Nyx (NICKS)

the Night Queen

Nyx, known as the Night Queen, Mistress of Twilight, Queen of the Dead, Lady Death, and many other names and titles, is one of the most influential of the Aggoles and the Nod Noch Nine. There is debate among Aggelomachy theologians of her involvement with the war itself. Many religious' traditions put her as the first of the aggels to favor the material world over their realms Beyond Aldern. She dwelt in the city of Noch and came to be a leading figure in the Council of Man. Even before her counterpart Tyre rose to power and pushed for aggoles dominance, she was being worshipped by many men of the Nod Noch culture.

The debates come with the events of the Aggelomachy itself. While she seems to have reveled in the worship of the Nod Noch people, and could be a demanding, and even cruel, mistress, she did not appear to join Tyre's ideas of forced worship. Her methods were more in the seduction of the population. Surviving myths and legends of the Aggelomachy have little records of her during the war. There are only a few obscure references to Nyx dwelling within the city of Noch throughout the fighting, even during its destruction.

After the war she is imprisoned in Kur by Alu with the rest of the aggoles. During their banishment she joined Tyre in the forming of the Nod Noch Nine. Her deep desire in doing so was to return and be worshipped once more by the men of the world. While most of the Nine have abandoned the notion of returning to the material world, Nyx has remained obsessed with it through the ages. She is said to have an endlessly lust for being worshipped.

While Nyx wishes all to join her cult so she can be worshipped, her priesthood is populated only with men. Men who must show devotion by remaining sexual pure. For they are hers alone. Virginal women are selectively allowed to join, only to be used in sacrifice to prove her priest's devotion to her. Of these women, the most beautiful will be selected as the mortal vessel for the Avatar of Nyx. Nyx remains in her avatar as much as she can, switches bodies every few years, whenever a blemish appears on her host's skin. These women vessels must be willing victims. The women chosen by the cult as sacrifices are told they could raise again as the goddess herself. The woman chosen as avatar by Nyx will indeed raise as a Succubus once Nyx is done with the body and moves on to the next. This has led the cult to large cities seeking lost girls, who are given the promise of divine purpose. As for the men of the church, each priest strives to please their mistress in hopes to be the one mortal at her side, and in her bed, when they pass on to the afterlife. A delusion that Nyx does not bother to dispel. No Human can satisfy her, she has tasted the pleasure of powerful acient mortals, aggoles, and gods. These modern men will worship her as their goddess with absolute devotion and undying love but gain nothing from her in return.

Of the Nine, Nyx spends the most time channeling into her avatars. This has drained and her true form over the ages. This only pushes her vanity into diving deeper into beautiful, young avatars. It also pushes her obsession with returning to the divinity she lost in her banishment out of Aldern. One should never take her sickly appearance as weakness, however. She remains one of the strongest of the Nine.

According to Novyum myth Nyx is the one aggoles that is still in service to Alu in that she is tasked with collecting the souls of evil beings across Ethae. It is she and her succubus' duty to pull the vile down into the depth of what is Beyond Aldern.