Fire spider

Not to be confused with lava spider.

Fire spiders
Faction/Affiliation	Independent
Racial capital	Beth'tilac's Lair
Racial leader(s)	Beth'tilac
Homeworld	Elemental Plane (Firelands)
Area(s)	Firelands, Molten Front, Pandaria
Average height	More than 12 feet

Fire spiders are spiders found in the Firelands and rare locations in Pandaria. Despite being native to the Firelands, they aren't that much different from the spiders found on Azeroth, aside from being slightly more fire-oriented. They bite, they spin webs, they spit burning venom, and they capture their prey in cocoons of searing silk for later consumption. The fire spiders grow to huge sizes — the 12-foot-long ones in the Molten Front are actually the small ones. Fire spider venom is boiling hot, and the fluid they use to spin their webs is unbelievably viscous.

Beth'tilac, the enormous matriarch of the Cinderweb brood, and her merciless offspring feed by sucking the magma and fire from the corpses of fire elementals. Not only are the Cinderweb spiders vicious and predatory, their numbers appear to be endless. The Cinderweb Spinners appear to be the caretakers of Beth'tilac's brood, and they lay their eggs among the stone pillars of the Widow's Clutch in the Molten Front. Cinderweb eggs are squishy, gel-like sacs in which tiny spiders incubate.

Fire spiders are not allied with Ragnaros in a literal sense, but they are still a danger to the cause of the druids of Mount Hyjal and should be treated as such.

The blisteringly hot molten hatchlings of Searing Gorge camouflage themselves by blending in with oozing magma.

Notable

•   Acidous
•   Anthriss
•   Beth'tilac <The Red Widow>
•   Cinderweb Queen <Lieutenant of Flame>
•   Deth'tilac <The Smouldering Darkness>
•   Kirix
•   Nibbles
•   Pyrachnis <Beth'tilac Lieutenant>
•   Skitterflame
•   Solix

Types

Cinderweb brood

•   Cinderling
•   Cinderweb Broodling
•   Cinderweb Clutchkeeper
•   Cinderweb Creeper
•   Cinderweb Drone
•   Cinderweb Matriarch
•   Cinderweb Skitterer
•   Cinderweb Spiderling
•   Cinderweb Spinner
•   Cinderweb Spinner
•   Engorged Broodling

Echoweb brood

•   Echoweb Cinderfang
•   Echoweb Hatchling
•   Echoweb Spinner
•   Echoweb Toxiclaw

Other

•   Core Spider

As a companion pet

•  [Kindleweb Spiderling] is a rare drop from Island expeditions.
• Molten Hatchlings can be captured in pet battles in Searing Gorge.
•  [Blazing Cindercrawler] can be purchased from Midsummer Merchants and Midsummer Suppliers at a cost of 350 during the Midsummer Fire Festival.

As a hunter pet

Main article: Spider#As a hunter pet

Notes

• They use the bone spider and nerubian skeletons for their base model. Their relation to the nerubians or their ancestors, the aqir, is unknown, though it's unlikely that they are related.
• Only the smaller ones are capable of being tamed.

See also

• Deathweb spider
• Aranasi