Editing Spider-God (section)

== Warhammer Fantasy ==
In the wet, wild, and wolly days of the Warhammer World, the Greenskins migrated across the world and mostly settled in the Badlands (AKA Warhammer Eurasia). A particular bunch of Goblins entered the woodlands of the Drakwald - essentially the Black Forest of Warhammer situated in future [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|Empire]] territory. These Goblins found the forest to be mostly inhabited by giant [[Spider]]s of every size, from 'microscopic mite' to fucking 'four-story castle'. The two initially were at constant war, with the spiders unable to defeat the Goblins, since greenskins release spores upon their death, leading to massive population growth where they are defeated. (although they weren't really trying, just eating what came to them). The Goblins, despite these ludicrous numbers, couldn't defeat the Spiders because... well, they were massive apex predators and the Goblins were stumpy, idiotic spore-apes.

As time went on natural selection took place, and the dumber Goblins gave way to those clever enough to steal the young from their enemies to raise as mounts, as well as those smart enough to figure out which small spiders to eat, and which ones to avoid. The Goblins used sacrifices stolen from [[Beastmen]] warbands their kin along with some ritual bloodletting to appease the larger, more undefeatable spiders. Mutations began to manifest amongst the Forest Goblins, resulting in extra arms, eyes, natural venom, and other spider-like traits appearing rarely among their population. Eventually, the Shamans of the Forest Goblins found a way to enter trances similar to those used to channel [[Gork]] and [[Mork]] ([[Meme|or was it Mork and Gork?]]) using poisonous spiders, which proceeded to bite and pump their tongues full of venom. This dragged the minds of the Goblins through the Warp and plopped their consciousnesses right before the Spider-god itself. The Spider-god then taught them dances which would prove kinship to the spiders of the world. Why it did so is unknown - perhaps it was simply impressed that these random Goblins tripped so hard that they threw their souls into the Warp, or perhaps it was just bored.

Some Shamans attempted to use these dances to communicate with the [[Arachnarok Spiders]], the biggest and baddest spiders around, that were known for being able to wipe out life in entire swathes of the forest. Predictably, these early attempts were met with the unfortunate Shamans being wrapped up and liquified into a protein snack. But the Shamans kept trying, and continued communing with the Spider-god. They loved it so much that it eventually became the #1 deity of the Forest Goblins with Gork and Mork/Mork and Gork as subordinate gods to its greatness. Effigies of spiders created with skulls adorned the Forest Goblin settlements, which were increasingly relocated to nearby Arachnarok lairs. Given how deeply ingrained into the Greenskin culture the two Gods are, this is no small feat. Eventually the Arachnaroks began accepting the Goblins' sacrifices, and with the dances of the Shamans being echoed by the tribes they eventually began to see the Forest Goblins as their own young, allowing them to crawl all over their bodies and build wooden structures held together with the Arachnarok's own web on their backs. (Note - since we're talking about spiders here, that doesn't mean they won't eat any who get too close to the fangs or ensnared on a web.)

And that's about it, for the Spider-God in the Old World. Since the Forest Goblins weren't deemed important enough to even merit so much of a mention in [[End Times]], the Spider-God's participation was unknown. Stay classy, Geedubs.