Araxyte

This article is about the race. For other uses, see Araxyte (disambiguation).

Araxxor, one of the largest Araxyte

The Araxyte are creatures resembling spiders that inhabit the Araxyte Hive in Morytania. They are larger and more powerful than other known types of spiders and have seven eyes. Araxytes are known to grow to huge sizes from feeding off fear and rage. According to Gavin, Araxytes eat at least eight humans each year.

The player-owned farm's spider perk (+3% damage with tier 2) does work on Araxytes. However, it does NOT work on Shattered Worlds's Araxyte mobs.

History

Age of the Empire

During the Second Age in the Zarosian Empire, the araxytes kidnapped and slaughtered many of Senntisten's citizens. They were attracted to the city due to the sculptor Sana's fyrdeeds, who utilised dyes made from insects that they were attracted to. The Zarosian Church were aware of their existence but chose to keep it a secret to prevent panic among the people. Sana created a large fyrdeed to ease the peoples' tensions when she saw fear and arguing among the people, but it ended up attracting the araxytes. Even after the Church protected Sana, she was ridden with anger for araxytes ruining her art and turning it into a nightmare, and she headed to the araxyte den to create a fyrdeed to burn them. As she finished the final fuse and left, her foot got tangled on a web as a torrent of araxytes charged at her. In the face of death, Sana lit the fyrdeed, burning the araxytes and herself, and afterwards escaping wounded. A particularly large araxyte was salvaged from the remains and interred at Senntisten's graveyard in honour of Sana's heroic act.

Present Day

Some araxytes were able to escape, although it is not known if the current hive was the one mentioned during the Second Age. Araxxor and Araxxi lead this hive and are feared by the vampyres of Morytania. Araxxi is a Colossus araxyte, while Araxxor simply grew to a large size.

Known Araxytes

• Araxxor
• Araxxi
• Araxyte spider
• Acidic spider
• Highly acidic spider
• Pulsing spider
• Mirrorback spider
• Bladed spider
• Spitting spider
• Imbued spider
• Araxyte pet
  • Bill
  • Gavin
  • Lana
  • Pete
  • Steve
  • Dave
  • Barry
  • Mallory

Update history

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• patch 23 October 2017 (Update):
  • The spider minions in the Araxxi fight will now die at the end of her death animation.