Nyx

The Primordial Goddess of the Night (Art by Pedro Américo)

### Offspring

Aether, Hemera, Moros, Apate, Dolos, Nemesis, the Keres, the Moirai, the Hesperides, Oizys, Momus, Hypnos, Thanatos, Philotes, Geras, Eris

**Nyx**, also known as **Nox**, is the Primordial goddess and personification of the night venerated by the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

## Overview

Nyx is a member of the Protogenoi, the primordial gods worshiped in ancient Greece. Like all the other primordials, she was created by Khaos. She is so powerful and frightening that Zeus himself was terrified of her. A figure of shadows and darkness, Nyx was created by Khaos near the beginning of time. She did not intervene with physical matter much during ancient Greece, but they were enough to show that she possessed exceptional beauty and power to the point that even Zeus felt awe struck him when he saw her.

Through her marriage with Erebus, Nyx became the mother of Aether, god of light, and Hemera, goddess of the day. She later became the mother of many other gods, the most famous being Moros, god of doom, the Keres, gods of destruction, Thanatos, god of death, Hypnos, god of sleep, Oneiros, gods of dreams, Momus, god of blame, Oizys, goddess of misery, Charon, the ferryman of the dead, the Hesperdies, Keepers of the Golden Apples of Immortality, the Moirai, goddesses of fate, Nemesis, goddess of vengeance, Apate, goddess of deceit, Philotes, goddess of friendship, Geras, god of old age, and Eris, goddess of strife.

## Appearance

Nyx is cloaked in dark robes covered by shining stars. She is described in later works as a winged goddess driving a chariot and followed by stars.

## Personality

As a Primordial, Nyx's personality isn't truly describable as it can differ according to the entity.

According to her family and children, Nyx displays a motherly personality. She is seen as warm, caring and just a person who you can let your guard down around. Like her husband, she cares for all things that come under her care, treating them as she would her own children even if they aren't her children as shown with her attitude towards Hades, Hecate and others.

Like her husband, Nyx holds completely amorality to any mortal being or race as their troubles and woes mean nothing to a primordial beings like herself. However, Nyx has been shown to hold great animosity for most of humanity, despising what they are and what they did to her and her family. It is said that during the Great Flood, Nyx watched with utter glee as humanity was destroyed by God but accepted the fact that a couple were able to survive. Like her husband, she holds a grudging respect for humans. Nyx admits that their tenacity is what allowed them to survive for so long and become numerous species, stating that if they didn't learn to band together, they would have been wiped out.

## Powers and Abilities

As one of the Protogenoi, Nyx is an extremely powerful deity feared by mortals and gods alike. Zeus himself feared her enough to retract all threats against her son Hypnos and regretted even touching Nemesis. She is stated to be one of the most powerful out from Protogenois, rivaled only by Erebus and Tartarus and suspassed by Chronos and Khaos

