Clan of Spiders

Clan of Spiders
Calling itself a brotherhood more than a tribe, the Clan of Spiders is composed of wanderers and remnants of lesser tribes who have joined to follow the teachings of Grandfather Asha.

Once a hunter, the blind Grandfather Asha teaches those brave enough to join their numbers and follow the Way of the Spider. Followers are taught to uphold cunning above all else; to see without being seen, to run without being followed, and to ambush your prey by luring them into a feint.

'Grandfather' Asha
In his youth, Asha belonged to a group of fierce hunters from a tribe of mixed elf origin. The ailing tribe faced starvation due to a monstrous spider that hunted the lands surrounding their tribe. To save their people, their best hunters and warriors searched for the great spider's nest to slay it and its kin. As they entered the beast's lair, they were picked off one by one as the spider ambushed them from hideaways and then retreated again into hidden burrows. During the final confrontation, Asha himself became blinded by the spider's venomous spit.

Though the beast was defeated, the hunters shunned the blind Asha and left him behind. Asha survived in the darkness by eating the meat of the great spider and wandered around its caves learning to sense the world through more than sight. For decades he lived alone, hunting prey and honing his senses in the way of the spider. He once returned to his tribe to find it abandoned, and cold. He wandered the swamp and continued to survive, alone, until one day a group of young hunters from a distant tribe came across him while hunting game.

Astonished at the blind hunter's skill, they became the first of Grandfather's children to learn the Way of the Spider.