In the early days of shadow-elf society, the Abyssal Sisterhood had used convoluted scriptures and dogma to claim that the Spider Lady hated men and blessed women, and that weak men in her domain ought to serve powerful women.
This line of thinking was quickly accepted and put into practice by the matriarchs of every family.
However, by now, all the absurd tales about the Spider Lady had been disproven. Murphy had seen with his own eyes that ever since the God of Nature had split off one of her aspects, Lolth had been doing everything she could to escape Avalon's influence.
She had devoted all her energy to her "breakup campaign," trying to cut all ties with the God of Nature. She had barely succeeded, even with Murphy's help. Under the circumstances, poor Lolth simply had no time to look after her followers.
Much less would she, as a goddess, personally promote the strange notion that women were superior to men.
It was all the Abyssal Sisterhood's doing. This organization, with its sinister legacy from the "Department of Mysteries," had been "deceiving those above and below" and making a mess of things. As for its platform, it had probably inherited some of the strange, deranged feminist ideas from the Eden District era. There was no doubt that Perona, the occult scholar who had founded the Abyssal Sisterhood, had been one of the "XXNs" of the Golden Age more than a thousand years ago.
The poison she had left behind had shaped the shadow-elf society of today into the sorry state it was in.
However, there was a flaw in doing evil in the name of faith: the Abyssal Sisterhood had to hope that their goddess would remain silent forever.
All their prestige came from the Spider Lady granting them