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The vapour spider has a translucent and glassy appearance, and a rather soft & fragile body. They only appear at night, and seem more prevalent with stronger moonlight, but this is perhaps only because they are more easily seen. They seem to have no natural predators.
Vapour spiders create webs that are even more ephemeral than the standard variety, yet somehow even more resilient. It is said that they spin their webs not out of silk, but instead of smoke, mist, and moonbeams. Even the pattern of the web resembles swirls of vapour or smoke rather than a typical spiderweb pattern. Yet, when you pass your hands through it, the web is not disturbed, and remains undamaged.
They have never been seen eating an insect, nor has anything ever been seen caught in their webs. Vapour spiders do not even bite in self-defence. Some loremasters believe that they do not exist entirely in this plane of existance, and instead form their webs of visible ether, catching tiny spirit-creatures invisible to the eye.
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? Responses (10)
Nice but what do they do apart from look beautiful? Do they bite ghosts?
Cheka, these are all part of the insect's thread, The animal version of whimsical flora. They are mostly here for color rather than mangling adventurers.
Although I tend towards more 'useful' creatures, I like the idea. I wish you would write more about them. Too often I think people write that nobody knows the history of these things instead of coming up with a creative suggestion (which the readers can always ignore, or use to inspire them to come up with other ideas... I find even suggested ideas I don't like to be much more helpful than no suggestions at all.)
Wow - spiritual spiders that eat little spirits - brilliant - give that man a sugar lump
Definitely a candidate for the "wish I'd thought of that" award
4.5 / 5
A little short but a very cool idea.
A bit short but I like it Kinslayer.
One thumb up!
Would love to see more to this.
One of those oldies but goodies. I do wish there was a little more information. Possibly even information that normal sages do not know but information specific about them in their realm perhaps. But as a color piece, they are wonderful.