ARTICLE
WHO IS NOX?
By Tanner Schelle
We take a closer look at Nox, Goddess of the Night and see how she sizes up after a month of play.
LORE
spectre, this goddess of the night.
her origins and wrote
Nox is an extremely powerful deity
poems about how
he night. Still, quiet
that should not be underestimated,
feared she was to
and unwavering. It has
for she will snatch you up like
the other gods.
a monster in the darkness.
Hesiod diverts
T
always been and always will be.
Its forthcoming is inevitable for all
Nox (who is very similar to the
away from the
and brings forth the goddess Nox.
Greek goddess Nyx) is a goddess
idea that Nox
Nox can be found in the deepest
from the Roman pantheon. Having a
was always
shadows of night, but do not expect
few different theories of where she
here with the
to see her long, for she has only
originates from it seems that no one
idea that she was born
been seen in glimpses. As the living
knows for sure how her birth came
from the primeval void,
embodiment of the night, Nox is
to be, but it is consistent among
Chaos. Although we
said to be the oldest of the gods and
everyone that she was here from the
do not know exactly
mother to death and sleep, Thanatos
very earliest of times. Poets, such
her origins, we do
and Hypnos. Even Zeus fears this
as Hesiod and Homer, wrote about
know that she is an
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