Translations:Codex: Spinarrans/31/en

The empress’s mate and egg are cared for as if they were the empress themselves, waited on hand and foot by servants, making sure their every need is taken care of. Once the egg is hatched, the newborn empress is carefully tended to and raised until she is ready to lead, usually by her 9th year though in some cases she has taken up her rulership as early as her 8th year or as late as her 18th. It has been told that if the empress were to be killed, another spinarran will become an empress, either by going through physical and mental changes to become the empress. At times, a drider may get extreme cravings for gold a week or so before she lays the gold flecked empress egg. In this case, the slate is wiped clean. The new empress is born without her predecessors’ memories. The current Spinarran empress is Empress Yalla Araemika Elerra the XVII.