The History of Lilith - Borderlands

having made her debut as one of the original vault hunters back in 2009 Lilith has become one of the most relevant and important characters to the universe of Borderlands and so let me go through and give you the history of Lilith so far so because Lilith's background in history remained largely untouched upon in the core series of games I'm actually gonna open this up with the borderlands origin series of comics released in late 2012 as they remained the only source of background regarding our main group of vault hunters in this case we're only going to touch upon Lilith she was born on the planet of Dionysus in this comic she was not born as one of the sirens in fact the comic begins with the events of how she obtained her powers in the first place when her father mysteriously falls to the ground about to meet his death moments before he dies he tells Lilith to explore the galaxy shortly after a woman referring to herself as the eldest approaches her to tell her all about sirens and the future she's destined for after Lilith obtains her signature siren tattoos the eldest collapses dying as well the comic then cuts to Lilith as an adult that she's been searching the galaxy as her father asked she eventually made her way to Pandora she's heard tales about the world and so she's come there as it's a place filled with opportunity after a small encounter at the bar Marcus walks in greeting her and she boards his bus in search of this opportunity and this is in theory where the first Borderlands game comes in whether or not you choose to believe the origins comic remains Canon the simple fact is that Lilith met Roland Mordechai and brick on Marcus's bus as they all have the common goal of opening Pandora's vault and claiming its treasures on the bus angel being persuaded by handsome jack contacts them as Jack wants to get his hands on the warrior within the vault but not sure what is really happening they choose to follow angels guidance being newcomers to the planet each of them are casually put through these standard introduction new vault hunters get thanks to the doll corporation the claptrap unit designated to the area sets them up with what they need however they get quickly interrupted by local bandits the bandits begin terrorizing the town of Firestone however the new vault hunters help save its only remaining resident dr. Zed and the others began helping some of the locals forming bonds and building trust one way of doing this involved getting rid of the bandits who terrorized the area more particularly the bandit Lords these involved the likes of nine-toes boneheads and most importantly sledge who was holding a piece of the vault key angel spends the rest of the game guiding Lilith and the others around Pandora building the key meeting new residents like Patricia Tannis and scooter and going against their opposition commandant Steele anyway eventually after making their way to the vault the Destroyers feeding cage is opened and kills Steele and her forces Rowland Lilith Mordecai and brick manage to kill this portion of the Destroyers body and the group leave off feeling like heroes while they didn't obtain the ultimate treasure as they intended their motivations slowly changed into more virtuous ones they took a liking to the residents of Pandora and made enemies with the mega-corporations trying to do it harm Atlas was one of the more recent ones when reached out by the assassin Athena everyone helped her kill the corporation's last two general Knoxx ridding the planet of Atlas completely Lilith and everyone also took part in Moxie's under dome Coliseum but Lilith was not the vector with her main goal pretty much done Lilith and Rowland began dating as a sort of reward to themselves for having saved Pandora the two vacationed off to the moon Elpis to get away from the crazy life of the planet however their vacation would be short-lived Jack had gotten into trouble of his very own against Colonel Sarpedon who wishes to destroy Elpis and its vault so no one can get their hands on it because of this Jack asks his ex-girlfriend Moxie for help who then points them into the direction of Lilith and Roland while unknowing that Jack had used Angel to manipulate them back on Pandora the two are hesitant to help to begin with but after learning the magnitude of the situation they feel obligated to help save the residents of Elpis while they help jack and his group of vault hunters it doesn't take long for them to see how crazy and unstable he is after Lilith and Roland watch him jettison various scientists out of an airlock Lilith immediately wants to stop helping and stop him but instead while Rowland feels the same he continues to pretend to be on Jack's side sounds like a plan Roland he just murdered sounds like a plan we'll see you when you get back this whole ruse Rowland convinces Lilith to play along with is to destroy the giant laser Jack intends on using which just so happens to be the eye of the destroyer the group had killed when they make contact with the laser the group destroyed the eye of Helios and officially make an enemy out of Jack with nothing stopping her anymore Lilith is free to pursue him however the next time she is capable of doing this is after Jack has already opened the vault and seen visions of the future and what he needs to do to take over Pandora during this Lilith teleports in and smashes the vault key into Jack's face branding him and changing his identity to handsome Jack after this event everyone pretty much returned back to Pandora and Hyperion having been taken over by Jack begins attacking the planet in trying to kill everyone who resides on it because of this she and Roland began forming a group of soldiers to fight back against Hyperion made up of leftover atlas soldiers and former crimson Lintz Lilith and Roland founded the Crimson Raiders whose main goal is set on protecting Pandora Lilith's powers also began increasing because she started consuming iridium after the destroy vault was open to the purple element broke its way through to the surface and being a siren Lilith is capable of consuming it for more power and strength however their defense of Pandora would come with many losses one of which is the downfall of New Haven Jackson's Wilhelm down to the town and while Lilith and the others attempt to protect it they fail and New Haven Falls Hyperion however would believed to have killed Lilith and thus believes she is no longer a threat events like this would continuously occur until the group are forced to an old doll sanctuary named sanctuary many residents are moved here and thanks to the bonds that they formed throughout their journey they convince others like Moxie scooter Marcus Zed and many others to move for their safety but because the importance of the crimson raiders is getting more and more demanding Roland breaks up with Lilith to focus more on Hyperion this inherently leave any bad blood between them but Lilith does decide to not be around him and instead chooses to aid the Crimson Raiders in a different way while Hyperion is the major threat bandits