History
The Araneon that would be known as the Spidercide was born with only two arms, fact that caused his rejection from military service by Araneo's at the time leader, Orb Weaver. To gain Weaver's attention, he slaughtered and devoured every other two-armed Araneon that worked with him in Araneo's fields, along with the soldiers sent to stop him, numerous times, for months. After hundreds of kills, he finally took a moniker for himself, Alspindemord, or “Spidercide”. Finally, Orb Weaver decided to directly face Spidercide, who, on the contrast, came to hate the person he was trying to catch the attention of; he fought and killed the leader of Araneo with his two bare hands. Spidercide became the first leader of Araneo with two arms and created the Araneon Empire.[3]
After having raided a ship of Universal Inhumans, Spidercide became interested in genetically modifying members of his species via Terrigenesis, in a program that he called “Terrigenetics”. These experiments were used to empower the most loyal subjects of Spidercide, such as Web-Weaver and White Widow.[4]
Spidercide and his army invaded a planet populated by Vampires, Domus Draconum, and personally dueled its ruler, Lilith Dracula. After having won the duel, the Araneons exterminated most of the vampires and kidnapped the surviving ones to keep them as slaves and food stocks.[3]
As Spidercide conquered the planet Urzon, he installed there work camps for the vampires, enraging Lord Dracula, Lilith's father and commander of the Legions of the Night, who promptly attacked Urzon.[1]
Back on Araneo, he discussed with his tactician White Widow on how much useful the vampires were as working slaves and she convinced him to conquer Earth, Dracula's homeworld, both to acquire more slaves and to emotionally hurt the old vampire warlord.[4]