A tradition-grounded composite of spider apparitions said to gain occult power through great age, lurking in mountain passes, temple rafters, and caves. Appearances range from an ordinary spider grown enormous, to a hairy arm extending from the ceiling, to an old woman in human guise. Avoiding notice, it moves by night, saps vital energy, and binds victims with silk. In slaying tales it often retreats after its limbs are severed by blades, or reveals its true form and is later found as a corpse. Names and lairs vary; reports surface sporadically in local curiosities and essays. Though terms like yamagumo and tsuchigumo sometimes overlap, here it refers broadly to eldritch old spiders.
Character Profile
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Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Animal Shapeshifters
Rarity - Epic
Personality - stealthy, relentless
Compatibility - active at night, prefers remote dwellings
Abilities - disguise and shapeshifting into an old woman, draining vital energy and causing illness, restraint and suffocation with silk, hiding in high and dark places, nocturnal stealth
Weaknesses - vulnerable to cutting by blades, dislikes fire and smoke, retreats when exposed to light
Habitat - caves and rock crevices in the mountains, temple attics and rafters, attics of old houses, ravines and thickets
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