still proved to be a nuisance and so Lilith adopts the alias of fire hawk and lures them away from sanctuary Plus thinking she's dead Hyperion won't search for her and this is where the events of Borderlands 2 take place lilith has been off on her own holding back the blood shot bandits so when Roland gets kidnapped by other blood shot bandits Lilith summons the group of alt hunters to her side to fill her in on what's been going on without a leader Lilith takes command of the crimson raiders for the time being until Roland inevitably returns while she continues to assist in the takedown of Wilhelm when sanctuary shields become compromised Lilith consumes a large amount of iridium to phase walk the whole of sanctuary out of Hyperion's targeting system and to safety but this action informed Hyperion that Lilith was still alive the next event Lilith plays a significant role in is when the vault hunters make their way to Angel herself as she is in possession of the vault key angel pleased with Lilith not to come as Jack is desperate for sirens and their power but despite her asking as well as Rowling's insistence that she stay behind she shows up anyway to help to take down angel and retrieve the vault key she is successful in this however as everyone is celebrating Roland is killed right next to her and Jack restrains her power placing her under his command before she is forced to kill the vault hunters she teleports them away and to safety meanwhile jack would begin using her as his new battery to charge the vault key as revenge for killing his daughter Jack tortures Lilith as the iridium he's pumping her full of regenerates her body Jack would wind up fully charging the vault key awakening the warrior and Lilith is left to the wayside while the vault hunters deal with the threat after the warrior is killed Lilith then kills Jack with her own hands with ipiria no longer a threat Pandora's key revealed all of the various vaults still scattered around the galaxy and this proved to be the motivation for the crimson raiders without Rolland alive however everyone turned to Lilith for guidance and leadership however she initially rejected those expectations she alongside brick-and-mortar KY would collectively be the ones in charge of helping track down vaults one job however came by their way a woman by the name of Valerie has had a run-in with Athena whom the group had initially helped take down NOx and Lilith having seen her assist Jack when she was on Elpis so Lilith sends brick-and-mortar Kai out to detain her which they successfully do Athena is drugged to sanctuary tied up and held that gunpoint forced to recount her interactions with Jack and answer why she helped him after the story is finished Lilith refuses to forgive her and orders her execution however an ancient Iranian Guardian appears saving her life and heeding Lilith a warning that war is coming she releases Athena and everyone returns back to vault hunting however things are forced to change during the commander Lilith and the fight for sanctuary DLC an old doll worker named Colonel Hector has become infected and mutated and he believes he can change Pandora by infecting everyone on it being an old doll facility he leads an attack on sanctuary and due to its lack of leadership they can't fend them off and are forced to retreat throughout this DLC Lilith learns to accept leadership and that she has to be the one to protect and guide her compatriots by the end of the dlc Lilith consumes all of crazy or else iridium and uses that power to destroy sanctuary while simultaneously losing the vault key she then officially takes leadership and begins to use their resources to find the missing vault key however it wouldn't take long for a new threat to arrive to Pandora and thus we get to the events of Borderlands 3 the children of the vault led by the Calypso twins are seeking to open Pandora itself as the planet as a whole is a vault and so the Crimson Raiders still on their goal to protect the planet work to fight off the children of the vault for the most part this would result in a stalemate between the two groups each recruiting and growing their numbers as time went on but that would change when four new vault hunters are recruited to the Raiders Lilith sends them off to retrieve the vault key from Vonn whose bandit clan had obtained it however they betrayed him and offered it to the clip so is for looped Lilith is responsible for sending you out to obtain it and when returned she herself is incapable of using her siren powers to charge it to view the map and thus she sends you off to meet with Tanis as she having become a siren after angel's death is capable of charging it after grouping up to discuss where the next vault they should go to is Lilith heads off to collect all of her other comrades to board the spaceship Elly has been building in between the events of the game however before she can board the new sanctuary the clips Oh twins show up and tyene leeches Lilith powers away from her ridding her of her Firehawk powers no longer being a siren Lilith is forced to sit on the sidelines and guide the crimson Raiders from an outside perspective and this is pretty much where the rest of Borderlands 3 plays out Lilith's main contributions are telling the vault hunters were to go to hopefully cut tie Rina and Troy off in their pursuit for power it isn't until the very end of the game where the vault hunters kilt Irene who had consumed the destroyer with tyreme dead Lilith powers returned back to her but this reunion is short-lived considering Pandora itself was the vault holding in the destroyer when the moon which is the key to the planet entered the planets gravitational pull the world started to split and break so to stop the moon from fully opening the vault Lilith with the power and energy Tareen had previous consumed now part of her she uses her Firehawk ability and phase walks into the moon stopping it and thus saving Pandora from its destruction the symbol of the fire Hawk then leaves its mark on the moon for all of Pandora to see and for now that is where Lilith left off many believe she's dead while others believe she's just missing the fate of Lilith and what happened to her is a question that will have to be answered in a later date another fun fact about Lilith is that during tiny Tina's DLC the only semblance of a hint as to Lilith's childhood from the video game perspective is given apparently she used to get made fun of because of her siren tattoos as well as because she used to play bunkers and badasses look when I was a kid boys mocked me for two reasons my tattoos and bunkers and badasses I suffered for my geekiness you don't get to invade my culture just because it's cool right now so Lilith does consider herself a geek in some regards but for now that was the history of Lilith if there are any other characters you'd like me to do the history of then be sure to let me know in the comments below and for now I'll see you in the next video [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 14min 1sec (841 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020