Pretender- Spider Queen

[Endoperez]

Ungoliath-style spider could be a national spell. There are many national spells that summon unique, more or less independent, divine or infernal creatures. Spentas, Mictlan's summons, Pyth/Mari angels, two nations whose spells you haven't seen yet...

After the next patch or so, you can #copystats an "eternal enemy of the sun", with some rather striking powers.

[HoneyBadger]

I think Ungoliant would fit better as a Pretender-chassis than a national summons, just because we're talking about a dark spirit (and one even the mighty Vanir were afraid of) who took the form of the first spider (albeit a size 6 spider) and co-conspired with Melkor on pretty equal terms. Melkor, the mightiest and by far the evilest of the Vanir actually needed to be rescued from her by Balrogs (note the plural) when he refused to give her the Silmarils. It just would, in my opinion, be more interesting to use her as a unique and powerful, but chaotic and difficult, asset to a nation, where you could express her abilities more fully rather than tone the concept down drastically for the purposes of balance. Even with demonlords you know there are three of them. Admittedly, she's one of my favorite characters from the Silmarillion for putting the kybosh on the Vanir's plans for elven heaven and just being seriously scary. Mythological elves are interesting, fantasy elves taste like chicken. Eternal enemy of the Sun sounds REALLY fun!

[Brownoak]

Gentlemen

Thank you for the feedback. I think as per HoneyBadger that there is room for all of these spider-type pretenders in Dominions as it adds to the fun of the game. I think what I had in mind with the Spider Queen was something which would be thematic to Machaka but general enough to be available to other nations as well- kind of a companion to the Scorpian King.

In any event I offer it as inspiration to any modder who would like to create it...

Regards

Brownoak