Talk:Great Spider From the Echoless Forest/@comment-2153169-20170823105754/@comment-1916997-20170826025856

The book is more accurate for its home. We need to assume the book is a work of fiction (we have no proof that it is a true story, and a book of the "epic hero's journey" genre is normally a work of fiction). If the book is fiction, the spider is also fictional. It was only magic that brought the spider "out of the book" and into "the real world". I realize this whole thing is complicated because almost all the characters are "fictional" and come from "realms of story", but the spider (as well as the character of Gideon in the book), appear to be fictional, even within the "realm of story" that is the EF. I wish Once didn't get so meta, it would make all this much less confusing. XD