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This article is about the creature. For the character, see Spider Parrafin.

A spider was a type of arthropod. Spiders were found all over Faerûn.

A large number of hand-sized venomous spiders would sometimes group themselves into a swarm.[3]

Species[]

Spiders and adventurers

Two adventurers about to get ensnared by giant spiders.

Electric spider
Gargantuan Spider
an enormous spider, also called whisper spider.[4]
Gee'aantu
A large, tarantula-like spider from the Underdark.[5]
Guardian spider
Giant spider
Any spider of a giant size. Also known as "monstrous spiders", they were found in a variety of appearances and sizes and came in hunter or web-spinner varieties. Goblins used giant spiders as mounts.[6]
A huge black spider that could be summoned by the drow matron mothers of Ched Nasad.[7]
Goblin spider
A variety of giant spider that was endemic to the landmass of Kara-Tur.[8]
Large spider
A large spider, smaller than huge, but bigger, then a normal spider.[4]
Hairy spider
A variety of small, web-less, hairy subterranean spider.[9]
Huge spider
A variety of spiders that were bigger than large spiders, but smaller than giant spiders. They could not produce webs and thus hunted by either prowling around or waiting in a hiding spot.[4]
Phase spider
Aggressive predators that could move between the Ethereal Plane and the Prime Material Plane.[10]
Steeder
A variety of giant spider that was endemic to the Underdark and often domesticated by duergar.[11]
Sword spider
A variety of subterranean spider with razor-sharp tips on its legs.[9]
Watchspider
A specially-bred variety of huge spider trained to obey commands and used as guardians.[12][13]
Wraith spider
Undead giant spider.[14]

Related Creatures[]

  • Aranea: The aranea was a type of intelligent, shape-shifting spider thought to have been created by a Calishite wizard to infiltrate drow armies.[15]
  • Chwidencha
  • Drider: The drider was a drow aberration whose lower half was that of a spider. They inhabited the Underdark and required blood for sustenance. Driders were created from drow who failed a loyalty test to Lolth.[16]
  • Ettercap: The ettercap was an aberration between a humanoid and a spider. They had gray or purple bodies with white underbellies and sharp, chitinous claws. They often kept spiders as pets.[17]
  • Jade spider: Jade spiders were jade constructs fashioned in the shape of a spider. They were used by the drow to protect Menzoberranzan and other drow locations.[18]
  • Snow spider: A snow spider was warm-blooded mammal with eight legs and an arachnid form.[19]
  • Yochlol: A type of lesser tanar'ri demon, servants of Lolth. They had the ability to shapeshift into four different forms, one of which is a spider.

Notable Locations[]

Spiders inhabited the forest known as the Neth Stand.[20]

Adhe Wood in the Vast was infested with ettercaps and mutant spiders of many sizes and breeds.[21]

Spiders were common in the Underdark, particularly in drow settlements, where they were revered by worshipers of Lolth.[22]

Ecology[]

Relationships[]

Drow often made objects and buildings in the shape of spiders.[23][24] In cultures that venerated Lolth, it was forbidden to kill a spider; those who did so were punished with death.[25] Spiders were often kept by the drow, their purpose depending on a given spider's size. The smallest ones were kept as pets by children. Those that were big enough to kill mice, meaning hand-sized, were kept as familiars by wizards. Those that were as big as a horse were used to ride upon. Those that were the size of dogs were used like guard dogs in temples to Lolth. The last category were sometimes imbued with a demon to make older ones regain their vitality, combining it with a nasty personality.[26]

Spriggans in the Feywild were sometimes known to use spiders to create web barriers in their forests.[27]

Usages[]

Appendix[]

Gallery[]

See Also[]

Appearances[]

Adventures
The Accursed Tower • Hellgate Keep
Novels
Daughter of the Drow • Dissolution • Insurrection • Condemnation • Extinction • Annihilation • Resurrection • Night of the Hunter • Sentinelspire
Referenced only
The Council of Blades
Video Games
Baldur's Gate • Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn • Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance • Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone • Menzoberranzan (game) • Neverwinter Nights • Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford • Neverwinter Nights 2

