: This is something I was going to mention in regards to
: Fetch's magicness. Life itself is considered magic
: traditionally and some of the sources one can channel
: magic from might not be the gods, but just out there.
: Like the Force.
: He's not talking about killing them in general. he's
: talking about a specific spell called banish.
: Okay. Now I understand what you were saying. You kept
: insisting that they weren't energy beings, but I
: thought you were arguing the glowy stuff they're made
: out of isn't energy. This makes sense. It explains the
: horns and ridges, which aren't explained otherwise. I
: think you could be right here. The Fetch as an energy
: being came about because of the trail they leave as
: they go up. It looked like an energy being to some.
: However, I have an alternate explanation.
: The streak we see going up into the sky is the Fetch's
: soul. If the sking is badly damaged, Wyrd sees them
: and yanks their sould out. When you blow them up, it
: saves wyrd the trouble, explaining the lack of a
: streak.
So the banish spell would work to get them back to their homeworld, but it is almost impossible to banish the fetch with that spell (so the excerpt says). So the best way of getting the fetch back home is ripping up their skin. But(!), what if the reason the fetch don't just let their skin get ripped up is because that doesn't really get them home.
When they get killed in game, the fetch don't really "die," but their skin just gets mangled so much that they can't use it to cover themselves from Wyrd's sight anymore, so their soul or whatever escapes. Just because that soul goes straight up beyond our view doesn't necessarily mean that they are going back home, though. The way I see it is the fetch really hate being on the myth world, but they can only get back to their homes if the banish spell or that planar summons spell gets cast on them. When they lose the skin, and wyrd sees them, he smites them. Smiting means death, not banishment. Fetch don't want to die before they get home, so they try to get Balor or soulblighter to send them back before Wyrd just kills them outright.
You get what I'm saying?
: btw, I found it interesting there was a Dwaren
: Strongholds heading under the Great Devoid. Any
: theories on why this must be?
I thought it said it that way just because the Dwarf strongholds are in the region of the Great Devoid. Could be something more, though.
Maybe the dwarven strongholds fell into the Great Devoid! ;)
