Avalon, the Mother of Forests, was the oldest and first-born aspect of the god Avalon. It was said that even before Avalon became a god, when they were still the World Tree of the astral realm, they already had the aspect of the Mother of Forests.
At least, according to Mannis—whose claims were impossible to verify—when it was still a tiny time serpent that had just hatched, it had its own little nest beneath the Mother of Forests' true form. Sadly, during the cataclysm in the astral realm caused by the subspace invasion of the material world, the Mother of Forests' true form, Aphidasil, the World Tree of Celestial Starlight, took the full force of the worst shock wave when the astral realm shattered. The great tree died.
The death of the World Tree of Celestial Starlight also marked the beginning of the astral realm's collapse. The Mother of Forests' aspect began to weaken from that moment on.
She had been a "sickly weakling" for a thousand years.
Having lost her true form, she had little chance of receiving powerful healing. Although the Frontier Pact later helped her ascend to godhood, Avalon had ascended with three aspects not only to broaden her divine domains, but also to prevent the continued decline of the Mother of Forests from undermining the foundations of her godhood.
As it turned out, in the eternal war against Chaos, a weakened aspect like the Mother of Forests was bound to be noticed as a vulnerability.
When Murphy first met the god Avalon, he had witnessed the weakened Mother of Forests struggling to resist the crushing pressure of Chaos. When Avalon promised to bestow the symbol of healing upon the Holy Light, Murphy had sensed that this steadily declining aspect wouldn't live much longer.
Still, Avalon was