Ligavent
Description
Spiders know every corner of the world but few know spiders who stand to horses high and have a body hard like rock. Ligavent are six legged creatures, equip with long appendages of mostly chiton to stilt over the bogs.
Behaviour
Legavents lay webs like nets over the water of the big to catch diving birds and even an unlucky Zizzer. They change the location of their web as the fish they use as bait move, striding across the bog. If a leg is sucked in too deep the Ligavent will corrode it’s own leg to free itself and use a branch as a replacement, and it’s chiton will grow to envelope it.
Relationship to locals
Legavent legs are a sought after commodity in the Bogs, they are strong but flexible when treated, a key material in the creation of the stilted dwellings of the small folk. They don’t seem to care to hunt or eat the locals but will attack if harried.
Folktale
“In tales of old, there was a spider slight, Whose presence was unable to fright. It watched the birds soaring on high, And longed to reach the up to the sky. One day, it thought of tricking the divine, To grant it legs as long as a mighty pine. The spider spun a sail to carry it to the celestial, Once there it was unnoticed, gods having no heed of something so terrestrial. When the gods did sleep the spider crawled to their ear, this way it invaded their dreams and thoughts to steer. An idea planted to give a spider legs of bone, with this deed done the spider hurried home. Once on land immediate change it underwent, and that’s how it came to be grand and tall, the mighty Legavent.”
- Brimminshaw’s Collected Childish Tales. Vol. 1