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{{Creature
| image       = [[File:Giant spider fight.jpg|250px|Harsk and Ezren battle a giant spider and an ettercap, at top right.]]
| name        = Ettercap
| type        = [[Aberration]]
| subtype     = 
| challenge   = 3
| environment = Temperate forests
| alignment   = {{Alignment grid/NE}}
| adjective   = Ettercap
| imagesof    = ettercaps
| source      = [[Bestiary]]
| page        = 129
}}

The '''ettercap''' is a strange, bipedal creature, approximately the size and weight of an adult male [[human]]. Devious and reclusive, it prefers the company of [[arachnid]]s, over which it has some control.<ref name="B-129">{{Cite book/Bestiary (1E)|129}}</ref> Although not of great intelligence, some ettercaps worship the [[insect]]oid [[demon lord]] [[Mazmezz]].<ref>{{cite book/Descent into Midnight|60&ndash;61}}</ref><ref>{{cite book/Lords of Chaos|20}}</ref>

== On Golarion ==

Ettercaps make their homes overwhelmingly in the dark, forbidding forests of temperate [[Avistan]].<ref name="B-129"/> They have been spotted in [[Varisia|Varisia's]] [[Mierani Forest]],<ref>{{cite book/The Hook Mountain Massacre|22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book/The Hook Mountain Massacre|66}}</ref> [[Andoran|Andoran's]] [[Arthfell Forest]],<ref>{{cite book/Guide to Darkmoon Vale|63}}</ref> [[Taldor|Taldor's]] [[Verduran Forest]],<ref>{{cite book/The Inner Sea World Guide|183}}</ref> living in cairns north of the city of [[Korvosa]],<ref>{{cite book/A History of Ashes|9}}</ref> attacking [[elf|elven]] scouts in the [[demon|demon-haunted]] southern [[Tanglebriar]] in [[Kyonin]],<ref>{{cite book/A Memory of Darkness|79}}</ref> hiding in caves in the [[Nomen Heights]] and [[Kamelands]] of the [[Stolen Lands]],<ref>{{cite book/Rivers Run Red|51&ndash;52}}</ref><ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|13}}</ref> and overrunning the [[Shudderwood]] in [[Ustalav]].<ref>{{cite book/Broken Moon|8&ndash;9}}</ref> They are rarely seen in [[Garund]], but have been spotted in the warm, dank forests of [[Sargava]].<ref>{{cite book/Sargava, The Lost Colony|31}}</ref> Ettercaps have also been encountered in the [[First World]].<ref>{{Cite book/Ultimate Wilderness|129}}</ref>

== References ==

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[[Category:Ettercap| ]]
[[Category:Aberrations]]
[[Category:CR 3 creatures]]
[[Category:Temperate forest creatures]]
[[Category:Neutral evil creatures]]
[[Category:Mazmezz/Followers]]