Spider Marriage

Five years after Nerath declared himself Emperor, there was an expedition into the Underdark near the capital city. Beneath the earth, the explorers found many wondrous things, and some horrific. Something that looked fair but was quite foul were the Drow. Hidden in the Underdark since the Shadow Years, the Drow had grown powerful but stagnant.

Their devotion to their Demon Queen Lloth intrigued Nerath, and met with emissaries. One of these emissaries was the priestess Vzon'liuur. Her ebony skin enthralled Nerath and the power she could wield sent him into a spiral of lust. A passionate affair quickly turned into an official marriage.

This action sent nearly every noble and powerful merchant in the city looking for acceptable Drow marriages, either for themselves or for a child. Barely a year had passed before a full quarter of all newlyweds were comprised of Drow.

Not all were pleased with this, and many of the families who did not trust the Drow left the city, heading into other parts of the Empire, or leaving it entirely. But the influx of demonically charged Drow blood with the diabolic blood already present in the Tiefling elite empowered those with power even more, securing their strangleholds for years to come.