: wait weren't we talking about if the Spider-Cult had been
: seen before? what's the connection between the spider
: cult and the Smiths of Muirthemne, who have now been
: established as Dwarves? are the spider-cultists
: Dwarves too?
There's a whole lot of small evidence behind it (read Principia Mythica for it all), but the clincher is a Myth II Dwarf flavor text that states that Connacht could no longer ignore the atrocities of the Spider-cults, but that when he went to assail their shrines he found no trace of the Smiths of Muirthemne or their followers. So... the Smiths, and perhaps their (human?) followers as well, were the Spider-cults.