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The Tome Celestial: The Grimscuttle Tribes

December 2020·pp. 16–23

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Jordan Green and Louis Aguilar explore the Spiderfang tribes of Neferatia, their treacherous bargains and devotion to a ravenous Spider God. Arachnaroks and Skitterstrands are intelligent predators rather than simple mounts, while tribal history and the Deff Grotz’s Shyishan imagery connect their raids to the realm’s particular supernatural dangers.

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