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 ☪Nyx☪  "I enjoy tearing down the proud and powerful, and there are none who deserve tearing down like Gaea and her giants. Still, I must warn you that I will not suffer undeserved success. Good luck is a sham. The wheel of fortune is a Ponzi scheme. True success requires sacrifice."

- Nyx 🌙Vital Statistics🌙  ☽Family☾  ☽Scopes/Patron of☾ <div style=""> <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">☽Other☾ <div style=""> <div style=""> NYX was the goddess of the night, one of the ancient Protogenoi (first-born elemental gods).

Some of the more famous myths featuring the goddess include:
 * Nyx & The Birth Of The Cosmos;
 * Nyx's birth of the Daimones & Gods;
 * Nyx and the birth of magic

<div style="width:45%; border:4px outset #7BAAC7; background-color:#7BAAC7; color:#ffffff; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #05106E 0%, #000427 100%); background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0, #7BAAC7), color-stop(1, #8A6E9C)); -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 3px; border-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; padding:12px;"><div style="">✶History✶ <div style=""> In Greek mythology, Nyx is the personification of darkness. In particular night. Nyx was born directly from the void of Chaos, and was the one of the first Protogenoi. She was married to Erebus (Primordial God of Depth) who is also her brother and had many children with him. She is an incredibly powerful divine being, as she was a Protogenoi, and has four siblings: Gaia, Phusis, Erebus, and Tartarus.

A myth that supports her power is when Hypnos, the minor god of sleep and her son, fled Zeus because he put him to sleep on Hera's orders, so she could give great misfortune onto Hercules. Zeus found out about his involvement and chased him. Hypnos fled to his mother Nyx whom Zeus obviously feared as he held his anger at bay, not wishing to offend Nyx. Another myth is that Nyx's daughter, Hemera (day) left Tartarus when Nyx entered it, creating night and day.

According to some Greek articles Chaos did not exist and Nyx, in fact, was the first divine Entity, promoting her power and importance even more. Her son Moros (Doom) is mysterious as well, and is believed to be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, as he drives all things to their ends. One example is that Zeus cannot defeat her, another being that the Moirae (Fates) serve him.

Nyx is the Greek word for night. This goddess had many cults around Ancient Greece and Rome but she had more cults than Temples. Nyx had many priests who worshiped in her name, all her followers worshiped at night in complete darkness. The Night Mother had two major cults in Antient Greece; these were Megara located in Megaris (Southern Greece) and one in Rome the Capital City of the Roman Empire.

In Roman mythology Nox is the goddess of night and darkness and sometimes associated with witchcraft.

<div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Nyx and Night✶ <div style="">

Evey day, Nyx was residing in her home all day long, taking care of her fifteen dark spirited children, among them Hypnos (the sleep) and Thanatos (the death). By the evening, Nyx was leaving her home to set off for her nightly jouney. On her way she met Hemera, the Day, who was returning home from her daily trip and they were greeting each other peacefully. When she flew across the sky bringing darkness she would leave a trail of glitterling stars that would disappear once she would return to her Mansion of Night

<div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Other Myths✶ <div style=""> She was depicted as riding in a chariot, trailing stars and bringing the night, and accompanied by Her sons Hypnos and Thanatos. She could be helpful or harmful to mankind, bringing either sleep or death. Nyx had prophetic powers, and gave oracles from a cave. She was older and more powerful than Zeus, who deferred to Her wishes.

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Personality= <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Personality✶ <div style=""> Nyx is a very neutral goddess much like the night itself. She can be quite melancholic to some extent but Nyx can also be brutal and harsh. She is often described by mortals or demi-gods who have viewed her as beautiful and kind though like the darkness, Nyx doesn't always make her motives known. There are a lot of mixed views on this ancient goddess, some say she's sly and quick to anger and others say that's just the nature of a protogenoi, wise beyond mortal years. Appearance & Image Gallery= <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Appearance & Image Gallery✶ <div style=""> Nyx was described as a churning figure of ash and smoke, as big as the Athena Parthenos statue, but very much alive. Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice. Her face was hard to see except for the pinpoints of her eyes, which shone like quasars. When her wings beat, waves of darkness rolled over the cliffs. She rode in on a chariot that was made out of Stygian Iron pulled by two massive horses that were black except for their silver fangs. Their legs floated in the abyss turning from solid to smoke as they moved. <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Image Gallery✶ <div style="">

Abilities= <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Abilities✶ <div style=""> She is an extremely powerful goddess, and many immortals fear her power; Trivia= <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Trivia✶ <div style="">
 * As the goddess of balance, she will provide bad luck to anyone with too much good luck. She may also be able to provide good luck to anyone with too much bad luck.
 * She can apparently tell someone their destiny as long as she receives adequate payment in return, as she told Ethan he would bring the minor gods respect in exchange for his eye.
 * She is able to punish those with too much arrogance, such as punishing Narcissus to fall in love with himself.
 * The word "nemesis" is now often used as a term to describe one's worst enemy, normally someone or something that is the exact opposite of oneself but is also somehow similar.
 * Nemesis is also called the goddess of balance, she makes sure no man has too much good in his life to prevent hubris.
 * Ironically, Grover mentions in The Lightning Thief that Nemesis as the "God of Revenge" may be a possibility for Percy's parentage instead of one of the Big Three.
 * In The Last Olympian, Nemesis's symbol is a set of scales, as seen on Ethan Nakamura's burial shroud. In The Mark of Athena, Leo says a broken wheel is also her symbol, as it is on her cabin at Camp Half-Blood.
 * On Rick Riordan's website, Nemesis is said to be sisters with the Roman form of Tyche, [Fortuna. Whether this is true only for the series or if Rick Riordan made a mistake is unknown.
 * It is odd that Ethan's burial shroud had scales under crossed swords when Nemesis is sometimes pictured with a whip in one hand and scales in the other.
 * The woman depicted on the New York state flag, holding the scales and sword, is believed to be based on Nemesis. However it is Dike the goddess of Moral Justice, or in some cases Dike's mother Themis.
 * A statue of Nemesis or Dike's mother, Themis, is sometimes seen in courts of law to represent balance of justice.
 * Despite Invidia being Nemesis' Roman form, she herself states that she is called Nemesis in both Rome and Greece as revenge is universal.
 * Her Roman name, Invidia, is Latin for Envy, one of the seven deadly sins.

References= <div style=" padding:12px;"><div style="">✶Citations/References✶ <div style=""> Nyx on Wikipedia Nyx on Pantheon.org Nyx on Theoi Nyx on Camp Half-Blood Encylo Wiki Nyx on Mythology Wiki