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Llith is the blessed of Llolth. The Lady whispers to me, when I eat the mushrooms. She guides me to the mushrooms and whispers to me. She guides me to the heretics and I kill them for the Lady. They are to be beaten, flayed, tortured and killed, and the Lady helps me. The heretic must die. The non-believers must die. All who do not believe in the lady must die.

Llith is mad, yes, but with madness comes strength and divinity. The Lady blesses me. She scars me, so that I might bear her marks. She drives me to scar myself, such that I might share her pleasure in inflicting pain. All will bear her mark, come the dying day.

Llith is a fanatic, similar in many ways to a paladin for less wholesome deities. Her weapons vary, but she uses them with very little strategy. In fact her tactics mainly depend upon her drug-and-faith fuelled immunity to pain and hysterical strength when she works herself into a killing frenzy. In such a state she is a whirling mass of blades, teeth, nails, rocks, arms, legs, and anything else she might set hands upon. The arms and legs are not necessarily her own.

Until the killing frenzy subsides and the drugs wear off she is quite capable of tearing apart fully armoured opponents. Unfortunately doing so will often leave her near-death through massive over-exertion.

When not in a killing frenzy she tends to make oracular predictions, both cryptic and prophetic. Sometimes they are accurate, and a minor reputation has been established for her in the lower slums of the city in which she resides.

In spite of, or possibly because of, her madness Llith is very close to Llolth and a very powerful cleric. Were she not of such a chaotic mind she might even carry a threat against many of the elder priestesses. The idea of thinking in a tactical way to try and destabilize the church is beyond her however, and she is quite happy to server her Goddess in the crumbling slums of the city.

Llith's body is a mass of old scars, and often fresh wounds, covered in places by a patchwork of rags and webbing sewn by the swarm of tiny spiders which constantly crawl about her skin, weaving webs over the wounds she suffers and healing her through the blessings of Llolth. The only piece of genuine clothing she always wears are two leather bandoleers, covered with pouches and worn across her chest. These contain her symbols of devotion, and her precious mushrooms. Her age is indeterminate, mainly due to the constant work of the spiders upon her body and the ravages she has been through. She is certainly more worn in appearance than the average drow, and none would describe her as attractive except those who have taken her potions.

Any might approach Llith for prophesy, but those who she does not consider to be devoted followers of Llolth would be advised against this, as she will commonly descend into one of her killing frenzies upon sight of them. Her one goal in life is to serve the Spider Queen, no matter what it may cost herself. Those who are considered to be of appropriate faith may approach, and will be given whatever aid or prophesy Llith can manage - often accompanied by the mushroom liquor which she mixes herself. Taking the liquor is wise only since it avoids offending Llith, as the mixture is heavily toxic (though not lethal, and tolerance can be built to its effects) and highly hallucinogenic.

Combat - for those in any doubt, Llith's approach to combat is to run at it kicking, screaming, and swinging whatever comes to hand. Since she only ever fights in a rage, and the spider swarm both heal her and attack any within reach, she is surprisingly effective. She is not by any means unbeatable however, and the only reason she has survived this long is that even the most hardened opponent will pause when an enraged, hideous, mad, drugged, screaming, scarred, spider-covered hag comes charging towards them with murder in their eyes, a rock in one hand, and a butcher's knife in the other. That pause is all that is needed to let Llith get within reach, and by then it is too late.

As said she is also a very powerful cleric, and has the ability to cast most spells under Llolth's domains.

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Yay for psychotic fanatics! makes me kinda miss Maouvu(sp?)