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Vilemaw
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"Who is your god? What can your god do? Will he let you wither and die defending him? Or will he give you life and vitality like no mortal has ever known? Why serve a god who won't serve you?"
Elise Elise
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Vilemaw is a giant, magical arachnoid being that resides in the Shadow Isles Crest icon Shadow Isles' Twisted Treeline.

Background[]

This unearthly horror is a monstrous creature that looms in the darkest pits beneath the Shadow Isles. The true origin of Vilemaw Vilemaw is completely unknown, save for the assumption that the voracious spider god is an otherworldly life-form not originally from the Shadow Isles Crest icon Shadow Isles.[1]

Appearance[]

Resembling a spider whose grotesque mass is furred and scabbed with wet, mutant growths. Adorned with venomous fangs and colossal legs used to heave its corrupt body.

Personality[]

(TBA)

Abilities[]

  • Immense Physical and Magical Strength: It has great physical and magical, being able to transfigure willing humans willing humans into its servants. It uses its servants to gather fresh food.

Relations[]

Elise Elise[]

Elise Elise worships and aids Vilemaw.

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Starring Champion

Shadow Isles The Sundered Vaults Of Arcana
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Shadow Isles Crest icon

Short Story • 5 Minute Read

Strand By Silken Strand

By Graham McNeill

The weeks spent on the ocean had made Markus feel dizzy and weak, so he was glad to be back on dry land. The path leading from the basalt shore had a slick, oily quality, making it treacherous underfoot. The crooked trees to either side were wretched, blackened husks that wept yellowed sap from where it looked like some panicked animal had clawed them ragged. Soft light shimmered between the trees, dancing like the corpse candles that flickered over marshland and drew unwary souls to their doom. The branches were hung with what looked like canopies of ragged muslin, and it took Markus a moment to realize they were swathes of cobwebs.

Mentioned Champion

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Biography

The Spider Queen

By Graham McNeill

Trivia[]

  • The mythical spider god mentioned in Elise's Elise's lore is Vilemaw.[2]
    • She however also said that as well as Baron Nashor Baron Nashor, Vilemaw is supremely more powerful in the actual lore than in the game, far more powerful than any champion - or a lot of champions - alone, much like an actual god.
    • Vilemaw is based on mythological spider gods, like the Akan's Anansi, Lakota's Iktomi, Nordic Loptr "lofty one = flea > spider" Loki's epithet, etc.
    • Despite being perceived as male, Vilemaw's body plan is peculiarly feminine, with robust abdomen & his two foremost front-limbs lacking the masculine palpal bulb to inseminate females.

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