Obtained from The Hollow Husk limited bundle.
Time-limited offer in Skin Shop.
When Aracha was consumed by her own offspring in the Weaver Cave, it did not signify her end—merely a shedding. For, as the beast met its demise at the hands of the Commander, Aracha artfully abandoned it, retreating into the unseen crevices of the abyss.
Yet, the creature that devoured her did not simply perish, either. Aracha's venom, absorbed from her gnashed-up corpse, flowed through the creature's veins, seeping through its rotting flesh and into the roots beneath the cave. Instead of decaying, the shattered exoskeleton hardened into bark, its severed legs gnarled into clawed branches, and the black ichor of blood thickened into seeping sap.
Though the Spider Queen lurks elsewhere, the Hollow Husk lives on as a forsaken vessel, bending the earth to its will. This is no mere shade of her past self—this is something new, something worse, and her roots are only beginning to grow.
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Aspects
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The Silk Spinner
During the Ultimate, each Basic ATK has 1 extra strike(s), dealing 40% DMG.
As Aracha's body changed, the first threads she spun were drawn across the head of her staff. She soon found that silk carried her malice as readily as venom, settling over her prey long before the spiders closed in.
Those touched by her craft found their defenses loosening strand by strand, until armor and resistance alike gave way. By the time the swarm descended, Aracha's victims had already been rendered helpless.
The Velvet Fang
Years in the Weaver Cave had taught Aracha to refine venom beyond fang and bite. She learned to infuse her sorcery with its corruption, letting it seep into the defenses that warded flesh from magic.
Each pulse weakened those defenses further. Soon, every spell struck deeper than the last, while the victim's resistance slowly rotted away from within.
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Into Her Web
Aracha, Queen of Spiders, is a void of death, darkness, and danger, much like the Weaver Cave over which she rules. Yet she is elegant, mysterious, and strangely alluring in ways much like the most venomous of spiders.
Quite what Aracha is may not be entirely clear, but she was almost certainly human at one point. Long, long ago, Aracha was said to have been the wife of a poor farmer who regularly spent all his money on drinking and gambling. This farmer was indebted to many moneylenders, and Aracha knew that before long, her husband would leave her penniless and ruined.
She prayed for a solution that came to her in the form of a vision. A spider illusion, darker even than the black spider, appeared in her mind's eye and declared itself to be the spirit of the Weaver, the dreaded Lady Spider god that had eaten her own young and then herself, disappearing from the realm of mortals. She told her that she would help Aracha out of pity in exchange for her acting as the vessel for her return to Tya, yet a sacrifice was needed. Then they would conquer the world together. The sacrifice was obvious: she would need to kill her husband. If she did so, the Weaver said, there would be a great reward.
And so, that night when her husband slept in yet another drunken stupor, she slipped a venomous spider into his ear, which bit him, killing him after hours of torment. Aracha fled the farm and took to worshipping spiders as she came to slowly resemble one.
This murder destroyed her human soul, and she grew to enjoy the act of killing. She was granted power over spiders and could command them to do as she wished. The dark voice inside her ordered her to travel from town to town and kill in exchange for mightier powers, and she did so, sending spiders to attack her victims. She developed her own venom, spun webs, and commanded an army of spiders as she became more spider than human.
Yet before her transformation was complete and she grew too powerful, warriors from the Free Federation chased her into the Weaver Cave. Here she remains banished, twisted in the darkness, an aspect of the dark Weaver in the flesh, determined to use the power she was promised to spread death and fill the veins of her enemies with venom.