Aracne's power is spread thin, empowering runic symbols so that those without a natural gift might yet learn magic and that magic items might function. She also empowers material components so that humanoids might cast spells otherwise beyond them. She is severely diminished by these tasks, making her the embodiment of a passive force with little energy to steer its course. Whispers say that she has only retreated further into passivity since Dovu vanished.

While other gods have proper creature types, the Celestial Planar Gods, the fey Olympic Pantheon, etc., Aracne seems to be magic incarnate, defying categorization.

Appearance

Aracne is often depicted in the form of a rainbow-colored woman, her mana composed form fading out softly at the edges or kaleidoscope-ing into a thousand colors and patterns.

Holy Symbol

Worshipers of Aracne bear the spider web symbol, it's 8 outer nodes representing the 8 schools of magic.

Aracne wants magic to flourish across The Universe. She is pleased by that which expands the opportunities of magic and mages, and irritated by that which restricts the learning and casting of spells.

Aracne, the dominant deity of The Astral Sea, may have been the first god to ever come into being, although no one recalls those early days clearly.

Aracne is closest with Dovu, God of Arcane Knowledge, and he has helped her to shape The Astral Plane and its powers into the magic system used today. They have an amicable relationship, the details of which remain private between the two of them, but it is certainly a strangely close relationship for two deities of such abstract nature.