Skitterers
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(New Ancestry + New Monsters)
Delvers in the Dark is the first supplement a series of supplements centered around the things that lurk in the recesses of Urth. New playable and fully compatible ancestries¸ NPCs¸ and monsters for use in your Shadow of the Demon Lord or Godless game.
Skitterers are small humanoid-arachnid hybrid creatures that live in a highly structured society centered around their ravenous appetites and loathsome leaders known as brood witches. Mobs of broodlings swarm enemies yet retreat when outnumbered¸ some are fed the royal jelly and raised to become brood witches themselves. Weavers and hunters help to uphold and maintain their dens¸ meanwhile the brood witches lay cluthes of eggs and construct abominations known as skitterer kings that are held together by webbing and black magic.
Not all skitterers can survive in this hierarchy though¸ some with mutations or defects are considered cursed and cast out from society if not killed outright. These cursed skitterers are shunned by society¸ and often find lives of adventure or crime are their only option.