Lilith Clawthorne

* Season2A
* Season2B
* Apocalypse
* Raven Beast
* Debut
* Epilogue
* Harpy

“
I don't know what you are, but STAY AWAY FROM MY NEPHEW!
”

—Lilith to The Collector

**Lilith Clawthorne** is a major character of *The Owl House*, serving as the secondary antagonist of the first season until "Young Blood, Old Souls", and a supporting character as of the second season. Lilith is Eda's older sister and the disgraced former leader and lead historical scholar of the Emperor's Coven. She was living with her parents, trying to make up for lost time and to develop a cure for Eda and Lilith's curse, along with getting a job in the interim until the Day of Unity, where she was captured by The Collector.

## Appearance

### Body

Lilith is a tall, slender, middle-aged woman in her mid-to-late 40s (two years older than Eda). She has ivory skin, pointed ears, black lipstick, and mint green eyes. She also has dark claw-like nails. In her debut, Lilith has long straight hair which she dyed a dark-navy color. Her natural hair is fluffy and orangish-red, as shown during her childhood and the epilogue. After splitting the curse between herself and Eda in "Young Blood, Old Souls", Lilith's right eye becomes gray, and she obtains a gray streak on the right side of her hair. In the second season, Lilith's skin has gotten paler, and she has prominent wrinkles under her eyes. In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", the lower portion of her hair becomes fluffy and curly. In "For the Future", her hair has been cut short, exposing her natural red hair. In the epilogue to "Watching and Dreaming", her hair is further grown out, maintaining its curls.

As the Raven Beast, she resembles almost all of Eda's characteristics in her cursed form, but with black hair, large, crooked fangs, a longer neck, black claws, her ears having small ridges with no hair growing out from them and is much larger than the Owl Beast.

### Clothing

She wears a long-sleeved two-tone dark gray dress and dark gray laced boots. She also had an inverted kite-shaped sky-blue gem located on her sternum, which was attached to her dress. After leaving the Emperor's Coven, she wears a graphic tee (supposedly from the Human Realm) of a "low battery" symbol and a ragged skirt that reaches to her ankles, which she got from Eda. In "Wing It Like Witches", Lilith is revealed to wear dark blue-gray leggings.

In her youth, she wore glasses with round lenses and a Hexside school uniform with yellow sleeves and leggings, signifying her as a member of the potions track, with black shoes with small heels, a gray tunic with a black belt, and a black cowl with a golden button.

"Follies at the Coven Day Parade" shows she's taken to wearing glasses again and she's switched to a pale green shirt with poofy sleeves and a gold button on the chest, a brown vest, a maroon ankle-length skirt, purplish-gray leggings, and brown high-heeled boots.

Her current outfit features a turtleneck similar to that of her previous outfit, her sleeves reach down to her hands ending with a triangular cut that ends at the palm of her hand. She has on a dark blue dress over the turtleneck. The upper part of the dress appears to be baggy and sleeveless, with a dark turquoise band tying around her waist. Her dress reaches to her ankles, with a triangular pattern at the bottom of her skirt. Her leggings are no longer a tone of purple and appears to be blueish-gray. She has brown high-heeled boots, a dark green like scarf, with a maroon button on it.

## Personality

Unlike Eda, Lilith is conservative, strait-laced, and generally law-abiding. She takes great pride in her role as a mentor and was initially surprised to see Eda at the latest Covention, believing she had finally decided to join a coven, only for her sister to laugh at the notion. She also has a tense sibling rivalry with Eda due to them being almost equal in terms of power and on opposite sides of the law; regardless, she still genuinely cares for Eda.

Though first appearing to be everything her sister is not, Lilith is also not above cheating, having given her apprentice Amity Blight a power glyph from the construction coven to amplify her magic, knowing full well her sister would do something similar (although it could be argued that she was leveling the playing field). In "Agony of a Witch", she proves willing to do anything to achieve her goals, such as attempting to distract Eda by endangering her student Luz Noceda and cursing Eda when she was younger. She later explains to Luz that she was acting on Emperor Belos' teachings of sacrifice (given this is Belos' teachings, it's unlikely she is misinterpreting his teachings so much as that is what he teaches). Lilith admits her jealousy stems from feelings of inadequacy, lamenting that she had to become stronger because Eda was better. However, despite this, she shows guilt and everything she did was in an attempt to save Eda. She is also shown to be quicker to anger and more impulsive and naïve compared to her sister, firmly believing Emperor Belos' promise to remove Eda's curse.

