With Lolth's awakening and the birth of the Penitent Daughter, the Demonweb Pits, which had fallen into deathly silence, soon returned to their previous state: dangerous, chaotic, yet exceptionally lively.
Moreover, the goddess did not pause for even a second before directly inviting the daughter who sought to challenge her to a fight to the death.
In an instant!
A gate formed from an unknown power opened out of thin air, directly linking two utterly different realms.
Lolth and Eilistraee, mother and daughter, stared at each other through the gate.
One represented darkness, evil, and cruelty; the other represented light, mercy, and hope.
Eilistraee stood within a forest, completely naked beneath the moonlight. Her long silver-white hair cascaded like a waterfall all the way to her ankles. Two exquisite yet deadly swords floated in the air at either side of her body, ready to be grasped with a single thought.
The silver blades in particular trembled faintly in the breeze, producing a song like a woman's soft moan.
Any mortal who had seen the Dark Maiden's face would be deeply drawn in by that indescribable beauty, purity, and vitality.
Her moonstone-like, ever-shimmering eyes were like the sharpest sword points, capable of seeing through everything in the world.
By comparison, Lolth sat high upon a black throne forged from some unknown metal. It resembled a spider's abdomen, with eight jointed legs embedded firmly into the ground below. The sky above was filled with blackish-purple smoke, while the screams of tormented souls rang through the heavens without end.
This time, she did not appear in the form of a spider or a half-spider. Instead, she retained the appearance of a female Drow and wore a white robe woven from spider silk.
The nearly transparent cloth seemed to conceal something, yet seemed to