Nyx (NICKS)
the Night Queen
Nyx, known as the Night Queen, Mistress of Twilight, Queen of the Dead, and many other names and titles, is one of the two rulers 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, 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 Etu Enur by Alu with the rest of the host of aggoles. During their banishment she joined Tyre in the forming of the Nod Noch Nine. Her deep desire in doing so it 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 endlessly possesses a mortal host to touch the mortal world and fullfull her lust for worship.
Her cult's priesthood is populated by Human 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 provide the energy needed to maintain Nyx's Avatar. Of these women, the most beautiful will be selected as the mortal vessel of Nyx. Nyx switches bodies every few years, whenever even a minor blemish appears on its skin. These women, both the sacrifices and the vessel, must be willing victims. Each one hoping to be Nyx's avatar. The woman chosen as avatar by Nyx will be raises up as a Succubus when Nyx is done with her body and moves on to the next. This has led the cult to large cities seeking lost girls, who are given the idea of divine purpose. As for the men of the church, each priest strives to please their mistress in hopes to be at her side, and in her bed, when they pass on to the afterlife. There are no records of what happens to these poor souls once they pass on into Nyx's presence.
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