Lilith also seems to suffer from a severe lack of empathy towards others. She was unable to realize that cheating would hurt Amity emotionally, and easily dismissed Luz as just a "human pet" to Eda, not seeing the strong bond the two share. Perhaps the biggest examples of this are her constant attempts to make Eda join the Emperor's Coven, not seeing or understanding that Eda just doesn't want to be part of the Coven, or even after taking Luz as a hostage (although this was after threat of execution by Belos), thinking that Eda will change her mind about the Coven upon joining. This also shows a somewhat self-centered side, holding on so strong to her way of thinking that she refuses to accept others.

However, in spite of these flaws, Lilith is capable of seeing the error of her ways and will admit it. When Belos revealed that he had no intention of curing her sister, she rebelled against him and turned to Luz in order to save her sister, having realized that Eda was right about not trusting Belos. She also proved herself to be able to atone for her mistakes, as after she, Luz, and King rescued Eda, she cast a spell that shared Eda's curse to make amends.

After leaving the Emperor's Coven, Lilith has been trying hard to prove to Eda that she is trustworthy. Initially, she felt useless without a Coven, but after befriending Hooty, she has a more positive outlook on her new life. She now enables her sister's trouble making personality, encouraging her to pull pranks on the emperor's troops, even if she still prefers to follow the rules herself. Lilith has also become much more empathetic and caring towards others, like Hooty, but still retains her prideful nature, stating that Emperor Belos' guards are clueless without her. After spending time with her parents, Lilith reveals a overeager scholastic side of herself and goes out of her way to prove she can be daring and cool, likely brought out by Hooty and Luz.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **Staff proficiency:** Lilith uses her staff to focus her magic and deflect incoming attacks. She can also infuse the staff with fire for greater damage.
* **Grudgby proficiency**: While in school, Lilith was the captain of the team, and even now maintains high physical capabilities, as she played an even match against Eda without magic.
* **History expert**: Being lead historian of the Emperor's Coven, Lilith is well-versed in the history of the Boiling Isles.

### **Unique Abilities**

* **Magic:** Lilith is highly skilled with magic, enough to go blow for blow with her sister. Like most witches, her connection to magic comes from a sac of magic bile attached to her heart. As the leader of the Emperor's Coven, she has access to all types of magic. Although not quite as powerful as Eda or Emperor Belos, she is considered a formidable opponent. However, as of "Young Blood, Old Souls", after sharing Eda's curse, her magic is heavily crippled. Because of this, Lilith began to learn to use magic through glyphs.
	+ **Telekinesis:** Lilith can use telekinesis, as she removed her cloak and mask during the Covention.
	+ **Potion magic:** Lilith was in the potions track at Hexside as a teenager and can still brew potions without her magic.
	+ **Fire magic:** Lilith can conjure powerful blue flames from her staff.
	+ **Dematerialization magic:** Lilith can use her magic to destroy certain items from a distance as if they were paper.
	+ **Plant magic:** In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Lilith was able to summon vines to restrain King in the human realm.
	+ **Ice magic:** In "Separate Tides", Lilith attempted to use ice magic to capture fire bees, but could only muster a handful of ice cubes. It is implied that her ice magic was much stronger prior to sharing the curse.
	+ **Flight:** Lilith can use her staff to fly.
	+ **Teleportation:** She can disappear from one location and instantly reappear in another.
	+ **Force field generation:** Lilith can use her magic to create a force field, as shown when she trapped Luz in a bubble.
	+ **Pain sharing:** Lilith can use her magic to share any physical wounds or curses, as she was able to share the curse with Eda, hence reverting Eda back to her normal self. This helps minimize the pain/effects, but in turn, she is affected as well.
	+ **Glyph magic:** Under the tutelage of Luz, Lilith proves to be competent with using glyphs and has a better understanding than her sister at it.
* **Cursed form**: After sharing her sister's curse, Lilith will transform into the Raven Beast if she does not take an elixir to keep it at bay. In her beast form, she goes berserk and can easily destroy buildings, in addition to being able to fly for long distances. She is also very strong and larger than Eda's own cursed form, having the ability to pick up Eda in her cursed form and fight with her for an extended period of time. At some time after the Day of Unity, she learned to transform into a less bestial harpy form like her sister.
	+ **Flight:** After transforming into a raven-like beast, Lilith is shown to have advanced flight abilities, flying with Eda's cursed form all the way to Bonesborough and using her wings to fight in aerial combat.
	+ **Anatomical liberation:** A side effect of the owl curse, Lilith's body parts fall off, but are reattachable without negative consequences. Presumably, Lilith can retain control of her limbs the way Eda does, but she is not as experienced at doing so as Eda is.

