Lilith The Dark Mother
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A recounting of the Dark Mother, Her existence in Sosaria and the roles of Her daughters.
Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The legend of Lilith is as ancient as the story of creation itself. Throughout several planes of existence, through several names and identities, Lilith has been known as the first sentient, female being. Born immortal, She instantly assumed the power of a Goddess, the first and most powerful Goddess. In descriptions and stories of other goddesses, especially ones whose profiles incorporate feminine strength, evil or seduction, there can always be found a common thread that links back to the Dark Mother. All such goddesses are incarnations of Lilith.
It details in many venerable texts how the Creator made both Lilith and the first man, whose name has been stricken from the disciples' vocabulary, for none may mention the first man's true name due to the sins he committed to the Goddess. She existed for some time with the first man but found Herself unhappy with Her lot in life, for the first man treated Her not as an equal but as a serving wench, always second to him. In Her growing unease, Lilith taught Herself many things and became exceedingly knowledgeable and powerful in the ways of Her form, the land and the heavens. However even that could not pacify Her sense of dismay. After it was made apparent by both the first man and the Creator that Lilith was to fulfill nothing but a subservient role to Her husband, She used the powers innate to Her immortal essence and left the two to their realm to make Her own destiny elsewhere.
In Her many travels through the myriad planes of reality, She encountered many a strange creature. In Her newfound mental, spiritual and sexual freedom, the Goddess dabbled and mated with these creatures as She deemed fit. From these couplings, Lilith gave birth to one hundred of the Lilim, demons and creatures of the supernatural, on a daily basis. From this aspect Lilith had become the Queen of Demons. To her offspring and other creatures of the Night, Lilith taught them the use of magick and the powers innate to their forms. From this aspect Lilith is seen as the mother of all sentient, supernatural creatures and as the first true mage.
As the first recorded female entity, Lilith has assumed all of the feminine traits, both good and bad, accorded to the female species of any race. However, due to the treatment of women throughout the ages by the discriminating hands of mankind, the Dark Mother has embodied the more negative characteristics more strongly than the positive. Through the skewed perceptions of mankind towards a deity who embodies and encourages equal rights among the sexes, Lilith has become a monstrous she-devil, a vixen of utter anti-virtue and sin. To all but Her own children and those who recognize and pay homage to Her, she is as such. To the Lilim and Her allies She is as caring and nurturing as any mother figure can be.
While many cultures revile Lilith as the epitome of evil femininity, in others She has come to represent the fight for women's equality and free sensuality. The Handmaidens revere Her for all of her aspects, both of the light and the dark, equally.
Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Shakespeare
The Handmaidens of Lilith have been in existence since shortly after the birth of the realm of Sosaria. They exist on other planes of reality as well. Wherever the Demon Queen has set forth Her attention, the Handmaidens have sprung into being.
The Goddess is worshipped through Her own Handmaidens, that had been previously scattered to the four winds up until recent times, as well as through the many different faiths of demi-human entities that dwell in Sosaria. Those faiths that are the closest tied to the original aspect of Lilith are that of Lloth the Demon Queen of Spiders and that of Takhisis the Queen of Darkness. Considering that these and other similar deities are incarnations of the Goddess, it is no wonder why Her power has been strong and has been growing stronger in Sosaria for some time. Especially in light of recent events throughout the lands.
The Cycle of Lilith and the Revelations of the Dark Mother, both revered tomes of holy scriptures and prophecies, have detailed how the coming of one of the Goddess' chosen incarnations shall bring a new found sense of power and unity to the Handmaidens. That when this incarnation made its presence known and split the world asunder that it would be the time for the many different species, races and creatures of the Dark Mother to make their presence formally known.
This incarnation is known to the populous as Minax the Enchantress. Upon her appearance and her role in the upheaval of the realm and it being split into two, Felucca and Trammel, the daughters of Lilith knew that their time had finally come. The Handmaidens revere the Enchantress as the chosen Avatar of the Goddess and currently seek Minax out to carry out her, and therefor Lilith's, bidding.
Until that time, the Handmaidens have been busy with establishing themselves within Caina, the city of Evil, on the frozen tundra of Dagger Isle. After many years of strong alliance with the Order of the Ebon Skull, the Handmaidens of Lilith married into the Order and have become one strong entity, as if straight from legend itself. It may seem somewhat bizarre for the Handmaidens to find a common bond with the Necromancers and Undead of Oblivion but the Revelations of the Dark Mother contain the principle reasons why such an alliance had been formed and why the strange courting period ended in a marriage of dark design. After Lilith left the first man and the Creator (the antithesis of Oblivion), it has been recorded that She encountered many beings. The Revelations state that Lilith met within these travels the greatest of evils who, after being courted by the Queen of Night, became Her mate. The ancient texts bear the true and venerable name of Oblivion as this powerful evil. Together through the negative energies of Entropy and the life bearing fruits of the Dark Mother, the two deities created many races of daemon-kin, as well as the first of the greatly feared Undead. This is one reason why many Kindred look upon Lilith as the Mother of Vampires and many Necromancers invoke Her name in addition to Oblivion within their rituals. Now that the bonding is complete, the Handmaidens now reside inside the Order as an all female faction of devout worshippers of both Lilith and Her mate Oblivion which spans across the entire guild, within each Sect. A more dreadful union has never been known.