Red Rising Saga · World

Spiderworm

Also known as Subdermal Datachip

creature

Engineered silk-producing creatures: thigh-thick brown/black fur, disproportionately long skeletal legs, corpulent abdomens; crawl girders weaving bioSilk webs.

Category: creature
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 4
Books: 1

Spiderworms debut in Red Rising as Society-engineered bioSilk producers, their thigh-thick, fur-covered bodies and skeletal legs designed for weaving webs across the Institute's girders. Their presence underscores the brutal, bio-engineered ecosystem of the Golds' training grounds, where even the environment is weaponized. Across the series, these creatures evolve from mere background hazards into symbols of the Society's twisted ingenuity, their webs serving as both traps and metaphors for the inescapable control exerted by the ruling class.

Evolution

BOOK 1Red Rising
Engineered silk-producing creatures: thigh-thick brown/black fur, disproportionately long skeletal legs, corpulent abdomens; crawl girders weaving bioSilk webs.