* **Primordial Deity Physiology**: As a Primordial deity, Nyx is a very powerful entity. She is able to control, alter, create, and manipulate anything and everything in Creation unless a being equal or greater then her interferes. Due to being its personification, Nyx has full of the concept of the night which she also rules. For example, she was able to plunge her island in the Aegean Sea in an endless night and is able to cover herself with a black aura.
	+ **Nigh-Omnipotence**: While not as great as Khaos or God, she does have near supreme and absolute power over Creation. She was described as both nigh-omnipotent and near-unbeatable by those aware of her existence. Despite being limited, She still possess unimaginable level of power fully at her will. All of the power she possess won't backfire or drive her insane.
* **Divine Aura**: Nyx can release and surround themselves in/with energy/matter for defensive and/or offensive purposes, possibly becoming almost untouchable and granting them various abilities/attacks depending of the energy/matter. divine auras may also give the user enhanced physical capabilities such as speed, strength and durability.
* **Extrasensory Perception**: As a Primordial, Nyx is able to acquire information, knowledge, wisdom and experience by any means. She can see all things that are hidden from others and also has the ability to know things of the past, present and future.
	+ **Precognition**: She has the ability to foresee possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures or travel through time, these visions may assist in possible courses of action.
* **Uniqueness**: Nyx has abilities/powers/traits so unique that they cannot be matched, absorbed, replicated or copied by others, granting them immunity to powers such as Power Absorption, Power Replication and Ability Learning. Nyx also has instinctive knowledge and ability in how to expertly utilize their unique abilities/powers/traits.
* **Primordial Particle Manipulation**: She can manipulate primordial particles, which are the building blocks of existence. This power has two classifications, one being the single potentiality of all things, and the second "merely" being the basic unit of primordial energy and matter. She can manipulate the Primordial Particle, which is the initial state of all things. Even concepts such as magic, cosmic and primordial power, time, dreams, emotions. It all falls under one big category that is the primordial particle.
* **Immense Strength**: As a Primordial Goddess, Nyx is able to go toe-to-toe and even surpass the strongest of beings with nothing but the force of her physical blows. Any level of weight she needs to lift or move is irrelevant as she can emit limitless amount of force that can repel an object of any mass. Nyx is powerful enough to take out the titan king Cronus along with his entire army without trouble.
* **Night Embodiment**: As the Primordial Goddess of the night, Nyx embodies the concept of the night, the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
* **Night Manipulation**: Nyx is able to manipulate the night-time, including how long a night lasts, cause night-time regardless of if the sun is not shining on that areas of the world or not. She has limited control over the moon and stars, darkness and the optical phenomena associated with the night-time.
	+ **Night**: Nyx turns reality completely dark to where only she can see what's going on. Nyx becomes omnipresent with the entire darkness.
* **Night Empowerment**: Nyx becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. during the night, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Nyx uses may be able draw sustenance from the night or even slow or stop aging.
	+ **Night Inducement**: Nyx is able to induce night/nighttime in an area, regardless of which side of the Earth is facing the sun.
	+ **Eternal Night Inducement**: Nyx is able to prevent the sun from rising, effectively creating a permanent night.
* **Animal Manipulation**: Nyx can control animals behavior, they can set stampedes onto attackers, get animals to fetch things. The user can call forth hoards of rats or insects to wipe out a crop, or to encourage bees to replant it.
* **Darkness Manipulation**: As the Primordial Goddess of the Night, Nyx has divine authority and absolute control over shadows and darkness though not as the degree of her brother and husband, Erebus. She can take form of a spinning dark aura and is capable of cover the whole area with the darkness of the night and destroying magic barriers.
	+ **Shadow Travel**: Nyx can use shadow and darkness to travel, melting herself into the darkness and reappears anywhere else from the same element. She can also forcefully transport others away using the same methods.
	+ **Darkness Absorption and Dissipation**: She can absorb and dissipate shadows with no restriction.
* **Spider Thread**: She is able to transform the darkness into thin razor-shaped strings which take a shape similar to that of a spider's web. It can be used as a net to capture the target.
* **Early Blooming Spider Lily**: She is able to change the darkness to a tendril-like form, wrapping around the target and lifting him up high in the air. Once at an appropriate height and distance, darkness explodes into several finely-developed flower spikes.
* **Devoured Space**: She is able to manipulate darkness to shield herself, thus nothing may reach her.
* **Blackout Crush**: Nyx creates an entire dimension made of pure darkness and traps the target inside. She then closes her palm, and the dimension shrinks, crushing whatever was inside.
* **Shadow Weaponry**: Nyx can create a seemingly endless amount of weaponry from solidified darkness. These weapons possess the unique power of absorbing all the umbra-kinetic attacks they touch and could absorb parts of the darkness around their surrounding, making them a little brighter than usual. She can create multiple machine guns around his opponent and shot millions upon millions of shadow bullets toward them.
	+ **Darkness Shields**: She can solidify shadows into virtually impenetrable shields, which are strong enough to deflect even Zeus' thunderbolts.
	+ **Darkness Infusion**: Nyx can infuse objects (usually a weapon), beings or powers with darkness/shadow, empowering and energizing them and allowing the Nyx to manipulate their qualities and efficiency, allowing them to blind their targets or hide in shadows.
	+ **Shadow Mutilation**: Nyx can inflict damage to the opponent through their shadow, which may kill the target and potentially destroy the body in the process.
		- **Darkness Mimicry**: She​ is made up of or can transform her body completely into darkness/shadows. Her transformed form is anatomically identical to her normal form, aside from being made of darkness/shadows, in which case, it contains all organs and is somewhat vulnerable to attacks. Alternatively, Nyx can transform into homogeneous matter, without any part of her form being more important than the other.
		- **Animated Shadow**: She can transform her or other's shadows into living beings. As the rule of anything happening to the real body happens to the shadow, this ability allows the user to manipulate the shadow and cause damage in reality by using it to attack. This means anything that happens to the shadow will be reflected in the true body; in short, a form of "reverse" shadow puppetry.
	+ **Absolute Darkness**: She is able to create a field of absolute impenetrable darkness that completely negates sight and may also dull or even completely negate the other senses. She is able to generate darkness so intense it can completely obliterate objects in its path.
* **Darkness Generation**: She can generate and shoot solid bolts of pure darkness, and surround enemies into pitch black clouds of lightless space.
* **Dark Rain**: Nyx snaps her fingers, and dark rain rains down from a dimension portal. Whatever comes in contact with the rain gets incinerated instantly.
* **Shadow Camouflage**: Nyx can use shadows to cover herself in darkness, becoming invisible.
* **Overshadow**: Nyx becomes the opponent's shadow and travels with them wherever they go. She can attack them while being intangible on a beyond conceptual level.
* **Marionette**: Nyx could control the body of others by controlling their shadow. While under her control, the 'puppet' still retains their consciousness and could see the events happening around them in a third-person view. She could can multiple 'puppets' at the same time, and only lose control of them if she lost sight of their shadow.
* **Umbrakinetic Combat**: Nyx can fuse manipulation of darkness with physical combat to create a devastating form of martial arts. She can use both direct and indirect attacks, utilizing every patch of darkness or shadow available or create tools and weapons as needed.
* **Black Whip**: Nyx is able to transform the darkness allowed her to create tendrils of black energy from her arms. These tendrils were excellent for grappling and increasing her mobility.
* **Dark Energy Constructs**: Nyx can turn solidified dark energy into tools, objects, weapons and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures/buildings of varying permanence. Nyx who have mastered this ability can use it for almost any situation, creating anything they need.
* **Shadow Constructs**: Nyx could shape and solidify darkness to create various forms of constructs, from weaponry to equipment to even semi-living beasts.
* **Lunar Manipulation**: Nyx can create, shape and manipulate all aspects of a moon/moons, including its gravity and the effects it has on the planet, reflective surface, time-keeping, etc. and use its lunar energy. Given that it is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun, Moons prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have, since ancient times, made the Moon an important cultural influence on language, calendars, art and mythology. The Moon's gravitational influence produces the ocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day.
	+ **Lunar Constructs**: Nyx can turn lunar energy into tools, objects, weapons and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures/buildings of varying permanence. Nyx who have mastered this ability can use it for almost any situation, creating anything they need.
* **Astral Manipulation**: Nyx can create, shape and manipulate astral energy, allowing her to project her astral form on physical plane and to the astral plane and interact there, see spirits, making spirits visible to others, astral trapping and potentially harming the dead. She can allow others to be able to use temporarily astral projection or block others from astral projecting, sending them back to their bodies if they had already projected.
* **Primordial Sky Manipulation**: Nyx can create, shape and manipulate the skies of an ancient primordial nature. As opposed to regular Sky Manipulation, users of this power are deities, avatars, or living embodiment of the sky itself. As such, they can cause natural sky-related phenomena to manifest, such as creating auroras, calling upon lightning, make it rain, etc.

