The Webbed Hallows

The Webbed Hallows is the common name for the Seat of Spider power in the northern hemisphere. Spiders have a different name for it; Sosay in their language, which translates into Sanctuary.
The Webbed Hallows are far more than they seem and appear random in design. The common observer would say it occupies a small area, no larger than the village of Cranberry Creek on the ground. There are a few buildings on the surface, but only enough so that visitors feel comfortable when they visit. Spiders above the surface prefer to live in their web-constructed homes high in the trees.
Below the surface is where the city flexes its muscles. Hidden to most eyes on the surface, there is a whole unique biome beneath their feet. The planet is alive beneath the surface. Many unique species never run their feet in the long grasses found everywhere.
The true size of The Hallows is beyond comprehension based on what they see on the ground. This is the intent. The Hallows live in the air and underground. Under the stars, the city branches out from tree to tree, cleverly hidden from prying eyes, for a hundred kilometers in all directions. Under the ground, the city branches in a vast network of caves and bulwarks hundreds of kilometers in all directions, including down.
The Webbed Hallows is a city, a military headquarters, and the gateway into the Naeswole, or underworld. Spiders work alongside many species who live solely in the Naeswole in symbiotic harmony. The berks, an antlike species armored to the teeth in an insect shell. Spider’s massive broods of spiderling grow in the under-city of Webbed Hallows. They never see the sunlight until they go through "The Weaning," which turns them from hungry masses to educated spiders in civilization.

UPPER HALLOWS

In the trees, in the prebuilt structures. That is the face of the Webbed Hallows and its deceptive. The upper Hallows stretches for 300 square miles. This means from Raela to the north, Cranberry Creek to the West, Gene to the south, and running the length of the Cranberry creak to the Draena River at Harral.
The orebuilt structures are built as a meeting place for non-spiders to meet with the spiders.The vast majority of the Upper Hallows is a maze of spider webs high in the trees. These webs are flexible and waterproof and tough as the strongest steels. Each spider has double room appartments. Even mated pairs have separate appartments next to each other.
Spider communities live by a strong caste system and the higher you are in the trees, the higher the caste you belong to. Spiders control their populations very strictly and every spider is allowed to mate every 5 years past the age of 95 (Spiders live over 200 years if they pass the Weaning.) There are no more that 750,000 adult spiders in all of the Webbed Hallows.

LOWER HALLOWS

The Naeswole is a dangerous place. Spiders have sealed off all entrences into it in sticky webbed tunnels. One has to either ride in on a spider or wear specialized equipment ro enter the depths.
The near subsurface is where most spiders do their work and research. Its where the great spider councils sit. The Naeswole is the place to come together and do spider things.
The subsurface gradually opens into the Naeswole some two km below the surface. The spiders dug holes and cavernes over the 3 million years of existence of the city. The Lower hallows encompass 300 cubic miles of tunnels and research areas.
Naeswole UNDER THE HALLOWS
The battlezone area of the Hallows. This is a shifting front that extends kilometers in all directions or sometimes close to the entrance. This area is forbidden to outsiders. The weaning spiders are viscious killers, especially the small ones. The larger ones are far more reserved about killing. These spiders swarm their enemies and destroy enything in their path.

Type

Megalopolis