Draegloth

Draegloths were half-demon, half-drow monstrosities. They are created by the "unholy union" of a glabrezu and a newly-ordained high priestess of the drow goddess Lolth.

Description
Draegloths came in several different forms, differentiated by a combination of gender and the species of their mother. The most common were male draegloths born to drow mothers; less common were female draegloths of drow heritage, who were known as "Favored Ones". Rarest still were draegloths born to drider mothers, who were known as "Abominations"; these were not gender differentiated, but did have distinct appearances.

Male draegloths were 7.5 to 8 feet tall. They had four arms: large claws on the upper arms and humanoid hands on the lower arms. Their faces were stretched so that they resembled that of a dog. Their flesh was as black and covered in a fine coat of white fur. They had a yellow-whitish mane of hair on their head.

Female draegloths were as tall as their brothers, but favored their drow ancestry; they looked mostly like a female drow, save for having two pairs of drow-like arms and a distinctly lupine cast to their features. Their fingernails and toenails were sharp and clawlike, but not so large as to interfere with spellcasting or delicate work.

Draegloth Abominations were the most bestial-looking of the draegloths. Their features included wicked claws, spiderlike legs, and gnashing teeth. They had the ability to secrete webbing, which they used to tether foes and pull them into close quarters to be torn apart.

Draegloths were immune to poisons, as well as sleep-inducing spells and effects, and they are resistant to most elemental energy.

Combat
Male draegloths use their upper arms for hand-to-hand combat, delighting in the carnage and death they can cause in melee. As such, they wade into battle without fear, and hold little consideration for tactics; though not unintelligent, Draegloths are impatient when it comes to slaughtering their prey.

Female draegloths are more cunning and intelligent than their brothers, but no less bloodthirsty. Trained from birth in the clerical arts, they typically stay at the rear of combat, relying on drow and spider underlings to keep their foes at bay whilst they make use of ranged spellcraft to battle them. If forced into melee combat, they can still rend foes apart with their claws and strength.

Draegloth abominations combine draegloth ferocity, drider cunning, and greater savagery than either of their parents. They are characterized as patient hunters, who stalk prey from the shadows and then ambush it at the most opportune moment, using their webbing to drag foes from afar into close-quarters, so they can rip them to shreds. They possess the ability to create a cloud of maddening darkness, and to reflexively combine the releasing of this cloud with teleportation when in danger, although neither ability can be used with great frequency.

Society
Draegloths are often seen as a sign of favour from Lolth. They are sacred creatures to the Lolthites and are usually treated with respect. Draegloths are perhaps the only variety of half-fiend that are created regularly and intentionally by a mortal race.

Female draegloths, due to their rarity, their greater intelligence, and their gender, are regarded with much more favor than their male counterparts in drow society, as evidenced by their title of "Favored Ones". Female draegloths are always adopted by the Church of Lolth and brought up as clerics to the Spider Goddess.

Draegloth abominations have no society. They are uncontrollable monsters, so crazed for blood that even drow society cannot tolerate them in its midst. Consequently, the usual practice is that soon after an abomination is born, the draegloth is ceremonially gifted to Lolth by being sent through through a portal to the Demonweb Pits, where it becomes one of the many fiendish predators roaming that plane. When this does not happen, the abomination invariably brings ruin to its mother and all drow around it.

History
During the Silence of Lolth, some draegloths, formerly unquestionably loyal to the matriarchs, went off on their own, abandoning or even betraying their mothers and demanding equal status.

Notable draegloths

 * Jeggred Baenre : Son of Triel Baenre of Menzoberranzan.

Novels

 * Dissolution
 * Insurrection
 * Condemnation
 * Extinction
 * Annihilation
 * Resurrection