Arachnid

**Arachnids** are a race of monsters who have abilities similar to those of spiders. Arachnids are a female-only species as they procreate the same way most spiders reproduce. According to Oliver Tran, arachnids are impossible to eradicate since they procreate as fast as Khan Worms.

## Powers and Abilities

An arachnid’s powers resemble the abilities of a spider, including:

* **Super Strength and Durability**: Arachnids have incredible strength, able to ragdoll a fully grown adult across a room with no difficulty. They can also take most forms of physical damage without flinching or making a sound, and their pain threshold is much higher than humans. But once this threshold is crossed, however, arachnids will cave under the pressure.
* **Super Speed and Agility/Reflexes**: They possess supernatural speed and reflexes, moving faster than the human eye can see. They also move with incredible flexibility and can traverse upsidedown or vertical structures like real spiders.
* **Web Generation**: Like real spiders, arachnids can spin strong webbing in which they entrap and/or imprison their victims.
* **Super Senses**: They have strong vision that is split into multiple lenses, like real spiders. They can also detect the slightest vibration in direct vicinity, granting them near-complete spatial awareness much like a some species of spiders.
* **Venom**: They possess two types of venom - one for killing and eating humans, and the other to turn humans into arachnids; however, this only works on females as their species is strictly female. Much like spiders, they pass their venom through bites.
* **Stinger Protrusion**: Arachnids can generate at will a small but potent poisonous stinger from their wrists.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor and Invulnerability**: Much like real spiders, arachnids can regrow their limbs at a supernatural rate and they are physically immune to most conventional weaponry; however, they can also regenerate their whole bodies unless they are crushed with significant force or dismembered and having their pieces kept far apart.

## Weaknesses

* **Decapitation and Complete Dismemberment** - Arachnids can be killed by having their heads and/or their whole body removed and keeping all the pieces away, overcoming their regenerative healing factor and resulting in death.
* **Magic** - Magic can overcome their healing factor and kill them.
* **Explosives** - Arachnids can be killed by conventional explosives or by volatile magic.
* **Crushing** - While arachnids are invulnerable to most forms of physical damage including blunt force trauma, an attacks or series of attacks with significant force can overcome or slow down their regenerative abilities and kill them.
* **Fire** - Fire causes intensive pain to arachnids and can be used to repel or entrap them. It does not, however, kill them unless if it is caused or mixed with magic.

## Known Arachnids

* Alpha Arachnid
* Arachnid Queens
	+ Queen Anna
	+ Queen Anna’s Army (deceased)
* Debbie Miles (deceased)

## Trivia

* Oliver Tran told his apprentices about the Arachne, saying, “Arachne was once one of the greatest weavers in the world until the powers above punished her out of jealousy and her own hubris. The punishment - being turned into what we call a spider, which our ancestors believed that is the reason spiders weave their webs so well. Now of course we know that’s not true, but we can use this as our jumping off point into what these monsters called arachnids are.”