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Description

Nireko at first looks like a huge (about the size of a horse) spider, light brown in color with blood red stripes around his legs and a single black band down the back of his thorax. However, upon inspecting him further one quickly finds that he is not entirely a giant spider. His head and face are like a bald person's, with segmented mandibles lined with thousands of tiny fangs and four bugged-out eyes, and he has two long, thin arms ending in taloned hands in addition to eight legs.

Personality

Nireko cares little for the lives of any creatures not of his own kind. He is calculating and tactful, unsettlingly pessimistic and reserved. He enjoys toying with his prey a bit before eating it, although when his prey doesn't fall for his tricks or refuses to show fear, he can become confused and frustrated. Despite all of this, he can occasionally be compassionate towards someone in a dire situation.

Equipment

Nireko's thorax can pivot around on its joint to shoot webbing as either an ensnaring net, grabbing whip, or wounding projectile ball. His thorax can also split into two and pivot around to spew multiple streams of webbing in two directions as once. His hard exoskeleton is resistant to small arms fire and his venom is instantly fatal.

History

Nireko is a Jorogumo (Japanese spider person) who makes his nest in a forest near the Japanese city of Nagoya, where he feeds upon the Kitsunes living there to keep their population under control. He does this because of a contract he had with a monk two hundred years ago; a pack of Kitsunes were terrorizing Nagoya with their pranks and trickery around that time. The monk was injured by one of the Kitsunes, but just as the Kitsune was leaving him to die, giggling to herself, Nireko descended upon her and ate her. Then he noticed the monk, and decided to help the man, returning him safely to his home. The monk asked what he could do to repay the spider for his kindness, and Nireko told him to make the hunters of a nearby village leave him alone. The monk spoke to the hunters, and they said that they only way they'd leave Nireko alone was if he proved his benevolence to humans by subduing the Kitsunes. And so Nireko struck up a 300 year contract with them to keep the vixens under control. Now, Nireko grows tired of hunting the Kitsunes, but his contract does not expire for another hundred years and the monk magically bound him to it. He now seeks a way to end the contract prematurely and return to peace.

Nireko's Story