Nox

The Roman Primordial Goddess of the Night

### Titles

Goddess of Night, Subduer of Gods and Men, Personification of the Darkness of the Night, Winged Reaper of the Night, Giver of the Night

## Profile

### Personify

Night, Darkness, Light, Motherhood, Magic

### Affiliations

Tartarus, Protogenoi, Children of Nox, Crescent Moon, Owls

## Relationships

### Siblings

Terra, Tartarus, Amor, Scotus, Caelus, Necessitas

### Offspring

Aether, Dies, Mors, Fraus, Somnus, the Tenebrae, Fatum, the Parcae, Mendacius, Rivalitas, Miseria, Somnia, Decima, Morta, Nona, Amicitia, Querella, Discordia, Senectus

### Other Relationships

Nyx (Greek Counterpart), Mother Night (True Self/Teacher)

## Other

### Status

Alive

**Nox** is the Roman primordial goddess and personification of the night, who was held in great esteem among the ancients. Her counterpart is the Greek goddess Nyx, though she is truly an avatar of the Greek primordial to act as another solider for

## Overview

A shadowy figure, Nox stood at or near the beginning of creation born of Khaos and mothered other personified deities. She was called the subduer of gods and men, and relates that Jupiter himself stood in awe of her. In the ancient cosmogonies Night is one of the very first created beings, for she is described as the daughter of Khaos, and the sister of Scotus, by whom she became the mother of Aether and Dies.

## Appearance

To poets, with whom she is merely the personification of the darkness of night, she is sometimes described as a winged goddess, and sometimes as riding in a chariot, covered with a dark garment and accompanied by the stars in her course.

Nox's main physical form has her appear as a fair-skinned woman with short white hair down to her cheek, with two huge strands on the back of her head that run to her legs. She has a mature figure and relatively large breasts. She wears a beautiful gothic dress, she usually covers her eyes with a helmet on her head. However, when without him it is revealed that their eyes appear to be purple or gray.

In her human form, Nox appears as a woman in her late teens, she has long steel-blue hair and emotionless purple eyes. Her clothes are a blue and white Gothic Lolita dress with a purple ribbon, white socks and black shoes. Sometimes, she can also appear as an adult with long blue hair that hangs down the left side and blue eyes.

## Power and Abilities

* **Flame of the Night**: Nox's candles gather energy from all spells she and others cast. For every spell, a candle is lit. For every candle lit Nox gains more magical power.
* **Shadow Lock**: Nox extends her shadow, rooting and crippling a single enemy in place and dealing damage over time. Nox must channel to maintain hold on the target, but may cancel this power early.
* **Siphon Darkness**: Nox creates a void of darkness that silences all enemies within. After a short duration it explodes, dealing a mass amount of damage.
* **Shadow Step**: Nox dashes forward, dealing damage to all entities in front of her. If she hits an ally, she leaps into their shadow, traveling with them. When Nox exits a shadow, she deals damage again in a radius around her.
* **Night Terror**: Nox unleashes a vortex of dark energy that explodes on contact with an enemy , dealing damage to all enemies in range and applying damage over time. Enemies hit are also weakened, dealing less damage for the duration.

## 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 galactic 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 Nox and beside him, Scotus, the god of darkness, a pair of twins who helped Khaos in battles fought deep in the primeval pits. After the battle was over, Scotus and Nox mated and had several children, among which were: Aether, Dies, Fraus, Nona, Discordia, among many other Second Generation Primordial that make up the Roman pantheon.

## Myths and Legends

Some believed that she was even older than Khaos. Orpheus ascribes to her the generation of gods and men, and says, that all things had their beginning from her.

## Quotes

* *"Aeneas sacrificed a black-fleeced lamb to Nox (Night) [Nyx], the mother of the Furiae (Furies) [Erinyes]."* - Virgil, Aeneid 6. 250 ff (trans. Day-Lewis).

* *"From Chaos and Caligine [were born] : Nox (Night) [Nyx], Dies (Day) [Hemera], Erebus, Aether.
From Nox (Night) [Nyx] and Erebus [were born]: Fatum (Fate) [Ker], Senectus (Old Age) [Geras], Mors (Death) [Thanatos], Letum (Dissolution) [Moros], Continentia (Continence), Somnus (Sleep) [Hypnos], Somnia (Dreams) [Oneiroi], Amor [Eros]--that is Lysimeles, Epiphron, Porphyrion, Epaphus, Discordia (Discord), Miseria (Wretchedness), Petulantia (Wantonness), Nemesis, Euphrosyne, Amicitia (Friendship) [Philotes], Misericordia (Compassion), Styx; the three Parcae (Fates) [Moirai], namely Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos; the Hesperides Aegle, Hesperie and Aerica."* - Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant).

* *"Two demon fiends there are, called by the name of Furiae (Furies) [Erinyes], whom darkest Nox (Night) [Nyx] brought forth at one and the same birth with hellish Megaera, breeding all three alike with the twining coils of serpents and giving them wings like the wind . . . the spawn of Nox (Night)."* - Virgil, Aeneid 12. 848 ff.

* *"Dewy Nox (Night) upon the Hesperian shore has reached her goal [departing from the sky as dawn breaks]."* - Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 142 ff (trans. Melville).

* *"Nox (Night) came on, and laid to rest the cares of men and the prowlings of wild beasts, and wrapped the heavens in her dusky shroud, coming to all with kindly influence."* - Statius, Thebaid 3. 406 ff.

* *"O Nox (Night) who castest thy mantle over the toiling earth and heaven, and sendest the fiery stars on their divers roaming courses, gracious refresher of the mind, till the next sun shed blithe upspringing upon faint mortality, thou, kindly Nox . . . Ever shall this house throughout the circling periods of the year hold thee high in honour and in worship; black bulls of chosen beauty shall pay thee sacrifice, O goddess! And Vulcanus' [[[Hephaestus|Hephaistos]]'] fire shall eat the lustral entrails, where-o'er the new milk streams*

## Gallery

*Nox with her eldest children**Nox's Crimson Eclipse form**Nox's Mystical Manipulator form**Nox's Galaxy Shaper form*
## Trivia

* Due to being the counterpart of Nyx, Nox is also connected to Mother Night.

## Image Sources

* (NOX SMITE.jpg) NOX SMITE by vicactor
* (Americo-noite.jpg) The Night with the Genii of Study and Love by Pedro Américo
* (SkinArt Nox Default.jpg) Nox Default Skin Art from Smite
* (Iosh-kun-nox-72.jpg) Nox Goddess of the night by Iosh Kun
* (T Nox Golden Card.png) Nox Golden Skin Art from Smite
* (T Nox CCSkin Card.png) Nox Crimson Eclipse Skin Art from Smite
* (T Nox MysticalManipulator Card.png) Nox Mystical Manipulator Skin Art from Smite
* (Jon-neimeister-nox-cosmic-02-final.jpg) Galaxy Shaper Nox by Jon Neimeister
* (Nox by arnaerr db9v6hj-fullview.jpg) Nox by arnaerr