Shaedling

Shaedlings

Description
Shaedlings were tall and weighed about. They were, like many smaller fey, humanoid in form with dragonfly-like wings, though both the skin, eyes, and wings were black in color. Their most distinct feature was the pair of spinnerets that protruded from the abdomen. They did not wear clothing.

Ecology
Sheadlings lived in small groups in temperate forests; where possible, they near or alongside evil arachnid creatures such as araneas, ettercaps, or even driders. Shaedlings coupled frequently and without much regard for offspring—females laid eggs that hatched within a month, and young shaedling required little care. In some cases, they might have no guardian at all, whereupon infighting occurred amongst the hatchlings until only the toughest survived under a clear leader. They were fully-grown within a year; however, as a side effect of their powers and life cycle, shaedlings only lived for twenty years at most.

History
When the drow schismed from the other elves because of their worship for Lolth, a handful of pixies followed them in their religion. However, they did not follow the drow underground, and the Spider Queen instead blessed them with the "ability to weave shadows the way spiders weave webs", so that they became a terror dwelling in the forests that elves and fey loved best.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * The Restless Shore