Talk:Distant Villagers/@comment-26161357-20190228134829/@comment-26161357-20190710120039

Only problem with the idea of Spiders inside the cloaks/masks is evident in the False Knight. They (the False Knight) have Dream Nail dialogue even when striking their armor, despite being insulated so heavily by the armor itself that striking it normally gives no Soul. Keep in mind that striking the Watcher Knights gives Soul despite the fact that they are empty husks, which means that thinner armor does not prevent the extraction of Soul, in that case from the clouds of infected flies inside the shells. Together this means that the Dream Nail must logically be able to penetrate almost any amount of intermediate material.

So being that the Distant Villagers' cloaks and masks are much smaller than the False Knight's armor, if there were Spiders inside of the cloaks and masks, their thoughts would still be readable with the Dream Nail.