: Dear Comrades,
: You are neglacting the fact that the Legion escaped the
: Tain in the Great War, and from which where Murgeon
: and others whom were not of dwarven blood. Hence, it
: is not true that: "who built the Tain, were
: Dwarves, and made it so only Dwarves could escape
: from"
That may still have been their intent. The Legion didn't just leave the Tain from some hidden exit; two superpowerful Avatara blew the whole thing up, and died for it. Now that doesn't sound like the escape route the Tain builders intended. :-) If there's a "back door" you can leave from *without* dying and destroying the entire artifact, it's not one the Legion found.
: Yet another question arises. If the Tain was ment to
: contain the dreaded enemies of Connacht, why then is
: the place inhabited by spiders? Perhaps the Dwarves
: had a voice within the creation of such a device for
: dual-puposes?
According to Tales, the Tain is also an access point onto the Spider-world. And it contains barriers and lightning towers which are most likely intended to protect certain areas from hostile creatures. This indicates that the Spider-Cult spent some time in the Tain themselves, most likely fleeing there when Connacht attacked their shrines. So yes, it seems to have had a dual purpose.
--SiliconDream
