Nox

Official Character art by @helena.illustrated

### *Early Life*

Nox was brought to Farleigh, a corrupt, church-run orphanage along Farehold’s northern border, as an infant. She lives there until she is 17 years old, at which time she is taken in Amaris’s stead to Priory by the Madame of The Selkie. She spends her first year working as a bartender, and by 18, she begins as an escort, quickly becoming Madame Millicent’s powerful second-in-command and valued for her coveted fae ability as a succubus.

### *The Night and Its Moon*

Following the events of her childhood at Farleigh and her establishment at The Selkie, her character develops as such:

With the ability to charm any human man and bring death or blind obedience to anyone who attempts to hire her, Nox creates a web of powerful, subservient puppets, such as the Duke of Henares, or Erasmus, the Captain of the Guard.

When the Captain of the Guard betrays Queen Moirai, Nox is suspected of treason, as the last person who saw him alive.

Nox joins with reevers Ash and Malik to escape the city.

### *The Sun and Its Shade*

Nox remains with her new allies, Ash and Malik, both in their pursuit of answers, and in her hopes of reuniting with Amaris. It’s in this investigation of Queen Moirai’s curse that they’re brought to the Temple of the All Mother as it’s sacked, just in time for Nox to take the only apple from the Tree of Life.

She and the reevers recover in Henares under the care of her puppet, the Duke, where she learns to wield an axe, and bites into the apple to discover the Tree’s most important memories.

Revelations take them north to Farleigh one final time where Matron Agnes reveals that she is the child of the late Princess Daphne. The Gray Matron explains that the Princess arrived in the middle of the night, handing her a baby, a crown, and the infant’s name, which wasn’t to be changed. She vowed never to share Nox’s secret, to set her aside, and to protect her. She admits that she didn’t know how to shield Nox from certain horrors without compromising her secret, but that Nox was never meant to leave Farleigh.

It isn’t until the final scenes of The Sun and Its Shade that Nox learns that Princess Daphne’s lover was King Ceres—the mad king of the northern kingdom of Raascot—making her the lone heir to both kingdoms.

## Physical Description

Nox is supernaturally beautiful, both for her fae blood, and because of her fae ability as a succubus. She has long, ink-dark hair and gold-bronze skin. She’s described as having dark brown eyes, berry-dark lips, full lashes, tall, shapely, and with a propensity for silks. Her scent is the luxurious mixture of plum, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

She is a child of two kingdoms, and the Farehold characters have been canonically cast as Northern European, while the Raascot characters have been canonically cast as South Asia/India.

## Personality

Nox is the embodiment of brains, beauty, and divine feminine rage. She is extremely strategic, clever, and adaptable. While her early years are motivated by love and a sense of protection, her time at the Selkie is molded by calculated rage as she plans to out-maneuver the Madame and seek revenge on those she believes to have abducted Amaris. She feels no remorse when dealing out justice to those who deserve it (clients or a Madame who would seek to exploit her) but shows extreme compassion and emotional sensitivity to those she cares for.

## Known Powers

* Supernatural charm/allure, and the ability to drain life, and likewise, to grant it or return it (romantically) as a succubus

## Trivia

* Her name, “Nox”, means “night”. As Matron Agnes said it was one of the only things her mother gave her, it’s believed to have been an intentional clue as to her ties to Raascot, as those of Farehold often refer to it as the Kingdom of Night.