The quiet and solitary Tarantula Hawk Drake lives in deserts, digging temporary shallow nests overnight in which to sleep. They feed primarily on large spiders, but will also eat carrion, insects, and larger prey when necessary. Tarantula Hawk Drakes are typically quite docile, preferring to mind their own business. However, when threatened or provoked, these drakes will attempt to stab the opponent with the stinger on their tail to inject a powerful venom. This sting is at the very least extremely painful, and even if the toxins don’t paralyze the attacker, the pain is likely to distract them enough for the drake to escape.

Though it may appear at first that dragons and drakes have much in common, the two are completely separate species. Drakes are smaller and less intelligent than their cousin species, though both dragons and drakes sit comfortably near the top of the food chain. They are always found bearing antlers and leathery wings. Drakes share many of the same habitats that dragons do, and typically hunt in packs.

In the spirit of needlessly playing with bits and pieces of one's food, Arachnosocialist occasionally arranges shed spider skin to act out shallow little dramas, to the degree limited drake cognition allows her to. Over the course of this play, she has developed strong opinions about the way that spider society is—or at least should be—organised, expressing her opinion that while a spider is not entitled to claiming ownership of its web and must allow other spiders use of it as well, all insects acquired through dedicated hunt and stashed away undeniably belong to the spider that made the catch.