Vaati (Druthulidi)

''This article refers to the Druthulidi that assumed the name Vaati. You might be looking for the Minish Vaati.''

Vaati is a notable and powerful Druthulidi that survived the purge of the Age of Myth. It is named after its first host, Vaati, a Minish sorcerer. Vaati is believed to embody the rung of ego.

Quotes about Vaati
''It sees only itself in the world, those with life but mirrors to gaze into. It would make the world but a mirror, a mirror that would sing only its name. Ego is all that is found within, and it would fill every hall, every mountain, every river and all the lights of the sky with nothing but its name.''

Characteristics
Unlike most Druthulidi, Vaati prefers to remain a swarm of extremely small insect-like creatures that infect and take control of other creatures, slowly morphing them into a larger form. Individual Vaati are little more than black spheres dominated by a single eye and rows of cilia. When a victim has been fully transfigured they maintain the notable eye but also display powerful tentacles, appendages, and in some cases, wings.

Personality
Vaati usually assimilates and maintains some level of personality from its victims. In turn Vaati's victims often display an increased sense of ego and self importance with a habit of taunting and boasting superiority. Though Vaati is physically genderless, it tends to prefer being referred to as male.

Vaati also has a massive inferiority complex compared to his stronger brethren, leading to his desire for the Wind Tribe's power so that he could increase his own.

Powers and Abilities
While tiny, Vaati is able to unsuspectingly enter a victim's body and slowly take control of them. Once established Vaati will begin a long process of converting and morphing the body into a larger form to suit its purposes. This process often takes several centuries, but Vaati is able to prolong the life of its victims and halt the process of ageing. Victims are often completely unaware of Vaati's influence and believe all of their actions are their own.

When its victims are fully transfigured, Vaati displays tremendous physical strength because of its size. In some case Vaati is also capable of flight with an array of wings that grows from its body. Vaati can also assimilate abilities from its victims, such as the use of magical powers from its current host.

Like the rest of his kind Vaati has the ability to travel between worlds, how he achieves this is unknown.

Prehistory
Before the Dawn of Hyrule, Vaati (at that point not yet bearing this name), much like his Druthulidi cousins, conquered many worlds and seeded many with its spawn.

Age of Myth
Alongside the other Druthulidi, it arrived in Hyrule after hearing the summons of the six traitorous First Sages. The Druthulidi initially allied with the First Sages against their loyal sister Sulkaris but quickly betrayed them and began to battle against the First Sages and each other for domination over Hyrule. Unlike many other Druthulidi, Vaati preferred subterfuge and would instead infect and take control of lesser beings. At that time, it might have not seen a use in a permanent host, which is why it never adopted the name of any of them.

When the First Sages allied with Majora to deal with the other Druthulidi and Sulkaris, Vaati divided itself into a much smaller swarm and withdrew into hiding to escape Majora's wrath.

Ancient Age
Vaati arose from the earth in a dramatically weakened state and infected its first victim, a tiny Minish sorcerer from whom its new name originated. Now in Minish form, Vaati set out to expand his powers so that he may manipulate the world at large.

The demon would control the actions of his host to first get into contact with the Darknut leader Zalunbar and display his great power, then deal with the Sage of Spirit Yaraxonal, who opposed his influence on the Legion. After that, he'd force the Darknuts on a grand crusade against the Wind Tribe in search of their mysterious power. Though the initial attempt doesn't go as planned, Vaati decides to bide his time and wait for a more opportune chance, one chaotic enough as to not stand out in the conflict.

Rise of Ganon
While Vaati found a use in the Moblin King's campaign against Hyrule and his search for the Triforce, shortly before the attack against the Kingdom's capital he encounters Dethl and Demise, two other Druthulidi he thought destroyed. He begins to suspect that he and the other two were being set up by another force, and thus decides to withdraw his support after the fall of Hyrule Castle Town.

The Gerudo Wars
In this conflict, Vaati would take a more active role and ally himself with both Agahnim and Twinrova. All he wanted was the capital of Hyrule so that he could find the Triforce hidden in the Temple of Time. His attempts prove fruitless and he is forced to retreat back to Ontheon once Agahnim is killed, taking the young Zelda IV as a hostage. Back in his fortified city, he is informed by one of his servants that the Sheikah wizard grew strange horns on his head, resembling those of Majora. Having his suspicions proved right, he begins to panic, knowing his end might have been near. The dark god then manifests in the Ontheon Cathedral to mock Vaati one final time and repetedly proclaiming that the mindless worship of idols, including his, will cease in all of Hyrule. Vaati can't do anything but cower, knowing his fate is sealed.

Despite this, he refuses to go down without a fight and brings his host into the battlefield. To his horror, he spots Yaraxonal among the invading army, and she makes quick work of his Minish form, forcing the demon to take full control and fly at the heart of Ontheon. With the help of Yaraxonal, the Hylians and the Gorons defeat the Darknuts, opening a way into the Cathedral of Ontheon where Vaati hides, having transformed back into his true, monstrous Druthulidi form. Vaati desperately tries to convince Yaraxonal that he is Hyrule's only chance against Majora, but the angry Sage pays him no heed and makes short work of him.

With Vaati's death, and Zalunbar's following shortly afterwards, the Gerudo Wars come to a close.

It is possible some of Vaati's spawn on other worlds have survived its death. While that would make it seem meaningless on a cosmic scale, those versions of it would lack all of the memories made in Hyrule and might as well be an entirely different person by the time they multiplied and regained sentience. The conciousness that named itself Vaati is forever vanquished.