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==Undead Aranea==
Given that the aranea are so obsessed with magic, naturally, they have more than their share of [[necromancer]]s. And this has led to the development of two different kind of aranean [[undead]] creatures.

'''Yeshoms''' were an experiment to grant an aranea immortality, augmented shapeshifting, and enhanced spellcasting power. It went horribly, horribly right, transforming the araneans who underwent the procedure into [[slime]]-like [[undead]] monsters whose psyches were scarred by the transformation, which ultimately drove them insane and evil. In its normal form, the yeshom resembles a large puddle of oily, black tar, but it can take the form of any man-sized or smaller creature, but each form retains its characteristic shiny, black, liquid texture. These grotesque creatures are virtually indestructible; alongside a 75% resistance to magic, they are immune to any form of energy discharge, as well as being immune to charm spells, sleep spells, hold spells, death magic and poison. Plus, they can only be hurt by magical weapons. They can dissolve creatures with their touch, like a black pudding, and any creature destroyed by a yeshom has its very ''soul'' destroyed; not even a '''Wish''' can restore their victims! They can also envelop victims and trap them in suspended animation within a pocket-plane that only the yeshom can access, where the yeshom can draw upon that victim's memories. Cruel, irrational and very, very bored, these sadistic undead prefer to draw out the agony of a death, prolonging the victim’s terror. About the only good thing about them is that they are extremely territorial; they rarely, if ever, move from their isolated lairs, and never have minions, not even undead slaves.

'''Arashaeem''' are believed to be the result of aranea attempting to undergo the [[lich]] transformation, although whether or not they are successes is a matter of perspective. These undead spiderweres retain their shapeshifting, being able to transform between three [[zombie]]-like forms; a giant undead spider, a humanoid, and a hybrid form. Highly intelligent and equally arrogant, they retain an appetite for flesh, much like a cannibal zombie or [[ghoul]], but are still powerful mages wielding deadly magic in pursuit of their goals of conquest and domination. Their venom is a powerful paralytic, and some strange aspect of their necrology causes their webbing to be imbued with a similar paralytic toxin. Unlike a true lich, whilst arashaeem are resilient, they have no phylacteries and thus they cannot return if destroyed. They also retain the vulnerability to anti-shapeshifter weaponry carried by their living kin.

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yeshom MCSC.jpg|Yeshom
arashaeem MCSC.jpg|Arashaeem
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