togetherness.

In this sense, he is also typically construed as more benevolent than the Windlines — or at least more decided in doing good rather than harm. Most Songs relating to him and Rito origins tend to start with Valoo feeling sorry for/taking pity on their ancestors for not being able to fly.

Related to the above, not a fan of nor do I subscribe to the "all Rito evolved from the Zora" concept introduced in Wind Waker because I'm of the vehement belief that they should be a people of their own right and with their own evolutionary background that is disconnected from Hyrule's usual races. As such, Scales Atop the Mountain's Rito may still be Hyrulean Zora transformed by Valoo, but it's more a case of a repeated instance of blessing a race with wings and flight for him as someone who felt real bad for their predicament.

In addition to the Rito, he is believed to be related to the Munan ( a group of Sky Spirits that embody the clouds ), the Ootakk ( twin Sky Spirit siblings that are understood as lightning and thunder ), Mualoo ( what the Great Rain Spirit is known by to Peaks Among the Ripples ), and many other Sky Spirits. Dragonroost's Rito like to think that he fancied their first ancestor, a Zora Princess of yore who would become his attendant, though it's a claim most other clans and flocks laugh and shake their heads at for how obnoxious it is in trying to imply that Scales Atop the Mountain ( and, hence, that past connection to Hyrule ) is somehow More Important™ to a Sky Spirit of the Windlines.

While Song lyrics and stories may slightly differ from flock to flock, the general gist of his role in Rito history is universally understood as follows by those that take him for their Creator Being: in having been given the gift of flight first, he blessed his younger kin with the same freedom by shaping their ancestor's/ancestors' wings with his claws and scale-feathers, purging their connection to land and waters with his breath, and cleaving paths through which they could begin to travel along the Windlines in what have come to be known today as skytrails with his might.

Most clans interpret this from an artisanal angle, where their then earthly-nature is malleated the way a potter would when warping clay. Valoo took what would be their wings and stretched and stretched, moulding the rest of them not in his image, but in the image of his favourite animal ( as the only mortals who would join him on the Windlines ): birds. He adorned them with his feathers and scales, carving them into their skin and bones, before kilning them with his sacred fire — both to make the changes permanent and to rid the ancestors of any geospiritual ties that would prevent them from connecting with the Windlines. He then asked if they would like to be painted, gave them colours of the earth, the skies, the waters: whatever they requested, he bestowed, and so came to be the first flying Rito.

( This is absolutely reflected in their artisanal work with ceramics and pottery, particularly in their vases! The wings and talons motif are not needed so much as they are appreciated. )

Though the story is generally kept non-graphic when Sung due to the expected presence of hatchlings and fledglings, the implication of how painful and horrific this process of metamorphosis would be is always there, typically in a throwaway verse or two. Forged from dragonfire and dragonscale, it is as much a tale of their people's perseverance as it is their origin. Some clans, flocks, and individuals take this more literally and consider themselves part-dragon for it! Children of the Windlines with dragonblood in their veins. It's not like it can't be true either, given how some in Hyrule, like Mazli, can canonically see the Three Dragons despite possessing no spiritual ability or affinity.

Thinking that Valoo stuck around with Scales Atop the Mountain's Rito in mortal form because they were, historically, connected to the waters ( notably the opposite of one of his primary elements ) far longer than they were to the Windlines. His scale is needed for the complete formation of their wings because they're way behind other clans and flocks in the race to the Rito form we see in Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom. It's also possible that their ancestors just wanted to keep their hands and Valoo, in his unending graciousness ( and fondness, as this particular flock would believe ), granted that wish and came up with a compromise.

Only a few clans have a different Sky Spirit whom they believe to be their Creator Being, like Clan Spheni, often found to the far, far south — who have their Great Ice Spirit in Valoo's stead. They would still know of Valoo by virtue of Rito knowledge being as migratory as the people who carry it, he just doesn't have the same significance to them as he would with other clans and flocks.

DIVERGENCES

NOT descended from Volvagia. This isn't canon so to speak since the implication comes from Hyrule Historia, of all places, but just putting it out there now. Volvagia is a mortal dragon borne of Hyrule's lands, whereas Valoo is a spirit who was not made from Hyrule and its power proper.

I would like to think that his mortal form differs from that of the one we see in Wind Waker, in that he has both scales and a lot more feathers. The Rito took to his feathers more than they did his scales, but remnants of that influence can be seen in their feet and talons! Great lore implications to be made here with how the Zonai are big on dragons, too, and can literally be made into dragons.