Keptolo

Keptolo (pronounced: kep-toe-low) was the male drow deity of beauty, hedonism, flattery, intoxication, rumor and opportunism; as well as Lolth's consort. His symbol was a stylized mushroom, which in drow culture is associated with both strong drink and fertility.

Manifestations
Keptolo was the drow male ideal could become: elegant, quickwitted, attentive, eagerly debauched, and after sought as a lover. He normally appeared as a young nobleman dressed in well-tailored silks of red, purple, jet, and amber. He was armed with a thin but sturdy poinard and a filigreed longsword. He affected a twohanded fighting style, using both weapons at once.

Otherwise he appeared dressed for the hunt, velvet-cloaked and armed with a magnificent crossbow. He was also seem as dangerous in his aspects as a subtle assassin and a whisperer of rumors.

Worshipers
For his attributes, he was worshiped by ambitious males who hoped to emulate him. Some succeeded admirably and achieve great things beyond the reach of most males, but many more succumbed to excesses of the flesh, dissipation, and disease, or they were ruined or murdered by a rival — who was also a true disciple of Keptolo.

Shrines to Keptolo were found throughout the underdark, for many male drow worship him as their patron, mostly due to his association with drinking. Tales of his sexual exploits are quite popular, and there were groups of performers who act them out for festivals and private gatherings. His greatest temple was in the drow city of Erelhei-Cinlu, but only his most attractive or wealthy worshipers were permitted to participate in services there.

Clergy
Clerics of Keptolo were found as advisors, critics, philosophers, and politicians: essentially, any role that did not require actual work. They seeked to emulate their deity in all ways, and as such number among the most handsome and charming of the drow race. However, followers of Keptolo remained very dangerous, for many of them were skilled dirksmen, poisoners, or spies.

Utterly capricious and completely untrustworthy (even by drow standards), worshipers of the Eager Consort were deferential to priestesses of Lolth and attentive to the matrons of the powerful noble houses. In other relationships, they were manipulative and abusive, particularly with fellow clerics lower in the hierarchy.

Dark Seldarine
His relationship with other drow deities was one of insincere amity, save for Zinzerena, whom he openly despised for gaining a fraction of his power by a ruse after sponsoring her to divinity. He also servers as a consort to Lolth, more as a plaything than as an equal.

History
Keptolo was born from the blood that Corellon Larethian shed on his battles against Gruumsh as a primal elf, and given a name by Corellon himself.

Dogma
"Keptolo shows the way. Feed the vanity of your mistress, and all her treasures shall be yours. Be careful whom you offend, and keep an expendable companion nearby to hold culpable for your crimes. Gossip can be as deadly as the venom on an assassin's blade. Use the poison of words to destroy your rivals, that you may claim for yourself all they once presumed was theirs. "

- Tezzeryn, Head Consort of House Bhaerynden, instructing his son.