: The Great Library--Alric's statue has, on its base, the
: day and month that he defeated Balor, but not the
: year. Strange, no?
Probably because Bungie hadn't nailed down the calendar system of Myth yet, other than it worked more-or-less like the Earth calendar.
: The Summoner--Assorted forum notables have suggested that
: the horned skull carvings in the Tain are of
: Myrkridia, and that the "spider-woman"
: carvings are of Fetch, but I have my doubts. Krids
: don't have horns, and you most certainly wouldn't
: forget to include their teeth in a sculpture.
I didn't say the images are OF Myrkrida; they're the Myrkridian logo. Look at the Krid standard, any image of it you can find. It has the same face-thing on it.
: Also, I
: don't think the lightning towers had anything to do
: with the Krids. In the first place, they'd be next to
: useless against a numerous enemy (remember, only one
: tower functions at a time) which is particularly
: resistant to lightning (both small and large Krids
: take less damage from lightning than from any other
: kind of attack).
This could have been because of living in the Tain for so long.
: Concerning the Fetch: although we of course know little
: of their shape, we can see from their general outlines
: that they have roughly human proportions but are
: extremely gaunt, with relatively small features. They
: probably look a little like Myrmidons, plus the horns
: and spinal ridges. They *certainly* don't look like
: those spider-women, with their inhumanly long arms and
: fertility-goddess breasts and belly; unless they're
: shapeshifters, they'd never fit into a human skin and
: look like they do.
I was suggesting that that thing was a "Fetch-thing", not an actual Fetch like the ones we saw. But a different kind of Fetch, a Fetch Queen or something. Maybe their goddess - they ARE all priestesses, so they must have a goddess they worship.
: As for the spider-women, I think those represent the
: spider-goddess herself (or themselves, if there's more
: than one.) That spider-woman birthing a skeletal being
: shows that the Fetch were either considered
: figuratively or believed literally to be the children
: of the spider-goddess.
Now this I can believe.
BTW, the "bug-woman" I was reffering to was the symbol on front/back sides of the gate, above the Krid-faces. It's a nondescript head, a torso with boobs and stub-arms, and some kind of thorax. I thought that could be a larval Fetch or something, before turning humanoid.
: Let's compare Fetch and Trow. Both are ancient and
: apparently immortal, save for death by violence; both
: seem to possess gender characteristics, although they
: don't breed as far as we know; each race seems to
: consist of only one gender; both are usually silent,
: extremely arrogant and largely amoral, taking no
: pleasure in killing or hurting others, but perfectly
: willing to do so when it furthers their ends; both are
: devoutly religious, but serve gods other than Wyrd,
: although they acknowledge his existence.
Actually, Fetch take a LOT of pleasure in causing harm to living beings, as they hate everything in our world. The Trow, on the other hand, could care less whether someone lives or dies. If they get annoyed, one swift KIK and no regrets. If they're not bothered, they'll just ignore you.
: So what if Fetch and Trow are two halves of the same
: species?
: Suppose that, back in the days before the Younger Races,
: the Fetch and the Trow formed the female and male
: halves of a single, viable race.
Ouch. That's not a very good fit, if you catch my drift.
