Night

**Night** is a powerful cursed artifact and the youngest of the Three Horsemen created by the oldest living white cored Awakened, Baba Yaga. She is the only one among her siblings who doesn't care about her mission and only seeks a thrill to relieve the boredom her long life causes her.

## Appearance

Night looks like a young woman in her mid 20's, about 1.7 meters (5'7") tall, with ebony skin and full lips that highlight her sensual smile. She has silver waist-long hair and round eyes without pupils that shine like moons.  She wears a black skin-tight full suit of armor that leaves only her head exposed.

### Host Forms

During Night's first meeting with Lith, she takes the form of a 15 year old girl, about 1.65 meters (5'5") tall , with blonde hair and brown eyes.

## Personality

An eternal life and nigh unlimited powers makes her easily bored, so she relishes a challenge.

## Abilities

The Black Night becomes stronger after sunset and so do her undead. Just like Dawn, Night can create prisms that she can share with her minions. The spawn bestows upon the undead part of her powers and her mastery over the darkness element, leaving her weakened. Unlike her sister, however, the link won't grant her any knowledge nor control over their actions. Night is a spirit of destruction and as such, she gains the innate abilities of all the undead she shares a symbiotic relationship with, but none of their weaknesses.

Her crystal core, not the host, has the ability to conjure and harness the protective darkness magic. Like the other Horsemen, it is her real body and source of power as well as her greatest vulnerability.

Despite her host being weaker than her siblings', Night has spent centuries, if not millennia, wreaking havoc and fighting the most powerful creatures on Mogar.

## Equipment

Night wields the Black Rose Armor and Thorn spear that she crafted from Adamant using the skills of the best hosts she had inhabited over the centuries. She later steals **Moonlight**, her mage tower steed from Baba Yaga, boosting her magical and physical prowess to new heights.

## Background

Along with her siblings, Night was created in order to overcome the Undead race's inherent limitations. Night had been tasked with making the Undead immune to darkness magic, the only element that could truly harm them, no matter if they retained or not a physical form. Over the millennia since her creation, Baba Yaga has used creation magic to constantly enhanced her crystal body with modern Forgemastering techniques.

Night courts Ilyum Balkor to be her host but he refuses, eventually striking her back to the Gorgon Empire. Her subsequent attempts to convince him and threatening of his family lead Balkor to develop a grudge, which he follows up on when he follows Manohar to Othre to confront her. He refuses her offer again and the two Magi decimate her Chosen, forcing her to act. Her Adamant gear and powerful abilities suppress them, but Manohar "sacrifices" himself to let Balkor destroy her host with a Chaos spell, forcing her to flee back to Baba Yaga's hut.

Night receives Dawn's distress call in the Gorgon Empire when she and Dusk face the hybrid-Eldritches. Outnumbered and overpowered, Night Warps them away and resolves to deal with the hybrids. After Archmage Velan Deirus' attempt on Phloria's life at the Feymar crystal mines, Night stages an attack on Lutia, hoping to replicate Balkor's tragedy to lure Lith to her side while pinning the blame on Deirus. However, the plan goes horribly wrong with Night and the undead underestimating Lith's and the Royals' defensive preparations.

As Lith arrives in Lutia, Night confronts him and attempts to seduce him to become her host. After a brief battle, Night is attacked by the Master's Chosen at their arrival, severely wounding her until Baba Yaga intervenes. The Blood Mother agrees to change the slave spell on Night's core, removing part of her free will by barring her from attacking anyone in Lutia, and also kills her host while bonded to let the Horseman experience the physical pain the living suffer. The slave spell also keeps her from harming the people of Lutia directly or indirectly and making up lies is covered by the latter.

### Undead War

Night approaches Lith's brother Trion Proudstar in the city of Yardra through her servant Gerla Silvermoon and offers him power and to be her host. Trion refuses and kills Gerla before jumping off a building to escape, but Night disables the protections on his army uniform, plunging him to his death, and arranges the incident to look like a suicide. The Horseman later approaches and bonds with Orpal, using Body Sculpting on him to make their body fit his ego. She Awakens him and spends the next few months refining both his body and core. Baba Yaga brings the Horsemen to observe Lith's tribulation in the Lost City of Kolga, as he is a potential new being. Baba Yaga brings her Horsemen to witness Lith's battle in the Lost City of Kolga, as it is rare for an Awakened to resist a tribulation before the white core.

The Three Horsemen convene with the Firstborn on the Garlen continent in the Blood Desert to discuss the state of the war. After Night's attack on Lutia, the Awakened Council as well as the Master's Organization become their enemies, throwing their war plans into disarray. Dusk attempts to rally the Courts, but the Firstborns decline to continue serving the Three Horsemen in their struggle, discontent with their offspring being treated as their lapdogs.

