Lillian Silverstone

Lillian Silverstone is a recurring character in Touch of Magic. She was a young witch, raised with a big awareness of the magical community, its potential and its expectations. 
Lilian met and fell in love with young wizard Christopher Greene who she eventually married despite the union being unconventional. Lilian worked as an aspiring desert chef in a restaurant in Waterfall Creek.
Lilian is the mother of two twiceblessed children born into that marriage, Payton and Claire. She was a warm mother, who tried to give her daughters a good education on magic like she had received herself. She raised her daughters with the importance of unity between the different bloodlines, telling them union amongst witches and wizards is the reason they exist and should always fight for that to remain the case.
She was an ambitious princes, who later turned Queen at a young age and acted as a voice of change within some of the more outdated traditions within their community, her marriage being the most groundbreaking of all.
Lilian died protecting her daughters from an attack, orchestrated by members of the same magical community she always tried to unite. While her death fractured the bloodlines and undid her attempts at unifying the bloodlines more, her daughters carry on that legacy by uniting the next generations of witches and wizards into a collaborative community.
She is part of the Silverstone Bloodline and The Silverstone Family. She was married to a wizard from the Greene Bloodline and therefor also a member of The Greene Family. She had a strong bond with The Ambroise Family and The Saphire Family.
==Life==
Lilian was a single child, born after many attempts and fertility treatments by her parents. She was home-educated and social but kept at safe distance from any interactions from the human world. Lilian was close to her father but admired her mother who taughter her everything about magic from the youngest age. Lilian visited Divitia each year, and would often request to go visit the towns near the castle so that she could be among the people who lived there. She was seen as a groundbreaking royal in many ways, her potential being highlighted by the manifestation of a rare power like telekinesis, and her wide knowledge of spells from other bloodlines.
As the sole heir of the legendary Silverstone Bloodline, Lillian was raised in the Silverstone House and expected to marry into a human relationship to carry on the legacy. Lilian was introduced to many human bachelors by her mother, including Keith Saphire who she remained friends with despite her mother's many matchmaking attempts. Lilian had a brief relationship with Dorian Fell, but ended the relationship when she found out he was in love with Christine Pembrooke.
Lilian went to apprentice with a known pastry chef when she was 18, living in Portland for the summer and documenting her adventures living on her own through video tapes. She also wrote all her recipes in her journal, writing them in the native language of the magical dimension to keep them a secret. Despite being happy with the freedom of and a normal summer to experience human life, Lilian eventually declined the offer to start professional culinary training.
Returning to Waterfall Creek after her summer in Portland, Lilian cared for her aging mother while she took on a waitressing job. Upon Carol's death, Lilian learned that the nature of the fertility treatments and Carol's magical genertics were the reason for her weakened physique, and eventually her death in 1985. Lilian told her dad of the importance to send word out to the magical community that Caroll had died, but her dad preferred to grieve on his own terms. 
Lilian processed her mother's death by reading through her journal, in which she discovered her mother had an older sister named Amelia who dissappeared as a young child before Caroll was even born. When Lilian asked her father if he knew she had an aunt, her father told her there was a grave for a little girl named Amelia Silverstone in the local cementary. Lilian went to the grave to put flowers down, wishing the sisters to reunite in the afterlife.
Four months after her mother's death, Lilian finally visited the magical dimension where she broke the news. While some members of the council respected her wish to grieve privately, others found it irresponsible that Lilian didn't inform them of the death of their queen. Lilian fought back against those accusations, emphasizing that there are humans underneath the crown that is put on their heads. Lilian eventually got coronated in january 1986.
Lilian made her first appearance as a newly coronated queen in New Orleans, march 1986. There she attended the funeral of Robert Greene. She met his young widow, and expressed her condolences. She sat with her while most of the magical community seemed to only pay attention to her son Marc, who had just lost his father. Lilian told Maryse that she had lost her mother recently, and that her father had chosen to deal with his grief on his own. She told Maryse she was welcome to write her any time. This kindness led Maryse to introduce her to Christopher Greene, a cousin of her son's.
