Widow-Queen Aranea Morwen

Leader
Weapons: Stiletto Sword, Laspistol

Known throughout the Reach as “The Spider Queen,” Aranea Morwen rarely raises her voice. She doesn’t need to. Every word she speaks carries the certainty that someone will die if ignored.

She believes victory is achieved before the first shot is fired. Rivals are bribed, poisoned, blackmailed or manipulated until resistance simply collapses.

Her stiletto sword, Widow’s Kiss, has ended the lives of Guild factors, Enforcer informants and rival gang leaders alike.

Rumour claims she keeps the names of every person who has ever crossed her, etched onto silk strips hidden within her quarters.

Morwen Banshee

Death Maiden

Once Aranea’s closest confidante, Morwen volunteered for the House Escher Death Maiden alchemical transformation after suffering wounds that should have killed her.

What emerged bears only fragments of the woman she once was.

She moves with terrifying speed, laughing as toxins flood her bloodstream. Her screaming charges have become the stuff of nightmares in the tunnels beneath Ashkabar Reach.

Children in the underhive whisper:

“If you hear her laugh… you’re already dead.”

Scarlett Venom

Matriarch
Weapons: Power Hammer, Needle Pistol

Scarlett is the gang’s executioner.

Where Aranea plans and Morwen terrifies, Scarlett simply ends problems.

Her massive power hammer, The Widowmaker, has crushed Goliath champions inside their armour, while her needle pistol quietly eliminates anyone who escapes the melee.

Despite her brutality, Scarlett is intensely loyal to Aranea and has served beside her since they were young Escher prospects.

Dahlia Venin

Sister
Weapon: Lasgun

Quiet and analytical, Dahlia serves as the gang’s tracker.

She possesses an uncanny ability to follow footprints through sump sludge or identify an enemy gang from tiny chemical traces left on discarded ammunition.

She rarely speaks, but when she does, everyone listens.

Nova Flux

Specialist
Weapon: Grenade Launcher

Nova delights in controlled chaos.

A gifted chem-engineer, she constantly experiments with explosive compounds scavenged from abandoned manufactoria.

No two grenades are ever quite the same.

Some produce toxic mist.

Some melt armour.

Others explode into razor-sharp chem-glass fragments.

Even her own sisters stand well clear whenever Nova starts smiling.

Sable “Deadeye” Thorn

Sister
Weapon: Lasgun

The finest markswoman in the gang.

Sable measures success by a single shot.

She often wagers how many heartbeats it will take before a target collapses after being struck.

Few survive long enough to prove her wrong.

Violet Kross

Sister
Weapon: Lasgun

Violet is the newest fully initiated Sister.

Impulsive and fiercely ambitious, she constantly seeks opportunities to distinguish herself.

Scarlett believes Violet will either become one of the gang’s greatest champions—or die trying.

Either outcome would be suitably Escher.

Trix

Juve

Nobody knows Trix’s real name.

She’s loud, endlessly curious and completely fearless.

Armed with little more than youthful confidence and reckless enthusiasm, she follows the veterans everywhere, desperate to earn her place among the Sisters.

Scarlett frequently threatens to throw her into the nearest sump.

Morwen simply laughs.

Aranea quietly watches.

The Queen sees potential where others see a nuisance.