Demonweb Pits

The terrain itself resembles a scarred crust of dead rock. Across its surface lie craters, pits, and mountainous ridges reminiscent of the pockmarked surface of a long-forgotten moon. The air tastes of rust and ash, and gravity clings inconsistently to surfaces, further disorienting the unwelcome. Overhead, a distant red sun smolders during the day; at night, eight glaring crimson stars form the constellation known to drow as the Eyes of Lolth.   Though nominally Layer 66, the Demonweb Pits have grown apart from the core lattice of the Abyss. Connections to surrounding layers remain, but are increasingly selective and maintained only at Lolth’s discretion. Her realm’s planar threads stretch far, even touching the Material Plane, the Shadowfell, and other Outer Planes where drow culture or heretical cults flourish.   Portals within the Pits are hidden, reactive, and treacherous—some disguised within dreaming webs, others requiring spoken truths or sacrificial offerings to open. Rumors speak of one thread leading directly to the mortal underdark, and another reaching the icy depths of Agathys.    

Notable Locations

Lolth’s Moving Fortress

A vast iron citadel set atop eight arachnid legs, crawling slowly through the abyssal network. The fortress shifts its path at Lolth’s whim, often appearing near conflicts or domains she seeks to consume or manipulate. Its interiors constantly rearrange themselves.  

Plains of Soulfire

A scorched valley lit by flickering soul-flames that do not warm. Walking through it requires the will to continue forward cause of the fear, every hour or suffer hallucinations of one's worst betrayals.  

Mountain of Eyes

A towering, rocky pillar whose flanks are covered in embedded eye-like crystals. These ‘eyes’ occasionally shift or blink, especially when secrets are spoken nearby.  

Pass of the Soulreaver

A wind-scoured gorge at the base of the Mountain of Eyes. Travelers here hear the screaming of fragmented souls on the wind, most of them echoing lost prayers or condemned oaths.  

Thernody

A desolate, bone-littered region once claimed by Kiaransalee. Its ruins still echo with the grief of forgotten vengeance, though her presence has since faded.  

The Ziggurat of Webs

A massive stepped pyramid at the center of the realm, wrapped in thick metaphysical silk. At its summit stands a black dais, where Lolth appears when judging mortal or divine supplicants. A spectral current of drow spirits winds through the Demonweb, pulled by ancestral guilt and spiritual obligation. The river threads through caverns and webs until it reaches Lolth's Iron Ziggurat, where the most devoted souls are judged, and consumed, by the Spider Queen.

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There are Dead Magic Pockets, in forgotten webs and collapsed tunnels.   The deeper realm lies not upon ground but within colossal strands of planar silk that coil through the void, forming endless bridges, hollows, and sanctums. These span across broken craters and stone husks, binding citadels and crumbled domains like insects trapped in amber.  

Inhabitants

The plane is inhabited by spiders (including songspiders) and chwidencha. The Soulreaver dewell in the Pass of the Soulreaver and is a gray spectral form, with a bloated serpentine body containing screaming drow souls.  

Divine Powers

• Lolth claims rulership over all drow gods and domains, asserting herself as the divine weaver of fate and cruelty.
 
• Selvetarm, her consort, remains in her shadow, serving her purposes with fanatical silence. He did not maintain his own realm but acts as Lolth’s living weapon.
 
• Vhaeraun, the masked schemer, once shared territory in secret but eventually established Ellaniath,a hidden sub-realm on Colothys.
 
• Eilistraee, daughter of moonlight and mercy, withdrew from the Demonweb long ago. Though traces of her dance halls once shimmered in the webs, she has since relocated fully to planes of peace.
 
• Ghaundaur abandoned the pits entirely in 978 AB, retreating to the Deep Caverns when the Spider Queen’s control became intolerable.