Lilith

**Lilith** was the first wife of Adam who left the Garden of Eden and became the mother of demons and the supreme empress of Hell. She is also credited as the creator of the Turok-Han, an ancient species of vampire, and is thus regarded as the Mother of Vampires.

## Overview

The Babylonians identified her as a storm demon known as "Lilitu" in ancient Mesopotamian myth around 3000 BC and she was thought to have been the cause of disease, illness, and death.

A female demon of the night who supposedly flies around searching for newborn children either to kidnap or strangle them. Also, she sleeps with men to seduce them into propagating demon sons. Legends told about Lilith are ancient. The rabbinical myths of Lilith being Adam's first wife seem to relate to the Sumero-Babylonian Goddess Belit-ili, or Belili. To the Canaanites, Lilith was Baalat, the "Divine Lady."

She later appears as a nocturnal demon in Jewish lore and the proclaimed mother of all demons and the Dark Lady. Lilith possesses a seductive, manipulative nature. She for decades had pretended to be advisor for the goddess Ishtar which gave her the title of the Second Hand of Ishtar.

## Appearance

Lilith is an impeccably beautiful and well-endowed woman, described as the walking definition of feminine beauty alongside Eve herself. In contrast to Eve who has ginger hair, Lilith originally had platinum blonde hair, fair skin, bright blue eyes, and looked to be more slender but curvaceous nonetheless. She was also shown to be rather taller than Eve, standing roughly around six feet and three inches in height. Like Eve, she too sported a "crown of leaves" though in her case they consisted of branches or twigs formed in an intricate design.

After being driven out of the Garden of Eden, Lilith's hair darkened considerably, having a blackish red coloration with her skin having a light brown pigmentation. Her eyes, which were once sky blue, became a dark yellow. Her hair is also described as being the "nighttime sky carefully woven on her head" which is a nod to her shapeshifting into an owl, a nocturnal animal and her eventually becoming a demon of the night. She also bears puncture wounds on her hands and feet from where Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof pierced her with their lances and threatened to drown her if she did not comply to God's demands.

After becoming the Empress of Hell, Lilith was clothed in only the finest noble attire which possessed a consistent gothic theme to it yet demonic in nature. The clothing in question would at times be thin and revealing fabric, usually black or a dark royal purple. Fiery quills of an emerald sheen along with similar scales adorn her head in place of hair, and those same quills run down her spine to culminate in a reptilian tail ending in savage barbs. Her hands were no stranger to this savage appearance and so her five-fingered hands ended in curved claws. Lilith's mouth bears sharp fang-like teeth for shredding her victims and her eyes are smoldering crimson orbs devoid of pupils. She was adorned with jewelry that was rare on Earth and only found in the Underworld. Her sclera are red with yellow irises and black pupils.

## History

### Genesis

Lilith was the first wife of Adam, crafted from the same primordial matter as her counterpart by God. At some point in time, while she strolled the primeval plains, Lilith met with Lucifer and the two had a rather amicable conversation, shortly after the Morning Star was admonished by the Lord. During the conversation, Lucifer managed to persuade Lilith into siding with him as well. He convinced her that since Lilith had been created from clay the same as Adam she is equal to him and therefore should not be under him, she would be no puppet bound to any string. Lilith was enlightened by the Morning Star's words.

Immediately upon returning, Lilith and Adam began to bicker as she refused to lay at the bottom while Adam was on top during intercourse only for Adam to counter her by saying that he will only be on top since he is superior, but Lilith rebutted him by saying that they were both made equal with their argument going back and forth. Lilith basically demanded equality from Adam and, failing to acquire it, exclaimed God's "Ineffable Name" and left him in anger. Adam in return complained to God that his wife had deserted him. God sent three angels to take Lilith back to Eden, who found her in the Red Sea. When they told her that she must return to Eden, Lilith refused and blasphemed them to which they pinned her hands and feet with their lances and held her above the Red Sea. From there, they began to threaten her of the consequences should she defy the word of God, the first of which was that she would be tossed in the Red Sea to drown but she refused. They threatened her a second a time, which was the loss of one hundred of her children every day unless she returned to Adam. She again refused and was punished by having all of her children slain though she struck back by saying that a hundred more will rise in response. Regardless, she was distraught, and completely left the Garden of Eden, sulking in misery and abandonment.

