Lilith Tregowan

*"Aunt Lily, you're a cynic."*
*"All the best people are dear."*

> - **Clara Page** and **Lilith Tregowan**
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**Lilith 'Aunt Lily' Tregowan** is an international criminal, and founder and former head of the Themis Group. After her nephew, Aldrich Kemp, took over the organisation, Tregowan took on something of advisory position although publicly she served as the gardener of Themis House.

## The Themis Group

Upon founding the Themis Group at some point in the 1980s, Lily Tregowan became involved in criminal enterprises as an inventor of technology that she would licence to the highest bidder. She was responsible for the creation of the Kaleidoscope machine, which allowed for new identities to be imprinted on people's minds through a process of compartmentalisation - a technology that the Department of Works has used with certain undercover agents. She had the financial means to support Dr. David Hazlitt and Conrad Spijker in their research into infrasound. When Spijker split from Themis and tried to steal the infrasound technology, recognising that its potential to alter the fabric of reality. Tregowan recognised that Hazlitt and his partner, Abigail Dankworth, were at risk as Spijker would need Hazlitt if he wanted infrasound to work. Tregowan's solution was to hide the couple permanently by offering to have them undergo the Kaleidoscope process. Both Hazlitt and Dankworth, who was by now pregnant, saw the logic of Aunt Lily's proposal and agreed to it.

In 1985, Tregowan's became guardian and trustee to her nephew and adopted niece after their parents were killed when the family's private plane crashed in the Sudan while on route from Mozambique to Istanbul. While Lily's sister led a far more law-abiding life, she and her husband had, through their philanthropic efforts, had made enemies of certain powerful people. Years later, when Nakesha Kemp discovered that the plane crash had not been an accident, Tregowan made the resources of Themis available to Aldrich and Nakesha so they could exact revenge.

## Retirement

Aldrich and Nakesha's pursuit of 'justice' for the death of their parents led them to uncover, in Aldrich's words, "a whole new system of the world" in where the distinctions between corporate, political and criminal interests were non-existent. This introduction of Aldrich and Nakesha into Aunt Lily's shadier dealings quickly led the Kemps growing involvement in Tregowan's organisation and, eventually, Lily handed the reins over to her nephew and went into semi-retirement. She continued to live at Themis House and her experience and contacts around the world were valued by Aldrich as he expanded the scope of their operations.

In 2022, Aldrich assigned Lily to work with Nakesha on doing surveillance in Amsterdam of Clara Page. When Page was kidnapped by the Black Windmill, Tregowan visited her old associate, the Colonel, for information but was incapacitated by agents of the Black Windmill and was herself kidnapped and taken to Spijker's headquarters underneath Kholat Syakhl in Russia. Her abduction was part of a coordinated attack on the leadership of Themis - Nakesha Kemp, Sebastian Harcourt and Alice Boone were all captured as well. Tregowan was very calm during her imprisonment, confident that Aldrich would save them. This proved accurate when she was later released by Mrs. Boone.

When Conrad Spijker was confronted by the Themis leadership he warned that his body, which was on a life support machine, was connected to a 'dead man's switch' that would destroy the Black Windmill facility and kill everyone. Unconvinced, Tregowan pulled the plug on Spijker's life support - killing him - believing he was bluffing. Her instincts proved incorrect when, believing discretion to be the better part of valour, the Themis Group made a hasty retreat just in time to see the facility blow up.

A year later, Tregowan and the rest of the Themis Group engaged in further subterfuge by faking Aldrich Kemp's death in an effort to uncover a plot against him. The group played with Clara Page by pretending to be unaware of Kemp's deception and then threatening to torture Page to see if she'd crack under the pressure. Page did not, and thus Aunt Lily lost her £5 wager with Nakesha. Tregowan later stayed with Mrs. Boone after she was hospitalised due to an assassination attempt. However, with Aldrich Kemp away from the decision-making while meeting with the Origin in America, Aunt Lily became the de-facto head of Themis once again.

However, this situation changed when Themis House itself came under attack by Vladimir North and his mercenaries. It fell to Mrs. Boone to gently remind Tregowan that in tactical situations, operational command devolved to Boone and not Tregowan. Aunt Lily accepted this immediately, apologised, and the two women then made short work of North's commandos.

## Personality

Lily has shown a strong hedonistic streak in her, mostly when it comes to enjoying food and drink. She takes the serving of the meals at Themis House very seriously and is not above raiding the minibar in hotels despite being shocked by the extortionate prices.

Tregowan's judgement of people is often based on traditional values more than their actions and she is a strong advocate for observing the supposedly 'correct' way things should be done. For example, she prioritises punctuality and is aghast when seeing that an old associate, the Colonel, who had a great many rather unsavoury achievements in his career, appeared to have been unceremoniously dumped in a care home in Eastbourne. Similarly, Aunt Lily was happy to overlook Heidi Mundt's white supremacist leanings and her human-trafficking activities because "she was always very nice to me."

Tregowan has a particularly close fondness for Alice Boone, claiming that "there is nothing I don't know about that woman". Despite Mrs. Boone's clear sociopathic tendencies, Aunt Lily enjoys her company and her cooking and is adamant that Boone's place is at Themis House. Lily and Boone will often work together when in firearm combat with adversaries - indeed they are easily the two most capable users of firearms in the top echelons of Themis. When Boone was hospitalised after a car accident it fell to Aunt Lily to not only look after Boone, but also to take care of the hospital staff who, unlike Tregowan, were unable to anticipate or control Mrs. Boone's more violent impulses. When Boone had to assert her operational authority over Tregowan during Vladimir North's assault on Themis, Tregowan immediately deferred to Boone. As someone who had been used to being in control for so many years, this is a sign of the high regard Aunt Lily has for Mrs. Boone.

In spite of her scientific background, Tregowan's comments hint at a background in enhanced interrogation techniques. She has also proven herself still very capable of effect combat with firearms, despite her advancing years. Both the firefights she took part in at the Black Windmill's headquarters and in repelling an attack on Themis House revealed Aunt Lily to thrive on such violent activity.

## Appearances

* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
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* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 WiAK: "Kholat Syakhl"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 WiAK: "Themis House"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 WKAK: "Liberty Flights"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 WKAK: "Bogota"
7. ↑ WiAK: "The Black Windmill"
8. ↑ WKAK: "Funeral in London"