It would be a good idea to not wear a fly suit during halloween in Skyrim. :ermm:

That's a reasonable point, but it would not be wrong to say that perhaps these spiders are not earth spiders and while outwardly alike, are internally qwuite different and are able to withstand lower temperatures easily.

yeah for sure - I'm arguing the same point as you - that if spiders are in, they should be logically accounted for within the world - i.e - specific reasons they dwell in cold climates. As opposed to saying it's ok simply because it is a fantasy world, which is a crap argument.

Spiders are one of the most common creatures on Earth, and the first land animals (together with scorpions.)
You can find an average of a million spiders in a hectare of grassland.
Spiders live in every habitat and climate you can think of, they are adaptable and resilient.

Besides that, he Skyrim spider must have some magical influence in its survival.
The cold doesnt matter, size does.
It either has an internal skeleton and lungs beside its external skeleton and thrachea, or it gets support via magical means, otherwise it would a.) be crushed under its own weight and b.) choke.

Spiders in Skyrim are not out of place.
Please do some research before you make threads with wild assumptions.

Just drop by to second this. And judging from the scene in the trailer, Solitude doesn't seem to be a freezing port city to me, even though it is traditionally known as the northernmost major city on Tamriel.

This post has already been praised so much. Even so.... WIN!

This.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_wolf_spider

And the spider in the trailer does sorta look like a huge wolf spider to me.

This.

That is very true for the reasons you stated.

The real question is why Spiders at all? Have the creative juices run so dry that the game has to add more of the most cliched monsters in RPG history to it's line up? It was rather refreshing to play Oblivion, and Morrowind without the massive spiders that seem to be in 99.9% of other RPGs. Do we have to have every cliched RPG monster in the game before we see something a little more original?

Look at the pretty spider. :clap:

I don't see the problem, spiders actually do live in alpine and artic regions>>> http://caucasus-spiders.info/spider-habitats/

"Spiders can be found in all high mountain zones. Directly above the tree-line in the alpine zone (1700 - 4000 m), spiders mostly live on the ground between rocks and plant roots or on the few woody plants left (e. g. on Rhododenron caucasicum, R. luteum). At above 4000 m last grassy patches begin to disappear with increasing altitude and become more and more patchy (sub-nival zone) Above the climatic frontier of permanent snow (true nival zone) the last few remaining spiders live in a few sheltered microhabitats such as rock crevices, temporary snow and ice caves or between the remaining mosses and lichens. A number of yet undiscovered spider species are expected in such remote habitats and collecting spiders there would most probably yield very interesting results."

er.. yes, and no....

Speaking of spiders:
is there an explanation as to why spiders in TES are bigger than cows? No. The biggest known spider in the world is about a foot long and 4-5 inches in height. Yet, in TES, spiders look to be about 8-10 feet long and about 4-5 feet tall. What is the explanation for that?

Is there an explanation as to why spiders run to you and attack you? Spiders are stalkers. Smaller spiders use webs as nets, larger spiders stand still until the prey is close enough to jump it. Is there an explanation for that?

AND FOR THE WIN: (drum roll)
I GIVE YOU... THE REAL-LIFE, AMAZING SNOW SPIDER!!!!

http://bugguide.net/node/view/369760


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Do you know what is even more ludicrous? I am assuming that the world of the elder scrolls has about the same gravity and oxygen density as Mother Earth, so therefore it would be impossible for spiders to grow so large. I mean really Bethesda, get your facts right, you cannot defy the laws of physics, laddie. :rofl:

You can with magic.
Magic is pretty much defying the laws of physics.
Lore supports magic being incorporated in living things and used as way to change and survive, for example, nirnroots.

Why do we even need explanations on this? It's a fantasy world, if there are giant spiders, they are there, the end.
Deal with it. :disguise:

Oh, that's al'right then. :whistling:

Judging from how crazy high you can jump and floats with a naturally high acrobatic skill, I doubt it.

Eh, that's probably a case of bad animations and game design.

There are spiders in norway. Lol,

:rofl:

Durr obviously!

They're ice spiders, duh.

Wow. That's impressive. Have you studied Biology or something?




To be honest, I don't see the problem with cliched monsters. People complain about dragons, spiders... and I think... well, if they appear in so much films and games, it's because they are, in fact, good, cool ideas with a lot of potential (especially in the case of dragons, this time around). A giant horned, flying bacillus, able to shoot laser would be a very original, fresh creature, far from being cliche. Would it be good?

Maybe they can cast Frost Shield

Someone slept through sarcasm class.