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Sure. Think of James Bond doing “dirty tricks” missions on behalf of Eilistraee, almost always against Lolth’s mortal worshippers (priestesses in particular, but also roving poisoners and surface raiders), but sometimes deceiving Vhaeraunites so as to manipulate...
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@TheEdVerse it's easy enough to find what powers Qilué received from Mystra, but I've always been curious as to what being a Chosen of Eilistraee entails. Any chance you can speak to what that looks like without violating some NDA?
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..them into behaving in ways that won’t harm worshippers and interests of the Dark Dancer. Eilistraee’s delight is that she managed to get Mystra to share a Chosen, which will make some foes hesitate to harm or entrap Qilué because they’re not just acting against..
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..Eilistraee’s agent, they’re crossing Mystra, the most powerful deity of all, who (by denying or restricting their reliable access to arcane magic) can retaliate in the worst way possible. And Qilué’s dual status gives Eilistraee plausible deniability (“Well in...
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..this case, she wasn’t working for me, she was working for Mystra! So woe betide you!”) when others try to assign blame for Qilué’s actions.
Both goddesses prefer Qilué to keep a low public profile, so she’s a roving, mysterious “many secret missions” type, ...
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..like Aragorn as we first see him in THE LORD OF THE RINGS, not a striding larger-than-life public envoy. She’s not above using disguises, and manipulating mortals very subtly—and she has all of her fellow Chosen of Mystra to watch and learn from, in this regard.
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