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Family, Control, Faith, Hierarchy (part 1)

Pharloom has issues, starting from the top. From its beginnings as Grand Mother Silk took the Weavers as daughters, to the hierarchy of Weaver rule, and the bugs that inherited that rule, and all the ways family, faith, and control are tangled up in that web.

This will be about family, most of all. The sense of family is pervasive not just between the Weavers and GMS, but the Weavers passed it on to the pilgrims as successor children, and all that came with it. The hierarchy, the melding of faith and duty and belonging, the inability for anyone in Pharloom to control their own destiny...all in one package.

This is going to have to be a multiparter. It's all written, but has grown to be my longest writing yet (edit: woops I kept adding to it as I rolled out the posts XD was not done. oh well). The first part is not too long so it is included in this post

Contents

GMS and the Weavers (this post)

Pilgrims’ Inheritance

Faith without a Heart

Apostasy: Family and Faith Bound into One

Interlopers?

Purity

Silk-spun Children

Daughter of Hallownest

Pharloom’s Future

Conclusion + Misc

GMS and the Weavers

We get to hear very little of how Grand Mother Silk defines herself. Most of what we hear about her comes from others. But above all, from herself and others, one thing is clear: she is Mother. GMS wanted children, and it fashioned them from pharlids. Later on she fashioned them from pure silk.

A choice. To be mother. To have daughters. A choice for a family, made all on her own, sitting in her cradle atop the kingdom.

(Obligatory clarification that who knows where she was when she acquired daughters; I just wanted to call attention to it being called The Cradle)

But that's GMS's will, her wants, her framing.

The Weavers, on the other hand:

First Sinner: ...She called us daughters... Called us divine... She lied... Weavenest Atla lore tablet: This low, her gaze escaped. Prepare, sisters. Weave hope anew. That we might break free this accursed web born of our naive foundation. Rune harp in Bilewater: Flee, sisters. Flee until your strength exhausts, so far you may escape at last her silken sight. To start anew, to sustain, free of web and service eternal.

Furthermore, Bell Hermit, Mask Maker, and GMS herself (Unraveled silk heart dialog) describe all of Pharloom as being bound or snared by GMS, destined to serve. Given the Weavers' dialog, I think they'd find it true for themselves. Having their bodies and minds changed, put into the role of daughters, under the eternal watch of GMS…clearly they didn't want it.

In a sense, no one chooses to be born, or who they're born to. Even putting aside that the Weavers were modified from preexisting bugs. They couldn't've had a choice before then, same as any infant. To be put in a role of daughters and watched over is a bit more iffy, though I think a healthy family could be born of that (like adoption) (and mild watching according to an age-appropriate amount). But to be lied to? And uh, be under a web of eternal service????

Lace silk heart: ...Better a child spun mad... than none… / ...Better a child spun frail... than none… / ...Better a child spun pure... than them… / ...One to wish our waking... /// ...From our Silk... A child born loyal…

GMS's reaction, too, to the Weavers leaving… Implying the Weavers disloyal and impure, not wanting her, and she needed new children to replace them. But just replacement isn't enough. She's doing whatever she can to get the Weavers back.

One of three lore tablets to retrieve weavers: Weaver, in quarter part, last of their line, staked to service. / Tracked and taken beneath the City of Steel. / Eight Choristors, twelve Envoys lost to task. Choral commandment: Full Chamber to the kingdom of the White Wyrm. Claim the Weaver, in half part. Last of their line. Sensed strong with Silk. Resistance anticipated. Quell with rune cage.

There's even a cut ending called "Strung to Serve" where Hornet would be overtaken by GMS, presumably falling under GMS's control. This is of course not canon, but it makes me think of GMS's ultimate goal for retrieving the Weavers. I think Lace's dialog points to such:

Letting you live was my rebellion, spider. I've denied my mother your silken strength. I've won.

It's a bit vague but GMS wants Hornet's strength in some way. And personally I imagine wants to undo the slight of being defied, and go back to being in control of those she thinks of as family.

#silksong #silksong spoilers #silksong theory #pharloom #gms #weavers #grand mother silk #more tags when they actually relate to the current part i'm posting lol #i still just wanted to write about gender #but how to write about gender without explaining how little freedom anyone has ever in pharloom?

Steals your windows

Vhat

it's fuckin wimdy out there man

All them drafty thangs

And it ain't even cool air

Them lava pockets

Disrespectful

#[30 rosaries]#pharloomblr #pharloom #pilgrims rest #far fields #mort the shopkeeper #[come rest... and share]#rosaries #[mysterious beads]

A rosary slicer has been added to the donation container. All entry fee rosaries shall be sliced in half before they reach you. Remove at your own risk.

Okay? Literally just have my rhinogrounds smash it and replace it

Hehehehe

#[30 rosaries]#pharloomblr #pharloom #pilgrims rest #far fields #mort the shopkeeper #[come rest... and share]#rosaries

magically teleport all your rosaries to fleatopia

Lollllll now teleport them back

Or I'll set 189 rhinogrounds on those fluffy fuckers

#[30 rosaries]#pharloomblr #pharloom #[come rest... and share]#pilgrims rest #mort the shopkeeper #far fields #rosaries

unpays a entry fee and just walks away

Excuse you

That's not how that works

Those were the fake ones anyways hahahahaha

I guess they're somewhat useful...