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The Cult of the Sanguine Web (House Valen'dros)

Three centuries ago, House Valen'dros was a minor noble family in a grand Drow city. While their kin squabbled for the Spider Queen's favor, Lady Vhaera Valen'dros led her house into the forbidden Undermyr. They discovered the Ancient Conduits - rhythmic stone pipes that pulsed with the magical energy of the planet. Believing this to be the literal blood of a dormant god, Vhaera discarded her religious oaths and performed the Rite of the Congealing. She sacrificed her own children to the conduits to forge the first Blood Spiders, arachnids whose bodies are composed of sentient liquid hemoglobin. Since then, the House has become a cult, operating in isolation while feeding their Great Siphon.

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Hemomantic Drow Sect · Neutral Evil

The Cult of the Sanguine Web (House Valen'dros)

“The life is in the ichor; the ichor is in the web.”

TypeHemomantic Drow Sect
SizeLarge (1,500 active cultists,…
InfluenceHigh (Subterranean Terror)
WealthExtreme (Based on biological r…
AlignmentNeutral Evil
Age314 years

Chronology

Three centuries ago, House Valen'dros was a minor noble family in a grand Drow city. While their kin squabbled for the Spider Queen's favor, Lady Vhaera Valen'dros led her house into the forbidden Undermyr. They discovered the Ancient Conduits - rhythmic stone pipes that pulsed with the magical energy of the planet. Believing this to be the literal blood of a dormant god, Vhaera discarded her religious oaths and performed the Rite of the Congealing. She sacrificed her own children to the conduits to forge the first Blood Spiders, arachnids whose bodies are composed of sentient liquid hemoglobin. Since then, the House has become a cult, operating in isolation while feeding their Great Siphon.

Founder’s Story

Vhaera Valen'dros was a middle-ranking priestess who suffered a divine vision after being bitten by a spider that had fed on a dying archmage. She saw a world where drow were no longer slaves to gods but masters of the very fluid of life. She led a bloody exodus, killing those who would not follow, and founded her seat of power directly atop the Heart-Chamber of the Undermyr.

The Mechanism of Intent

Public Goals
  • Attaining physical perfection through hemomancy
  • Securing the Undermyr from surface incursions
  • Restoring the 'lost' glory of the Drow race through biological evolution
    • Secret Goals
  • Draining the ley lines of the surface world to feed the Great Siphon
  • Replacing all biological spiders with blood-constructs under their control
  • Shedding their mortal forms to become liquid entities
    • Current Objectives
  • Infiltrating the noble houses of the surface world to catalog unique bloodlines
  • Sabotaging the traditional temples of the Spider Queen
  • Capturing a dragon to extract its ancient essence for the Great Siphon
    • Long-Term Vision

    A reality where the entire multiverse is connected by a singular circulatory system, with House Valen'dros acting as the heart.

    StructureRitualistic Meritocracy (Power based on blood-volume contributed)
    SuccessionThe Sanguine Inheritance: When the Heart-Mother nears expiration, she selects three candidates to duel within the Great Siphon. The survivor absorbs the blood and memories of the predecessor.

    Leadership

    Vhaera Valen'dros— The First Pulse

    Clinical, obsessive, and deceptively motherly toward those she deems useful.

    Kaelen the Hollow— High Executioner

    Quiet, efficient, and lacks any capacity for empathy.

    Xalith Vane— Spy-Mistress

    Charming and manipulative, she prefers poison over direct hemomancy.

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