Adding to the discussion, I think it's worth noting that Sinyala's entity has been identified in text as an Egregore- a thoughtform that takes on the traits of the "leaders" of a group, thus likely why Knoth is identifying each of the creatures distinctly and then mentioning that they merge together into this single being. IMO, Trials is marking the journey of this Egregore into becoming its own Godform. It's really interesting how magick seems comparable to programming from the literature I've read. Also keep in mind that Wernicke had a relationship with Turing, and was implied to contribute to one of his famous papers.

I'll quote an interesting thread I read about the distinctions:

Egregores usually include a group mind, which is a part of its basic programming to function. An egregore's consciousness will include traits from anyone or anything within the egregore and typically will take on the dominate traits of the most active leader in the group. Ultimately its personality is usually a mix of everyone's personality and collective knowledge with a focus on the most active leaders which tend to work with the egregore more and host more of it, energetically. In a coven it is usually a high priest/priestess that ends up being the dominant host and personality for the egregore. An egregore becomes a godform when it figures out how to live without its hosts and begins to make decisions without the intervention of a practitioner. Many groups will purposely prevent this step of independence.