Lilian and Christopher talked, and their interactions at first were very platonic the way most royals interacted. Christopher offered to show her New Orleans, stating he couldn't visit often himself because his own family lived all the way in Gardnerville. After New Orleans, Christopher's father Frank offered Lilian to drive with them back to Arizona, asking for her input on a spell he was working on. Lilian agreed to go back to Arizona with the The Greene Family, and consulted Frank on his work. 
During her one week stay in Gardnerville, Christopher told her about his mundane professional ambitions while congratulating Lilian on her achievements within the magical community. Christopher mentioned she reminded him of the UK's princess Diana, and Lilian teased him on that comparison, saying she had not yet found her prince charming. When Christopher suggested there were plenty of good humans in Waterfall Creek, Lilian told him none of them had managed to capture her heart.
She and Christopher kept writing over the next few months, Christopher eventually admitting he had feelings for her and that it was getting hard to ignore those. Christopher stated that a potential relationship between them wasn't a good idea. As Lilian read the letter, she came to the sad conclusion that she was expected to make sacrifices for the sake of the magical community, similar to how they expected to be allerted of Caroll's death before Lilian had time to process it herself. Because of this, Lilian concluded she was not willing to make sacrifices on her love life. She called Christopher, but he doesn't pick up. Unknown to her, Christopher was already on his way to her and he shows up on her driveway two hours later, stating he had changed his mind.
Christopher stayed at the The Silverstone House and supported Lilian when her dad got early onset Alzheimers and eventually passed away in 1988. When Lilian is sad about her father not being able to watch her get married anymore, Christopher asks her if she really wants to marry him with all that it would mean. They eventually announce their engagement in 1989, resulting in the expected shock and surprise from the magical community. Her wedding dress is made in Divitia with the support of her people. Aside from a civil ceremony in Waterfall Creek, the couple also goes on a royal tour in the magical dimension, before arriving back in Divitia where they spend their honeymoon. 
got married when she was 22, and their first daughter was born when she was 26 four years later. A second daughter would erase doubt of the fertility issues remaining present within Lilian's bloodline, and a curse of many generations appeared to have been lifted.
Lilian got a job as a desert chef to support their family alongside Christopher's landscaping business. She secured the income of the family when Christopher fell into alcoholism and their marriage turned sour. Lilian was left in charge of two infant daughters and her depressed husband. Lilian was most heartbroken for her oldest daughter, Payton, who could not seem to escape the glaring eyes Christopher gave her.
Due to this, Lilian took Payton on one of her herbal gathering trips to visit France. Lilian used her old video camera to record Payton enjoying the safe environment of family and community, which sparked Lilian's desire to create a united community. 
This ambition was cut off by her untimely death, orchestrated by The Valkyries because Lilian's influence over the magical community was growng too much. They were aided by The Millers who saw a united magical community as a thread to their dominance in the vampire world. Lilian held Christopher's hand as she died, and she herself died on the way to the hospital. Payton watched as paramedics tried to revive her mother, scarring the toddler girl into the realization her mom was gone.
=== Season Five ===
After months of hard work, Lilian and Christopher get summoned on Payton's wedding day. Lilian tells Payton about the videotapes she had of her own happiest moments in life, and that she always imagined her daughter getting married being one of those moments. Payton secures the video camera her mom used, and as a last minute addition asks the wedding to be documented on it.
The Elders
The Elders decided to take on the upbringing of the sisters , but what was not known was that it was a request of Lillian. When offered to her to join the elders , she said the wellbeing of her daughters needed to be secured as a condition for her to join.
Lillian then joined the elders , which is a secret for the rest of the magical community , and watched over her daughters. She was for example the one who persueded the other elders not to protest against Payton's pregnancy , knowing that fertility issues ran in their bloodline. She was also the one who kept the elders from killing the Dawsons when they purchased the Silverstone house , as she knew it would bring her daughters pain and sorrow.
===Resurrections===
Lillian has been ressurected twice , the latest time being on Payton's birthday as a surprise. Then she got to see the renovated house her daughters lived in , and the families they had made of their own. During the latest resurrection she also met her husband's son Liam , to who she was very kind.
==Relationships==
Relationships
*Lillian and Christopher
Family
*Lillian and Payton
*Lillian and Claire
Friends
== Trivia ==
* Lilian's great-granddaughter, Lily Silverstone, is named after her. Alena came up with the idea after watching the video tapes her mom gifted her to watch while she was pregnant.
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