## History

In the beginning there was nothing and then suddenly all came, being so different from nothingness, bothered him. The Nothing was Khaos and the All was God, the two of them waged a bloody war then to determine who would dominate the Void beyond all Voids. On his side, the Most High, also nicknamed The Shining, created four beings of immeasurable powers to help him. Khaos, on the other hand, created a legion of primordials, among them, the goddess of night Nyx and beside him, Erebus, the god of darkness, a pair of twins who helped Khaos in battles fought deep in the primeval pits. After the battle was over, Erebus and Nyx mated and had several children, among which were: Hypnos, Thanatos, Hemera, Apate, Clotho, Eris, among many other Primevals that make up the Greco-Roman pantheon.

Zeus’s fear for Nyx is apparent when Hypnos, her son and the god of sleep, told Hera that he was the one who put Zeus to sleep so that she can cause Heracles, who was returning from Troy, copious amounts of bad luck. In anger, Zeus wanted to smite Hypnos as punishment but the god fled to Nyx. Fearful of the primordial goddess, Zeus left Hypnos alone, thus allowing the god of sleep to avoid the lightning god’s wrath.

Nyx resided in Tartarus alongside her daughter, Hemera. As Hemera returned to her home at the end of the day, Nyx would leave the underworld and gather Erebus together. Then, the couple will bring nighttime upon the world. As nighttime drew to a close, Nyx will return to her home, allowing Hemera to scatter Erebus once more and make Aether’s presence known, which will bring the day. Soon after, Eos, the goddess of dawn will arrive to give the gods a break.

## Myths and Legends

Nyx was a figure of worship in Greek mythology. Many stories detailing her birth and origins exist, but a notable one states that she laid a silver egg from which all the gods will be born. Since Khaos doesn’t exist in that interpretation, that makes Nyx the first deity, making her already immense power and importance even greater. Orpheus himself claimed that the beginning of everything came from her.

It is also said that the Moirai, the goddesses responsible for the fates of mankind, serve her.

## Trivia

* Her name means "night" in Greek; the alternate spelling "Nox" means the same in Latin.
* While Erebus likes any kind of tea, she seems to like any kind of coffee.
* Nyx is a shadowy figure according to the Greeks but from the extracts about her, it is gleaned that she was a figure of great beauty and power.
* Ironically, Nyx and Erebus are primordial aspects of the absence of light, but both created light.
* According to the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, Hecate is a daughter of Nyx.