[Shadowhunter] Encyclopedia

✭ Lilith

Name: Lilith

Kind: Greater Demon

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Skin Color: Fair

"You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures."----City Of Fallen Angels.

Lilith is described as beautiful, except that she has black snakes protruding from her otherwise hollow eye sockets. She has long, shining black hair. Her shape is slim and lovely, and her skin pale white. Soft-spoken and eerily calm, Lilith carries herself with an air of supreme authority and power but also with a deceptive innocence that keeps those who meet her from seeing her as a threat until it's too late. Lilith can also quite wise, creative, and efficient, able to think ahead and adjust her plans accordingly in case of an unexpected predicament.

Lilith was the first wife of Adam in the Garden of Eden until she was cast out and replaced by Eve. She suspected that she was subsequently cursed with never being able to bear children. Vengeful, Lilith tricked Adam and Eve's first son, Cain, into killing his brother, Abel. At some point, she became known as the Mother of Demons. Lilith also became sworn enemies with the Queen of the Seelie Court and her immediate successor. In revenge, the Queen endowed Eve with Seelie beauty.

Around the 1990s, the Nephilim Valentine Morgenstern came to her and asked for demon blood to be given to his unborn son, through the child's mother's womb, for his experiments. As she'd suspected, the young boy, named Jonathan, eventually proved too powerful—and too hungry for death—to control and was sent to Edom when he was around eleven years old. Lilith loved him like he was her own child.

During the battle of Brocelind Plain, Lilith went through the portal Valentine opened into Idris out of curiosity. She witnessed Valentine's death, as well as the revival of Jace. Worried about "her son", Lilith rushed over to his body and took him with her, knowing that she could find a way to bring him back as Jace's revival could pave the way for Sebastian's revival, to restore the balance between Light and Dark.

Around the same time, Lilith sends men to bring her the Daylighter, Simon Lewis, but all of the men but one were killed as a result of trying to harm Simon while he bore the Mark of Cain, although the surviving man had no idea how this occurred. The last man standing returned to Lilith and informed her of the holy fire and God's wrath that had killed his accomplices. Knowing that she might have to take Simon herself, she went to him under the guise of band promoter Satrina Kendall, who approached Simon Lewis and gave him her business card, claiming to be interested in their band. It was then that she saw what had been protecting him from her men—the Mark of Cain on his forehead, a mark she was familiar with, as a result of knowing Cain personally back in his time.

Fearing retribution from the Mark, Lilith, realizing that she could not force him to do what she wanted on her own, abducted Maureen Brown, the mundane whom he had accidentally fed on after going too long without blood. She had Camille Belcourt kill her to turn her into a vampire, and ordered her to escort Simon to her lair. There, she revealed that it was she who ordered Camille to murder the four Shadowhunters and that she was also behind the dead demon babies, whom her followers had been killing for her.

Lilith then demanded that Simon revive Sebastian by feeding him his blood. Since the other Shadowhunters tracked Simon to her lair, Lilith confronted them in battle and proved too powerful. Simon saw that Lilith was about to whip Clary and reflexively jumped between them to protect Clary.

She was ultimately successful though, as Sebastian was ultimately revived because the rune on Jace that bound him to Sebastian, which had already healed itself after being damaged by Clary, reconnected him to Sebastian's will and compelled him to give Sebastian his blood; the mixture of their blood completed the bond between them in a twinning spell, a somewhat demonic version of the parabatai bond.

Lilith was eventually summoned back to Earth by Sebastian, thus helping her reform faster, though not completely. She was still too weak and was only able to manage to provide her blood for the Infernal Cup, in order for Sebastian to create an army of Dark Shadowhunters. She allowed Sebastian to take refuge in her realm, Edom. When Sebastian died and the army was destroyed in the Dark War, she wept for her blood 'children', and her howls were heard throughout Edom.

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