We have a winner!
After long and careful deliberation, which I promise did not include darts or any other random selection, I've chosen the pic that I feel best captures the essence of what I was looking for. I purposly didn't give you guys much in the way of input, because I wanted to leave myself open to new ideas that I hadn't thought of. But Kwoks Xi'Chung spider web is spot on the direction I was already going in my mental images.
All of the sumbissions were great. You all can be proud. But I had to pick one, and I liked this the best.
David, when you get a chance if you could replace the mini-banner on the Malfador site with this one I'd appreciate it greatly.
Geoschmo