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Death Spider
Death Spider
skill 14[1][2][3]
stamina 9
Habitat Demonic Plane, Dungeons, Ruins
Number Encountered 1
Type Demon
Reaction Hostile
Intelligence High

Death Spiders were a type of malicious spider-like demon.

Description[]

Death Spiders looked like giant, grey-black spiders of a size five meters across. Instead of a arachnid's head, however, they bore human-like heads with evilly twisted features.[1][2]

Origin and Distribution[]

Death Spiders originate from the Demonic Plane, but unlike most other demons they appear to be able to travel freely to the mortal world in order to capture living souls for their amusement.[1] They seemed to surface mostly in places where a particularly large concentration of demonic or demon-influenced evil was present. One of these creatures was known to be found in the tomb of Akharis.[4], while another was known to dwell in the crypts of Valsinore.[5]

Special Abilities[]

Death Spiders were web-builders, and usually they spun their traps in places where they could get the drop on their victims, rendering them helpless if they got entangled in the strands.[6] But as with a more normal spider's web, these webs were flammable and would burn away instantly if touched by an open flame.[7]

In addition, Death Spiders possessed a bite which delivered a powerful paralytic venom. If bitten, a victim had to resist (they were, however, unable to do so if entangled in the webs)[6] or be paralysed, leaving them helpless to further bites until they were killed or rescued by comrades.

Once the victim was dead, the death spider will teleport itself, the corpse and the web back to the Demonic Planes (though the one beneath Valsinore attempted to drag a ghost into the Realm of the Dead), where the victim's soul could be extracted and condemned to an eternity of torture.[7]

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