Threads of spider silk, each as thick as tree trunks, braided together in a complicated tangle to form a gigantic sphere that, from a distance, could be mistaken for a floating island.
This "thing" was none other than the duchy of "Araceae," which had just split away from the Kingdom of the Pests.
Inside that globe, tens of thousands of arachnid-like creatures (spiders, scorpions, mites...) busied themselves spinning webs to mark out their territories within that vast structure.
Each of those creatures obeyed a social hierarchy: the workers were submissive and grouped under the command of a baron; different baronies answered to a count; the counties remained beneath a marquisate and, at the top of the duchy's ladder, sat the duchess
" Exa d'Aranae " .
The duchess lodged at the very heart of the duchy, for every strand that made up that immense web converged on her.
