While the Spider Queen's "sudden descent" upon Water-Drawing City set the nerves of everyone across the Northlands on edge, far away in the Abyssal Weave on the sixty-sixth layer of the Bottomless Abyss, undercurrents had also begun to stir because of Lolth's "slumber."
At this very moment, the Dark Maiden Eilistraee, who was within the Abyssal Weave, had fallen into unprecedented hesitation and struggle.
"My goddess! Please grant us your decree! No matter what decision you make!"
The speaker was Qilue, who had once crossed paths with Li Wei and bore the title [Stroll of the Dark Maiden].
After Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, had fallen, this Drow elf—Chosen of both the Goddess of Magic and the Dark Maiden—had come to the Bottomless Abyss. Heartbroken and utterly disheartened, the Dark Maiden's maiden had devoted herself wholeheartedly to remaining at Eilistraee's side.
She had already lost Mystra. She did not want to lose another gentle and kind goddess.
Yet things went against her wishes. She knew that her goddess Eilistraee had always held grave disagreements with her mother, Lolth. It was only because Eilistraee wished to redeem more Drow that she had continually chosen to endure under Lolth's banner.
What made Qilue even more uneasy was that, with Lolth's scheming and depth of calculation, there was no way she could have failed to know her daughter's thoughts. Yet because Eilistraee had never openly defied Lolth, the two had maintained a surface peace all this time. Lolth had even specifically carved out a region of the Abyssal Weave for Eilistraee's use.
This was also why Eilistraee was the only one in Coriel to possess a domain of her Divine Kingdom in both Arvandor—the Divine Kingdom of the elven gods—and the Abyssal Weave.
Qilue could see it clearly: Lolth greatly enjoyed watching her