Druidspider
Small brown spiders, with distinctive brown patterns. The spiders are known to be freinds of the Druids and possess a strong connection to magic. In druid culture, the spider is a symbol of protection, subtle wisdom, and hidden magic.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Eight limbs and almost a hundred eyes.
Genetics and Reproduction
The spider reproduces by laying eggs in a special nursury web, characterized by it's flower of life pattern.
Growth Rate & Stages
The nursery web shelters the baby spiders until they reach maturaty, when they crawl away and make their own webs.
Ecology and Habitats
The spiders like close-growing trees, especally neary bodies of water where flies and insects spawn. Sometimes, spiders make many webs together, known as a Silk Grove. The webs on the inside are then strangled for pray, and must either take over a different web, or move on, leaving abandioned webs behind.
Dietary Needs and Habits
The spiders eat waterflies, knats, moths, and even other spiders. After being cought in the webs, the creature is shocked with electricity. Humans, who get cought in the webs may expeirienced a slight shock, like static electricty, but it is harmless.
Biological Cycle
Spiders lay their eggs in the spring, and they hatch approximetly three weeks later. Spider's reach maturaty after about one month after hatching. During fall, capture pray and store them at the center of their webs, then the spiders fortify their webs from the elements, making silksheilds, known to have very strong and insulating threads, which protects their interior webs. While they can't catch anything during winter, they do not freeze. In spring, they tear down the silksheilds, and open their webs for hunting.
Additional Information
Domestication
Druids weave from reeds and twigs spidernests, which replace their silksheilds for the winter. In return, they harvest the spider's silk, making cloth and rope from it. The Spider Summoning, is a magical ritual done by the druids to call out to nearby spiders that there druids nearby willing to work with them. After a few days, the spiders arrive at the place of the ritual. With the spider's many eyes, they can see danger coming from far off in the woods, and spread the news by way of shaking a thread on their webs, which another nearby spider feels, and copies. Thus, news can be relayed for miles of forested land. The phrase, 'Pluck the Silk', means to warn of danger in a discreet fashion.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Druidswood
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Not only does the Druidspider weave strong, complicated webs in intricate patterns, these webs also can conduct an electrical current through them, which origionates with the spider.
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
The druids in times passed used to have a symbiotic relationship with the spiders, encouraging them to set up webs around living spaces to catch knats and disease ridden flies which were drawn to the druids. It was often that a druid might live in the midst of a silken grove, or cultivate one nearby their home.
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