Residents of Asgard. Um, it's more like gods?

[Geir struggles to explain his instinctive understanding.]

They're-- closer to the Tree.

[does someone from beyond the Tree herself even get what that means, when people who live on the Tree's branches and breathe the Tree's air don't always? probably not. oh, bother.]

I'm not sure what demons are, exactly, but they're not that.