GILDED LILY
Real Name: Lillian von Loont
Group Affiliation: Onetime partner of Diablo
First Appearance: Alpha Flight #20
Final Appearance: Alpha Flight Annual #1
Creator: John Byrne

      The woman known as Gilded Lily was widowed in a carriage crash near the castle of the alchemist Esteban Diablo. The alchemist's servants nursed her back to health, and she and Diablo soon became lovers. The alchemist also began teaching her the secrets of his lore.
      However, the local villagers rose in rebellion, and Diablo was sealed in a well before he had taught her the secret of his immortality. Nonetheless, using her own experiments, Lillian found a way to prolong her life. She proceeded to gain revenge on the ringleaders of the plot to betray her beloved, sealing each man in a casing of gold that made them immortal, but prevented them from moving.
      In recent years, the Alphan known as Sasquatch came to inherit Lily's home on Tamarind Island off British Columbia. Apparently Langkowski was a descendant of a close relative of one of the men Lily married and then trapped. Unknown to himself or the authorities, Lily was still alive, and still living in the house. She captured Langkowski's companion Aurora and told the girl her story. She also trapped Langkowski in a golden sheath, which he escaped by transforming into his beastial alter-ego.
      During the following fight, Sasquatch snatched away Lily's protective face-mask, and Lily proceeded to crumble into dust. The house was also destroyed.
      However, due to the potions that she had doused herself with all her life, Lily's spirit survived, and came to possess the new house that the Canadian government built on the site to house Alpha Flight. Lily then proceeded to free her one-time lover Diablo and attempted to take Aurora's body as a new physical form. The attempt failed, and Lily's spirit was at last destroyed.
      Gilded Lily was an alchemist second only to Diablo, her mentor.