These creatures are highly prized by their Dark Elven handlers.
Not only does a Spider Queen have extremely virulent poison,
but she can lay eggs in the bodies of her victims.
Given time, each egg will hatch 4 small spiders.
Many enemy encampments have been overrun by these vicious
swarming creatures.
Dark Elven spiders are prized by Assassins, Archers and Blackguards
for their extremely potent venom. They are hatched in
clutches of 4 from the eggs of a Queen Spider.
It often seems there is no end to the powers of Necromancy.
Most practitioners of the Dark Arts raise their fellow human
creatures from the graves, but occasionally a dark sorceror
of extreme power will raise something as terrible as a Dragon.
These creatures, known as Dragonliches, still breathe fire like
their living kin, and are somehat more resistant to arrowfire.