The Golden Web

Name: The Golden Web

Race: Arachea

Color: Pink

Fluff:
An Arachnea is a monstrous creature, with a vaguely humanoid top half, covered in chitin, bristly hair and hard shell. With four arms, the lower pair a set of bludgeoning claws.

Their head contains 6 eyes, arranged around their head in a crown, giving them unparelled range of vision. Unlike what most people would think given the obvious spider influences their bite is not venomous. Instead they possess sharp teeth that can chew through almost anything.

Their bottom half is a huge tauroid teardrop, with eight legs and a spinnerette at the rear end capable of producing webbing.

The first Archanea was not born, but created, a creature that was a fusion of a rat, cockroach, spider, and man. Though wholly unmagical it is clear that their creation had magic involved. Why this was done so is lost to the annals of the Fall and Time. However the shamans of the Golden Web do know they were used as shock troopers. Their size, lethality, ability to make traps with webbing or chew through stone made them excellent soldiers. And because each Arachnea is born pregnant their numbers never die down.

After the fall the Arachnea offered their services to whomever would feed them in return for their battle experience. It took a long time for the Arachnea to begin to become something other then roaming soldiers and mercenaries.



Government Type: The Golden Web follows Queen Riskilia, she who sits upon the Golden Web. Riskilia is unusual for a Arachnea, as she never grew beyond her child-like size of a mere 1 meter tall and long. A mere third of the size of her sisters. Furthermore she was far more human looking to them lacking most of the chitin and hair her sisters have on their upper halves. What she lacked in battle capability she made up with her mind and her ability to talk. She rallied the small bands of Arachnea, one small group at a time, until she had a horde and instead of using them for war she set about them forging a nation. All Arachnea revere her for ending the Time of Travels where any Arachnea could die at a moments notice due to constant warfare.

Economy Type: The Arachnea primarily dealt with Barter in the Time of Travels, putting their services of Mercenaries in return for food. Riskilia has only just begun to change that.

Religion: All Arachnea worship Kali, a goddess who has destroyed the world once and recreated it in her image. They believe that Kali is responsible for the Fall and that they are her soldiers who helped make it happen. Riskilia wants them to be more then soldiers so she has been emphasizing the fact that Kali not only destroys but creates, and has been saying that Kali says the Arachnea must continue to forge this world in her image. Responses have been mixed.

Location: North\Center. West shore of that huge lake.

Population: 8.75 (+0.75/turn)

Food: Low

Raw Currency: 6 (+1/turn)

Legitimacy:  Stable

Culture: 5

Faith: Stable

Industry: 2

Unique Buildings: The Golden Web (Government building)

Defenses: Webway [Strong] : Small outposts which are connected to each other by strong thread made of silk. These can be vibrated by sentries to alert the entire nation of incoming attackers.

Military Units: 2 Brutes [Strong, Heavily Injured, Arachea]

Resources/Quantity: Arachnea Silk (Sustainable)

Technology: [Tools: Stone, Copper, Bronze, Iron] [Construction: Wood, Stone] [Food: Agriculture I, Domestication I]

Trade Routes: [none initially]

Territory:

Bonuses/Eccentricities:

Warriors - It is believed that you were created to be soldiers and nothing more. It is easier for you to recruit and train units.

Created - Could there be more to you than even you know? We shall see.

Always soldiers - Your people have always been soldiers, it will be harder for them to learn to do anything besides fight and research anything not related to war.