As Aranas's influence in the land dwindled their hunger grew until it devolved into the current resen, almost scrabbling back it's previous building but teetering back and forth. I imagine Bristbane as some sort of unholy achievement, crossing spiders, men and resen but lacking in minds or control as the spider and fungus colonies continue to build nests. Maybe the seeming mindlessness of the resen is on purpose, Arans spreading their control, making the other immortals dismiss how deadly it could be before it piggy backs or takes control in the future.
This started out because I was looking up the mechanics of dew on spiders webs, and took hold of my mind reading this page https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/lawn-c ... fungus.htm
dollar spot fungus looks like spider webs or cobwebs on morning grass, but unlike spider webs, dollar spot mycelium disappears when the dew dries.
A link to various types of spider webs. the cob tangle web part of inspiration for this. Their tangled messy looking webs look like the mycelium threads that spread from fungus https://baynature.org/article/spiders/
Interesting factoid: Some tangle-web spiders form groups of as large as a thousand to create webs stretching hundreds of yards to catch everything: flies to birds and other vertebrates. These social spiders have elicited the interest of evolutionary biologists studying the basis of altruism in group behavior.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC91068/Cobweb disease is fungal disease that effects cultivated mushrooms