Lilith

**Lilith Morningstar** is a major character in the *Divine Comedy*.

She is the empress of Hell, the wife of Lucifer, and the mother of Charlie. The matriarch of the Morningstar family Lilith is regal and carries herself with near unparalleled elegance that is rivaled only by her sisters.

## History

### Background

Lilith was created by God alongside Adam and was made to be his equal. She was catered to by the Chalkydri that resided in the Garden of Eden and was allowed to eat the divine fruit from the Tree of Life. Despite being an equal to Adam, Lilith would express genuine displeasure during sexual intercourse as Adam would be the one on top. This made her feel as though she was inferior to Adam. Lilith explained that Adam was "too clingy" and his presence became insufferable to her though for a time she said nothing. It wasn't until she met Lucifer that Lilith's demeanour as a character changed as Lucifer was assigned to guide and mentor Lilith on how things work around Heaven and the universe.

From the time they spent together, Lilith and Lucifer grew close with Lilith finding Lucifer's antics to be amusing and his ambitiously rebellious attitude endearing. Lucifer even introduced her to his 'posse' - consisting of Asmodel, Belfagel, Beelzebub, and Samael. During which she developed a good friendship with all of them, most prominently are Samael and Belphegor.

When Lilith vented to Lucifer about Adam the Morningstar convinced her to leave him and not be afraid of the consequences. Lucifer explained to her that if she was his equal then why is she always on the bottom during their little 'sexcapades'. Lilith, holding Lucifer's words to heart, decided to no longer be subservient to Adam and during one of their many arguments, Lilith gave Adam the finger, shouted out God's name, before being tossed out of Eden. Sometime later, Lilith was met by three other women - Naamah, Agrat, and Eisheth - who were identified as her sisters and kept her company. They told her of how only one of them accepted Adam's proposal with the woman being Eve herself. Lilith only scoffed and pitied Eve for what she got herself into.

### Helping the Fallen

After the War in Heaven, Lilith and her sisters bared witness to the countless stars that shot across the sky with the stars themselves actually being the rebel angels that fell with Lucifer in his failed takeover of Heaven. Concerned, Lilith and her sisters made their way towards where the angels fell beyond the boundaries of the material world. When she reached the desolate yet somewhat fiery wasteland - a result of the angels crashing - Lilith only looked ground in dismay at the severely injured and incapacitated angels. As she looked around for Lucifer, she came across Belphegor as was desperately trying to find someone to help Asmodeus who was brutally injured from the war and unconscious. As Lilith and the sisters tended to the wounded, she continued her search for Lucifer only to find in the distance a large being on the ground and also injured.

The being in question was Samael who suffered severe injuries during his battle with Michael. Scared at first, Lilith slowly began to help Samael with his injuries, speaking to him and apologizing for what he had to endure. Although in pain, the injured fallen angel gently held her hand with Lilith comforting him as she healed him. From there, she reunited with Lucifer as the Morningstar rallied and gathered all the angels that fell with him, licking their wounds and revitalizing themselves so they could be ready for round two against Heaven.

### Fall of Man

After licking their wounds and healing from their injuries, Lucifer gathered up the angels and assured them that this was far from over. However most of the fallen angels were nervous in trying a second time with Belphegor stepping in saying that God won't be so merciful and will just outright destroy them. Until then, they start to make use of their current predicament by making a habitable realm for themselves just as they did during the Genesis Jam. Lilith beheld the power of the fallen angels breaking out into song which fashioned and molded the realm around them. Lilith describes this second song number as a "metal punk rock" chorus. With everything set and done, they started to make plans on how to hit back against God and Heaven. Amongst the cacophony of suggestions and arguments, Beelzebub came up to Lucifer and relayed info regarding the humans Adam and Eve to which Lilith jumped at the idea saying that they would hit God where it hurts most by hurting his "magnum opus" though Lilith discreetly was also using this to get back at Adam.

Lilith joined Lucifer and Samael in their quest to bring down God's trophies. The trio saw the walls of Eden being guarded by several angels and had to pick their targets carefully. Lucifer laid his eyes on Gadreel and told Lilith and Samael that while he distracts Gadreel they would use the opportunity to sneak past him and up the gate. As Lucifer would distract Gadreel - by taking the shape of a cherub who was lost and didn't know which is the eastern gate of Eden - Lilith and Samael slipped past the guardsman angel, jumped over the wall, and entered Eden. Lilith and Samael snuck through the grassy plane of Eden looking for Adam and Eve. When they found them, they set their second phase of the plan in motion; Lilith would take the guise of an owl and talk Eve into going over to the Tree of Knowledge where Samael would hit the final nail on the coffin and have her eat the fruit. When Lilith met Eve as a night owl or barn owl the two talked for a time with Lilith playing into Eve's naivety and curiosity such as telling her the reason that she can talk as an owl is because there's a lot of things out there she still can't comprehend. The two then would talk about Adam to which Lilith was surprised at herself in actually relating to Eve and having an amicable conversation. Her big sister instincts kicked in and comforted Eve in regards to her strained marriage with Adam before focusing on the plan and led her to the Tree of Knowledge.

### Empress of Hell

When Samael successfully tempted Eve into eating the fruit, the two quickly made their escape from Eden, rendezvoused with Lucifer and went back to their realm. After the end of the war and the fall of man, Lilith and Samael would begin to spend more time together until they eventually ended up in a romantic relationship which lasted a couple hundred years. Lucifer, jealous of how close the two were getting, manipulated Samael into being the ruler of the Ninth Circle - the lowest Circle in Hell - so as to keep him and Lilith separated. Though Samael asked Lilith to come with him, she declined as she was already offered to rule the upper Circles with Lucifer. In addition, the long distance relationship would not work and so the two ended their relationship but on a healthy and positive note as Lilith and Samael remained close friends ever since. Overtime, as the monarchy of Hell was established and put forth, Lilith married Lucifer and became one of the Empresses of Hell.

## Trivia

* She is based on the Abrahamic figure Lilith, a woman who became the first demon after refusing to lay with the first man, Adam.
* The name "Lilith" translates to "screech owl", "night hag" or "night-monster" in Hebrew text.
* Asmodeus quipped that Lilith and Adam's arguments were due to the fact that they were both "tops".
* Lilith is often equated with Lamashtu, a Mesopotamian demigoddess or monster that devours children. Lamashtu's activities are what led people to claim that Lilith devours children which she vehemently denies.
	+ However, Lilith admits that she did have the occasional teenager with her reasoning is that they quite frankly always deserved it.
* Lilith owns a fur coat that was given to her by Samael as a birthday gift.
* She used to date Samael. Despite being exes, the two are still very close friends.
* Lilith is a famous singer throughout all of Hell. Her sisters often join her as well and are comprised of a quintet called the Screech Owls.