Grand Mother Silk a Higher Being who created the Weaver spiders of Pharloom and whose desire to reclaim them and unite the land under her collective consciousness drives the plot. She is a powerful, ancient entity whose desire to have a healthy lineage, particularly through her direct children Lace and Phantom, makes her resist the encroaching Void even as she is consumed by it. She seeks to unite all bugs in Pharloom into a single, unified consciousness that worships her. She is always silent.