Researcher's Insight into the Bileweavers
Undated

While all spiders evolved from ancient marine arachnids, the biological structure of the Bileweaver is especially reminiscent of its ancestors. Aside from the thick exoskeletons vaguely resembling that of a crab, they also share another characteristic in their dependence on a carnivorous diet. Their build predisposes them to quick movement and an aggressive jump attack that allows them to deliver near-fatal doses of a noxious mist from their enlarged venom glands.

Additionally, the behavior of the Bileweaver is consistent with other jumping spiders in that they do not catch their prey in webs, preferring to hunt and instead use their silk to build their nests. The thing that separates them from any other known spider species, and that makes them eerily remarkable is, of course, their enormous mass. No evidence of terrestrial arachnids of this size has existed until now.

The deeper I dig into the origins of this impossible creature, the more uneasy I become. While other specimens from the Louisiana Incident show signs of having been “created"—such as the surgical scars present on the Ursa Mortis—the Bileweavers appear to have been “born." Or more accurately articulated: hatched. It brings Hannah Kinney to mind.

The Bileweavers are also the first specimens of the Corruption who appear to reproduce, spontaneously bursting from an observable source in response to human proximity. In this case that source being clusters of pulsating egg sacs. According to what I believe to be a harrowing firsthand account, the possibility of such evolution in the Corruption is entirely viable.

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