: By the fourty-ninth wave’s end, the Callieach, the
: greatest magicians in the history of the world and
: “the Sovereigns of the Time Before” Wyrd’s creation,
: went as far East as possible to cross the Edge of All
: and return to their former lands. Before they could
: get there, the Trow cought them and tried to kill
: them. Desparate, the Callieach used an incredible
: tunneling explosion via their magic to get to the
: other side of the Earth, where it is Dark. This did
: not kill anything at first, only brought it to the
: other side, into the alternative-dimension of the old
: world. The Trow would have been sacrificed for
: certain, however, once they had made it to that side.
: The remnant of this was the Great Devoid, a seemingly
: bottomless pit.
If we are to assume that the races that the Trow fought were invasions from the Dark side of the world rather than simply being created on the known side (if not, why would the Callieach have wanted to go back to the Dark side?), this would logically suggest that there are members of each of the Dark Gods' races on the Dark side of the world. Now consider:
"Many of the skulls were human, or at least humanoid, but among these were others which were certainly not, whose shapes and curves I have tried to forget ever since."
Seems the Myrkrydia weren't lonely in their long exile, but consider: who are these races? Why have we not heard of them before? The Tain was only used once, on the Myrkrydia (before Soulblighter used it on Murgen and Cu Roi), so they couldn't have simply been imprisoned in the Tain later. Or could they? Consider the possibilities of the Tain having two entries and exits, one to the Dark side of the world, the other to the known side. These weird heads must have belonged to some creatures imprisoned in the Tain from the Dark side, which were no match for the Myrkrydia. The Spiders are almost certainly also from the Dark side of the world, as, possibly, are the Fetch (considering the carvings of a horned, humanoid, female creature on the Tain exit).
And, before I get submerged in complaints, yes, veterans will recognise this as being a reworking of the "Spider dimension theory". This is because it is.
Martel.
