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The Lure spider, looks like a huge, furry spider of a particularly evil cast with a strange mound of clay-like flesh on the top of their heads. These mounds of flesh can be molded however the spider wishes while turning the spider’s true form invisible and giving the molded flesh illusionary legs. This flesh can be hardened due to the immense mental power they have. Lure Spiders stand around seven feet tall, are around five feet wide, and weigh over 500 pounds. These spiders have plump abdomen, eight spindly legs, and two curving mandibles capable of grasping and crushing its victims. Long fur, usually black or dark green laced with golden or silver stripes, completely covers its body. It has a dozen eyes, arranged in four rows of three, resembling those of a human; the eyeballs are red or golden, the pupils white or scarlet. The ends of lure spider legs have a thumb and two long bloated fingers that end in razor sharp claws that are stronger than steel. In their mouths lure spiders have 10 inch long tongues that act as their brain and is where all their psychic powers come from. Female lure spiders produce a powerful venom that resembles humanoid saliva and their webbing tastes of warm milk will given the creature that ingested it amazing dreams. They also are capable of fertilizing their eggs using humanoid males though she has a 40% chance of dying directly off releasing the egg sack. Lure spiders are excellent mimics, able to imitate any voice or animal sound they have ever heard. When imitating a language they don’t understand, they only can repeat words or phrases they actually have overheard, verbatim. The devious spiders often use this ability and their moldable flesh to lure victims to their doom. Lure spiders dwell somewhat close to human habitations, mainly in densely forested mountains and rainforests near small villages that they prey on. Eons ago, lure spiders dominated large sections of land now controlled by humans; they now view humans and their allies as trespassers on their homelands. Lure spiders take every opportunity to cause harm to human travelers and settlers on the edges of their territories. The harm male lure spiders cause is mostly benign like freeing barn animals at night or filling wells with rotten wood. Female lure spider’s however love seducing humanoids before manipulating them into doing vile acts such as cannibalism and murder before killing their victim. Ecology. A lure spider eats only meat, regardless of the type of creature from which it comes including their own kind. They use the extra parts left over from their meals such as bone in trap making and art. At about 15 years of age, a male lure spider reaches maturity seen by their stench that smells of sweat and sage. He looks for a mate the most dangerous proposition for him, considering females often see the males as prey. If the male avoids attack, he mates as quickly as possible then flees into the wilderness. A few weeks later, the female lays an egg sac at the bottom of her tunnel. The sac contains several hundred tiny eggs. When the first few spiderlings hatch (usually about 3-18), they destroy the rest of the eggs, then scramble from their mother’s tunnel to seek out lairs of their own. The spiderlings grow to full size in about two months. The average male Lure Spider lives to be 80 but females can push past this age having their intelligence grow greatly and they seem to enter an elderly state where they can no longer mate with male lure spiders but live to be well over 1500 years old. The Divine Spider. Although lure spiders do not often form organized societies, large groups of them sometimes assemble in huge underground caverns to worship an extraplanar entity called “the Divine Spider:’ The Divine Spider is an evil spirit that looks like a huge black spider with the face of a screaming man. It lives in what the lure spiders call Haven a Demi plane that the spiders get their powerful webbing and psychic powers from. Many sages theorize the Divine Spider is lothe and the lure spiders are Driders who became favored by Lothe once more by doing a dark ritual.