Crystal Spider

You are forced to squint to see past the dazzling refractions and spot that they are emanating from the body of a large, crystalline spider.

Combat
Crystal spiders prefer to spin their webs across trails and game paths. They do not sit in their webs, but instead wait on nearby ledges or outcroppings, hoping to pounce on those unfortunate enough to become entangled. Where lighting permits, a crystal spider will also use its ability to fire rays of light at its enemies and will use its psionic power of control light to augment lighting conditions in order to facilitate this. In melee, the creature attacks with its slashing claws and poisonous bite. It prefers to grapple its targets and then sting them to death.

Description
Resembling giant wolf spiders, crystal spiders have bodies composed of multifaceted crystal that creates dazzling patterns of refracted light. They spin glass webs that are very sharp and can focus a damaging beam of light at a potential victim.

The crystal spider is a beautiful creature. During the day the sunlight refracts through it, reflecting a myriad of colors which change as it moves. At night it reflects any ambient light, retaining its colors but not as radiant as during the day. When the spider has fed, it takes on a reddish tinge but this fades over a few days.

A crystal spider is incapable of making sounds, but can communicate with others of its kind by means of controlled light.

Crystal spiders get most of their nutrients from sunlight but do require liquids to survive, preferring human blood. They are hunted for their webs, which make excellent weapons, and for the gems which they instinctively weave into these webs (although the spiders are themselves unaware of their value).

A typical crystal spider is eight feet long and can live up to 150 years. Before death, a crystal spider will lay a single huge cluster of eggs (as many as 200) in a specially crafted web.