| From: | Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com |
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| Subject: | Insect Spirits (was Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?) |
| Date: | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 01:50:26 EDT |
meroeandjeremy@*******.com.au writes:
> My interpretation is that the insect spirits (Invae) are weaker
> forms of the spirits (Horrors/Demons) and thus are bottom of the food chain
> and bottom of the chain of command on their home Meta-plane. Thus now that
> they have crossed over to Earth they will try to stop the more powerful
> Horrors getting here, but not because they are on the humans side, but so
> that they can feast on the humans themselves. When the other Horrors do get
> here they will retake command of the Invae and then they will not be on the
> humans side. Remembering also that some of the creatures already here, like
> Mantis spirits, will eat other Bugs in preference to humans, but if all the
> Bugs get destroyed?........
>
> Jeremy.
In ED, the Invae appeared at the very early stages of the Scourge and the
residents of Barsaive burned down the villages they had corrupted. However,
when the flood of the Horrors came later as the Kaers were being sealed up,
the Bugs never returned (or at least none of the ED products I can remember
said they did). HB seems to suggest that the Invae aren't Horrors either.
Harlequin explicitly says that the Enemy are not the Invae in one of the
scripted character responses.
This to me puts the Invae/Insect Spirits under the heading of one of the many
weird magical threats that surface from deeper and deeper metaplanes as the
magic level rises. The fact that they came over when the Bridge wasn't
finished yet (came over en-masse, I might add, not one or two like Aina's
Horror) marks them as not of the Enemy/Horrors, in my book.
-Twist
