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Very little is definitively known about the Austrian woman called Arda, later feared across wartime Europe as Madame Arachnia. What is known begins in 1940, when Axis Force entered an Austrian village believed to be sheltering resistance fighters. Instead of a firefight, they found a grim spectacle: dozens of resistance members suspended in thick cocoon-like webbing from trees and rooftops in the town square, already dead.

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As Axis Force advanced into the square, they were harassed by a swift, elusive figure darting through shadows and around the soldiers with unsettling agility. The attacker moved so erratically and with such inhuman body control that even trained troops stumbled and lost formation. Baron Berlin identified the pattern in the ambush, anticipated her movement, and ultimately subdued the mysterious assailant after a violent struggle.

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The attacker proved to be a woman clad in black leather, feral in movement and temperament. When questioned, she admitted to killing the resistance fighters after they murdered a child to protect their own position. That act, more than anything else, seemed to define her code: whatever else she was, she had a fierce and absolute hatred for anyone who harmed children. Baron Berlin exploited that single point of morality, convincing her that her lethal talents could be turned toward his war effort. After a brutal trial-by-combat with the Baron, she yielded and agreed to follow him—though, by her own terms, only him.

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Taken into Axis Force, Arda was trained for military field operations and quickly distinguished herself as one of the team’s most dangerous operatives. She adapted readily to advanced armor, specialized weapons, stealth tactics, and shock assault doctrine. Her battlefield style was unnerving: she stalked from concealment, studied prey patiently, struck with abrupt speed, and closed distance with chaotic, spider-like movement that made her difficult to predict or counter. Her web grenades, pulse rifle, and acrobatic savagery made her a terrifying vanguard attacker.

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She soon embraced the name Madame Arachnia, preferring its theatrical menace over the simpler “Arachnia.” During the war, she built a reputation as one of Axis Force’s deadliest members—stealthy, seductive, violent, and deeply unsettling even to her own side. Yet she also displayed an unusual duality: where adults saw a predator, children often encountered a strangely protective and almost gentle figure. This contradiction became central to her legend.

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Madame Arachnia reportedly took a three-day leave every three months, always returning to her Austrian hometown and then reappearing revitalized. No one seems to have learned what she did during those absences, and Axis Force either never discovered the truth or chose not to discuss it. This recurring ritual only deepened speculation that her condition—whether mutagenic, mystical, or something else entirely—required maintenance or replenishment.

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At some point during the war, she and the rest of Axis Force were formally honored by Adolf Hitler with the Iron Cross. Even in that setting, according to later testimony, Madame Arachnia unsettled everyone around her; one account claimed Hitler himself avoided placing the medal on her personally, delegating the task to an aide. The story may have grown in the retelling, but it fit her reputation well: she was not merely feared by enemies, but by allies as well.

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Her reported end came in April 1945, when Axis Force was recalled to Berlin and accused of treason and theft against the collapsing regime. Like the others, Madame Arachnia was detained for execution. She reportedly killed two guards before gas incapacitated her. Officially, she was then taken outside and executed by firing squad, and her equipment was destroyed. Yet rumors immediately followed: that she seduced a guard and escaped, that her body vanished before burial, or that she was never truly dead at all. In Austrian folklore and whispered wartime ghost stories, Madame Arachnia did not die in 1945—she simply returned to the dark places where predators wait.

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