Lily (Ender Lilies)

Lily is the titular protagonist of the 2021 video game Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. She is the descendant of the White Priestess, who later became amnesiac at unknown circumstances, before waking up at a crypt with little memories of her own past.
==Appearance==
Lily is a white-haired, blue-eyed girl in white dress with a glowing aura. She is branded with a red tattoo of the White Priestesses' prayer symbol on her forehand, which is covered by her hair. As she begins to purify the Blight, her hair will gradually darken, red Blight tendrils will gradually grow on her hair and red vein patterns will appear on her arms, dress and legs. Every time Lily purifies the Blight, she doesn't make the Blight disappear, but instead, she absorbs it into herself. The more Blight she has accumulated, the further the Blight corrupts her and signs of the Blight can be visually seen on her. While as a member of the White Priestesses, the Blight doesn't corrupt her mind like the others, it affects her physical health as she suffers from an intense pain caused by the Blight. The effects of the Blight can be seen as her hair gradually darkens, red tendrils and veins grow all over her body.
Eventually, when she attempts to purify the Blighted Lord, her eyes start to become red and her skin darkens. However, if she has the Aegis Curio equipped, the amulet protects her from the effects of the Blight and partially reverts her Blight-afflicted appearance. In the epilogue of Ending C, most traces of the Blight have disappeared from her except a few tendrils on her hair, which no longer affect her health.
==Personality==
Nothing much is known about Lily's personality, since she has lost most of her memories and she cannot talk. She is implied to be mute according to a note written by the real Lily, a deceased White Priestess whom the Umbral Knight decided to name Lily after. 
However, Lily is shown to be an alturistic person who is determined to save her mother Fretia along with her friends. She is also friendly towards the Umbral Knight and the spirits that she has recruited to her adventure party.
During combat, whenever Lily summons a spirit to attack, she always winces away and closes her eyes as if the violence is too much to bear for her. But despite her unwillingness to bear the sight of violence, she is determined to save her friends and is willing to fight so that she can purify their spirits by absorbing the Blight from them.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Summon Magic: Lily summons the Umbral Knight as well as the spirits that are purified of their Blight as her main means of attacks.
*Purification: Lily can purify the Blighted by absorbing their Blight into her body. In return, the purified spirits would join her team and assist her. However, her purification comes with a cost. While the Blight she has accumulated does not corrupt her mind, it gradually corrupts her health and well-being. The more people she has purified, the worse her affliction becomes.
*Healing Prayer: Lily can use her prayers to heal her wounds.
===Abilities===
*Dodging: Lily can dodge by leaping forward, or by dashing if she has obtained Guardian Silva's dashing ability by defeating her. This allows her to evade attacks.
*Parrying: Lily can parry most types of attacks by parrying with the use of Fretia's Ring or through the Headless Guardian and Hidden Test Subject summons.
==Biography==
===Lily's Origin===
Lily is one of the clones of Fretia, the White Priestess of the Fount and the third White Priestess. When Fretia fended off the first Blighted Lord by absorbing the Blight, a plague of undeath that robs the people of their wellbeing, sanity, afterlife into herself, Faden, the head researcher of the King's Mage Brigate began his experiment on cloning Fretia in order to stave off the Blight from her as well as to cure Miriel, his lover from the Blight. Numerous clones of Fretia were created and sacrificed to absorb the Blight from her, while some of the White Priestess clone were sent to purify the Blight around the kingdom. Eventually, Fretia succumbed to the Blight and became the second Blighted Lord and all but one White Priestess had died, and a nameless White Priestess, now taking the name of Lily, is the last known surviving White Priestess.
===Awakening===
One day, the nameless White Priestess is awaken from her slumber by the Umbral Knight, a spirit of an ancient knight to partake the task of purifying the Blight. She is branded with a red tattoo of the prayer symbol on her forehand, which symbolizes the Umbral Knight's pact with her. Upon waking up, the White Priestess has lost all of her memories. The Umbral Knight suggests her to recover her memories by trying to purify the Blighted and read their memories while the Umbral Knight lends their strength to the White Priestess. The duo then begin their journey to free the people of the Blight and save the kingdom.
===Guardian Siegrid===
Upon entering the cathedral, the White Priestess encounters Guardian Siegrid, a nun who has succumbed to the Blight and turned into a monster. The duo then engage in a fight against Siegrid and the White Priestess purifies her of the Blight. Upon reading Siegrid's memory, The duo have learnt that Siegrid was there to protect a girl named Lily. The Umbral Knight then concludes that Lily might be the White Priestess's name and Lily decides to take up the name as hers. As Lily recruits Siegrid's spirit as her new ally, the trio begin to explore the world and save the world from the Blight while trying to recover Lily's memories.
===Her Journey to Save the World===
Throughout the journey, Lily has encountered various people who were suffering from the Blight. She fights against them, purifies them of their Blight and recruits them to her party. She has encountered Gerrod, an alturist warrior; Eleine, the leader of a witch coven and a close friend of Fretia; Silva, Siegrid's sister who also volunteered to become a guardian in order to protect her; Ulv, a knight who is a close friend of Fretia and another White Priestess; Hoenir, a loyal executioner who helped protecting a White Priestess from the Blighted and guarding the execution grounds; And Julius, the knight captain of the kingdom and the illegitmate son of the king, who ended up slayed his father because his father was drunken with greed and considered his subjects to be expendible. As she battles against them, she gradually recovers her memories and gains more allies as she purifies them of the Blight.
