Lillia (1989)

Lillia' is a supporting protagonist from the 1989 Ys OVA series.
==Appearance==
Lillia has shoulder-length red hair.
==Biography==
When a light flies across the sky, Lillia follows it to find Adol on the ground who warns her to run as there are monsters on the premises. Lillia, who had been aware, explains that he is in Ys and hails from Rance.
Once at home, Lillia was bringing water when Adol recovered from his wounds. She explains that there is a place called the Shrine of Toal that has been honoring the six priests of Ys. As Lilia looks at the goats in front of Rance, Adol plays a song he learned ago from someone. Lillia explains that Ys is not at peace and terrible things needed to be done to survive. When Adol asks about the Holy Shrine of Toal, Lillia asks him why. Adol explains that he might be able to find out why he came to Ys.
Adol was packing his bags and expresses gratitude for fixing his wounds before heading to the mine with Lillia trying to help him to find the Shrine, but Adol tells her to stay with her mother. Adol was on his way when Lillia snuck off from her mother.
Lillia was heading through town to the Rastin mines when she runs into the doctor, just then, several robed demons on horseback arrive to pick a sacrifice when Lillia steps in to save a child from being sacrificed. Lillia is taken to mountain top ruins to be used as a sacrifice.
At the ruins, Lillia is placed on a column sticking out from magma where the demon in charge is about to use her as a sacrifice, uncaring of her wih to stop further sacrifices as they care more for the power it can give them.
Adol arrives as the leader of the demon pack was preparing to sacrifice Lillia and cuts through the monsters, prompting the demon to draw its sword out of anger at Adol's defiance of the demons. They proceed to cross swords as Adol proclaims that the people will not need to obey it. In the end, Adol breaks the demon's sword and cuts it down. The demon is in disbelief that it was not invincible before it seemingly expires.
Lillia warns Adol that the demons will soon choose another sacrifice, Adol counters that he will put a stop to this. However, the robed demon survived its wounds and tears off its robes to reveal its true form, a blood-red monster with only one eye and a tree stump-like lower half.
As it lashes out at Adol, it launches a fireball from its mouth, but Adol avoided it and rushes to save Lillia as the column collapse. The demon asks Lillia why she protects Adol who asks her to run. The power of the priests enables Adol to use magic against the demon, much to its shock.
Adol tells Lillia to get down as he dispatches Velagunder with a fireball, the dying demon asked why Lillia sided with the humans as she should have been with them. Adol explained that this magic would defeat any evil monster.
However, this only infuriated the villagers who do not believe anything about Ys being an island floating above the earth. Adol gets subdued by the villagers when all fell on depth ears. Lillia breaks Adol out of his pen to save him from being sent to the monsters and make their escape from the mob. At Lillia's suggestion, they head to the Ice Ridge of Noltia, considered a forbidden land.
When Sada arrives to talk Jira out of shooting Adol, Adol proceeds to ask AstalJira if he really seen what is on the other side of the Ice Ridge and manages to make him shoot the ground. Their parties then proceed to investigate the ruins when they cross paths with Feena and Reah who were at the ruins after they came with Adol to Ys.
When the men leave to investigate, Lillia talks with the goddesses while being spied on by Tyalmath. It is here that the goddesses learned from Lillia that Adol learned to use magic. The goddesses also explain that Adol had also saved them each back on Esteria and still need his help as he could unfold destiny for all including theirs.
Just then, Dalles finds them in order to take them to Solomon Shrine, forcing one of the goddesses to snap the pendant from her neck and present it to Lillia while they hold him off only to find themselves overpowered. As Lillia was escaping, monsters begin to cut her off at every turn until a long-haired one turned on its comrades. Lillia continued her trek until she crossed paths with Tyalmath who was locked in combat with Adol.
Soon after Tyalmath's demise, Lillia comes with a pendant from the goddesses and find her feet bleeding, with Sada telling Astall to give his cloak. Lillia explains that Feena and Reah were kidnapped by the monsters and taken to Solomon Shrine at Proses Mountain.
