Editing Lolth (section)

==Rules==
Lolth has a social Darwinist streak a mile wide -- her rules for the drow are basically:
:# The strong should rule over the weak.
:# There are no other rules.

...There are actually plenty of other 'rules', but Lolth tends to overlook transgressions, so long as the transgressor is not caught and revealed by someone other than Lolth.  Such a rule-breaker will be swiftly and mercilessly punished, for being stupid enough to be caught and too weak to kill or otherwise silence the spotter.

A fiendishly clever back-stabbing is a good way to earn her favor, though getting stabbed in the back by someone else is a good way to lose it just as quickly.  Lolth demands results, and she is not fond of failure. Despite this there is at least one instance when she helped out someone who got stabbed in the back. This was Jaggedra Thul, a half dragon who was slain by her vampire mate for a powerful magic item. It is also worth noting that if a drow or group of drow are destructive enough to drow society, probably through the very behavior she encourages, she engineers said group's (or individual's) fall (be it death, eliminated by the priesthood, transformation into a [[drider]], etc...). Lolth is usually kind enough to send a cease and desist visions to the culprit and gives him/her a chance to stop first, but sometimes she isn't in the mood to. It is this obsessive micromanaging that has explicitly prevented drow society from obliterating itself within a handful of generations (See [[Silence of Lolth]].)