![]() ![]() She first appeared to her as a faerie in the Hell Ruelle and tried to coerce her into meeting Wayland the Smith. Knowing that Cortana had recently wounded him, and it only took three wounds to kill him completely, she decided to go after its bearer, Cordelia Carstairs, and get her to fight him. Due to an oath she swore to never harm a Prince of Hell, she couldn't directly harm him. ![]() In 1903, Belial stole the realm of Edom from Lilith and cast her out of the place. She was seen with Benedict at his own party in the Lightwood mansion, where Tessa Gray described her as a demon woman with snakes for eyes. Lilith was in a sexual relationship with Benedict Lightwood, contributing to his contraction of demon pox. A hundred years or so later, Raziel created the race of Nephilim, beginning with Jonathan Shadowhunter, to combat the darkness seeping out from the Void. However, their victory was short-lived, as Sammael was soon hunted down and slain by a furious Michael. Once more would Lilith and Sammael's brood be able to walk the Earth in great numbers. ![]() In a ritual around the year 1000 AD, Sammael and Lilith drastically weakened the Veil between the dimensions, greatly strengthening all of demonkind's immunity to the Earth's environment. This state of things wasn't to last, however, as Sammael and Lilith devised a means by which to counter the effects of Heaven's alteration of the Earth and it's increased barriers between the Void and the Earth. Should even a powerful demon such as Sammael or Lilith manage to force a return to the Earth, they could only remain for hours at most before they withered away and their essence was pulled back into the Void. To ensure that demons could not simply return things to the status quo antebellum upon the withdrawal of Heaven's forces from the Earth, the angels altered the Earth in such a way as to make it hostile to a demon's very presence on it, and strengthened the barriers between the Earth and the Void. Eventually, she and her lover created one demon too many, and Heaven, recognizing the danger that the growing demon horde posed to a still young humanity, declared war on all of demonkind and drove them from the Earth and into the Void-Lilith specifically was sent to the realm of Edom. Sammael and Lilith later traversed the Earth, siring demons in the lands they visited, and promoting the creation of warlocks, witches, and faeries. ![]() Shortly afterwards, she entered into a relationship with the Fallen Angel Sammael, and their relationship corrupted her into the first demon to have been originally human. Lilith is further associated with the harming and weakening of human babies. According to Jewish folklore, from which most of her folklore is sourced, Lilith was punished for her disobedience by being made unable to bear children, or at least, she was only capable of gestating infants who then died upon their birth. Lilith was originally created out of the Earth as a wife for Adam however, she would not obey him or God, and so she was cast out of the Garden of Eden and was replaced by Eve. ![]()
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