Rachnei

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Rarity: Very Rare
Plural: Rachnei
Collective Term: a predation of rachnei
Anatomy: Anthropoarachnoid
Harm Skills:
    Insect Lore   47%
    Intimidation  23%
    Anatomy       12%
    Empathy        9%
    Torture        9%

The rachnei, or spider-folk, are creatures of fearful legend -- especially to the invae. They have the eight-limbed anatomy of spiders but stand erect, using four limbs as legs and four as arms, and are covered in thick, generally dark-colored chitin. Rachnei are powerful, intelligent predators, often found living in solitude or small clans in mountains or caves near invae hives, their preferred source of prey. They are particularly feared for the capacity of their massive webspinning glands to produce a volume of spidersilk that can immobilize a large animal in seconds.

Most Rachnei use the Xitid tongue, which is of course adapted to their vocal apparatus and difficult for others to use. There is also a gestural form of this language, Ci-Xitid, expressed in patterns of movement of the four rachnei manipulatory limbs. The rachnei lifespan is similar to that of humans, rarely exceeding eighty years.

Ygelleth, the Demon Queen of Spiders, considers all rachnei as her personal property, as with the drow, and claims to have personally created the race. Also as with the drow, not all rachnei are content with this relationship to the goddess.

/----------------------------- The Rachnei Race ------------------Start-------\
|                                                                   Fe  Ma    |
| Attributes                Strength                  30 to  90     50  50    |
|                           Intellect                 50 to 120     83  63    |
|                           Vitality                  50 to 120     73  73    |
|                           Agility                   50 to 120     63  73    |
|                           Willpower                 40 to 100     60  70    |
|                           Ego                       30 to 100     53  53    |
|                           Perception                40 to 100     60  60    |
|                           Size                      97 to 121    108 105    |
| Points                                                           156 155    |
| Typical Sexes                                       Male                    |
|                                                     Female                  |
| Sex Variation in          Male                      Intellect Min -10       |
| Attributes                                          Intellect Max -10       |
|                                                     Willpower Min +10       |
|                                                     Willpower Max +10       |
|                           Female                    Intellect Min +10       |
|                                                     Intellect Max +10       |
|                                                     Agility Min -10         |
|                                                     Agility Max -10         |
|                                                     Size Min +2             |
|                                                     Size Max +6             |
| Languages                 Native                    Xitid                   |
| Innate Skills             Tissue Hardening          20                      |
| Specialty Access          Tissue Hardening          available: degree III,  |
|                                                     bonus: degree I         |
|                           Killer Instinct           available: degree IV,   |
|                                                     bonus: degree II        |
|                           Climbing                  available: degree VI,   |
|                                                     bonus: degree III       |
|                           Throwing                  available: degree IV    |
| Resistances               Eskaric                   moderate resistanc      |
| Traits                    Assimilativity            -5                      |
|                           Diet                      Carnivore               |
|                           Handedness                Fore                    |
|                           Regrowth                  1                       |
|                           Night vision              1                       |
|                           Respiration               Spiracle                |
|                           Algopoeia                 3                       |
|                           Sentience                 Solitary Anthropic      |
|                           Speech pattern            Insectile               |
|                           Thanatogalvanism          3                       |
| Cultures and Homelands    Akalish Wildling          Akalahai                |
|                           Freeholder                Freehold                |
|                           Losthavener               Losthaven               |
|                           Lowlander                 Halfmoon Bay            |
|                                                     Sanctuary               |
|                           Talantonite               the Shadow Tower        |
| Physical Characteristics  Anatomy                   Anthropoarachnoid       |
|                           Natural Armour            Heavy                   |
|                           Natural Weaponry          Excellent               |
|                           Other                     Bestial                 |
| Mental Characteristics    Psi                       Psychically Alien       |
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