Regis Dridders

A sub-specie of Dridders mentionned in my story.

Background:

Regis Dridders used to be the dominant specie of Dridders. It is speculated that Sineria, Queen of Dridders, was one of them. Not long after Sineria vanished, or died, Regis Dridders were seemingly hunted to extinction, or so they thought. Some survived and went in hiding, but their was a slight hic-up; only one male survived and this limited their reproduction. They are still considered extinct because there is so few of them and became nomadic. Most are constantly haunted by their bloody past, so they try avoiding contact with other races out of shame. Most of them are extremely emotional, showing their feelings to anyone who meets them so they won't be the same as their late Queen. They tend to flee from other predators as tall as them, fearing to be exterminated. To make it short, most Regis Dridders are introverted, pacifists and purposely avoid outside contact to prevent another war.

Appearance:

Their appearance isn't what really distinguishes them from other Dridders, most have ordinary human skin, many have a pinkish tone, some have a dark brown tone and some are as white as snow. They usually have a light shade of hair; from scarlet, to sky blue to chartreuse to many more. Their eyes are most of the time a deep color. Their spider half is usually a very dark shade of any color such as crimson, navy, forest green and such. All of them have eight legs which are actually very sensitive, 10 times the sensitivity of a feather and they are known to tickle their friends to play with them, even people who are not ticklish will laugh. They usually don't wear armor anymore, again it reminds them of their past and are constantly trying to forget about it. Their human and spider half usually coincide with each other; if the dridder is well trained, both the human and spider half will be well trained; if the dridder is lanky, so is both halves. Their height varies between their age, but also between each individuals. A toddler will usually be the size of an average human adult, but as they grow up, they will grow at a rapid but constant rate. Average fully grown adults usually reaches up to over 100' head to ground, but some "midget" specimen can be only 40' tall when fully grown while "hulking" specimen can reach up to 150' in height. Most of them actually wear clothes made from their own silk.

Abilities:

1. Psionic Controlled Silk.

This is their signature ability, they possess a psionic link with the silk they produce, allowing Regis Dridders to control it with their mind. For exemple, if they launched it and missed their target, they make it U-turn with their mind, like if it was remote controlled. They can do this with outstanding precision and flexibility, often leading to devilish traps. Aside from remote controlling their silk, they can change their texture; in one instant, it can become incredibly sticky, soft, warm, cold, as hard as steel, and much more; along with it, they can give it a color or many at once, and even give it a flavor and smell, using it as emergency food source. But the silk is 100% veggie and 0% meat, thus it does nothing good with carnivorous predators, on a side note, it's very rich in fiber. They can also make dummy puppets with their silk, giving them the look they want and the color they want, very useful for fooling potential preys. However, the dummy is very frail, can't speak, hear, smell, see or feel as it's nothing more than a remote controlled puppet. A Regis Dridder can choose to cut of the link with the silk they produced, turning it into ordinary silk except it will retain its color and texture, but only soft, warm and such kind of texture, using this to make clothes, they also used this ability to make weapons and armor, but not anymore prefering a more pacifist approach. They can't re-established a cut-off link.

2. Venom Adaptability.

Their othe ability is their ability to adapt their venom. Every Regis Dridders are born with only shrinking venom and use this to shrink other preys their size to only 1/10th their original size. As they grow up, they will be able to adapt their venom according to their surroundings; allowing them to change the effect at will. Effects includes but are not limited to: poisonning, stunning, sleeping, petrifying, burning, numbing, dizziness, cooling, confusing and interferring with the nerves. Strangely, they can never adapt or possess a venom meant to liquify their victims, and can't actually swallow liquified preys, they could but their throat are rather slow to make preys go down, so you get the picture, only Sineria could do that. Their venom aren't injected by means of fangs, but from their spider legs, which they can turn extremely sharp nigh-instantly which is mandatory to inject the venom, but they perfectly controls if they want to inject the venom or nat at birth. They also possess an anti-venom to their own, allowing to quickly nullify the effect of their real venom. While some venom effects are temporary, anti-venom will still nullify it beforehand. The anti-venom is as easily injected as ordinary one and it's as natural for a Regis Dridder to change back and forth between them as breathing. Beware, anti-venom will only nullify the dridders own venom, so if you got poisonned and killed the dridder that poisonned you, way to go Serge, your death is imminent. As they grow up, the strength of their venom will increase, and the effect are proportional to the dridder and target size, if it's too big, the effect will be minor or won't work at all. An exception to this rule is that after they reach a certain height, they will lose their shrinking venom, but they no longer to shrink their prey anymore.

Hunting Habits:

Regis Dridders tend to be secretive when hunting, they tend to lay all sorts of traps and pick up their victim. They all swallow their prey whole and alive. They have two stomachs, one in their human half which is where the food is digested and the spider half, bigger, but only for storing. They use their second stomach to keep a steady supply of food, or sometime for transport. They can choose which stomach to send their bite sized meal to the moment they swallow, though if it was in the storage one for later consuption, they will have to regurgitate and swallow their victim again. Furthermore, some can use their second stomach for seasoning purpose; sending them prey their to give them a flavor, then eat them for real, this is rare, but funny.

These are interesting abilities you imagined here

Hope they make it to people stories, and that their characters helps them forget about their past.