Editing Vhaeraun (section)

==Personality==
Like most drow deities, Vhaeraun is arrogant (often vain) and vindictive, championing the superiority of the drow over all other races and encouraging his followers to unite across the gender lines in the name of better conquering the other races. Scheming and underhanded, he bears a hypocritical fury at being deceived and will not tolerate the use of underhanded tactics against himself or the drow.

Despite these traits, he's also a pragmatist, and believes in the importance of cooperation - especially when it comes to undermining or otherwise battling the influence of his mother, Lolth; he is known to try and unite the other members of the Dark Seldarine against her.

By the standards of most gods, and of drow gods in particular, Vhaeraun takes a great deal of interest in his followers and makes himself actively involved in their lives - he answers the pleas of his faithful worshipers about 15% of the time, even in the form of sending divine servants in cases of real need. In events where Vhaeraun has actively interacted with his followers, he's seemed legitimately protective of them - he's even been seen providing protection to those in his vicinity when he could, and the means to avert self-sacrifice to those working for him. His own followers have been known to call him a caring god, and by drow standards in particular, they're not exactly wrong.

Vhaerun's pragmatism also makes him a realist. He knows that Lolth far outclasses him in terms of divine power, so he takes the subtle approach, focusing on moving against her in secretive ways. His primary concerns focus on increasing the power of himself, his worshippers, and the drow as a whole, and decreasing the power of his enemies. He preaches the importance of passive resistance to his people, especially when this builds up momentum to become open action. He supports teaching the ideas that contradict Lolth's dogma. When he has the chance to act directly against another god, he's known to be willing to enter the front line himself.

One weird bit of D&D lore concerns Vhaeraun's [[alignment]]: in the [[Greyhawk]] setting, he's Neutral Evil, but in the [[Forgotten Realms]], he's Chaotic Evil. [[Planescape]] tries to handwave this as being a result of different aspects existing in different crystal spheres.