Scheherazade - Description

For anyone without a fear of spiders, she could be described as haunting, or even quizzically beautiful, in her own way - from what little one could see of her, anyway. A woman from the waist up, a spider from the waist down, Scheherazade nearly pushed eight feet in height from legtip to head-top, discounting the comparatively much, much larger abdomen and nest of legs behind and about her. Her arachnid features were a bit prickly to behold, composed of thorny black chitin that rose even to jagged, crystalline spines and spires along the top and sides of her spidery abdomen, a venomous, vibrant green in colour. The spiky motif continued on in her lower half's apparel, starting with legplates of silver that rose from near the tip of each leg, terminating at the second joint in long, ornate spikes, like morbid, metallic spider-equivalent knee-highs. Serrated on one side, it wasn't outlandish to believe they were much like long, decorative leg-knives, though their function beyond style was questionable; it could be assumed they were largely decorative, as it was likewise easily surmised that such structures wouldn't be particularly helpful in a web! The underside of her arachnid-abdomen boasted a rather intricate, dazzling arrangement of faintly-glimmering patterning; hard to describe, it was like her proverbial 'widow's hourglass', only far less discernible in whatever shape it was, looking more akin to a triskele, than anything. Just beyond her rather orderly, compact spinnerets was a rather troublesome sight: a stinger, of all things! Housed neatly in a sheath of sorts so only the tip stuck free, it bobbed in and out of sight to the tune of some invisible heartbeat, shallowly curved in shape, and devoid of any barbs or spines.

Her human-half chose something far more ornate and lively; a dress - more like a heavy ball gown - that shimmered with silks and velvets, crushed, embossed, and stylized; sweeping satins and big metal buttons! Largely black, it was complimented by an array of iridescent greens and dark, rich emeralds, with teases of white by the ruffled layer of skirts that hung all about the join of her bodies rather neatly. Skulls were styled onto every button of silver, and a symbol was emblazoned along the breast, unsurprisingly stylized as a spider. Fine, black leather gloves covered her long, slender fingers, disappearing up under those sleeves concealingly.

A lengthy, full veil only further alienated her and her choice of rather eccentric apparel: only her eyes - swirling, sickly violet things - were revealed, regions just around them hidden well by either the dense black fabric of the veil, or a liberally-applied layer of kohl-like colouring. While her skin was essentially covered by that hooded veil and the rest of her eclectic garb, lengths of her hair did spill free over her shoulders to about breast level; straight and black, with an almost iridescent quality to it that left it appearing not unlike chitin, itself, rather fittingly.

Like her far smaller, less 'taur-ish cousins, Scheherazade spends most of her time scurrying around the darker edges of the region, but is hardly a dark soul, herself: rather fond of emerging for chit-chat now and again, she busies herself with webweaving and innocent gossip, feeding on little interactions here and there.

Just don't ask her about the vanishing of people or pets.