Translations:Codex: Spinarrans/30/en

Spinarrans are led by a unique individual: a special drider a foot or so larger than other driders. This empress can vary with appearance, mostly due to different metals in her chitin. Every empress has flecks or veins of gold in their carapace and a large crest of chitin atop their head. Her body also forms crystalline jewels at her ears, crest and along her lower body. The small, blue, luminous, teardrop shaped crystals help show the empress’s stature among her people. The empress is leaner than other driders, more speedy and sinuous. The Spinarran empress is an exceptionally intelligent and wise ruler as she inherits all the memories of the preceding empress and so on, so long as the chain of descendants is unbroken. Every empress lays only a single, glittering gold flecked egg in their lifetime, and the act is fatal to the drider, passing on her memories and her silk robes, to her offspring before dying shortly after. In ages past, this meant that the empress was to be celibate for her entire life before laying her egg near the end of her lifespan. Now there are drugs that can prevent a drider from laying her eggs, but even so, the empress often maintains the tradition of celibacy.