Lydia Liddell Mathers

**Lydia Liddell Mathers** is a character introduced in the side story, "*Malice and Madness*, where she features as an antagonist to the Hellhounders.

Daughter of Samuel Liddell Mathers, founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, She was conceived with the aim of creating a human with demonic blood, as during one of her parents procreation sessions they called forth demons until one finally answered, and placed a fragment of his being in the womb, allowing Lydia to become a demon, and call upon Haborym and his powers.

He father considered this the culmination of the order's plan.

However, her father was expelled from the Order in 1900, and his life's work stolen and changed by Aleister Crowley, whom he swore vengeance on, but died before he could do anything. Lydia took on this revenge and began to amass more power, seeking power even greater than the powers of Hell.

She sent out a call to the other side, and received an answer from a being called, Vaxyl.

She agreed to serve him, and he promised her that he would control the world, humans would be obselete, and she would sit by his side as his queen.

As part of their plans she created a Familiar disguised as a purse, which would allow her to teleport any potential thief, or holder of the purse back to her, and tricked attorney general, Alexander Mitchell Palmer into picking up her purse, which she claimed had fallen under a car where she couldn't reach.

It was part of Vaxyl's plan to implant Palmer, and make him pliant to serve their purposes, but before he could be summoned, Lydia would instead take possession of him for the time being.

Aware that there was a rival group to their plans, the Hellhounders, who wished to assassinate Palmer, she met with Vito Andolini, a member of the group in a park, and chatted aimiably to him.

She deliberately allowed Vito to snatch her purse so she could teleport him back to her, and stop their assassination.

As Palmer was scheduled in a motorcade, she possessed him once more, sitting in a car with William J. Burns, and John Hoover, director, and assitant director of the Bureau of Investigation. This allowed her to project a shield around herself to protect from the Hellhounders malice weapons - the "pharrago".

She fled in Palmer's body to the sewers, while also teleporting Vito there to a ritual point.

The other Hellhounders gave chase, but were cut off by Davis, one of Vaxyl's underlings.

As Vito regained consciousness, he saw Lydia's unconscious body lying on the ground, protected by Ramses, as Palmer approached - Lydia's sprit returning to her own body.

Taking a shine to Vito, she explained her plans to him, and considered him a mere pet that she would like to keep. She summoned forth Vaxyl, who implanted both Palmer and Vito with a bud, and tasked Lydia to watch over them while he dealt with the remaining Hellhounders.

She kept watch on Vito and Palmer to see the buds take hold, but was beheaded by the Axeman while unawares. Despite this, Lydia merely placed her head back on her shoulders and healed the wound with the power of malice, before assuming a demon form with red skin, gnarled horns, and a forked tail.

Meeting the Axeman with amusement; a devil meeting a so-called devil, she attempted to burn him with summoned flames. Though he fought through the pain, and they clashed, claws and fire against axe.

She summoned an avatar of Haborym to assist her, and was impressed when the Axeman slew him, but attempted to blast him with a fireball. She was interrupted however, when she was shot in the eye by Vito with a pharrago stinger.

Causing nothing but an annoying distraction, she turned furiously on Vito, and offered him up as a sacrifice to the demon hordes of hell. Lydia summoned more demons, but stopped, and was shocked when a malice powered Axeman slaughtered all of them, before turning his fury on her, hacking her into pieces that even she couldn't reform from.

However, in a last ditch-effort to avoid death, her weakened spirit fled into Palmer and tried to escape. Vito caught up with her, and exorcised her by dousing her in holy water, sending her enervated soul to hell.