Plans are soon made to travel through Burnedbless with Jira and Lillia returned to the village and Astal convincing the elders of the truth. However, Lillia gets captured when flying demons ransack Rance for more sacrifices. Later on when Lillia was among the intended sacrifices, she learns that Adol is nearby. Soon, Dalles confronts them via an astral projection to tell them that it's best not to make promises he believes are empty.
After Adol kills Druegar, Keith takes him and Gorto to the dungeon where the remaining sacrifices are at. Once Adol arrives, Lillia embraces him before it is discovered that that Maria was taken from the group and Sada went to the bell tower.
Adol makes plans to head to the tower while he asks Keith and Gorto to take care of everyone. Adol rushes through the tower to join Sada in fighting the monsters to reach the tower. After Adol fails to stop the sacrifice, Lillia watches as all the other humans in the room turn to stone.
Afterwards, Lillia becomes determined to get the necklace back to Adol as he was supposed to have it. She soon watches as Dogi, Goban, and Luta are warped to Ys to help Adol. As Adol was rampaging through the shrine in search of Dalles, Lillia tries to find him and winds up in the Palace of the Goddesses who were telling Dogi, Goban, and Luta that they need to snap Adol out of his blind anger, or he will not be able to destroy the Black Pearl and rid the world of its evil.
Just then, Keith Fact arrives and walks to the three, asking if they are going to elimnate all the magic in the world. As Keith attacks, Lillia pleads with Dogi and Goban not to kill him.
After Keith failed to kill Dalles, he regains control of himself and reveals that he was turned into a monster that he killed, and his powers have been filling his heart with evil the more he pursued revenge on Dalles over the events that lead to his sister's death. Lillia tells Keith that he has no need to use the evil power anymore and asks that she use the harmonica so she can break the stone curse with Reah's song while they find Adol.
Lillia climbs the bell tower with Keith helping her up when a step breaks under her feet. However, he opposes Lillia helping the goddesses as the bannishment of evil might make her human again and her life will end. Soon Darm's power reaches the bell tower and takes control of Keith and immobilizes Lillia.
Keith explains that Darm is planning to absorb the life force of all monsters to become more powerful and that her life is sustained by the power of evil thanks to him putting the blood of another monster he killed in her, saving her from petrification.
Unfortunately, she is falling under control of Darm and fears that she would die as a result of the Black Pearl. He confesses that he will no longer be himself and begs her to run as he fell under Darm's control and attacked her. 
Keith however regains control to mutilate himself and fall to his death. Lillia continues to scale the tower trying to resist. She comes across Sada who was petrified trying to stop Maria's sacrifice. She then proceeds to play Reah's melody to free the goddesses, restabilize Adol, and break Dalles's stone curse.
Lillia collapses before disappearing into shadow. Lillia, who was intended by Darm to be a sacrifice, awakens and asks Adol to destroy the Black Pearl, Darm asks Adol not to listen to her. Adol refuses and tells Darm that the goddess's mistake of giving humans magic was at a time they were not ready for it.
As Adol prepares to destroy the Black Pearl, the demon pleads with Adol to stop which gets ignored as Adol destroys it, killing Darm. Lillia subsequently fades back in through light and safely placed by Adol's side with a non-sentient Black Pearl in her hands. Various people Adol helped proceed to give him their gratitude and the Goddesses reclaim the Black Pearl. They also demonstrate their gratitude to Adol nd Lillia who expresses remorse for not giving Adol the necklace, but it turned out to be destiny and she can keep holding onto it as Feena tells her.
The goddesses then tell them that they will stay and protect the Black Pearl until the time comes before the say their good byes with Feena vowing not to forget Adol and the time they spent. Lillia later catches the bundle of flowers at the wedding march of Sada and a revived Maria. As she hoped Keith is alive, she finds out Adol set off for another adventure.
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