*claps* amazing story ^^

Interesting story. I think the question here isn't "Is Gilrandree a Devil?", but it's "Is Gilrandree a Demon?" Yes, he started as a demon, but how much of that original demon is still there? It seems to me more like it was just used as a basis and focal point for his creation.

If you look at the story and focus on the creation of his light side, the question becomes even more important. All those souls that were sacrificed believed in The Light and those souls became the power that was sent back in time to create Gilrandree. That power also carried the knowledge of where it came from, how to get it, and how to use it when the time came to collect it. In short, it carried the beginnings of Gilrandree the Light with it. The people's faith in their god eventually creating said god, though through a round-about way.

You can credit the people of that world for Gilrandree's creation as much as you can credit Gilrandree himself. That original demon may be a part of him, but human souls he keeps in hell can eventually become demons themselves. I'd say this is something similar, a greater outside force changed the demon into something new. Just WHAT he is, he may never know, but he's not a Devil.

That's actually a very interesting question (Is Gilrandree a Devil / Demon?). If you take the strict definition of "Devil" from the previous entry (basically "Any fae who goes against their nature for reasons of personal gain"), it's actually rather difficult to answer: I can logically argue that he has to be based on some of his actions, but there's an implication in that definition that it's not something which can happen accidentally, that the fae knows when they cross that line, and keeps going down that path. I don't really see Gil as having consciously made that choice, though the creation of Gil The Light may well qualify for that; he HAD to know that effectively creating an Angel version of himself was entirely against what it means to be a Demon.

If you broaden the definition of Devil to "Any fae who goes against the nature of their kind," I think it's clear he's crossed that line, but I think that's too broad of a definition.

If you look back at How the World Works, the last couple paragraphs talk about the nine levels of "reality," with the mortals down at the bottom level and the fae (Demons, Angels, etc...) only at the third level. That means there are six more levels of increasingly abstract supernatural activity above them. I imagine the passage of time happening quite a few levels above the Demons, so to violate that and send the energy back, he had to be dealing (knowingly or not) with entities 3 or 4 levels above him, and those entities are to the Demons what the Demons are to mortals: massively powerful and not entirely able to be comprehended with a Demon's limited mental state. He wasn't dealing with the "creator" entity, which lives all the way at the top and is by and in large incomprehensible even by the Demons, but he was closer to that level than any creature of his nature should ever get.

That means there's a whole pantheon of entities above him which could have had a hand in what happened, and just like the humans he took as sacrifice never realized what was really happening to them, he may never know what role he's playing in the plans of these entities.

I may actually write more about this; it's a very interesting question which may garner a full entry in this series of mythology posts.