Cragspider is a Troll entity, either a spider goddess, a demigoddess, or a powerful witch. She is half troll and half spider.
Ride Like the Wind[]
Cragspider is not named in Ride Like the Wind, but if the trolls are your ancestral enemies, she will be obliquely mentioned in the myth Hyalor's Long Ride. If so, she will be the one to give Hyalor his third and final killing wound, as punishment for trying to see her web before it was time.
Lights Going Out[]
Cragspider makes her first proper appearance in Lights Going Out. Throughout the game, you may hear the following rumor, likely related to her:
| “ | We've heard stories from the distant <Forosilvuli/Infithtelli/upper Oslira tribes> that a great spider with the head of a flame-wreathed troll had <gained vengeance against a mountain/plundered Ernalda's long lost storehouse> at the head of a troll war band. Luckily this happened far away. | ” |
Lore[]
Your can receive the following advice about Cragspider in Lights Going Out:
- "We started to hear about Cragspider only recently."
- "She shares with us a determination to destroy Chaos."
- "She is a great spirit—like a god, but not."
- "She is an old god, but in another form."
- "She is no ordinary trollspider.
- "I detect a bit of trickster in her."
Myths & Rituals[]
The Cragspider is one of the deities you can visit by traveling into a tear to the Gods War on the map, see Other Side: Cragspider's Lair for the event kickstarting her visit in the Otherworld. Hers is a rune that your clan does not recognize.
Other Stories[]
The Cragspider appears in other stories of Glorantha. See here on the King of Dragon Pass wiki or here for the Glorantha wiki.