Rachnis

“	MaccaMan: wtf!<BR>MaccaMan: spider at spawn<BR>Doughnut_Boy: It looks beautiful	”
 	—Residents glimpse Rachnis 	—Residents glimpse Rachnis
Rachnis was a massive spider in Lakeview Village during Dragonhollow's First Era
She was 48 meters tall with a legspan of 89 meters, dwarfing even godly Grim and second only to the dragons in size. She had a cluster of six red eyes and 2 meter-long brown fangs. Like most arachnids, she had eight legs, with her front pedipalps being the longest. One of her legs on the left side was half-missing, an old injury likely suffered in battle with a dragon. A large red hourglass was visible on her upper abdomen.
Rachnis was created by Eris and the Pantheon in the early days of the Ancient Era and wove her webs across the Lakelands. She was the broodmother of all spiders that existed on the planet. This included Goliath Bird-Eater, the Patu Marplesi, the Spideys, the Dungeon Spiders, and common spiders and cave spiders.
On 1E:59, Rachnis terrified locals by nesting upon the roof of Lakeview Town Hall in Lakeview Village. In the days to follow, residents reported hearing the sound of scurrying spiders within her underbelly. 
As people became accustomed to her presence, climbing from ground level up onto her back became an unofficial parkour. To this end, on 1E:64 Acey hosted the Spider Climb event, a race to see who could reach the top first.
A page torn from the Bloodmoon Journal was discovered in a chest at the top of Rachnis.
According to Lakeview Lost, at the height of the apocalyptic First Bloodmoon her egg sac burst open and Rachnis was devoured alive by her own hatchlings, which then spread out across Lakeview Village to find human prey of their own.
=Gallery=
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	"Dafuq wit de giante spidah?"	
	—Wasdoog 	—Wasdoog
File:2021-12-23_03.56.27.png|In Lakeview Village
File:2022-02-18_00.47.51.png|Across The Lake
File:2021-12-23_04.03.49.png|Looming over the Plaza
File:2022-02-18_00.50.58.png|Looking down on Lakeview
File:2022-02-18_00.51.57.png|Nesting atop Lakeview Town Hall
File:2022-02-18_00.52.22.png|Behind Town Hall
File:2022-02-18_00.54.37.png|At night
File:2022-02-17_23.52.54.png|Rachnis
File:2022-02-17_23.53.22.png|From above
File:2022-02-17_23.53.41.png|Rear view
File:2022-02-17_23.53.54.png|Missing leg
=Behind the Scenes=
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The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.
	Acey: I've been sitting here a while I still only have the head of the spider >_><BR>Acey: I've had to redo the body a few times now cos I didn't like it xD<BR>Acey: also doesn't help that I decided to be ambitious and have the damn spider angled >_><BR>Acey: half the shape of the spider works<BR>Acey: now it's the other axis xD<BR>Acey: this... is gonna be one fat spider xD<BR>Acey: have you seen the size of the body of this thing?<BR>Acey: I stared at a picture of a red back for so long<BR>Acey: this is how accurate I can get the size<BR>Acey: and it's as big as town hall xD	
	—Acey works on Rachnis' 	—Acey works on Rachnis'
Acey built Rachnis while decorating Lakeview Village for Halloween. Her design was based upon the Redback spider, a highly venemous black widow spider found in Acey's native Australia.
Rachnis initially had an egg sac made of white wool with spawners inside and a web containing the heads of Dragonhollow citizens, but she was unsatisfied with how cluttered things looked around spawn and she removed both features, instead adding the spawners inside Rachnis' abdomen and adding player heads to cobwebs inside the Pumpking.
Category:Spiders
Category:NPCs