matrixman wrote:And I agree that the ur-viles were incapable of reproducing through sex, they were made beings themselves. Actually, weren't the Demondim made beings as well? The Viles made the Demondim, because the Viles themselves had been rendered impotent by Loric Vilesilencer, right?
The whole Vile-Demondim-Ur Vile/Waynhim cycle was caused because they are all "made" beings who do not belong in nature, signified by their inability to reproduce naturally, and who therefore have to create more of their species through lore.
The Viles were created through 'organic' magic (as in it just happened, no-one did it deliberately) as the by-products of the magic of the banes buried under Mt Thunder.
<[The Viles]> were non-corporeal, and under the tutelage of the Ravers learned to hate themselves for not being 'natural' creatures and for having no purpose to their lives (ie. not even the normal animal drives of food, survival, reproduction).
That self-loathing lead them to try to 'procreate' but in a way that was superior to their own now-despised state. This was the Demondim, who were corporeal, in that they were made from the animated corpses of other creatures. This brought them closer to what the Viles now considered to be the desirable state for a creature to be. Sometime after this Loric wiped out the Viles.
However the Demondim were afflicted with the same self-loathing as the Viles, and they
<[The Demondim]> in turn used their lore to again try to 'procreate' and create a superior form of creature. These were the ur-vile and the waynhim, who they created in their breeding pits (I'm picturing something along the lines of, but a bit different from, Saruman's breeding pits of Uruk-Hai in the LOTR movies). The Demondim were wiped out in the RoD, but their spawn survived. The ur-viles shared the disdain of their forms with both forms of their ancestors, and fell into despite. The waynhim found a better answer and found a purpose in service to the Land. The ur-viles, because they were unhappy, continued the breeding efforts, culminating in Vain, in whose creation they finally found an answer as to what the purpose of their existence was.
<Syl: spoiler tags added since most information was revealed only in FR. If I'm incorrect in this, inform me where it's given in the First and Second Chrons, and I'll unedit.>