LLOTH AND CORELLON LARETHIAN
Back in the midst of time when she was known as Araushnee, Lloth was consort to Corellon Larethian. She bore him a son, Vhaerun, and a daughter Eilistraee. Corellon Larethian is head of the Elven pantheon of gods known as the Seldarine and made Araushnee goddess of the Ssri-Tel’Quessir (Dark Elves). Araushee favoured the Dark Elves above all else and she became their Weaver of Destiny.
But Corellon Larethian was a jealous god and soon resented the worship the Dark Elves bestowed upon Araushnee. By cruel subterfuge Corellon Larethian banished Araushee to the Abyss, stripped her of her divinity, transformed her into spider form and renamed her Lloth.
Many millennia passed in the Abyss and fuelled by her desire for vengeance and her existence with the Tanar’ri (the dominate race of demons in the Abyss), Lloth began to regain her divine powers. When the Crown Wars erupted, Lloth seized her opportunity by appearing to the Dark Elves and enabled them to wreck terrible vengeance over all the Elven Empires. Lloth had returned, stronger than ever.
Lloth then withdrew her followers, the Ilythiiri, to the realm of the Underdark where she demands complete obedience. With the philosophy of only the strongest will survive she began to hone a race that would be supreme to all races.