Nyx

**Creations*** Achlys
* {Anaideia}
* {Apate}
* {Astra Planeta}
* Charon
* Dolos
* Eleos
* {Epiphron}
* Eris
* {Geras}
* {Hybris}
* Hypnos
* The Keres
* Koalemos
* {Momus}
* Moros
* Nemesis
* Oizys
* The Oneiroi
* {Philotes}
* {Sophrosyne}
* Thanatos

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

## Overview

**Nyx** is the primordial goddess and personification of the night from Greek mythology. Originally it said that she was born from chaos and her name means "the mother night." Versions of her birth and origins vary, but one interpretation has her as a creator goddess, laying a silver egg that produces the gods responsible for the creation of the world.

She is depicted as a goddess draped in long flowing black robes that are coated with the void of space and glimmering distant stars. Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power. In ancient art Nyx was depicted as either a winged goddess or charioteer, sometimes crowned with an aureole of dark mists.

One account details Zeus' fear of Nyx when Hypnos, the god of sleep, reminds Hera of an old favor after she asks him to put Zeus to sleep. Zeus was furious and would have smitten Hypnos into the sea if he had not fled to Nyx, his mother, in fear. In fact, the king of the gods was fearful to the point where he held his fury at bay and in this way Hypnos escaped the wrath of Zeus by appealing to his powerful mother.

She gave birth to many offspring, including Light (Aether), Day (Hemera), Death (Thanatos), Sleep (Hypnos), Doom (Moros), Retribution (Nemesis) the Moirae Sisters alongside many others. In some accounts, the goddess of witchcraft, Hecate was also called the daughter of Night.

## Appearance

Nyx has the appearance of a beautiful young woman with pale skin and a petite figure. She has long black hair, dark-purple eyes, and pointed ears.

Her body also gave out a tremendous dark aura. She is often seen wearing a gothic lolita frilly dress attached to a corset jumper skirt. During the meeting on Mount Olympus, she wore wearing a black hooded dress, fishnet stocking, and black boots.

Her true form is that of a vaguely feminine humanoid being formed of dark energy, with bright eyes that shine like quasars. Giant waves of ancient darkness roll out of her figure every time she moves. She wears a long dress that is void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula as if galaxies are being born in her bodice. She is crowned by an aureola of dark mist.

## Personality

Nyx is a cheerful, yet sadistic goddess who enjoys seeing her enemies in pain and suffering. However, she does have an honorable side to her as she greatly admires "true heroes" and those who gain their power and authority through noble means.

She can be very caring and protective, as she is known for taking in those who are abandoned under her wings and raising them as her own children. She is extremely protective of her children and grandchildren, and can go into a blind maternal fury whenever one of her children is in harm, completely disregarding any consequence as long as she can get revenge on those who hurt them.

Similar to other primordial gods, she holds complete amorality toward mortals as she deems their troubles and woes mean nothing to primordial beings such as herself, though she does seem to hold great animosity for humanity in particular, due to the fact many of her children have been severely weakened and demoted to the ranks of Divine Spirits because of their lack of worship. She admitted that most of this hatred also stemmed from the fact that the younger gods are forced to depend on human worship for empowerment, something she considers a disgrace and an embarrassment.

And like many other gods, she is shown to be deeply concerned about the unchecked power of the Sacred Gears, especially that of the Longinus which could potentially kill even primordial gods like her, as she views them as abnormal anomalies that greatly interfere with the natural order. According to her, this is the main reason why she joined the Alliance of Hell, as she considered Sacred Gear wielders to be a potential threat toward the authority of the gods.

## History

### Early Life

Nyx is one of the first Greco-Roman Primordials known as the *Protogenoi*, created by Khaos himself from the divine energy of Hylemorphes. She lives in the Depths of Tartarus in the Mansion of Night, where she stays during the day and leaves during the night to bring the day-night cycle to the world.

She later married her twin brother Erebus and the two had their first children together: Aether and Hemera. However, due to the complication of Hemera's birth, Nyx wasn't able to bear any more children naturally. Feeling saddened by his daughter's misery, Khaos taught her how to utilize the energy of Hylemorphes to create more children of her own, which resulted in him being imprisoned as punishment from the Heavenly Council.

At some point in the ancient past, she and several other gods were gifted with the knowledge of creating half-divine entities known as reapers from the Archreapers, and she was tasked with the duty of creating new generations of reapers to harvest the souls of deceased mortals and take them back to the Realm of the Dead, with hers responsible for taking them to the Greco-Roman Underworld in particular.

### Heracles' Siege of Troy

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.

### Alliance of Hell

Several centuries after the Great War, Nyx, Erebus, and several other chthonic gods founded the Alliance of Hell as a way to prevent the growing power and influence of the Three Factions, especially that of the "Children Blessed by God", i.e. Sacred Gear wielders.

However, as time went on, their motive began to grow as well as the organization now become an anti-Heaven organization whose main goal is to stop the influence of the Abrahamic religions, and by proxy, the Abrahamic Heaven, and bringing back the Age of Gods.

## Equipment

**Night Chariot** (夜の戦車, *Yoru no Sensha*): The divine chariot of Nyx. It is an Roman chariot made out of sharp obsidian and gleaming metals, 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.
	+ 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.
	+ According to her, she had slept throughout the majority of the Roman Empire, though she did wake up several times to use the bathroom.
* 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.