Essential Material: Arachne (Patreon)

A legendary seamstress from Greek mythology. A weaver of exceptional talent and skill, a centennial genius who cannot be surpassed if the competition is the weaving of cloth and fabric.

Born to a famous dyer, she began weaving almost from infancy. Possessing great ability and quickly surpassing those many times her senior, by the time she was an adult, she could rightly claim to be the best weaver in all of the world. 

However, her boasts attracted the attention of Athena, the Goddess of Weaving, who challenged Arachne to a contest to determine who was truly the better weaver between them. A rigged contest that Athena was supposed to win with ease, a method of humbling Arachne’s hubris, however, Arachne’s work was far superior to Athena’s and the contest ended in an unexpected way.

At the end, Athena could not accept defeat at Arachne’s hands, tore up the beautiful tapestry Arachne had woven depicting the cruelty and abuses of the gods, and cursed her to take the form of a spider and spend the rest of her days weaving.