Demon
Woe be the body that walks beneath Moon Birthed Wrath, Ill-begotten soul.
Ur cursed son of pride. Birthed from falsehood unto my actions unto you. Know me as demon without knowing the tale, fractured memory and fallacy endowed. Then know me as such and revel in the terror you have earned unto your being.
Never shall you hear
Walk through the victory you have so fought hard to earn. Walk through now the shadow of this valley of death. Endlessly I shall make you suffer for the pain you have caused my children. Break my heart no longer I shall allow.
This Song Again.
Significance
"Demon" Is a term taken from another world, or even worlds as the Great Tree has no mention of this term beyond this single instance, by The Shadows for how they view Vilorlith in particular. Many things have culminated to give her this unique and singular title by the shattered pieces of the Fifth Brother, ultimately it boils down to the fact this this is what their earliest shared memory is. They do not see a goddess when she is brought to mind, they do not see her as "The Great Mother". Fore when they first had known her, she had killed them.
Over time as The War of the Shadows continued, they never were even given that chance to see Vilorlith in her natural state with her Children, never given the chance to see the actual goddess. The only version they had ever known was this, an angry, wrathful, and omni-powerful entity that killed them over and over. Vilorlith to them is a threat and nothing else, one that had earned their hatred from the moment they were "born". It wasn't until far far later that a few of the Shadows had learned of the history between their original form and Vilorlith in the early stages of Namix.
Even then, only Azu and Xelex had been able to put aside their fears and trepidations, the other six still see her as an existential threat. Villy when she is forced to fight, forsakes her form as a Brownie and adopts something much more suited to her abilities. Using her "tails" as strings to pluck the Song she sang in the beginning to manipulate reality, as well as altering the magic being used against her. Her affinity to the moon and stars tends to warp the perception of all around her to envision something far more infinite. Her form blurring and ascending planes of understanding, being both a physical presence while being formless.
Vilorlith is a true god. Formless from before the time Rythia had given her a name her children could understand. Omnipotent from far before her children had ever realized something was watching over them. Both a force of nature and its creator. From the perspective of The Shadows, a terror that stalks the universe like an unseen predator.
This piece carries a mournful weight, as if it’s threaded with loss. It feels like no one ever truly knew her as she was, only as she became — feared, wrathful, misunderstood. Even the name “Villy” sounds like a shadow of “villain,” and “demon” echoes with loneliness, a darkness not of malice but of being unseen and misnamed.I wonder, do you see Vilorlith as carrying that loneliness herself, or is it more that the Shadows project it onto her because they can’t see her true self?
I'd say she is what the Shadows have made of her. A fury only the one who has harmed the children would see, for the children never see the fury. Loneliness is what they "gifted" her in the end, and not a "gift" one would hand their worst enemies.