Hangmaiden

Hangmaidens, also known as Nos, Hunter Spiders or Trapweavers,<ref>HANGMAIDENS
Also Nos, Hunter Spiders, Trapweavers - Bestiary: Hangmaidens</ref> are carnivorous Anima based around entanglement and conspiracy<ref>Hangmaidens are carnivorous creatures of anima that eat once every few years, emerging from the fabric of the spirit world in response to conspiracy and entangled ties.  Noble lineages, high business, incestuous families and the rarest extremes of high school drama can provide the necessary context for Hangmaidens to emerge. - Bestiary: Hangmaidens</ref> which can shift between three maiden-mother-crone forms. Their powers and abilities, aside from transformation, vary.<ref>Appearance: Each has three individual forms, with a common thread tying between them- the forms are divided into two feminine, humanlike ones and one monstrous one.  Attention is often paid to hair and clothing.  A spider or gossamer motif is common. [...] As creatures of fate, they borrow from the Clothos, Lachesis, Atropos dynamic, transforming between three physical states of being.  Each may have powers or techniques of its own, but one is always capable of turning into a physical embodiment of the Hangmaiden’ spiritual body, a half-woman spider, a spider of monstrous size, or something that resembles a spider in only the loosest sense, like a mass of wet, meaty, spindly legs with the main body always out of sight. - Bestiary: Hangmaidens
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