Lilin

The Lilin were an offshoot of Humanity that were created by the Ancient known as Lilith.

History
Thousands of year ago after the Lantean's were defeated in the war against the Wraith, many of their kind decided on returning to their home in the Milky Way. These beaten people decided on devoting their life to Ascension and leave the physical plane behind them. However, a number of them opposed this idea and felt that Mankind on Earth needed to be guided as well as prepared for the possibility of threat posed by their distant Ori cousins. Among their number was Lilith, also known as Ninlil or the Creator, who made use of some of her research in the Pegasus galaxy to create a counter to a future Ori crusade.

Using cloned samples of the Wraith, Lilith began merging the DNA with that of Human's at a laboratory on Earth in order to produce a race that would serve as warriors against the Ori in the future. This signalled the birth of the Lilin who began to prosper in secrecy on the planet. Eventually, Ninlil lost grip upon reality and her goal began to falter over the age's but her originaly intent was the creation of a race that merged the best qualities of the Ancient's, Human's and the Wraith in order to combat the Ori thus protecting her people as well as Humankind. In turn, the Lilin respected their maker's who they called the Annunaki.

However, the remaining Ancient's that lived in that time period believed that Lilith had created an abomination and demanded that she destroyed her experiments. She refused and was considere a martyr by the Lilin. In that age, they resided in the valley of E'den among Lilith's other creation as well as her laboratry. A period of climatic changess occured at this point leading to increased rainfall and a great flood that destroyed Lilith's lab. This was known as the Deluge' and occured five thousand year's ago which nearly destroyed the newly emergent race. However, Lilith led them to safety and gifted them with certain technologies in order to survive. The Sumerian King Gilgamesh provided her a sanctury at Uruk where the Lilin resided. Among the Lilin were also a number of hybrid animal's created by Lilith that became embedded in Human mythology as monsters or chimera. While these remained with the Lilin, the creature's were infertile and incapable of breeding which meant they eventually died out.

The Lilin became divided after the departure of Lilith when she ascended and separated into two different cults. One later became known as the Lilith cult while the other was the Ninlil cult both of whom had different interpretation's on the mission given to them by their creator. Living amongst Humanity on Earth over the centuries was also not an easy task and the Lilin found themselves hunted and killed for being witches or other demonic creatures.

Over the year's that followed, the Lilin bettered their attempt at hiding in Human society. The Ninlil cult began to place their number among institution's such as trvel companies and other such organization's in order to continue fund their lifestyle. Some member's of the Ninlil cult subtlely aided in the excavation of the Stargate and knew of it's location after that event. The two cult's often came into conflict with one another with the Lilith attempting to exterminate the Ninlil. While this secret war continued, the Ninlil attempted to breed an evolution among their kind that was capable of feeding on animals. The Lilith also continued their practice of feeding on Human's which drew the attention of the FBI and eventually made the SGC and element's of the Atlantis Expedition aware of the Lilin race.

Both group's sought the gingko extract from a world n the Pegasus galaxy in order to trigger the Lilin transformation among Humanity though their reason's for doing so varied among the two cult's. The SGC was successful in defeating the Lilith faction and preventing their goal but the two group's submerged among Humanity. Their fate is unknown though it's known that their DNA has spread among thousand's of Human's around the world.

Overview
The Lilin were a merger of Human qualities with that of the Wraith along with some Ancient DNA from Lilith herself which made them a form of hybrid. This meant that they possessed the feeding organ of their Iratus ancestors allowing them to take the life of another living being and adding it to their own. But beyond this, they were indistinguishable from Humans though their was pallid and almost bordered on albinism though was not tinted like the Wraith. The original intent of Lilith was to breed a capacity for the Lilin to feed on animals thus freeing them from using their abilities on Human.

They had a standard lifespan of a Human but were capable of supplementing this by feeding thus enhancing their lifespan indefinately. They also possessed a form of genetic memory allowing them to witness past events that occured long before their birth. Furthermore, they were able to use their telepathy to form a mind-link to communicate with one another. They were also capable of using this ability on Human's to learn their dark secrets or sense their moods.

The male are known as Incubi while the female are called Succubi. Both are incapable of breeding with one another but are able to with Human's. These children are called Cambion who are more Human looking and watch over them while they infiltrate Human society. While typically the Cambion served the Lilin, there were cases where some individual's were not aware of their heritage. Even these served a purpose as they spread their bloodline among the Human race thus ensuring that their kind remained in sufficient number's. Sometimes, in times of great starvation, the Succui and Incubi were known to feed on the Cambion to sustain themselves.


 * This meant that the Incubi and Succubi were incapable of breeding more of their kind except through the Cambion.

The race are divided into two cults with one designated by the SGC as the Lilith sect and the other known as the Ninlil sect. The former are considered the predatory version who seek a divine destiny that they believed was promised to them which was the dominion over the Human race. Thus they believed in the Great Battle against the Ori which would be an outright war against them with victory being the chance to achieve their destiny. They also make use of a ritualized form of removal of bodily organ's tht is performed on their victim's. The group evolved by misinterpreting the intent of their creator who made them and instead evolved a set of behavior that were perculiar to them. Before this event, they waited for the Awakening which was when their cambion offspring spread their bloodline among the Human race to such an extent that they all rose up to take their place for the coming war. This group also made extensive purge's among their kind to eliminate the othr cult as they believed that they were weak and were heretic's. Ultimately, the Lilith group believed that the Pegasus galaxy was their spiritual home and thought to return to it in order to bring the Wraith to the Milky Way galaxy to battle the Ori.

The Ninlil sect by contrast wish to help their Human cousin's. Members of this cult sometimes made use of their feeding organ's but not maliciously. This meant that they performed the feeding on the those who were in pain and required a merciful death. The tenents of this faith believed that it was their sacred duty to protect all sentient life from the Ori. It's member's also attempted to breed a cambion amongst their number that had an adjusted form of the Iratus retrovirus which would develop the capacity to feed on animal's. They do not consider themselves a religious movement and only took in those member's who's memories were lucid enough for them to know the truth of their heritage. It's Watcher's protected those of their number that were unaware of their bloodline. However, the Ninlil believed themselves to be an instruments to an end.

Lilith had instilled within the Lilin a religion that stated that they were the descendants of the Wraith from the Pegasus galaxy and that their sacred duty was the protection of the Milky Way from the Ori. The term Awakening was applied to those Lilin that learnt the truth of their ancestry and their creation. The Lilith cult believed that the ginkgo extract should be used to Awaken all those Human's with the bloodline with the rest of Humanity being sacriifced to feed the newly developed Lilin who would thus wage war against the Ori and their folowers. They ultimately meant that they saw themselves as weapon's bred for war and instruments of the Ancient's which was a concept shared by the Ninlil group.

Among their kind exists the position of Watcher who serves as a high priests while the first generation of Cambion serve a role that was equivalent of a Wraith Hive Keeper. They made use of cave's and chamber's known as Sanctum's where they gathered among their own kind.