PS: It really hurt to see an all-Chinese roster captured by the Koreans, but it's fine. My all-Chinese, three-crown TES will return as kings in the summer split! Believe in Tian first!
Aaron had devised countless contingency plans to deal with Lolth. If even one succeeded, it could deal a devastating blow to her plans.
Through Nastya's memories, Aaron had learned Lolth's plan in advance.
Lolth planned to split her soul into eight parts, each of which would devour the power of another deity or Elder Evil to create an avatar. Then she would merge all eight avatars into one and become a greater deity.
It was an utterly deranged plan, which explained why so many gods suspected that Lolth had already gone completely mad. Her apparent reason merely camouflaged her insanity.
But mad though Lolth was, she was no fool. Ascending to a greater deity required her to devour seven avatars with divine ranks besides her own, and her preparations were meticulous. Beyond the six gods of the Underdark, she had prepared an abundance of alternatives: gods of hobgoblins, bugbears, derro, duergar, and more. Lolth welcomed them all, arranging over a dozen potential divine avatars to ensure that she could create enough giant black widow spiders under any circumstances.
She had even accounted for Aaron trying to stop her by besieging Menzoberranzan with an army of a hundred thousand.
Moreover, Lolth held such crucial domains as chaos, the Abyss, and the Underdark. Unlike certain good or lawful deities, she could easily absorb any god whose domains touched upon those areas.
It was ascension through sheer redundancy.
Crucially, Lolth was different from Bane, whom Aaron had fought before. This chaotic, deranged mother spider might abruptly change her plans for any trivial or even inexplicable reason. She already had plenty of