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Lilia Calderu was a Sicilian witch specializing in divination. Raised in a coven in Sicily, Calderu predicted that they would be wiped out by a fever but they accepted their fates. Emigrating to the United States, she met William Kaplan at his bar mitzvah and put a sigil on him, which was then tied to Billy Maximoff after he transferred his soul to Kaplan's dead body.
Three years later, she met Maximoff and Agatha Harkness, who sought to recruit her into a coven to walk the Witches' Road. During the Divination Witch Trial, Calderu began experiencing more gaps than usual that led her to speak with her late Maestra during her first lesson. Coming to terms with her powers, she successfully completed the trial but sacrificed herself to defeat the Salem Seven by inversing gravity in the trial room, impaling them and herself on the ceiling's swords.
Lilia Calderu was raised as part of a coven of witches in Sicily, where she studied the craft from her Maestra.[3] Calderu correctly foretold that her coven would be wiped out by a fever. In her subsequent travels, Calderu's powers of divination repeatedly predicted tragedy.[1]
Meeting William Kaplan[]
"Your lifeline is broken in two." "What? That can't be good." "It can mean many things. It often represents personal growth and important life changes. You're becoming a man. A new you. I wouldn't worry."
"You may not know this about the Road, but when you successfully complete a trial, like I just did, it's not a good idea... to overstay your welcome. Usually, something terrible happens. Disaster, destruction, sudden upheaval. Like the Tower, upright."
Having experienced persecution because of her status as a witch, Calderu frequently expresses her annoyance about how witches are often vilified, complaining about how events like Halloween and individual witches like Agatha Harkness created an unflattering depiction of all their kind.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Magic: Lilia was born a witch, allowing her to tap into the mystical forces of the universe and manipulate the world around her. Her specialty is divination, the art of seeing future events and gaining information through magical means.
Witchcraft: Having been alive for centuries, Calderu is a powerful and experienced witch. Her magic manifests in the color of yellow. Although she stopped using due to wanting to end her "gaps," Calderu was an extremely powerful and experienced witch.
Magical Energy Manipulation: Calderu was able to make her fist glow yellow when Agatha Harkness started insulting her and rest of her coven in a attempt to steal their power.
Spell Casting: Aside from her gifts in divination, Calderu, like every witch, has the ability to cast spells. This is done through certain hand gestures and incantations spoken in Latin. She performed a ritual to create a broomstick, giving it the ability to fly. Calderu is also able to put a powerful protective sigil on people to keep their identity safe from others. She did this to William Kaplan at his Bar Mitzvah after reading his fortune, concealing his identity to witchfolk.
Gravity Manipulation: Calderu used a tarot card spell to invert gravity, flipping The Tower card upright and plunging the Salem Seven into the numerous blades hanging from the room's ceiling.
Divination: Calderu is a witch who specialized in employing divination, a method of reading the future, the present, and the past to provide help to a problem at hand. Divination relies on a range of occult or ritual means, including tarot cards, crystal balls, and palm reading.
Calderu's magic typically manifests as the ability to predict the future. Divination appears to be triggered involuntarily, and its manifestations can range from visions and flashes that cause her significant pain, which may or may not cause her to perform involuntary gestures and movements, to small insights popping into her mind out of nowhere, such as Calderu looking at a person and mentioning the name of a tarot card. While reading Billy Kaplan's fortune at his Bar Mitzvah, Calderu had a divination about Billy Maximoff reincarnating into his body after his death. Calderu received a precognition of the Spirit Witch Trial, in which she partook in the future, when she was being recruited into Harkness' coven.
Clairvoyance: Calderu's magic allows her acquire information using sight outside the normal range of detection about an object, person, location, or physical event. Calderu was able to see the Salem Seven entering the Witches' Road in her dream.
Chronoskimming: Calderu's magic allows her to send her consciousness to past or future versions of herself, she referred to this as "gaps". During her trial, Calderu involuntarily sent her consciousness into the past and future, leading to out-of-context sentences being spoken at different points in time, making her unable to properly communicate her divinations.
Longevity: Lilia lived for over 450 years. She explained that during her prime she was constantly chased out of every village she passed through after accurately predicting tragedy.
Abilities[]
Musician: Calderu studied the zils and pan flute; she also plays the triangle, maracas, and tambourine.
Bilingualism: Calderu is fluent in her native Sicilian and English.
In the comics, Lilia Calderu is the leader of a coven tasked with keeping the Book of Cagliostro, being a descendant of Cagliostro himself. She was also a descendant of the first Baron Mordo, and became romantically involved with her half-uncle Karl Mordo. She fell in love with him and bore a daughter, Astrid, but he only pretended to be in love to steal the Book from her.
Calderu's outfit features many symbols including an eye, symbolizing herself looking ahead and behind. It also has a drawing of herself looking into the sunset and a drawing of witches passing knowledge onto each other.[2]
Behind the Scenes[]
Patti LuPone broke her wrist during filming Agatha All Along, forcing her to hide her wrist from the camera while playing Calderu for one episode.[9]
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