Well, it's to be expected that every world has its idiosyncrasies. It's the diversity that makes it all worth fighting for.

[ he's met people whose daemons were invisible and internal and people who were followed all their lives by their deaths, so it's not unusual that there is no easy analogue to describe the spider. mostly it's a reminder of how little he actually knows for all the worlds he'd managed to cross into briefly in his time. ]

My view may be dim from your perspective, but it never needed to be more complicated than that. I have always fought for freedom and a just world ruled by sense and logic instead of fear and cruelty.