It's eerie. The templars and the guards both are jumpy when they see skeletons rising. Cullen felt the surge of mana. He knows they're not demon possessed. "They're ours!" he snaps. It's all he has time for with the speed and potential lethality of the attacking spiders. Wasp spiders are some of the worst.

The wall of bone helps. It also confuses one of the arachnids. It turns its fury on the skeletons instead, trying to bite and grapple them. It gives the fighters the opening they need to kill it quickly.

One of the others leaps back several feet and gushes a jet of poison. Guardsman Hendyr raises his shield just in time, and he and his wife break off to rush that one.