Species: Saphire Spider
Family: Insectoid
Risk level: None
Weaknesses: Blunt force
Description: Arachnids inhabitating deep caves, with rich amounts of crystals like saphire, ruby and diamont. Even though their aspects can involve many different crystals, they were named Saphire Spiders, because the first ever discovered spider of that species was made from said above crystals. Their appereance is very similar to regular arachnids, even having the same size as normal spiders inhabitating our houses. The biggest ever recorded member was around half a palm big.
The main difference to their non-monster counterparts is that their whole body consists of crystal- like structure, which makes them look like masterpiece kind of jewel. This characteristic expands even to the webs they produce, making them very valuable pets and lifestock. When this ability was tested after catching some of them it turned out that they can, in some way, process normal food, rocks and biomass to turn them into said web.
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Underneath the crystalized cover, of which they consist, there is some kind of liquid gem that allows them to move around. That substance is even more valuable that that normal crystals, due to their research value and unique consistance, unavailable to recreate using normal means. Unfortunately, because of their high value, and extreme sparsity in which they can appear, there are currently only around twenty of them, and all are locked under the watching eye of few groups that managed to catch them.
There are also good news, for example School of life essence managed to partially replicate one member of that species, using the knowledge that they managed to extract during testing. They speculate that in around one decade they will be able to successfully recreate the original spider and even expand their subspecies to other crystals in which they were not seen before, like black diamonts or even pearls.
Personal notes: "I have one of them at home. They are great at producing high quality, and more importantly, unique kind of silk. If only I could get my hands on more of them. Lesser people will never understand the prestige of good products." Gustavo la Bonicart, high noble
"It is such a shame that they are used to such extremes. It is not often you can encounter none threatening monsters, even more so when they are so beautiful. I shall use every free time I have to further the research on them, to allow those monsters to live more freely than now" Unnamed member of School of life essence