: Needless to say Inside the Tain depicts a very twisted
: realm. It makes us wonder why the Smiths of Muirthmne
: became enraptured by this world and formed the
: spider-cult. As for the Fetch and their relation to
: it, I think you are slightly mistaken. One other
: artifact that Soulblighter possessed was the Tramist's
: Mirror. As he used it to make Shiver coropeal once
: again.
But the Fetch still aren't corporeal. They don't *have* a body, they just wear human skins on top of their own. Shiver, on the other hand, has an actual body.
: I would think that the Fetch, as seen by their death
: sequence, are spirits that become lost when killed in
: this world. They are from a realm where spirits flow
: freely, such as the ether from the other side of the
: Tramist's Mirror. I just see it hard for them to
: co-exist with the spiders when they are the best
: destroyers of them within the Tain. So they seek a way
: to return to their world so that they can roam freely
: once again and not be lost forever in this world.
If the belief about Wyrd is correct, then they're not becoming "lost"--they're just being abducted by Wyrd once their human skins are so tattered that they are no longer well hidden. That's why they don't fade out, or drift away randomly, when they're "killed;" they're yanked straight up to meet with the wrath of the gods. Personally, the spider-world seemed like a good place for spirits flowing freely to me; I thought I could see a few inside. And the poor warrior in the comic could exist in spirit form without difficulty there. I think creatures in the spider-world are naturally less bound to solid forms than in our world. As for the Fetch being able to kill the spiders--wouldn't you be better at killing a creature if it was native to your world and you'd lived side-by-side with it for centuries? The Fetch know precisely where to aim the lightning, or what AC frequency to use, or something. Perhaps they evolved it as a survival mechanism before they started to serve the spider-gods.
: One area I need clarified is how the doorway between the
: spider world and the Tain works. The comic passage is
: very vague in that manner. We know that whoever is
: trapped within the Tain is taken to this world/place,
: and that there was an escape route or backdoor of
: sorts. But the exact relationship between them is very
: hard to discern. If you have any ideas on this please
: let me know.
I don't think *everyone* trapped there is taken to that place; you have to intentionally (or unluckily) approach that door. I think it's just easier to get to the spider-world from here. As for why the back door was hidden--either the Smiths hid it before giving the Tain to Connacht so the Myrkridia wouldn't be able to escape, or they enjoyed transporting their sacrifices into the Tain and letting them wander for a few days (seconds to sadistic Smiths watching from our world) and then dooming themselves by touching a doorway.
--SiliconDream
