Spider

Stealthy killers hungry for blood, monstrous spiders haunt the dark places of the world. The largest of these giant arachnids are the size of elephants and devour anything in their path.



Monstrous spiders can be found in almost any environment; dark forests, sandy deserts, dank caverns, Underdark passages, or even along the gloomy border of the Shadowfell and in the deep rifts of the Elemental Chaos.

Lore
Spiders are sacred to the evil goddess Lolth. Long ago, before she became the Demon Queen of Spiders, Lolth was a deity of fate who wove the strands of mortal destiny; it is said she created the art of weaving after watching spiders make their webs.

The drow elves revere spiders. They refuse to crush or sweep away common spiders, believing that even the tiniest of such creatures might be serving Lolth's purposes. Drow priests frequently tame or befriend monstrous spiders by magic.

Different monstrous spider types include Deathjump spiders, Bloodweb Swarm, Blade spider, Demonweb Terror and many others.

In the campaign
The Company encountered monstrous spiders on two occasions. Once, when they entered the burial chamber of Amhon the Raven Prince, in the Cloud Peaks. A Deathjump spider lurked on the cavernous ceiling and managed to greatly damage Fendrel Ayn Alhaine at that time (casting him down from a height, breaking his right leg), but Bel Mikal easily scorched the creature in fiery magic.

The second encounter was in the wilds of the Cloud Peaks, when the group was traveling with Taron Wolfsmane to reach the Emerald Enclave in the east. They stumbled upon a group of people, ambushed by the spiders, for they were already (possibly) dead and cocooned already. The group easily slain or fought off a large number of Deathjump spiders and a Blade spider, without suffering any serious wounds.