Lily

Lily, in her utmost purified form

**Lily** (リリィ, *Riryi*) is a descendant of the White Priestesses, who wakes up in a crypt and without her memories.

## Lore

Lily is one of the clones of Fretia, the White Priestess of the Fount and the third White Priestess. When Fretia defeated the first Blighted Lord by absorbing the Blight - a plague of undeath that robs the people of their wellbeing, sanity and afterlife into herself - Faden, the head researcher of the King's Mage Brigade began his experiment on cloning Fretia in order to stave off the Blight from her as well as to cure Miriel, his lover from the Blight. Numerous clones of Fretia were created and sacrificed to absorb the Blight from her, while some of the White Priestess clones were sent to purify the Blight throughout the kingdom. Eventually, Fretia succumbed to the Blight and became the second Blighted Lord and all but one White Priestess had died, with the last known surviving White Priestess being a nameless White Priestess who has taken the name Lily.

### Chapter One

With no recollection of who she is or how she ended up in a ruinous sanctuary in the first place, Lily was roused from her slumber from the call of a mysterious spirit, who informed her that she had awoken to a world on the brink of oblivion. After discovering that a devastating phenomenon known as the Rain of Death swept across their homeland, Land's End, along with the corruption of the entire populace into wrathful undead, Lily embarked on her quest to discover the truth.

### Ending A

Fretia decides to take up the task of purifying Land's End on her own, purifies Lily, and sends her off Land's End to live her life as she wishes. Fretia's desire to save her clones is connected with this goal, as she considers herself their mother. Lily will not complete her ultimate task. The Umbral Knight hints that he cannot follow due to a pact he made long before meeting Lily, thus, they separate ways.

### Ending B

Lily chooses to stay with her mother, sacrificing her chance at freedom. Fretia and her will work together to purify the Blight and be consumed. However, in both previous endings, it is unknown if this will indeed work.

### Ending C

It is revealed that Faden found some stone tables from the Ancients that may have been important. With the Umbral Knight's help, Lily puts them together and creates the Aegis Curio, an Ancient relic that greatly lessens the impact of the Blight on a White Priestess. Using the artifact, Lily defeats Fretia, and chooses to take the burden of purifying all of Land's End herself in order to free Fretia from the suffering. However, the amulet protects Lily from bearing the Blight upon purification. The kingdom of Land's End with the Blight is finally cleansed. Fretia also promises to continue watching over Lily.

## Physical Appearance

Lily is physically frail. She has a pale complexion, angelic alabaster locks and apatite blue eyes, and she always has a faint glowing aura around her serving as a barrier against the Blighted. She wears a flowing ashen dress with corresponding white shoes, reflecting her status as a White Priestess. Furthermore, her prestige as a White Priestess is signified by the amulet she wears around her neck, as well as a crest-like mark on her forehead, which is hidden by a curtain fringe. It is presumed to represent Lily's relationship with the Deathless Pact of the Umbral Knight, which started after she awoke from sleep.

With each soul Lily cleanses, she absorbs more of the Blight, darkening and gradually corrupting her entire form. Her corruption level is determined by the number of heroic spirits she has purified. Although not affected by the Blight's mental corruption, she suffers from physical ailments as a result of the intense exchange that comes with absorbing the Blight. She becomes even more corrupted at Endings B and C as a result of her attempts to purify the final boss, where her skin darkens, her eyes glow red, her veins darken, and a mass of crimson tendrils protrudes from her head and underneath her dress. However, if she is wearing the Aegis Curio, the amulet shields her from the Blight's effects and ultimately aids in retaining a semblance of her purified form. In the epilogue of Ending C, most traces of the Blight have vanished from her, except for a few tendrils on her hair, which no longer affect her health.

## Personality

Since Lily is unable to communicate and has lost most of her memories, little is known about her personality. However, it is seen that her personality is akin to that of a young child, being very innocent and dependent on the Umbral Knight, and it further shows with her flailing evasive maneuver and lack of attack. She relies entirely on the spirits she can summon to defend herself. Outside of her spirits, the only way Lily can protect herself is through a mystical barrier. She may not be a warrior, but her mysterious font of determination is somehow evident as she drags herself up ledges, and picks herself off the ground, over and over.

Whenever Lily summons a spirit to attack, she flinches and cowers behind her hands as if the violence is too much for her. For instance, she sheepishly cowers in the background while the spirits quell the tempests against the Blighted. But despite her aversion to violence, Lily is incredibly altruistic and chooses to focus on the well-being of the world around her before her own. She never fails to purify the corrupted residents that she encounters, even after being attacked, even though doing so slowly corrupts her body and causes her considerable pain. This includes more dubious characters such as deranged prison inmates, the chief executioner, the knight who killed his father the king and the scientist who experimented on her "mother" Fretia. In Ending B, she insists on purifying Fretia and share in her suffering despite knowing this will condemn her to an eternity of suffering and end with her becoming another Blighted Lord trapped in her own body.

## Abilities

As a White Priestess, it is Lily's solemn duty to purge the Blight that contaminates the world.

Instead of having her own actions, Lily's abilities depend on exploration. At the start of the game, she can only perform basic functions such as walking, running, jumping, and dodging. By defeating and purifying souls afflicted with the Blight, Lily accumulates a vast set of Skills and Actions. Since she is not a formidable opponent, Lily has to rely on her spirit allies to do the fighting and do the more advanced maneuvering.

Despite her imbued abilities and the protection of her spirits, Lily is far from immortal to danger and will succumb to only a handful of injuries. A young child in an enormous, perilous world, she is subject to many hazards that can kill her effortlessly.

## Trivia

* The name **Lily** (リリィ, *Riryi*) signifies "purity and innocence" and comes from the Latin word for the lily flower, "lilium".
* Although the in-game status and descriptions refer to her as "Lily", the "Lily" that the player controls throughout *Ender Lilies* does not have a name in the story, and is never referred to as such, not even by the Umbral Knight, except during the endings.
	+ Given that she is a newly-awakened clone of Fretia, it is likely that she does not actually have a name to begin with, and decides to take up the name of "Lily" if the player manages to find the remain of the previous White Priestess and the note she left behind in the ruined cathedral's attic.
	+ After finding the remains of a previous White Priestess - who, according to her letter, was rightfully named Lily - the active Lily decides to adopt her predecessor's name, to carry her memories and dreams.
		- In Ending C, Fretia also goes along with the decision and calls her Lily.
* Both Lily's Note at the White Parish attic and the trading card from Steam featuring Lily reveal that she is actually unable to speak, although the player can get a glimpse on what she is thinking through her reactions and the Umbral Knight's commentary.
* Of all the major characters that Lily has fought against, Miriel is the only one that Lily has defeated without purifying her. Instead, Lily purifies Faden, who is in the room behind the hallway where Miriel is fought. On the other hand, Faden seems to be holding what is left of Miriel as his main weapon and it remains ambiguous whether Miriel is still alive after the battle.