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Revision as of 21:07, 10 September 2017
Arachnarok Spiders are type of giant spider often associated with divinity by Greenskins. It is found on the World-That-Was with the tribes of Forest Goblins and in the Mortal Realms with the warclans of Spiderfang Grots.[1][3]
World-That Was
An Arachnarok Spider is a truly gigantic creature, able to overpower even formidable Giants and corrupted Cygors. These creatures live in the deepest forests, where Forest Goblins worship each one of them as a living god.[1]
This worship pays off a hundredfold in times of war, for the Forest Goblins are able to persuade the spider to fight for them. In combat, its many mandibles will rend apart the enemy, the deadly poison making every strike truly lethal. Should it encounter a rival monster, like the aforementioned Giant, then it is will literally inflate it with great quantities of deadly venom, instantly downing it. As if that was not deadly enough, its Goblin worshippers often bedeck their god with a giant howdah, which, besides carrying many temples dedicated to the bearer, makes an excellent firing platform for Goblin archers. In fact, it is not uncommon to see a primitive catapult, known as the flinger, at the forefront of the howdah.[1][2]
However, even a beast like that can simply be swarmed with superior numbers, and so any Greenskin commander lucky enough to have it in his army will foresee this and move the arachnid into the nearest forest or indeed, behind any nearby obstacle, allowing their eight-legged god to attack the enemy horde piecemeal.[2]
Mortal Realms
Arachnarok Spiders are the living incarnations of the Spider-God summoned into war by the shamans of Spiderfang Grots when the full wrath of the tribe is aroused.[3]
They have thick chitin that turns blades, bullets and bolts away. They use their legs to spear warriors before sinking their gigantic fangs into them. Often Spiderfang grots ride them into battle on top of crude howdahs, sometimes carrying catapults that hurl spider-filled webs or platforms for their wizards to unleash their stinging green sorcery.[3]
They inhabit bone-filled pits filled with corpse mounds that are the grots' sacrifices to their god.[3]
Gallery
- Arachnarok Spider.jpg
An amber-brown Arachnarok miniature marches to war from the World-That-Was.
- Arachnarok Spider 02.jpg
An Arachnarok miniature with a horde of Spiderfang Grots upon it's back.
- Arachnarok Spider 01.jpg
An Arachnarok miniature with a Flinger and it's grot crew.
- Arachnarok Spider 03.jpg
An Arachnarok miniature with a Catchweb Spidershrine and it's Grot Shaman.
Sources
- 1: Games Workshop Official Site
- 2: Games Workshop Official Site
- 3: Grand Alliance of Destruction - Spiderfang Grots, pg. 64
- 4: Arachnarok Spider warscroll
- 5: Arachnarok Spider product description
