She used what was left of the last star making her extremely beautiful. Mormo got the animals kidney, Empusa got the animals liver and Lamia got its heart making her the one to seek Yvaine. With the animal information it said that Yvaine lay one hundred miles away. She was going to use a Babylon Candle but she used the last two hundred years. She woke her sisters Mormo and Empusa telling her a Star has fallen. When Yvaine fell, Lamia of the Lillim was the first witch to see Yvaine. If they are to gain youth and see the future in their lives, Lamia and her sisters will be needing another heart, which puts Yvaine in grave danger. The last unfortunate star to fall in Stormhold did so four hundred years ago to their distress, there is very little of her heart left. Consuming the heart of a star can give them eternal beauty as the sisters know all to well, as using magic counteracts the effect. Time has not diminished the Lillim's powers of sorcery but has destroyed their beauty and made them frail.
Even now, though, living hidden from the world with her sisters Mormo and Empusa, Lamia remains the most powerful witch in Stormhold. Lamia, the eldest, once ruled in Carnadine as a witch queen, but that was four centuries ago, before that city was lost, and is quite another story. In a canyon in deepest Stormhold live three witches collectively known as the Lillim. It appears that other witches knew of their existence, as Lamia displays her true identity to Ditchwater Sal in the film, who is at once terrified. In the film, the witches live in a decrepit castle in a gorge and no rumor of them being dead is ever mentioned. The wood is literally younger than the witches, as they were ancient before it had even surfaced upon the land and began to develop. They live in a squalid cottage in a wood "so thick it was almost a forest". The Lilim in the novel are hidden from the world and have been for centuries. This prophecy is not mentioned in the film. This implies that the witch-queen's days are numbered, though nothing more ever comes of it. It is interesting to note that, after the witch's encounter with Ditchwater Sal, there is a brief description of a squirrel finding an acorn nearby. In the novel, the queen once boasts that the squirrel has not yet found the acorn which shall grow into the oak which will be cut down and carved into the cradle of the infant who will grow to destroy her. It is also implied that the queen is in fact older than the world itself. At one point she employs the name " Morwanneg" as a twisted irony because Morwanneg means "wave of the sea". She states that her true name was lost when her homeland of Carnadine sank beneath the waves. In the novel, Lamia is not named and merely referred to as the " Witch-Queen".
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When she regains her youth, she is beautiful and has long blonde hair, smooth skin and very few spots. Lamia is very old with liver spots and very little hair.