Arilnid Archaea Plumerind

The arilind spiders are a treasure of the northern shore of the glass sea. Thriving in the arid environment, able to easily subsist on the water condensed along the darkened passageways that criss-cross each other in a maze of natural fissures and voids, these little darlings weave webs of stunning complexity that are meant to capture water, as opposed to insects, for the arilind spiders are...wait for it!...vegetarians!

Doctor Gnarles Ferenedol-Thwaite

Emeritus professor of Paraentymology

Mayo 4, 2264, Bardic College Campus

These unusual specimens are spiders of a very different sort than many are used to. They are the only known totally vegetarian examples of web spinning creature in the known world. The Arilind Arachae's silk has an incredible tensile strength, with a large (40% or so!) breaking elongation and a breaking energy (a measure of what could be termed 'toughness') fifteen times that of the average silkworm cocoon fibers. The natural fibers are blue in color; artists call the shade 'periwinkle' for some mysterious reason, probably citing 'creative license' or some such horse fertilizer.

These little beauties snack on dead mosses and lichen, using their webbing to capture moisture rather than meat. The shape and function of them has spawned an entire area of mathematics surrounding the Golden Ratio. That which Po Arendarensai bafflingly called the 'Fibonacci Sequence'. Nobody here at the world famous The Bardic College Campus has been able to find record of anyone named 'Fibonacci' in our admittedly vast arsenal of historical and histological resources. Many of the elder scholars believe the storied 'elven maiden' herself was merely a literary construct of some deranged student at the College of the Quill. Recently¹, these miracles of the paranatural world were rediscovered by the druid Plume In the Wind

Basic Information

Anatomy

It is a perfect example of the archaea spider genus, with a deep fold separating the abdomen from the head, and long pincers extending from just underneath it's mouth pieces. It has eight eyes; a large one facing front on both the left and right planes of it's face, with three smaller eyes arranged on the each side of it's head around them. The eyes are faceted much like a house fly's, and can see in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums as well as ours.

Genetics and Reproduction

When a spider loves a spider, a certain attraction takes place. Next thing you know, there's a cocoon and a mortgage with no chance of paying their kids college tuition, you dig?

Ecology and Habitats

They live almost entirely in the cave systems within the cliffs and hills surrounding the northern and northeastern parts of The Sea of Glass.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Dead flora, mostly mosses.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Ultra/infravision, Preternatural Sense type of 'early warning system'. Exceptionally strong, and capable of leaping many times its own height and body length, the Aralind spiders are favorites used by little brothers to terrorize big sisters for time out of mind.

¹ This scholarly work was published by Random Penguins
² Plume in the Wind was killed by a dragon turtle enraged by the devil dragon Vekheteshaynaralax-Shayna

Scientific Name

Aralind Arachea Plumerind

Origin/Ancestry

We don't really know, but we bet it was huge, scary as fuck, and had hairy legs

Geographic Distribution

• Glaine Cuan
• Rhegev Desert