hated and feared even by her most devout priests; they vener- ate her for the power she provides, not out of any sense of affection or loyalty or principles."

If you're making this shit legal, you have no grounds to be complaining about Bhaal.

But Baldur's Gate prides itself on its tolerance of everyone and everything, so they allow both of them and just tell them to keep the murders directed at people who are easy to sweep under the rug!

Between this and how insanely entrenched and empowered the police force is, nobody should be surprised that Gortash managed to take over and start installing a police state: you handed the city over to Bane on a silver plater.