Night and Orpal visit Lutia again with the Rettas under the pretense of reconciling with his parents with a cover story of a life in the Gorgon Empire. However, Lith lures Kima into exposing too much which allows Jirni to arrest the Rettas for their crimes. She also discredits Orpal's fake backstory after he reveals too much due to his ego and desire to outdo Lith. Orpal reveals his true colors and Jirni kicks him out of the house. Vastor proceeds to physically subdue Orpal, who attempts to retaliate but is quickly restrained by Night due to the presence of many powerful beings.

At Night's suggestion, the Three Horsemen steal their mage tower steeds from Baba Yaga and wage war on the Griffon Kingdom's major cities. Night attacks Vesta, facing Amyla Farg and several units of the Queen's Corps who prove no match for the Horseman, her steed Moonlight, and her army. However, Vastor is sent as Highmaster to reinforce the city, and easily decimates Night and her army with his mastery of light and darkness magic as well as enhanced prowess.

Night and Orpal learn about Lith's evolution to Tiamat, leading them to relentlessly train, she her magic and he his spearsmanship. She drives Orpal to train his body enough to move beyond the deep cyan core and for her to give birth to a better Tiamat by replacing the Abomination side with an undead side. The loss of her siblings puts Night at a desperate need for allies and resources. She turns Archmage Velan Deirus into a thrall and one of her Chosen. When Deirus is caught by Jirni and her allies, he calls for reinforcements via his prism and Night rushes to his location to get even with Manohar and Balkor for fooling her. However, Jirni subdues and torture Deirus, leading Night to shatter her prism from a distance before Deirus can reveal her location.

Orpal orchestrates an attack on Lutia using numerous mercenary groups. He kidnaps Frey and Filia Yehval and confronts Zinya while disguised as her late abusive Fallmug to torment them, though Zinya sees through the disguise. Tezka saves the Yehvals and engages Orpal, forcing Night to take over Orpal's body to survive the encounter. Vastor arrives late and decimates the remaining mercenaries, and Orpal manages to escape amidst the chaos of one of Tezka's spells with a Spirit Warp.

## Quotes

* *"You've saved me the trip and another tussle with that overgrown desert chicken."* *"I think there's a misunderstanding. I've never been here before." Manohar lied through his teeth, placing his hand over his heart to look more convincing.* *"Please, there are only three renowned Light Masters in the whole Griffon Kingdom. One is a kitty cat, another is a lizzie, and the last is you. Do you think I missed how the 'mysterious girl' used your spells and moved like a man? No, you don't have a sister. I checked!"* (Night to Manohar, Chapter 940)
* *"Tell me, Ilyum, did fatherhood made you soft, or are you still the same man I fell head over heels for?"* (Night to Balkor, Chapter 941)
* *"Surrender and accept to become my host. If you do, I promise that your family will be saved and that I'll not hurt you during our first night. Much...Nailed it in one, my dear husband."* (Night to Lith at their first meeting, Chapter 1106)
* *"I'm much better than any woman you'll ever meet, my knowledge surpasses that of any creature you met, and with me, you'll experience intimacy as no one else can offer you. We'll become one in mind and body, as the lovers you heard about in legends."* (Night attempting to seduce Lith, Chapter 1107)
* *"Smart and resourceful. I think I'm in love."* (Night to Lith, Chapter 1108)
* *"I don't fear a single Dragon. I've got a set of carpets and curtains made from skinning you oversized lizards. Your presence does nothing but give me the ingredients I need to reforge my weapons."* (Night to Xenagrosh, Chapter 1111)
* *"While Dawn is completely focused on following the mission that Baba Yaga gave her and Dusk likes to pull strings behind the Undead Court's scenes, Night is batshit crazy. She doesn't care about being seen or about the number of casualties. The Black Night considers everything like some kind of sick game of which she makes the rules and then forces you to play at. In her case, immortality didn't give her wisdom, but rather made her indifferent to the consequences of her actions. Night has no rush to complete her assignment and everything she does is just her way to relieve the boredom that her long life causes her."* (Lith to the Ernas, Chapter 1121)
* *"The only way I've left to get revenge on Lith is to get a host who will slaughter his family of their own will. That way, I'll be akin to a blade in their hands and not responsible for their actions. Let's hope it goes better with the other brother. I would love to see the terrified expression of the Verhens while they get ripped apart at the hand of their own son."* (Night after killing Trion, Chapter 1144)
* *"Man, he's hot."* (Night on seeing Lith in his erotica outfit, Chapter 1338)

## References

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1106
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1301
4. ↑ Chapter 940
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1090
6. ↑ Chapter 938
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 941
8. ↑ Chapter 1110
9. ↑ Chapter 1108
10. ↑ Chapter 942
11. ↑ Chapter 1391
12. ↑ Chapter 901
13. ↑ Chapter 901
14. ↑ Chapter 937
15. ↑ Chapter 944
16. ↑ Chapter 1103
17. ↑ Chapter 1112
18. ↑ Chapter 1341
19. ↑ Chapter 1144
20. ↑ Chapter 1249
21. ↑ Chapter 1302
22. ↑ Chapter 1342
23. ↑ Chapter 1389
24. ↑ Chapter 1392
25. ↑ Chapter 1449
26. ↑ Chapter 1486