It was neither human nor demonic, belonging neither to daylight nor to darkness.
It was the apostle of God, the power of God, the divine punishment that God inflicted upon the foolish and the irreverent.
Strategy, strength, and even omniscience and omnipotence were merely appearances, beautiful because they were pure, powerful because they were simple, skilled in strategy because they were consistent.
Siegfried Otto Lilin was neither human nor monster; he was an agent of God, a faithful tool executing divine will.
Tools have no goodwill or malice. Knives do not hurt people on their own, bullets do not seek out targets by themselves, missiles do not launch themselves. It is always the creators and users' malice that drives a tool to commit evil.
Indeed, it was he who killed, he who destroyed cities, he who brought down disasters, but the one giving the orders was the Mother Goddess, wearing white gloves and silently watching everything unfold.