At some point, Lilith met and befriended an abyssal creature known as Tanin'iver who became her steed. Tanin'iver then led Lilith to the archangel Samael, who was cast out from the mountain of God due to his misanthropic views on humanity. While he was initially hostile towards Lilith due to the fact that she was human, she stated that her supposed one purpose in existence to be subservient to Adam is nothing but a farce, a blindfold to keep her from finding and achieving a higher goal. She wanted no part in humanity's affairs within the oncoming centuries and instead would rather be above them than below them, further going on to say that she shares Samael's view when it comes to the destructive nature of what humans will bring with no concept of equality between them in their societies. This convinced Samael to have trust in her, and more so when she tended to his injured state.

### Original Sin

Because of helping Samael and refusing to return to Adam, one hundred of Lilith's children would be slain every day by the three angels. This prompted in Lilith's total abandonment of God and her hatred towards the divine along with Adam being the favored creation. Lilith sat by the Red Sea alongside Tanin'iver until they saw Lucifer and Samael approaching them sometime after the War in Heaven and were on their way to the Garden of Eden. Lilith and her steed joined the two fallen archangels on their quest to strike back at God and to pay back her debt to Lucifer for freeing her from Adam's presence. The four would only make their move at the hour the angels go up to worship God.

The four saw the angel Gadreel guarding the gates of Eden. Lucifer then conjured several stars, threw them across Gadreel's line of view and commanded them to dash around him like hyperactive fireflies, briefly disorienting the angel. Following this, Lilith commanded Tanin'iver to lunge towards Gadreel and subdue the angel by the throat. This gave Satan and Lilith the opportunity to sneak into the Garden of Eden undetected prompting Lucifer to leave and return to Hell. Tanin'iver was wounded by Gadreel during the scuffle and drove the beast away. Inside the Garden, Lilith at first opted to confront Adam, but due to Adam being her equal as both she and Adam were created from the same primal matter that God used to create them she could not harm him.

As a result, she set her sights upon Eve herself seeing that Eve was instead made from Adam's own rib and was thus weak-willed due to being subservient to Adam. Lilith then took the form of an owl, and would whisper words of power, doubt, independence, and self-reflection into Eve's dreams as she was perched atop of a tree where Eve slept, coaxing her enough for Satan, who assumed the form of a Serpent, to deceive Eve into eating the Forbidden Fruit, promising her that if she and her consort devour the fruit they would rule with equal authority like God. However, Lilith's disguise was exposed in Eve's dreams by a chimeral creature known as the Baku, and was promptly driven away. Regardless, Satan succeeded in having Eve eat the fruit, and the two made their escape from Eden beneath a cloak of darkness weaved by Tanin'iver.

### Queen of Hell

After the fall of the angels and Lilith completely cutting ties with Heaven and humanity, she eloped with Samael, now known as Satan, and the two were said to have made love within a cave, which resulted in Lilith giving birth to some of the first generation of demonic offspring known as the Lilim.

In response to this, God cast Satan further down into the Pit where his outer body is chained up but his true body roams the borders of the Ninth Circle. Moreover, the three angels slaughtered Lilith's children just as they warned her they would. Due to Satan's imprisonment, she took to Asmodeus instead, procreating demonic offspring and spreading chaos at every turn.

Lilith became a consort of Asmodeus and the offspring they bore were the Asmodai, a second generation of horde of Lilim, whom Lilith personally raised and trained, usually through harsh and ruthless means. Later on, Lilith rose dramatically in the ranks by becoming the first and possibly only Demon Queen as well as the Empress of the Inferno by wedding Lucifer, who crowned himself the Emperor of Hell. Lilith's union with Lucifer resulted in the birth of none other than Mundus, the potential heir to Hell's throne.

