Lilith

Oldest and most feared of the Hounds Nemesis, and with good reason Lillith is known as a Bane. But anyone who has seen her manifestations know the truth. She is far more than just a Bane.

A bane can be bound. Subject to the gifts of the Garou they can be beaten into submission and in most cases destroyed completely. Unfortunately efforts to effect the same upon Lillith have all come to naught.

Pursuing the Hounds from their very first campsite, after leaving Modesto, the creature appeared to them one and all, in their tents... in the dead of night... Temptation, her weapon. While the creature manifested itself within the sleeping camp, her greater form gutted Eva Killdare, later Mahn, and stole her baby, fleeing into the night. When the apparition had lifted the Hounds pursued and suceeded in rescuing the child, Clay. This was not the last the Hounds would see of this particular Bane.

Stalking the Hounds, leaving her personal mark, traceable through Hebrew texts it is rumored that perhaps she is THE Lillith, Adam's first wife who would not submit to him. Others, knowing the Judeao-Christian texts to be falsehood and blasphemous before Gaia insist that she is simply a Bane grown to such power that for whatever reason she has adapted the persona of GOD's first attempt at making Man's Partner.

In the early days, not yet war torn, the Hounds were consistently more cautious, about the veil and outside world both. Lillith repeatedly showed her ability to track the Hounds regardless of their attempts to remain low key, shroud their encampment, end skirmishes with the Wyrm quickly and decively leaving no survivors... Nothing seemed to work. On three separate ocassions, without provocation of warning Lillith attacked, completely decimating the Hounds encampment and leaving members running for their lives.

In Texas, several members were lost, the Ranch they had occupied, burned to the ground and emissaries from their other nemesis Thor's Few, left waiting to taunt them... If not bad enough the circumstances surrounding the attack forced the hounds to ground with an allied Caern. Little did they know they were drawing battle lines around it, that they were drawing the enemy, to it.

Later, in Colorado a gathered army of Banes harried the Hounds to their allies in The Deep, A Houston Urban Caern. The siege was eventually broken by guile rather than arms and the enemy eluded but it was then known just what a force Lillith had access to. That night was also accompanied by the deaths of Hounds. Kinfolk and Children have always been favorites of Lillith's, but this time she also took the Alpha and her mate. Or so it then seemed...

The rumors surrounded the Bane and her seeming hate for... or twisted love of tormenting the hounds. But rumor are only that,

Rumor. No one has yet been able to ascertain with any certainty why she stalks the members of the Sept. Associated with the

deaths of multiple affiliates of the Hounds including Logan Killdare's family, there seems to be no safety from this creature.

Return to the World of HOH

It was at that time a spirit who had both aided and tormented the Hounds alternately, Sir Kent Mistpull, appeared... The spirit acted oddly, irrationally, and in every way like a man. If this was not disconcerting enough, the words he espoused were equally disturbing... He claimed that he was not what they had known, that he was in fact Loki, the Norse trickster God and enemy to the Fenrir. The story continued that he had been tainted severely and in a final effort to stave off the Wyrm he had divided his mind into two beings... one entirely corrupted, that the Hounds knew as Lillith and the other... standing before them. This revelation was met with mistrust and outright hostility by many of the Hounds... To have been manipulated, as the tale suggested, for so long a pinprick to the gaping wound that was the realization that Loki... Kent... stood before them claiming responsibility for the deaths of each and every one they had honored and loved for more than two years on the road. This of course says nothing of the ancient hatreds those Fenrir Hounds faced at the tale.

Loki pleaded with the Hounds... begged them, to restore him, to fight their way to the Caern's heart and cleans that part of him which had fallen to the Wyrm... In the end, personal motivations and ancient hates were set aside, not for the benefit of the Incarnae beseeching them, but because reclaiming a place of power from the Wurm is what Gaian garou are meant to do. When the smoke cleared and the rites for the departed were completed, Loki, Kent, dissappeared... as did Lillith... For several months the Hounds were again free...

Then there was Oklahoma, the third attack... where, perhaps, the most chilling of Lillith's powers was revealed... Lillith, seemingly alone, laid siege to the camp, surrounding it with fire and torturing individual members with images and sounds of that which they desired, enticing them into the darkness... More heinous than that temptation, however, was when she forcibly removed the Garou Spirit from one of the Hounds. The charm left him battered and broken. If not for medical attention and the gifts of Gaia he would have died... In the end, he lived, but that part of him which was Garou, did not.

Shortly after... the Hounds vanished... The Bane... also missing... Does she slumber? Finally satiated with the hounds ultimate destruction? Does she wait for worthy prey? Did the Hounds make the ultimate sacrifice to prevent her army of Banes from claiming another Caern? Does Loki now hold court in the heavens alongside the likes of Unicorn, Rat and his own child, Fenris?

Early investigations into the, then, spiraling Caern of the Sands

revealed a lair of sorts the bane seemed to occupy from time to time, within effigies of her hatred and evidence of intended future targets.

The hounds there encountered something that by appearance seemedto be what was left of a man. With gasped breath and between pleas for merciful death, this monstrosity sent the hounds on a quest to recover seals which he promised would bind the bane. Whether their was merit in the quest or not remains unknown as the Hounds failed to acquire two of the seven objects they needed..

But that is not yet the end of the story. It was by that time that the Hounds were moving to recover a lost caern of Get antiquity, Walhalla, a final and desperate act, they summoned what allies they had remaining to cleanse the stricken place and attempt to wrest it from the grips of the army of Black Spiral Dancers they knew to reside within... There were even rumors of a demon held in servitude to the Spirals within...