===The Real Lily===
Later on, Lily discovers a deceased White Priestess at the attic of the White Parish, who turns out to be the real Lily and the girl whom Siegrid and Silva were trying to protect. The nameless White Priestess, who took the name of Lily, doesn't have a name of her own as she cannot speak. The Umbral Knight suggests the nameless White Priestess to take up the name of the fallen White Priestess so that her wish can live on.
===Hinterlands (Ending A)===
As Lily arrives the Land's End, she encounters the spirit of Fretia, who decides to purify Lily of the Blight that she has accumulated throughout her journey and ward of the Blight on her own. As Lily is purified of the Blight, she plans to leave the kingdom with the Umbral Knight. However, since the Umbral Knight is bound to a pact he made with Fretia, they cannot accompany with Lily in her journey. The duo then bid each other a farewell.
===Verboten Domain===
Instead of leaving the kingdom at the Land's End, Lily decides to delve into the bottom of the Verboten Domain, the Blight research facility of the kingdom. She encounters Miriel, Faden's lab assistant and lover who has turned into a malformed creature after numerous experiments have failed to cure her of the Blight. After slaying Miriel, Lily meets Faden, the chief researcher of the experiment on cloning White Priestesses in order to save Miriel from the Blight. She purifies Faden of his Blight and learns the truth of the White Priestess clones' origin as well as the reason behind his researches. She then recruits Faden as her new ally and continues to find a way to halt the source of the Blight.
===The Battle Against the Blighted Lord (Ending B)===
At the Abyss, a Blight-infested area located at bottom of the Vertoten Domain, Lily encounters Fretia, her mother and the White Priestess of the Fount. Fretia tells Lily to run away before turning into the Blighted Lord, but Lily decides to stay and engage her in order to free Fretia from the Blight. She tries to purify the Blighted Lord, only to fail. As the Blight accumulates in Lily's body, she suffers from an intense pain, her skin has completely darkened and her eyes have turned red just like the Blighted. Despite her pain, Lily insists to stay with her mother to ward of the Blight as long as she can.
===Saving Fretia (Ending C)===
Upon knowing that Faden has planned to restore the Aegis Curio amulet, an artifact that can greatly suppress the effects of the Blight, Lily partakes a journey to collect seven stone tablet in order to restore the amulet. After restoring the amulet, she enters the Abyss and confronts the Blighted Lord. With the help of the Aegis Curio, she successfully defeats the Blighted Lord and absorbs all of Fretia's Blight onto herself. Fretia then thanks Lily for freeing her and her daughters of their sufferings and bids Lily a farewell.
Years after saving Fretia and stopping the spread of the Blight, Lily has recovered from the Blight and she has given her fallen friends a proper burial.
==Gallery==
Ender Lilies Lily Awakening.jpg|Lily awakening from her slumber.
Ender Lilies Lily Meets Umbral Knight.jpg|Lily beginning her journey to recover her memories and save the world with the Umbral Knight.
Ender Lilies Guardian Siegrid Battle.jpg|Lily and Umbral Knight engaging in a battle against Guardian Siegrid.
Ender Lilies Purification.jpg|Lily purifying Siegrid by absorbing the Blight.
Ender Lilies Lily Exploration.jpg|Lily exploring the world and purifying the people of their Blight.
Ender Lilies Hinterlands.jpg|Lily bidding the Umbral Knight a farewell at the Land's End.
Ender Lilies Miriel Battle.jpg|Lily and Umbral Knight encountering Miriel.
Ender Lilies Lily Meets Faden.jpg|Lily discovering Faden, the researcher who started the project of cloning Fretia.
Ender Lilies Real Lily.jpg|Lily discovering the real Lily and deciding to take up her name.
Ender Lilies Faden Unlock.jpg|Lily and Faden unlocking the Aegis Curio amulet restoration facility at the White Parish.
Ender Lilies Aegis Curio Restoration.jpg|Lily restoring the Aegis Curio amulet.
Ender Lilies Lily Meets Fretia.jpg|Lily discovering the whereabout of Fretia.
Ender Lilies Blighted Lily Ending.jpg|Lily succumbing to the Blight while trying to save Fretia.
Ender Lilies Blighted Lord Battle.jpg|Lily engaging in the final battle against the Blighted Lord with the help of the Aegis Curio amulet.
Ender Lilies Farewell.jpg|Fretia bidding Lily a farewell.
Ender Lilies Epilogue.jpg|Lily in the epilogue.
==Trivia==
* The name Lily (リリィ, Riryi) signifies "purity and innocence" and comes from the Latin word for the lily flower, "lilium."
* Although the in-game status and descriptions refer to her as "Lily," she does not have a name in the story, and is never referred to as such, not even by the Umbral Knight. After finding the remains of a previous White Priestess in the White Parish's attic, who, according to her letter, was rightfully named Lily, the active Lily decides to adopt her predecessor's name in order to carry her memories and dreams. In Ending C, Fretia also goes along with the decision and calls her Lily.
* Both Lily's Note at the White Parish attic and the trading card from Steam featuring Lily reveal that she is actually unable to speak, although the player can get a glimpse on what she is thinking through her reactions and the Umbral Knight's commentary.
* Of all the major characters that Lily has fought against, Miriel is the only one that she has slain without purifying her. Instead, Lily purifies Faden, who's in the room behind the hallway where Miriel is fought. On the other hand, Faden seems to be holding what's left of Miriel as his main weapon and it remains ambiguous whether Miriel is still alive after the battle.
==External Links==
*Lily in Ender Lilies Wiki.
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