Talk:Distant Villagers/@comment-26161357-20190228134829

I don't think they abandoned their cloaks and masks, I think they were cloaks and masks, used as puppets by the Spiders. They don't have Dream Nail dialogue, which presumably means they are inanimate as even formerly living beings' thoughts can be read. The threads used by the Little Weavers are thin enough that they are invisible, so they could have marionette strings we can't see. The only inconsistency is their ability to talk, but that could be explained as sending vibrations down the strings to make sound; it's a little far fetched, but apparently the Weavers could make damn near anything with just threads, so their abilities are obviously beyond the natural.