Nyx

**Nyx**, also known as **Nox**, is the Primordial Goddess of the Night from Greco-Roman mythology. She is a daughter of Khaos, the wife of Erebus, and the mother of numerous minor gods and goddesses.

## Overview

**Nyx** (Ancient Greek: Νύξ, *"*Night") is the Greek goddess (or personification) of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness).

Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of such exceptional power and beauty that she is feared by Zeus himself.

## Appearance

Nyx has the appearance of a young woman with ivory-white skin and exceptional beauty. She has long black hair reaching down to her waist, dark-purple eyes, and pointed elf-like ears. Radiating from her body is a mysterious and tremendous dark aura.

She is typically shown wearing a *gothic lolita* frilly dress attached to a corset jumper skirt. During the meeting on Mount Olympus, she wore a black evening gown reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn's famous Givenchy dress, black elbow-length gloves, with an obsidian necklace and a black veil covering her hair.

Her true form is that of a vaguely feminine humanoid being form of dark energy, with bright eyes that shine like quasars upon a featureless face. Giant waves of primordial darkness roll out of her figure and create the illusion of a dress made from a fragment of the universe itself. Crowned upon her head is an aureola of dark mist and glistering stars.

## Personality

Like many primordial gods, Nyx is an ancient and powerful deity who holds an impartial stance in regard with the on-going events of her own pantheon, much less of the supernatural world. For the most part, she just spends her time in the Mansion of Night sleeping, only waking up when the time has come for her to leave Tartarus and bring night into the world.

She sees the younger gods as "screaming and irritating toddlers" who prefer to fight each other for power than performing their divine duties, and thus, has little respect toward the majority of them. According to Thanatos, within their pantheon alone, she only paid respect to her fellow primordial gods and the Elder Olympians, who won her respect through their power and authority.

She has no feeling whatsoever when it comes to mortals, deeming their troubles and woes as meaningless to beings such as herself. According to her, as her domain serves little importance to humans' continuing survival, she isn't as required to care about them as much as other gods.

She can be very caring and protective, though her overprotectiveness tends to drive her children embarrassed most of the time. Due to her motherly nature, she's known for taking in many godlings as adopted children, and treats them as equal to her natural and created ones in every level. The thought of one of them can launch her into a blind rage, completely disregards any consequences as long as she can get revenge on those who harm them.

Like many gods, she is deeply concerned about the unchecked power of the Sacred Gears, especially the Longinus' which can easily disrupt the world's balance by every activation, calling them "errors" of the natural order. However, she later admits that this distrust in them did largely originate from the fact that the Longinus are known for their potential to kill even primordial gods like her.

Unlike her husband, she doesn't care much about the Abrahamic religions, though she did admit to have smiled when seeing the arrogant gods in despair as their people converted to Christianity. Due to her sleeping schedule, she doesn't have a firm grasp on Erebus' Alliance of Hell, much less knowing about its existence, as shown through her shock and despair upon hearing about her husband's treasonous status.

## History

### Early Years

Nyx is one of the Greco-Roman Pantheon's primordial gods, known in Greek mythology as the *Protogenoi*, being created by Khaos himself from the divine power of Hylemorphes. She lives in Tartarus in the Mansion of Night where she rules, and only leaves her home when the day ends and the night begins to perform her divine duty to bring the day-night cycle to the mortal world.

She developed romantic feelings for Tartarus and Erebus later in life, eventually married the latter, and had her first children: Aether and Hemera. However, due to complications of their birth, she became barren and turned to creating new gods through parthenogenesis and adopting younger gods to sooth her motherly desires.

### The Reapers

When the first *Homo sapiens* were first created, Nyx and many other chthonic gods were visited by the Archreaper Lailah in their dreams and were given the knowledge to create a species of half-gods known as reapers, so the shades of dead *Homo sapiens* can be collected and guided to the Realm of the Dead and its many associated underworlds.

### Heracles' Siege

Under Hera's order, Hypnos, a son of Nyx and God of Sleep, put Zeus under an enchanted sleep so that she could shower Heracles, who was returning from Troy after he had besieged the Trojan king Laomedon, with misfortunes without Zeus' interferences.

When Zeus found out about Hypnos' involvement, he became furious and chased him across the Mediterranean region and would have struck him out of sight in the sea from the bright sky had he wasn't able to reach his mother's palace in time. Due to her overprotectiveness, Nyx begged Zeus to forgive him, which he only agreed because of his respect for her power and maternal virtues. He then warned him that he would be justly punished if he used his powers on the gods without his order again.

## Equipment

**Night Chariot** (夜の戦車, *Yoru no Sensha*): The divine chariot of Nyx. It is an Roman *biga* made out of sharp obsidian and Stygian Iron, pulled by two thestrals named "Apóchrosi" (Shade) and "Skiá" (Shadow). Every night, as the sun begins to set, she will pick up her mantle of night over her shoulders and ride her chariot out of the Realm of the Dead, bringing the night to the mortal world.

## Trivia

* She feels uncomfortable when someone asks her who her favorite child is.
* Like other Protogenoi, she either had no Roman form or that her Roman influences aren't strong enough to manifest in an additional form. According to her, she had slept throughout the majority of the Roman Empire, though she did wake up several times to use the bathroom.
	+ While she doesn't mind being called Nox by the Romans, she herself has a hard time reminding herself that Nox is her Roman name.
* The 3908 Nyx asteroid is named after her.
	+ Nix, one of Pluto's moons, was renamed by scientists in 2006 in her honor, though with an "i" instead of a "y" to differentiate between it and the asteroid.
* Nyx Mons, one of the mons on the planet Venus is named after her.
* Nyx is a shadowy figure in Greek mythology but from the extracts about her, it seems that she was a figure of great beauty and power.
* In some myths, Styx, the goddess of the boundary between life and death, is Nyx's daughter.
* According to the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, Hecate is a daughter of Nyx.