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Spider

Owyn faces three giant spiders on a grassy field. The spiders resemble tarantulas, standing to about the height of Owyn's knee, with heavy ovular black bodies and tufted orange and brown segmented legs.
"In all the world, none can compare / To the tiny weaver, his deadly cloth / So silky and fair."
―Clue on a riddle chest

Spiders are dangerous Midkemian arachnids in Betrayal at Krondor. They are usually encountered in mines, caves, and forests.

For the assassin's tool discovered in Chapter 3, see Silver Spider.

Overview

Hostile giant spiders lurk in various areas of the Kingdom of the Isles. As with scorpions, inventory items are never found on their bodies.

Chapter 3

A heavyset man living off the road between Cavall Keep and Cavall Run warns the party to be cautious, having heard some strange noises that might be "spinners," which he describes as overgrown spiders, emerging from hibernation. He notes that Count Corvalis has sent men to patrol the lands west of his house to stop spinners from becoming entrenched in the area.

In Battle

Spiders attack by striking with their front legs.

Trivia

  • Tiny albino spiders scurry out of the DARKNESS chest in Cavall Run.
  • When ambushed by a giant spider, Seigneur James mentions once having had a dog that used to drool like that when it was hungry.
  • "Discarded spinner's string" is used in the manufacture of Vapor Masks.
  • In the manual, Cowboy Mike is credited as the game's "Spider/Scorpion Wrangler."