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References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 337. ISBN 978-0786965614.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 239–240. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  3. ↑ Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 239–240. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc), p. 326 f.. ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.
  5. ↑ Philip Athans (2008). A Reader's Guide to R. A. Salvatore's the Legend of Drizzt. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 153. ISBN 0-7869-4915-5.
  6. ↑ Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 288–289. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  7. ↑ Thomas M. Reid (December 2003). Insurrection. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 307–308. ISBN 0-7869-3033-0.
  8. ↑ Rick Swan (July 1990). Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix. (TSR, Inc.), p. 23. ISBN 0-88038-851-X.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 James Wyatt, Rob Heinsoo (February 2001). Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn. Edited by Duane Maxwell. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 79–80. ISBN 0-7869-1832-2.
  10. ↑ Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 207–208. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  11. ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford (May 29, 2018). Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. Edited by Kim Mohan, Michele Carter. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 238. ISBN 978-0786966240.
  12. ↑ Monstrous Compendium included in Ed Greenwood, Steven E. Schend (July 1994). City of Splendors. (TSR, Inc.). ISBN 0-5607-6868-1.
  13. ↑ Eric L. Boyd (June 2005). City of Splendors: Waterdeep. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 141. ISBN 0-7869-3693-2.
  14. ↑ James Wyatt (September 2002). City of the Spider Queen. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 124. ISBN 0-7869-1212-X.
  15. ↑ Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 15–16. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  16. ↑ Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 69–70. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  17. ↑ David "Zeb" Cook, et al. (1989). Monstrous Compendium Volume Two. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 0-8803-8753-X.
  18. ↑ James Wyatt (September 2002). City of the Spider Queen. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 121. ISBN 0-7869-1212-X.
  19. ↑ Belinda G. Ashley (1997). “The Dragon's Bestiary: Arctic Monsters”. In Dave Gross ed. Dragon Annual #2 (TSR, Inc.) (2)., p. 33.
  20. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd (March 2006). Power of Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 146. ISBN 0-7869-3910-9.
  21. ↑ Ed Greenwood (October 1998). The City of Ravens Bluff. Edited by John D. Rateliff. (TSR, Inc.), p. 148. ISBN 0-7869-1195-6.
  22. ↑ James Wyatt (September 2002). City of the Spider Queen. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-1212-X.
  23. ↑ R.A. Salvatore (August 2012). Charon's Claw. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 296, 299. ISBN 0-7869-6223-2.
  24. ↑ Richard Lee Byers (August 2003). Dissolution. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-7869-2944-8.
  25. ↑ Elaine Cunningham (July 2003). Daughter of the Drow (Mass Market Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0786929290.
  26. ↑ Drow Pets and Animal Companions. Wizard of the Coast. (2003-26-08). Archived from the original on 2003-07-03. Retrieved on 2019-02-16.
  27. ↑ Mike Mearls, Greg Bilsland, Robert J. Schwalb (June 2010). Monster Manual 3 4th edition. Edited by Greg Bilsland, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 182. ISBN 978-0-7869-5490-2.
  28. ↑ Brian R. James, Eric Menge (August 2012). Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 20. ISBN 978-0786960361.
  29. ↑ Douglas Niles (August 1991). “A Journey to the True World”. Maztica Campaign Set (TSR, Inc.), p. 64. ISBN 1-5607-6084-2.
  30. ↑ Douglas Niles (August 1991). “A Journey to the True World”. Maztica Campaign Set (TSR, Inc.), p. 88. ISBN 1-5607-6084-2.

Connections[]

Spiderkind
True Spiders
Natural spiders: Blade • Bloodweb • Bristle • Budback • Daughter of Lolth • Dire • Doomspinner • Gargantuan • Gee'aantu • Giant (Flying • Water) • Huge (Deathjump • Wolf spider • Watchspider) • Ice • Leaf • Roave • Spitting • Subterranean (Flying • Hairy • Sword) • Swarmhorde • Tarantula • Velsharess Orbb
Magical spiders: Bloodsilk • Electric • Glass • Gaze • Goblin • Halruaan (Glass • Scaled) • Pet of Kalistes • Spellgaunt • Steeder • Woodspider
Planar spiders: Demonweb terror • Fire • Myrlochar • Phase • Shadow • Tomb • Vortex
True Arachnids Considered Spiderkind
Pedipalp (Uropygus) • Solifugid
Related Creatures
Spider-like Beasts: Arraccat • Brain spider • Cildabrin • Kalin • Snow spider • Space spider • Wall-walker • Webbird • Zygraat
Constructs: Arachnar • Bone spider • Jade spider • Retriever • Spiderwalker • Stone spider
Outsiders: Bebilith • Darkweaver • Greelox • Inferno spider • Red widow • Yochlol
Creations of Lolth: Abyssal widow • Chwidencha • Drider (Vampire) • Shunned
Humanoids: Aranea • Chitine • Choldrith • Ettercap • Werespider
Miscellaneous: Kitthix • Neogi • Rhylfang • Susurrus
Undead spiders: Wraith spider
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