Lilith wasn't always bad. In fact, she used to be quite the do-gooder. Her name WAS Rebecca Bernstein. Always on time for class. Always paying attention. Always doing what she was told. But, that didn't quite get her anywhere except to that spot in peoples' hearts where deep-seated hatred comes from. Her classmates despised her. Her parents never paid attention. And finally, Rebecca had enough. She wanted to be popular. She wanted to be pretty. She wanted to be talented. She wanted to be liked.

Then, Rebecca came across her lucky break. Walking home from school one afternoon, a gust of wind caught her homework and blew it away. She went running after it, naturally. But, before she could catch it, the wind blew the loose leaf paper through a window of a building Rebecca had never been inside of. The doors of the old decrepit building were locked, so Rebecca crawled through the broken window. The building turned out to be an old, abandoned library. Her homework was lying just inside the window, but Rebecca looked around the building and noticed almost instantly a book across the room sitting on a shelf. It stood out because it was the only book in the entire library. Forgetting her homework, Rebecca crossed the room and picked up the large, leather-bound tome. The words "Liber Secretorum" were written across the cover in ornate letters. Glancing around, Rebecca shoved the book into her bag and headed home.

After weeks of studying the book, Rebecca found something useful. A ritual by which she could summon an ancient demon and the means to bind him to this world. And, after gathering the materials necessary, she returned to the old library and drew the required symbols on the ground. Rebecca repeated the words in the book and called forth the old demon. The runes she had scrawled on the ground rose up and wrapped themselves around the demon's skin. He screamed to be set free. And, Rachel was willing to bargain.

In exchange for being set free and returned home, Rebecca demanded that he make her beautiful, popular, and talented. The demon looked her in the eyes, smiled, and vanished. Rebecca felt a force unlike any other shoot through her body, and she passed out. She woke up in her own room in her home, and she felt better than she had in her entire life. She looked in the mirror and a foreign face looked back at her. She looked like herself, but better. She was truly pretty. Walking outside, the world felt different. The demon had rewritten her life so that she was the most popular student in school and talented in many ways. But.....something was following her. Several somethings. She could feel them watching her.

Then, one year later, Rebecca wasn't watching were she was walking and stepped out into traffic. A car hurdled towards her and she screamed. She heard the collision and opened her eyes. Standing between her and the car was a seven foot tall, horned, flaming beast. It looked back at her, smiled, and disappeared. Rebecca ran home and dug out the leather-bound tome she had first opened a year ago. She opened to a page with a picture of the beast she had seen. A minion of the ancient one she had summoned. There were six of them in all and she could feel them still with her somewhere. She closed the book and sat in silence, feeling their hidden eyes stare at her. She closed her eyes, and called them to her. And, when she opened her eyes, there they were. Six demons standing before her and she grinned.

Rebecca felt a sense of entitlement to make up for the 17 years of her childhood during which she had been ridiculed, ignored, and unloved. And, with her new minions, she could finally act on that entitlement. And act she did. She robbed banks, took over local gangs, and brutally punished anyone who slighted her. And, with each act of evil, she grew physically darker.

Unbeknownst to Rebecca, the ancient demon she had summoned so long ago didn't return to his home when she set him free. He forced himself into Rebecca's very soul and waited. And, as the evil took hold in Rebecca's heart, the demon grew stronger until there was nothing left of Rebecca, except the shell of her body that the demon now inhabited. Rebecca dropped her name and took up the names of two of the most powerful demons to ever have existed. Lilith Nyx.