Silent crawlers with a venomous bite. Web spinners, creating sticky, beautiful homes that double as deadly traps. Natures most artistic killers. What fools would grow these tiny killing machines into the size of ponies or even larger? Gnomes! Opportunistic dark gnomes, looking for profit, who stumbled upon an interdimensional substance-experimental yet undoubtedly powerful. And then something else came creeping down the strand that connected the spiders to the interdimensional world, a shadow-the Shadow of the Spider Goddess!