# Lilith — Character guide

> Key figures in Lilith by George MacDonald.

- [Mr. Vane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/vane.md): Mr. Vane narrates his own bewildering passage from an ordinary library into a country of talking beasts, ancient fathers, and moral consequence. His self-confidence curdles into guilt as he takes custody of Lilith, offer
- [Lilith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/lilith.md): Lilith returns to Adam's door a skeleton-princess, ashamed of her uncomeliness yet still erect between her elephants, still answering no one. She consents to open her hand and restore what she took, but murmurs that she 
- [Lona](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/lona.md): Lona belongs to the small, dancing people whose innocent gambols refresh even the spectres of the dead, and she walks beside Vane through the hot stream and the ivy-hall. Her body becomes the burden he bears to Adam, a g
- [Mara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/mara.md): Mara speaks for Lilith when Eve will not, urging that the mirror of the Law of Liberty be opened to one who has turned from evil. She is the household's conscience in the argument, gentle where her mother is radiant and 
- [Adam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/adam.md): Adam waits long for Lilith's return and greets her with a welcome shining through severity, though she will not answer him. He is husband, judge, and instructor: he tells Vane to walk into the desert, lie down, and liste
- [Mr. Raven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/mr_raven.md): Mr. Raven first appears as a bird digging worms from the earth, then as a slender old man in a rusty black coat with a face so alive it suggests a skull. He claims both the library and the graveyard, telling Vane that bo
- [Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/eve.md): Eve presides over the household of Adam as its luminous center, welcoming strangers yet guarding her children with a mother's fierce suspicion. When Lilith is brought to the door, Eve's radiance hardens into accusation —
- [The Princess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/the_princess.md): The Princess arrives at Adam's door in state, borne by elephants, and when Adam moves to lift her down she thrusts the beasts apart and stands erect between them — gaunt, unsubmissive, ashamed yet unbowed. She answers Ad
- [The Little Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/the_little_ones.md): The Little Ones live together in the forest as a kind of earthly innocence, small and dependent, quick to love and quick to be wounded. Their vulnerability draws out the protective and predatory instincts of everyone who
- [Odu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/odu.md): One of the Little Ones, a playful and curious child.
- [Luva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/luva.md): A woman of Bulika who assists Vane in the city.
- [The Shadow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/the_shadow.md): A dark, menacing entity that pursues Vane through the otherworld.
- [Sir Upward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/sir_upward.md): An ancient knight encountered in the otherworld.
- [Mrs. Raven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/mrs_raven.md): The wife of Mr. Raven, a quiet presence in their cottage.
- [Mother of Sorrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lilith_se/characters/mother_of_sorrow.md): A sorrowful maternal figure associated with the House of Bitterness.

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