Tree Maiden ~Millennium Wiegenlied~

"Let this thousand-year vow pierce the heavens."

- Michaela

Wooden Girl ~Thousand Year Wiegenlied~ is a song released by Akuno-P on August 13, 2011 in the Evils Court album. It is the sixth song in Story of Evil, detailing the incarnated life of Michaela.

Plot
The plot follows Michaela, a forest spirit, who observes a girl named Clarith come and pray for friends. Curious as to why Clarith is so sad all the time, the spirit wishes to help Clarith, although she finds herself unable to in her current form. After some time, Michaela is given a human form by a "capricious sorceress" so she can meet Clarith and understand her. After meeting Clarith, Michaela enjoys her life as a human, from the village to the city, until she meets Kyle Marlon at a banquet. He falls in love with her and rejects Riliane's proposal. The country falls into war by Riliane's hand. As the disaster strikes, Michaela is separated from Clarith, and realizes her feelings for her. Being a human, she can not revert back into her spirit form, but she resolves to stay in any case due to her love for Clarith. She and Clarith simultaneously promise that if they both survive, they will wait for the other to live in Held's Forest again.

The song ends with Michaela lying at the bottom of the well after being stabbed in the chest by a "golden-haired assassin", she thinks of Clarith and wishes her to live on with her last thoughts being: "If I could be reborn, if I could be reborn..."

Composition
The song features the VOCALOID2 voice bank for Hatsune Miku. During the bridge, however, the fan-made derivative Yowane Haku also performs in a short duet between the voice banks. Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and flute are used.

The song immediately begins with an opening verse, a variation of the instrumental of the verses on The Daughter of White. It ends at 0.45, with a new instrumental beginning. At 1.18, the first verse begins. By 1.56, the first pre-chorus begins, and ends at 2.06, for the first chorus. By 2.26, a brief instrumental break plays, lasting until 2.46, for the second chorus. At 3.21, the second pre-chorus begins, preceding the second chorus at 3.32. At 3.51, a second instrumental break plays, lasting until 4.09. The third verse begins immediately after, lasting until 4.49, succeeded by the third pre-chorus. At 4.58, the third chorus begins. By 5.19, Haku's vocals are added, and the two sing a variation of The Daughter of White's chorus. At 6.00, the final instrumental begins and later ends at 6.28. The original opening instrumental returns afterwards, adding a final verse. It is sung until the song's end at 7.51.

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The Daughter of White
The Daughter of White details the life of Michaela's friend Clarith, in events that occur alongside Wooden Girl ~Thousand Year Wiegenlied~; several of its lyrics mirror that of the song as well.

The Daughter of Evil
The Daughter of Evil recounts the actions of the tyrannical princess Riliane, in events occurring alongside Wooden Girl ~Thousand Year Wiegenlied~, as she orders the death of all green-haired women.

Blink
Blink shows Michaela's rebirth as the new Millennium Tree following her murder and portrays the repentant Riliane contemplating the sapling's growth.

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * The song's title refers to her nature as a millennium-old spirit of Held and to the Clockwork Lullaby; the word Wiegenlied is derived from the German word for "lullaby".
 * The song's English title, "Spirit of ELD", reinforces the reference to her spirit origins; the Old English word eld means "old age" or "antiquity" and also means "fire" in Swedish.

Curiosities

 * The Evils Court booklet mentions the aftermath of the song, with Michaela succeeding Held as the Millennium Tree; the court case file notes that she may cause harm to the cinema and that the inhabitants would need to be wary.
 * Later in the booklet, Gammon Octo discerns that Elluka had likely incarnated Michaela to help her gather the vessels of sin; examining Michaela and Clarith's relationship, he questioned whether it was love or friendship, but noted that it was doomed either way.
 * During the song, Michaela parallels Clarith's words after the two meet in The Daughter of White and can be heard during the final chorus of the song; similarly, both songs begin with the same line: "I am sorry for being alive".
 * Similarly, Michaela's dying thoughts allude to The Servant of Evil and Allen Avadonia's dying thoughts at the end of the song.
 * One of Yukina Freesis' fairy tales, entitled "Wooden Girl", alludes to the song's title.