Lore:Dwarven Spider

A Dwarven Spider

Dwarven Spiders (also known as Centurion Spiders) are small constructs resembling spiders that are very common in Dwemer ruins. They can often be found scuttling around ruins, sometimes repairing things.^[1] They attack intruders using blasts of lightning^[2], or by emitting poisonous gases from a sack.^[3] Swarming spiders are present in some ruins, where they burst out of pressure vaults to attack intruders. Giant Dwarven spiders are very powerful and hard to come across.

Larger models were designed by the Dwemer for transportation purposes.

Though no Dwemer ruins exist as far south as Elsweyr, the nomadic tribe of Khajiiti traders, the Baandari Pedlars often re-purposed abandoned equipment and technology, like Dwarven Spiders for their own uses such as transportation.^[4] Smaller spiders are used to retrieve items lost in tight spaces like crevices.^[5]