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The Stygian Spiders

The Ruhnn Mountains · Valg · Weavers of the Silk

The Stygian Spiders

They will not take your gold. They will take the twenty years you were counting on, and they will be perfectly polite about it.

Valg wearing the shape of a horse-sized spider, high in the Ruhnn Mountains, spinning the finest thread in Erilea and selling it only for things that cannot be weighed.

At a glance

What they are
Valg — an old darkness wearing a spider's body, not spiders that turned evil
Where
The Ruhnn Mountains of Erilea, in webs strung across the passes
Sex
Every one of them is female
Speech
Fluent. That is the part nobody is ready for
Trade
Spidersilk — never for coin, only for youth, beauty, memory, dreams
Known price
A Xandrian merchant gave twenty years of his life for a hundred yards
Kin
The Kharankui of the Southern Continent — same stock, no silk, no bargains

Threads out of the Ruhnn

Who they touch

Swipe to meet them all

Offered her beauty for the silk, then broke the bargain and had Abraxos throw the spider off the cliff.Manon BlackbeakThe one who cheated themEnter Manon Blackbeak →
His ruined wings are rebuilt from their thread. Everything he becomes afterwards runs through this.AbraxosWhat the silk was forEnter Abraxos →
Same Valg stock, opposite purpose — they spin nothing, trade nothing, and guard a Wyrdgate for Maeve.The KharankuiTheir kin in the southEnter The Kharankui →
A Valg queen wearing a Fae face. Everything Valg in Erilea is hers at a distance, whether or not it has been told.MaeveThe Valg queenEnter Maeve →
The same old darkness, taking the loud route. He builds Morath; they string a web and wait.ErawanThe other patienceEnter Erawan →
The long versionRead the whole storyThe climb, the silk, the price, and the one bargain that went wrong for them.Enter the full story

If they got under your skin

Kindred

Old things that deal in bargains, and never once in your favour.

The Kharankui The Kharankui Their southern kin, who skipped the negotiating entirely. Maeve Maeve The queen who trades in oaths instead of silk, and collects just as carefully.

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