Dridders
A huge dridder gorging herself from unfortunate captured elves in her underground cave.
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Felaryan Dridders
Dridders are half human, half spider people. Their size varies a lot. Some measure 3 feet while others easily reach 100 feet. Little is known about them but dridders in general carry a grim and dark reputation.
Many of them display a cruel and sadistic behavior in combat which has gotten their whole war-like race labeled as evil. They are fierce fighters and they enjoy extracting every ounce of agony out of their enemies.
Their natural weapons are their claws and their venom which is often lethal, even at small doses. They actually possess a wide variety of poisons, some of them which will only make the bitten creature sleepy. Dridders also love to forge weapons and armor, and you will often see their legs reinforced by spiked plates.
Dridders love to ambush travelers and, when in a group, they don't hesitate to assault human towns. They have two methods of feeding. Like most felaryan predators, they swallow bite-sized prey whole, but if the prey is their size, they immobilize their victims and slowly liquefy their internal organs, sucking them out much like a normal spider. Needless to say this last fact contributes a lot to their sinister reputation.
Dridders hate nagas, seeing them as inferior. A long standing feud exists between the two species and shows no signs of abating. Legend foretells that one day Sineria, Queen of the dridders, will return and destroy the nagas once and for all. All nagas take a vow to destroy any dridders they find, as well as to search for clues to the location of Sineria’s tomb. So far little has been found.
Known Dridders
Eshka
Garideb
Violet
Gerridas
under construction
Not an arachnid half but often seen as such.
Gerridae half
slender and delicate body and very long legs
Can walk on the surface of water like a water strider.
looks more fairy than dridder
Use blowpipes as weapons. Not warlike at all though. Prefer music.
Naxyla Dridders
While not native to Felarya, due to their habit of inter-dimensional exploring they frequently find themselves passing through this world or residing here for short periods of time. Naxyla driders are not a natural species. They were artificially created by an advanced civilization thousands years ago on the world of Naxyla as a means of information extraction and for use in covert ops. However, with the sudden end of that civilization, the Naxyla driders came into their own and became the planet's dominant lifeform. Despite thir new role on the planet, their growth is still restricted by the genetic shackles placed on them countless eons ago.
Only one male is born per hundred females, considerably slowing population growth. Furthermore, female Naxyla driders are actually created from a "Host Mother" and not born naturally. This is a humanoid prey who, rather then being consumed, is instinctively deemed to be worthy of transformation and is converted into a Drider through a semi-lengthy process. This means that while the drider's lower half is like a spider, the upper half is the same type as the host species. For example, if the host mother was an elf, the resulting drider will have an upper half that is also elf. If the host mother was a catgirl, then the upper half of the resulting drider will be a catgirl, and likewise for all humanoid species.
Naxyla dridders also have unique feeding needs. While they need sustenance for their bodies, they also need sustenance for their minds.
Naxyla dridders, when consuming their prey whole (this is achieved via a special shrinking venom), also absorb the memories and thoughts of their victim. This allows the drider, in theory, to know everything the ingested prey knows... however to get all of the information involves a much slower digestion phase and potentially opens up the Naxyla drider to what is know as Personality Imprint... in other words, a risk that the absorbed thoughts and memories could overwrite or merge with the existing personality. This can be avoided with training, but still this method is generally avoided by most Naxyla driders.
Naxyla driders usually display much less cruelty than their Felaryan counterpart and turn themselves more toward arts and studies than war.
Known Naxyla Dridders
- Credits goes to Veeshan123 for all the design and the idea of Naxyla dridders, and to MukatKiKaarn for the base idea of Gerridas.
