Lilith Yohan

Lilith Yohan is a witch from the town of Bellebury. She occupies the entirety of the Eastern Forest, residing in the Thorn Castle.

Two years after the Disaster of Two Fires, Lilith married Aisha Myrmorn. They then mother two children: Prince Mikaela and, after a hundred years, Princess Eloise. Despite marrying into royalty, Lilith refuses to use a formal title.

She is one of the POV characters and the antihero in Madwomen.

Appearance

Lilith is a woman of average stature with long dark blue hair and navy eyes. She compliments her eye color with red eyeshadow and lines the bottom of her eyes with a more vivid color. She is usually wearing a frilly white polo and a long flowing skirt.

Personality

With a life of isolation, Lilith presents herself as a woman of very few emotions; she is unaware of what she feels, and would brush off her feelings. Her emotions only get even more difficult to understand as she speaks with a slow and monotonous or neutral voice. Her words tend to hold venom as well, but it is weakened with her tone.

She prefers to solve all her problems through magic and through ruthless means. If getting rid of an inconvenience meant harming others, she would do it without hesitation. Unlike most Atharian magical beings, she isn’t hesitant in openly using magic— she delights in being known as a fearsome witch as it means people will ‘leave her alone and in peace.’ 

She isn’t very sociable and is a woman of very few words. She prefers to let her actions do the talking for her. With the very few words that Lilith does speak, she tends to be harsh, though mostly unintentionally. Lilith prefers to do things straight to the point, seeing no purpose in working hard for things she wants if it is something she can get it by force. Even if her attitude causes people to stay away from her, she does not care as it is her preference to be alone. Her line of morality causes great conflict between her and Aisha, making the two women have a hard time getting along.

Lilith’s high pride and want for independence causes her to be further distanced from others. Even when others are concerned for her well-being, she brushes off their questions and prefers to nurse herself back to health alone. She acts nonchalant after overworking herself by casting magic continuously, choosing to parade her power around even as she staggers around in fatigue.

Despite her callous and know-it-all nature, Lilith is clueless when it comes to common human affairs.

History

Background

As the second and youngest child of the human family of Abigail and Isaac Yohan, Lilith wasn’t expected to be born as a witch, especially one with tremendous power at an early age. Questions popped up in everyone’s heads; how was a witch born to two humans? Where did her powers come from? Are there other witches hiding in the human-populated town of Bellebury? Her existence puts the common people in unrest but ultimately did nothing about Lilith— Atharia prided itself in being accepting of all beings, human or not.

Lilith’s abilities were discovered when she set her room on flames after crying as a six year old. Since the discovery, her parents and her sister have treated her coldly, most especially her mother. Her mother started hitting her whenever her magic unconsciously acted according to her emotions; water would flood their house whenever she was sad, things would burst into flames whenever she felt angry, and winds raged whenever she felt happy. Upon realizing her mother’s displeasure towards her magic, she dulled her emotions to the best of her ability. She tried her best to remain emotionless in order to appease her mother. She clung to her mother, hoping to get her approval someday. She soon found out that it wasn’t just the magic that irked her mother— it was also Lilith herself.

On the other hand, her father started treating her as if she didn’t exist. Whenever her father was home, he was drunk and wasn't responsive towards his wife or Lilith. The only one he acknowledged was his eldest daughter.

Her older sister also hit her, shunned her, and encouraged the other people to ostracize Lilith. The girl revealed to Lilith that the reason why their father hated her so much was due to the rumor going around that Lilith was a bastard and that there was no way that two humans could create a witch. Her sister sides with their father, badmouthing their mother.

At home, the four family members ignore each other and the three only unite in blaming Lilith for all their problems. They call her a cursed child, a symbol of the goddesses’ displeasure in their family. Lilith was refused a bed, a room, and decent food. She slept in the living room and was only given scraps. Additionally, she wasn’t allowed to go outside or study as everyone in the Yohan family believed that Lilith put others in danger or that she'd end up too powerful if she received proper education.

However, Lilith silently rebelled against her parents’ wishes— she’d sometimes sneak out of the house and explore the town during nighttime in order to make sure that no one sees her. She familiarizes herself with words and the Atharian alphabet through stolen children’s books.

She secretly collects books, indulging in the escape and knowledge it provided her. She starts learning more about her own magic and other abilities and takes an interest in using it for her own convenience. Lilith goes from a hidden sorcerer who avoided using magic and blooms into a young witch who was proficient in her own abilities, mastering multiple mediums. She then learns how to travel through opening portals from one location to another and starts exploring Atharia— from the busy capital Fraila to the urban Smaoso to the beautiful countryside of Pescain filled with magical beings.

Aged fifteen, her home life gradually gets even worse. As her mother’s reputation soured once Lilith was sighted in town, her temper started flaring up even more frequently than before. Lilith’s mother swore that she’s had enough of Lilith being a reflection of her appearance and casts her out of the house, nearly breaking Lilith’s arm in the process. On the other hand, Lilith comments that her mother’s tone was not of anger but rather, of disappointment and resignation. She says it was ‘the kindest mother has ever been.’

Abilties

• Superhuman strength — As a witch, Lilith is described in tabloids and books as a ‘woman of iron skin’ and is rumored to be invincible. This is refuted when Aisha discovers that a witch’s one and only weakness is her heart, therefore allowing those they love to hurt them, or even kill them.
• Divination — Although her abilities in divination are limited, only being able to see ten seconds into the future at a time, she can try to see an hour, a day, or even a year into the future with great effort. However, she avoids doing this as she finds divination ‘a pain.’ It is later found out that Lilith is physically hurt when she peers into the future.
• Pyromancy, Hydromancy, Anemancy, Geomancy — Lilith is able to control basic elements, although she avoids doing so as she finds it very trivial and unnecessary. It is later learnt that Lilith prefers hydromancy over other types of elemental magic and can barely control other elements.
• Necromancy — Lilith uses dead bodies as puppets, making them attack in her stead until they are cut down to pieces. Lilith barely engages in and states her distaste for necromancy as it is disrespectful to the dead, but ‘well-deserved’ by horrible people.
• Realm jumping — Lilith is able to jump from realm to realm at the cost of a year or so being cut from her lifespan, depending on the distance of the realm she plans to travel to. She has only used this ability twice, cutting three years of her life.
• Sorcery — Lilith holds control over various magical fields but she considers all of them ‘too irrelevant to mention’ as she barely uses them.
• Immortality — As a witch, Lilith’s age will continuously progress like a normal humans’ and will permanently stop when she reaches the limit of her power.