Editing Keptolo (section)

==Keptolo vs. Selvetarm==
As mentioned above, Keptolo only appears in a single source, and is technically unique to the [[Greyhawk]] version of the [[Drow]] pantheon; in the [[Forgotten Realms]], his role is instead filled by [[Selvetarm]], a very different deity indeed.

One way to reconcile the two, though, is that Lolth keeps two boytoys at the same time, and the two represent the different paths a "behaving" drow male can follow; Selvetarm is the destructive, vicious minion who serves his mistress as an instrument of bloody death, whilst Keptolo is the suave, seductive charmer who serves his mistress in the bedroom. After all, given who [[Lolth]] is, the idea that she keeps one "husband" around for his skill at killing things and the other one around because he's good in bed isn't exactly a stretch.

This reconciliation actually became more or less canon in 5th edition's "Tome of Foes" [[splatbook]]: Keptolo is Lolth's consort, "more than a plaything, but much less than an equal", whilst Selvetarm is Lolth's champion - he fights on her behalf, but she keeps him bound in magically unbreakable webbing until she needs him to bust some heads, implying she actually fears his rage.

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