Lilith

****Lilith**** was the first wife of the Edenai King Adam who after her actions in the First Ancient Terran War, was forced into imprisonment in the Over-Void along with her allies and would later become the mother of the Cabals and the (self-proclaimed) Supreme Empress of the Void.

## History

### Genesis

Lilith was the first wife of Adam, created by God to be Adam's wife before Eve. At some point in time, while she strolled the primeval plains, Lilith met with the True Archangel Helel 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. Distraught, Lilith completely left the Garden of Eden, sulking in anger, misery and abandonment.

After leaving the garden, she attempted to create her own garden and became the consort of many different demons and with her unions with them, she birthed many demonic beings.

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. They threatened her with the loss of 100 of her children every day unless she returned to Adam. She refused and was punished by having all of her children slain. Lilith took revenge 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.

Because of her 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. When Lilith fully became a demon, her demonic form and lust cause the creation of the succubi Agrat Bat Mahlat, Naamah and Eisheth Zenunim who all became her sisters and servant along with the unrelated Mahalat.

At some point, Lilith met and befriended an abyssal creature known as Tanin'iver who became her steed. Tanin'iver then led Lilith to came across 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.

#### Banishment

Lilith's early fall from grace even prompted her to join the side of the rebel Edenim during the impending Terran Civil War. And it was from there that she would begin to commune with the Fallen Alfen Goddess Giste who, despite originally having contrasting ideologies, possessed a similar frustration and sense of betrayal; in Lilith's case the Seraphim that had catered to her and Adam, and later would drive her out of the great garden for her rebellious nature and more so when she realized that there creator would only listen to Adam instead of her and the other Edenim thereby thinking that He shared the view of all others being second to Adam.

### Daemonic Ascension

*By her third decade, the woman who would end her world had spent her entire life among the courts and war-rooms of her powerful kin. Oft-ignored in favour of her more aggressive siblings, Ax’senaea was left to turn inward and ponder the darkest regions of her own soul. Seeing her position, forgotten among her rivals, as little more than a matter for self-improvement, Ax’senaea quickly rose to power by mercilessly removing her competition. In only a few years she had decimated her dynasty and seized control, while keeping its holdings intact. It was not enough for the newly-minted Executrix Primaris, though—she still had too little control over her world, her own psyche.*

*Believing them to be manifestations of her own skills and knowledge, she collected a court of learned sages and strategists, putting each to death after she mastered their knowledge. Among these men was a secret sorcerer of Chaos. Hoping that it would end in her death, the sorcerer taught Ax’senaea the process by which to bind a powerful servant of Slaanesh to her own soul. His plan—that the despotic woman could not hope to command such a creature—was foiled by her overwhelming will and self-obsession. Though the ritual was long and exhausting, Ax’senaea was able to crush the daemonic entity beneath the weight of her indomitable will.*

*Now possessed of the power of a Keeper of Secrets, the vain woman murdered the sorcerer and slew the remainder of her cabinet. She used her newly acquired warp-sorcery to exert more direct control over her subjects and her enemies, twisting their minds to her will, driving them mad with desire or jealousy, or eviscerating them with a thought. She continued to abuse the daemon within her for decades, draining its essence to fuel her ambitions and maintain her youth until she consumed its power, banishing it back into the Warp and binding a new Keeper of Secrets within.*

*Over the following century she consumed a second and third daemon entirely, and plunged her world into utter chaos and conflict. She corrupted the souls of the ruling class the world over and spurred the populace to acts of subservience and adoration, sacrifi ce and murder, all so that she might prove the control she had over what she saw as her own psyche, her own body and mind. When her world was entirely under her own control, she spread to the other in-system planets, conquering, dominating, and commanding the countless billions touched by her infl uence. When the third daemonsoul withered and vanished within her, Ax’senaea performed the ritual yet again, hoping to devour the power of a fourth greater daemon. It was then that Slaanesh granted the woman daemonhood, both out of disdain for his most powerful servants and in adoration of the woman who had twisted the minds and souls of billions with her dark perfection.*

*Pulled into the warp by the possessive jealousy of Ax’senaea herself, its puppet-populace living out her every wicked excess, Laodomida now spins aimlessly through the warp, a world re-formed daily by the fi ckle whims of its insane mistress. Despite the gifts of the Prince of Pleasure, Ax’senaea remains mad, consumed by her own self-obsession and solipsism. Her deranged mind has now turned to the beings of the warp, and to her mad eyes they are simply rebellious aspects of her nature, needing to be controlled as much as any world in realspace.*

## Personality

In the beginning, Lilith had been independent, gentle, amicable, but she was brash and proud, the latter of which resulted in her rejection of Adam's rule over the Edenim, especially when his rule later became tyrannical in nature. Lilith's view of this was that despite having been crafted from the same primordial material as Adam, He had been regarded as being above her brethren and that his subjects had only been second to him which frustrated her deeply. She proclaimed that if they were all equal to Adam then they would be treated as equal. Although, this could indicate some form of insecurity from Lilith, implying that she is not too fond of being looked down on.

Lilith's early fall from grace even prompted her to join the side of the rebel Edenim during the impending Terran Civil War. And it was from there that she would begin to commune with the Fallen Alfen Goddess Giste who, despite originally having contrasting ideologies, possessed a similar frustration and sense of betrayal; in Lilith's case the Seraphim that had catered to her and Adam, and later would drive her out of the great garden for her rebellious nature and more so when she realized that there creator would only listen to Adam instead of her and the other Edenim thereby thinking that He shared the view of all others being second to Adam.

After her banishment from Terra, Lilith quickly became quite deceptive, cunning, and calculating. Her treatment and abandonment from Terra made her grow spiteful and vengeful towards the divine, which resulted in her creating the first monsters within the Void that would terrorize the children of Adam for millenia to come, and her daemonic children would drive mankind down into a spiral of chaos, corruption, and sin, turning them away from the light of Order. She is also highly opportunistic, ever watchful of the next opportunity to gain power through someone else.