Test of Lolth

The Test of Lolth was a ritual of passage to which drow who reached a sufficient degree of power and were followers of Lolth were subjected to.

Background
Lolth urged her drow to work and fight against each other and she wanted to determine whether her followers were worthy&mdash; in this case loyal and strong &mdash;enough to be supported by her. The method by which these two points were unified was the Test of Lolth to which she subjected drow who grew to a certain degree of power that could count as exceptional.

Content
As mentioned above, the Test of Lolth existed to determine loyalty and strength of a given drow. The strength part was fulfilled by the test being essentially a battle to the death between the test subject and another&mdash; a bit stronger &mdash; person. The loyalty part was fulfilled by Lolth relaying a false message to the other combatant, who was someone close to the test subject like friend, family, or ally, was chosen for some favor of the Spider Queen if he or she would kill the test subject. If no suitable person existed, a cleric of Lolth who was not particularly devout was chosen.

Result
There were several possible outcomes for this test and each had a different effect. In this successful scenario, the test subject could take anything from the defeated foe's corpse and was empowered for a month. In this scenario, the test subject's soul was drained by Lolth. In any scenario, where the subject did not win and/or kill the enemy, resulted in the test subject being turned into a drider.
 * The subject wins and kills the enemy
 * The subject dies
 * Any other scenario

The enemy could be rewarded with a similar power boost if he or she won, but it could also happen that the enemy suffered a memory loss regarding the entire event, or Lolth might shop him or her for the murder which usually resulted in the execution of the shopped for open murder, or to be more precise being discovered for murder, was a crime in drow society.