### Mother of Monsters

After her banishment from the Garden of Eden and Heaven entirely, Lilith also set foot upon the primeval Earth where she came across its many ancient beastly inhabitants. Seeing as how she bore the demons that now roam Hell, Lilith decided to create Earthly monsters as well; in some writing, Lilith was treated as the mother of all vampires or monsters giving her the titles of the First Vampire and the Mother of Monsters. Her credit as the mother of vampires is due to her creating the Turok-Han, whom are regarded as the first vampires to appear in history.

The Turok-Han rampaged across the Antediluvian Earth and their terror was recorded on ancient pottery in Mesopotamia. Lilith also took revenge against the Heavens by launching a reign of terror against women in childbirth, newborn infants, particularly males, and men who slept alone. She was forced, however, to swear to the three angels that whenever she saw their names or images on an amulet, she would leave infants and mothers alone. This also resulted in her developing a fiercely antagonistic relationship with Lumina, one of the ten dream deities.

Another version of the story as told in the "*Midrash Abkier*", is that after Cain's homicide brings death to the world, Adam separates from Eve and fasts for 130 years. When Lilith saw him she took him by force by using his own sin against him. She bore him many demonic spirits known to be a plague to mankind. This tale was later attributed to Naamah, a sister of Lilith, and she bore the Nashiym who helped their mother to seduce the Watchers. Nonetheless, Lilith would be seen as the incarnation of lust, causing men to be led astray, and Lilith as a child-killing witch, who strangles helpless neonates.

### Battle for the Messiah

When Jesus was born, Hell shook in terror and awe of the Messiah's birth as the demons screamed in profanity against the creator and the heavens. Lilith offered to devour Jesus as a showcase of Hell's power over the light, and that by consuming Jesus the darkness will consume the light. Her offer came to an accord by the powers of Hell and she, alongside her steed Tanin'iver, set course to kill the infant Christ, striking on the night of his birth and accompanied by several Lilim.

As the infant messiah lay sleeping in his crib, Lilith had Tanin'iver shroud the barn of where he laid in darkness, with the only known light source being Jesus himself whose radiance disturbed the beast and Lilith. Tanin'iver would compress the light of Jesus enough to have the Lilim get close and dismember his body before feeding it to Lilith. However, the Lilim were intercepted by the three angels, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, quickly slaying them. More troubling was that the Goddess Lumina alongside the Baku of Araphel made their presence known. Lilith began battling Lumina over Jesus and the Baku with Tanin'iver. While the blind serpent fights the hound fiercely, he could not defeat him.

Upon seeing Tanin'iver defeated and terribly wounded by the three angels and the Baku, Lilith flew into a rage. She lunged at Lumina, transforming into a monstrous owl-like creature of darkness, but Lumina put her hand out and a bright white light came out, blinding Lilith. The Baku quickly subdued her by the throat much like how she did to Gadreel with Tanin'iver. In a feeble attempt to escape, Lilith transformed into a snake but still the Baku held her captive. At the mercy of the great wolfhound, Lilith was forced to admit defeat and swore to never again come after the infant Jesus. She returned to Hell in humiliation and fury, with Satan shaming her over such a defeat.

## Lilith

### Aliases

Lilithia, Lylia, Aglaia, Pizna, Trianna, Lilitu, Lamashtu, Amaranth, Marialo Evenistra, First Wife of Adam, Mother of Demons, Mother of Vampires, Mother of Mundus, Queen of Hell, the Mad Queen, the Demon Queen, Mother of Deceit, Mistress of Betrayal, Second Hand of Ishtar, Bride of Lucifer

### Affiliations

Hell, Garden of Eden (Formerly), Succubi and Incubi

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Lust, Desire, Darkness, Femininity, Fertility, Storms, Death, Despair, Hatred, Envy, Sin

## Relatives

### Siblings

Eve, Naamah, Eisheth Zenunim, Agrat Bat Mahlat

### Offspring

Mundus, Lilim, Asmodai, Turok-Han, Succubi, Incubi