This is a little bit of an older story. Back in the day there was an old farmer who never once wanted to go up the mountain, he thought the story's were a bunch of hogwash made to scare children. So in a fit of drunken foolishness he decided to take a day hike up the mountain.

Which in this case wasn't a great idea all in all. His time on the mountain was short lived but all in all he encountered very little of the dangers of the mountain. The only thing of note was when he was walking up the mountain he encountered a group of trees with nothing around them for fifty feet. a clearing devoid of life and no signs of any animals. In the middle of this clearing was a boroughs of trees, not any ordinary trees however, the leaves looked like shifting shadows and moving horrors. Till you get closer that is, then they spring alive with the wrath of a million hunting spiders. These spiders had carapaces made of shadows that shifted from the darkest of blacks to the most vibrant sapphire blues, sometimes you get the rare spider that has some red on its back. These are the shadow weave spiders. They manipulate the shadows of twilight bending them to their will, which in the process makes strings of gossamer shadows that suck the light of day from the world. At least that's the account farmer john gave us.

As he got close to the trees he suddenly felt a jolt and with a thump he was nocked on his back and as the spiders were about to drag him away he grabbed his grandpas twice blessed knife and cut threw them like a a hot knife to butter.

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He did the logical thing and ran from that point till he made it to the base of the mountain.

When he arrived home he asked his wife if she had heard of these monsters. Most encounters on the mountain are singular in nature. However for some reason these spiders have been seen by three other people. At least three others that escaped. No one knows the reason the spiders are encountered more then the other flora and fauna of the lost mountain. But, take solace in the fact they don't leave the tree they live in. Each tree has a different species of shadow weave spider in it. Differentiated by colors and abilities. They all weave shadow for certain. But sometimes with the different colors you get some that also weave light, or fire or any of the elements found in nature. The Matriarch of the spiders hasn't been seen except for the faintest of shadows found in the depth of the trees. She's one big bitch that's for sure, definitely don't want to let her stick her fangs in you.

That's some of the background of the shadow weave spider. But they aren't the only thing to be found on the mountain. There's whole kingdom's under the earth and between the flickers of the light.

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