Eilistraee

Eilistraee, also referred to as "the Dark Maiden" is a fictional deity in dungeons & dragons. She is a goddess in the drow pantheon, and her portfolio is song and beauty. Her worshippers are good aligned drow hoping to escape the evils of the underdark's evil, Lolth-worshipping matriarchal society, and regain a place in the surface world.

She is worshipped by song and dance, if at all possible, in the surface world under the moonlit night among the woods. She takes great pleasure in bards learning new songs, craftsmen at work, and the doing of kindhearted deeds. Among her followers are drow, humans, elves and half elves the latter being the most.

Eilistraee is represented by a drow female in the nude, dancing with a silver sword under the moon. The dark maiden's home plane is the Demonweb Pits, located in the 66th layer of the dungeons and dragons, along with the rest of the drow pantheon.

Eilistraee, the daughter Corellon Larethian and of Auraushnee (who after being punished by Corellon assumed the name [Lolth]]) was cast down along with the rest of the drow pantheon for her apparent part in the war against the Seldarine. Once she was cleared of any wrongdoing, she insisted to her father that she be punished in the same manner as her siblings and mother. Her reason, the drow people who would later need an escape from the malevolent priestesses of Lolth.