The very wealthy commission erethroni, those combinations of stage design and composition that give a dazzling display of light, altering in time with the music.
When news of the true origins of spiderglass reached Tregenne, greatest city of the Rel Principalities, the famed erethroni composer Irlen produced what some say is his masterpiece. Skilled dancers and acrobats dressed in black and silver spin suspended from silk ropes, flashing and weaving amongst the glass and evoking the spiders themselves. Since then, this has become a common motif in works throughout the three kingdoms.
Also, The spiders don't have to be super big to catch deer. As you say, they live in shallow caves and lay many eggs.
"While many would say that the spiders habits of catching deer or humans is absurd, seen as to it's actual size, scholars have uncovered some peculiarities that might put this claim on it's hind legs, or sweep it's feet from under it entirely. Cave dwellers often have to wait days or weeks for prey to come and wander into their habitat. So the idea of killing a large creature is less absurd, even more so if we take into account that rot in the flesh does not pose any threat since the spiders first inject the piece of meat they want to eat with a highly acidic digestive fluid. This causes fungi and bacteria and even the occasional virus to be no threat to them. Furthermore it has been discovered that these spiders lay their eggs inside a large prey, so that the larvae have a ready supply of food as they hatch."
Or they could share the food in a symbiotic relationship with another cave-dweller, which might eat or scare the creatures that prey on these spiders.
Of course, they could also just be as big as a cow.
Very true. But instead of injecting them with the digestive fluid, how about they keep their food stores safe from scavengers by coating them in the spiderglass. Then as you walk through their dimly lit lair you suddenly come face to face with a dead animal, expression distorted with fear, floating in a block of glass...
The very wealthy commission erethroni, those combinations of stage design and composition that give a dazzling display of light, altering in time with the music.
ReplyDeleteI like! :) How about:
ReplyDeleteWhen news of the true origins of spiderglass reached Tregenne, greatest city of the Rel Principalities, the famed erethroni composer Irlen produced what some say is his masterpiece. Skilled dancers and acrobats dressed in black and silver spin suspended from silk ropes, flashing and weaving amongst the glass and evoking the spiders themselves. Since then, this has become a common motif in works throughout the three kingdoms.
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ReplyDeleteAlso, The spiders don't have to be super big to catch deer. As you say, they live in shallow caves and lay many eggs.
ReplyDelete"While many would say that the spiders habits of catching deer or humans is absurd, seen as to it's actual size, scholars have uncovered some peculiarities that might put this claim on it's hind legs, or sweep it's feet from under it entirely. Cave dwellers often have to wait days or weeks for prey to come and wander into their habitat. So the idea of killing a large creature is less absurd, even more so if we take into account that rot in the flesh does not pose any threat since the spiders first inject the piece of meat they want to eat with a highly acidic digestive fluid. This causes fungi and bacteria and even the occasional virus to be no threat to them. Furthermore it has been discovered that these spiders lay their eggs inside a large prey, so that the larvae have a ready supply of food as they hatch."
Or they could share the food in a symbiotic relationship with another cave-dweller, which might eat or scare the creatures that prey on these spiders.
Of course, they could also just be as big as a cow.
Very true. But instead of injecting them with the digestive fluid, how about they keep their food stores safe from scavengers by coating them in the spiderglass. Then as you walk through their dimly lit lair you suddenly come face to face with a dead animal, expression distorted with fear, floating in a block of glass...
ReplyDeleteThat. Would. Be. AWESOME!
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