Blibdoolpoolp

Blibdoolpoolp, also known as the Sea Mother, was the primary deity worshiped by the kuo-toa. Her symbol was a lobster head or a black pearl.

Description
Blibdoolpoolp usually took the form of a nude human female, with a lobster's head and claws. Other depictions portrayed a crayfish's head and claws and an articulated shell covering her shoulders. Those forced to look deeply into her eyes at close range could be driven to insanity.

Personality
Blibdoolpoolp was a deity filled with hatred for the pain her kuo-toa children suffered at the hands of many races. A special enmity was held for surface-dwelling races, illithids and drow. Humans and particularly elves were spited for the initial driving of her children to the Underdark, while mind flayers and drow were seen as competitors for the little territory her followers had left. Except for sea elves, her hatred for sea dwellers was relatively minor. The Sea Mother was irrational and prone to unpredictable mood swings and fickle changes in behavior. Her paranoia and shifting moods made her highly secretive, shunning contact with most other deities. Despite believing herself to hold deeply fundamental magical secrets related to the nature of the universe, she hoarded those secrets to herself, making them impossible to check. She would keep up the delusion that the kuo-toa were still a mighty and renowned empire by surrounding her realm with primitive crustaceans to convince herself that neither she nor her people's power had diminished. Pearls were highly treasured by the Sea Mother and were twice as valuable as normal gemstones and precious metals in gaining her favor.

Abilities
The Drowning Goddess manifested herself primarily as a spellcaster. She had access to numerous spells in the way of summoning magic and elemental control of water, although she was lacking in control of fire. Like her kuo-toa patrons, she was hard to poison or paralyze by any conventional methods and she was immune to all water magic. Her eyes were powerful, capable of piercing mid-tier illusions and driving those who looked into them insane. She could grab opponents with her claws and force them to look into her eyes. In addition, she could create a symbol of insanity every day to drive her foes to madness. She was also capable of summoning waves of giant crustaceans to do her bidding for a short amount of time, as well as huge water elementals that remained in her service for up to 4 hours each day.

Blibdoolpoolp's powers also extended to the empowerment of favored kuo-toa. The Whip of Whips could mark a single kuo-toa egg in a settlement as exalted, destining them for greatness by granting them extraordinary physical and divine power. She could also empower preexisting whips or monitors that she particularly favored with incredible power, causing them to grow to titanic size and become kuo-toa leviathans. She could bestow upon her faithful the unique spell touch of Blibdoolpoolp, which gave the caster the ability to turn his or her hand into a large lobster-like claw. She provided those in her service with the ability to speak the kuo-toa language.

Possessions
Blibdoolpoolp once possessed a magical necklace that was capable of generating pearls with an assortment of magical properties. A number of new pearls could be made each week, with effects lasting approximately one month. This necklace was stolen by the goddess Diancastra. She also possessed a ring of human influence and a wand of fear.

Divine Realm
According to the Great Wheel cosmology, Blibdoolpoolp's realm was known as the Murky Depths, located in the Elemental Plane of Water. The realm's waters churned and swirled based on her emotional state. Visitors to her realm who could not breathe underwater were granted that ability by the deity herself, a boon which also put them immediately in her debt.

In the World Tree cosmology, Blibdoolpoolp's realm was located in the Fated Depths, in an enormous, spherical temple resembling the moon that drifted through its fiendish waters. It was home to fiendish crustaceans and her kuo-toa petitioners and servants.

Activities
The Sea Mother spent most of the time brooding about her chosen race, while plotting her revenge against those who drove them from the surface. She was known for sending avatars to attend large-scale sacrificial rituals conducted by her priests, in which many humanoids were drowned. She also spent some time holding court for visitors, who made offerings in exchange for small favors from the goddess. Simply visiting the Sea Mother required an offering of exuberant amounts of gold and gems in the tens of thousands of gold pieces, although the price was lessened if paid in pearls. Those who did not bring an offering to her domain were then commanded via a geas spell to later return and either bring the offering amount or a number of drow as sacrifices. Affected individuals were also forbidden from directly or indirectly harming the kuo-toa until they did so. She did not send omens to the kuo-toa as warnings or assistance, but simply to communicate her pleasure or displeasure, which could be somewhat random due to her unstable state of mind.

Relationships
Blibdoolpoolp avoided contact with most other deities. However, she was on relatively friendly terms with ixzan deity Ilxendren. Blibdoolpoolp hated the drow, but would not directly opposed them. Instead, she compelled those of other races to bring drow to her as sacrifices when an opportunity arose.

Worshipers
Blibdoolpoolp's only worshipers were the kuo-toa, whose priests ran most of their civilization. Her kuo-toa priests kept large black pearls and giant crustaceans in their temples, looking for changes in the pearls' coloration or the animals' activity that indicated favorable omens. The priests collaborated across different settlements to ensure their defense, and were mandated to immediately drive away any illithid settlers found close to their homes.

Lobsters were one of Blibdoolpoolp's preferred offerings and were regularly sacrificed to her. As a scavenger goddess, she also appreciated offerings of personal objects that were discarded and later recovered. Regurgitation at her feet was seen as a sincere show of faith, practiced regularly by her more devout followers.

The most commonly held ceremonies to Blibdoolpoolp involved the drowning of humanoids. Worshipers requested favors from the goddess by offering copious amounts of gems and pearls. Larger amounts had a better chance of winning the Sea Mother's favor, so an offering of about 100,000 gold pieces worth of gems (or 50,000 gold pieces worth of pearls) would be considered adequate.

History
After the kuo-toa were forced from the surface, driven to near extinction as well as madness, they gained the ability to cause supernatural happenings from their belief, the most prolific of whom was Blibdoolpoolp. Initially created when a mad kuo-toa deemed a modification to a human statue a goddess, the Sea Mother quickly rose to prominence due to her ruthless kuo-toan whips. From there she would soon embody what the kuo-toa needed most; a protector from the many threats that plagued them since long ago.

At one point, the young demigoddess Diancastra snuck into her lair disguised as a kuo-toa before stealing a magical necklace.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Out of the Abyss