The Ashwood Spider
The Ashwood lies to the east of Eclathia, near the passes into the Haruk Lands. There, the exiled people called the Ash Elves live, worshippers of the Goddess Lauralethea, she who loved Khul and lost him due to her father's anger. She left the elven pantheon and took her people with her...the Ashwood is where they settled. It is a darkly beautiful place, high canopied and sheltered from the sun, where every manner of creeping crawling thing that lies in her purview lives and thrives. The Ashwood Spider is one of the larger, more dangerous denizens, although it will not harm the native elves.