Arakaali, Spinner of Shadows

Arakaali, Spinner of Shadows
Arakaali, Spinner of Shadows
Level(s)	55
Location(s)	The Temple of Decay Level 2
Quest(s)	The Mother of Spiders
Resistance(s)	Resists Elemental Damage Resists Chaos Damage
Skill(s)	Laser Laser Barrage Mortar Cleave Hide

Arakaali, Spinner of Shadows is the final boss of act 7, located in the Temple of Decay Level 2.

Quest

Defeating her is part of the quest The Mother of Spiders. The rescue Silk part of the quest, however, is scripted to be fail.

Divination cards

The following divination cards can drop from this monster:

Lore

There are Shrines to Arakaali scattered around Act 7. The shrines have lore regarding Arakaali.

From Sin:

"

A temptress and a predator. Vaal legends say she crawled up from the blackest of pits during the creation of the world.

No, her beginnings were far more mundane, a mortal harlot whose endless lust for loin and lecherous delight saw her transformed into the very image of her dark desires.

'The Spinner of Shadows' they once called her. She sees herself as a regular goddess of love, and has the romantically forged temple to prove it.

That's where you'll find her. Yet there's little romance to the lady herself. At least, I doubt the corpses that now embrace her carapace would think so.

"

- Sin - "Arakaali" dialogue

"

Answering the call of a royal invitation, I visited the Spinner of Shadows as an emissary for a small and fragile alliance of gods. Mostly weak deities huddling together in terror of being consumed by their greaters. At this time, Queen Arakaali ruled an empire, and so invited me to gaze upon her mighty works with appropriate wonder.

If I'd looked past this pretense, I may have chanced to see her hidden desire to have me share her bed. For years I lay trapped in her webbed sheets. Some days she enjoyed my prowess, other days we enjoyed each other.

Yet, this illusion of love and leisure simply veiled the morbid reality that I was not free to leave. I languished under her bewitching spell until the day the spider was betrayed by her own flies, and sealed within that temple of her own fevered making.

"

- Sin - "The Spinner of Shadows" dialogue

From Eramir:

"

From what I can recall, Arakaali was a Vaal fertility goddess, a rather unsettling union of sexuality and mortality. Whilst usually presenting herself as a large arachnid, Arakaali would often assume human form, a ruse intended to lure mortals into the act of copulation. The entries were vague about the gender of her prey.

After satiating her carnal desires, she would then quench her divine thirst, draining her erstwhile lover of all bodily fluid. Her acolytes would then collect the dessicated husk and give it a decorative placement in Arakaali's unholy temple.

I fear that Silk knows not the true nature of the 'marriage' he so desperately seeks.

"

- Eramir "Arakaali" dialogue

From Yeena:

"

I have asked questions of Spirit and it has answered in dreams that wake me with screaming. Arakaali will suck all life from this land, leave only empty husks and dusty bones. There will be no Spirit, no us, no thing left to love and laugh. Only husks and dust...and Arakaali.

"

- Yeena "Arakaali" dialogue

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Version history

Version	Changes
3.0.0	Added to the game