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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4005920" data-attributes="member: 39593">I've used them before as well.  But I don't think they've been developed beyond the MM entry stage.  I think I remember seeing them in 2e but not anything that jumps out at me beyond the name even if that was a long time ago.  This is what I did in my own campaign.  Spellweavers are the Great Enemy of the Ithilid Empire.   Both arose in proximity in some forgotten place long ago.  They are inherently inimical races, always have been and always will be.  Ithilids can't eat their brains, as something about Spellweaver biology is fatally poisonous to ithilids.  But spellweavers rely on a magic based telepathy for comunication and proximity of ithilids disrupts this "frequency."  They've destroyed each other's homeworlds and moved onto the planes while continuing their war.  Ithillids are light sensitive and use portals to carve out enclaves in the underdark across many worlds and planes.  Spellweavers occupy the Astral plane in fortress libraries built on the husks of dead gods.  They're a magocracy with the spellweavers as the ruling caste with control of all magic in their society.  They spend their lives immersed in magical studies and research, with other castes to handle trade, labor, or purely martial warfare among others.  Because they are locked in the Contest with the Ithilids the spellweavers themselves are in constant search of every possible edge magic can give them.  Which is usually how most pcs come into contact with them.</blockquote>

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