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## Trivia

* Lilith's Penstagram account is ***"Chilly.Lily"***, seen in the episode "Any Sport in a Storm".
* According to Dana Terrace, Lilith's hair was dyed blue, having started dyeing it after her initiation into the Emperor's Coven in order to appear more intimidating.
	+ This was also confirmed in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", when her mother Gwendolyn sees her hair and mentions that she still dyes it.
* In "Wing It Like Witches", it is revealed she and Eda used to play grudgby matches and Lilith was the captain of the grudgby team, the Banshees.
* Eda's memory of Lilith cursing her depicted Lilith as a wavy silhouette with large white eyes behind a door. The owl hosts in the "Look Hoo's Talking" video on the episode "Covention" referred to Eda's mysterious curser as Squiggly-Line-Guy. The "eyes" were revealed to be the glasses Lilith wore in her youth (first shown in "Wing It Like Witches"), and the silhouette was due to her cloak and hair concealing herself at the time.
* Lilith is two years older than Eda.
* In "Young Blood, Old Souls", when the pain-sharing spell is cast, the gem on her sternum stays blue, unlike Eda's, who's gem has turned black from the curse. It was revealed in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances" that Eda's gem, unlike Lilith's, was specifically made to monitor the curse.
* Since taking half the curse, Lilith has shown notable wrinkles under her eyes in Season 2. This possibly suggests the curse is affecting her appearance faster than Eda due to being "cursed" at an older age, or is from all the strain she put herself under while studying for a way to end the curse.
* Because the Owl Beast curse is actually a living being turned into a curse, it's unknown if Lilith has the same creature in her or if she created another creature entirely from sharing the curse with Eda.
* Lilith is aromantic and asexual.
	+ Lilith's orientation was first implied in the audio story "The Letter from Lulu", which premiered during the "Be Gay Do Witchcraft Charity Drawathon!" livestream.
	+ Lilith's aromantic-asexual orientation was later confirmed directly by the character's voice actress, Cissy Jones.
* Very early concept designs of Lilith appear to present her as a younger character with peach or ivory skin rather than pale.
	+ As she was drawn as an older woman, one of the outfits in her concepts seemed to be reused for Darius.
* Strangely enough, Lilith has never been shown to have a sigil from the Emperor's Coven on her wrist throughout the second season. This may be an animation oversight or was forgotten, even though the sigils played a crucial role in the Day of Unity and there's no known way to remove them.
	+ A livestream by Cissy Jones released the night before "For the Future" aired reveals the crew forgot to add it, jokingly saying that the reason she doesn't have it in-universe is because it was either removed after she left the Emperor's Coven, or Belos hated her enough to not give her one.
	+ Additionally, it is never explained why she kept her Palisman, despite all members of the Emperor's Coven being required to give them to Belos for his condition.
* As revealed by Dana Terrace, the Clawthorne family, including Lilith and Eda, are the descendants of Caleb Wittebane and Evelyn, making them the first known witches with human ancestry.

## References

1. ↑ Dana Terrace's AMA. Reddit (September 2, 2020). “Yes she absolutely dyes her hair. Once she joined the Emperor's Coven she wanted to appear more... Intimidating...”
2. ↑ "Be Gay Do Witchcraft Charity Drawathon!" Dana Terrace's charity stream (1:18:20) (March 13, 2022). Archived from the original on March 13, 2022. “Someone bought me a bouquet of spiders the other day, and my mother was interested; she just wants to see me happy. And my co-workers were interested, especially after I turned down their offer to create my Inciner-date profile. I am not so interested, I don't think I ever have been. Hmm, I have much to think about. So I let her down as best as I could, but the bouquet was lovely, though, very delicious! Anyways, I must sign off, my mother says she's received another bouquet for me. This time filled with rat eyes. And I must prepare to let down another suitor-but I will keep the rat eyes, of course!”
3. ↑ Post-Hoot with Cissy Jones and Sarah Nicole-Robles (6:40) (March 18, 2022).