According to myth, when Veles finally learned of the Whisperers’ Incantations, he was more devastated than by the tales of the artifacts wielded against his Horrors. After all, the artifacts were given to people by gods who were unkind to him, so that came as no surprise to him. Furthermore, they were used against the Horrors that had disobeyed him and attacked human settlements despite Veles’s promise to Mokosh. Thus, he was not angered and did not oppose it.

Not like the whispers. One day, Veles took the form of a bear to sneak up to the surface unnoticed. There, he heard the Whisperers, and in their spells, he recognized the same chants and tremors he had once taught his daughter, Dolya. He had been betrayed by his own offspring to the insolent humans.

What was left of his heart crumbled to dust, as did his spirit.