Giant albino tomb spider

Giant albino tomb spider Picture Level 30 Family spider family creatures Body Type arachnid Undead No Areas Found The Graveyard BCS Yes HP 350 Armor [?]

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Defense Attributes Melee <N/A> DS Ranged <N/A> DS Bolt <N/A> DS Bard Base <N/A> TD Ranger Base <N/A> TD Sorcerer Base <N/A> TD Wizard Base <N/A> TD Cleric Base <N/A> TD Empath Base <N/A> TD Paladin Base <N/A> TD Major Elemental <N/A> TD Minor Elemental <N/A> TD Major Spiritual <N/A> TD Minor Spiritual <N/A> TD Major Mental <N/A> TD Minor Mental <N/A> TD

Treasure Attributes Coins ? Gems ? Magic Items ? Boxes ? Skin a sheer white spider mandible Other ?

Glowing an eerie, pale white, the albino tomb spider clambers through underground tunnels, grottos and caves in search of anything alive it can trap and consume. Its long, thin forelegs reach out to grasp and drag potential food back to the glistening fangs, while its shorter, muscular back legs propel it forward with surprising speed. Totally hairless, the albino tomb spider gazes around through the only bodily part that has any color--its oversized crimson eyes.

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Behind The Scenes

The extension of the burial mound in The Graveyard appears to be rooted in allusions to H.P. Lovecraft stories. These spiders would correspond to the spiders who battled the almost humans from the Plateau of Leng. It is a subtle link between Shadow Valley and The Broken Lands. Since the word "Vala" is used as a language game in the story, it is worth considering Ungoliant as a destroyer of trees, given the unexplained webs in Shadow Valley. In this context Bandur Etrevion reflects Morgoth, brother of Manwe, considering the Etrevions are analogs of Set and Osiris.

Their presence in the frigid cold and placement between the waking and dreaming worlds may refer Atlach-Nacha, the Spider God servant of Tsathoggua from the Hyperborean cycle who resided in the Arctic. This extension of the Lovecraft mythos is possibly relevant for the Dark Shrine in The Broken Lands. Similarly, Robert Howard's mythos calls the serpent god Set instead of Yig, with the serpent men residing in Hyperborea after fleeing Yoth. They were the ones who brought the toad idols out of N'kai, possibly tying them in the underlying subtexts to the myklian.

References

• Giant albino tomb spider on Play.net bestiary

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