Kalin

''This creature is a monstrous hybrid of spider and ant. Armored with chitin of mottled yellow and brown, it has glowing eyes, wickedly curved mandibles and slashing forelimbs that it waves aggressively towards you.''

Combat
A kalin prefers to attack from ambush, using its web to suspend itself above its prey, far from sight. It will then drop noiselessly from above, striking with all attacks as if charging. In close melee, the kalin will attempt to grapple with its jaws and then repeatedly slash its prey until the prey is dead. A kalin will concentrate exclusively on a single target until it perishes before moving onto another.

Only concentrated attacks that strip the kalin of 50% or more of its total hit points will cause it to drop its prey and change targets.

Description
Kalin are a breed of insect that dwell in the Athasian underdark. They have the bulbous abdomens of ants, but the thorax, limbs and head of a great spider. Although able to spin spider silk, these many-limbed horrors do not weave webs but instead hunt their prey. Sometimes domesticated as mounts by the dray, they are cunning predators with a vicious array of natural attacks.

Dregoth has four squadrons of elite kalin riders, each composed of 25 templars of at least 5th-level. Each squadron is led by an 8th-level officer, armed with the best equipment their lord can procure and accompanied by their own war defiler from the College of Blackspire. Arrogant and powerful, the kalin riders are generally loathed and feared by the other citizens of New Giustenal.

Kalin chitin is used in the construction of armor by the second generation dray, but they rarely hunt the creatures for this purpose, instead preferring to scavenge chitin from wild kalin corpses. Wild kalin do not form nests, except to lay eggs. Once hatched, young are not attended and the entire nest will separate. Kalin reach maturity in six months and live for five years and often find themselves in fierce competition with Wall Walkers, another subterranean species, during that time. An adult kalin is 12 feet long and weighs 700 pounds.