According to the Greek poet Hesiod, they were the daughters of Gaea (Earth) and sprang from the blood of her mutilated spouse Uranus. In the plays of Aeschylus, they were the daughters of Nyx; in those of Sophocles, they were the daughters of Darkness and of Gaea.
Nyx (/nɪks/ NIX; Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, [nýks], "Night") is the Greek goddess and personification of night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities, such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness).
Phanes was believed to have been hatched from the World-Egg of Chronos (Time) and Ananke (Necessity or Fate) or Nyx in the form of a black bird and wind. His older wife Nyx called him Protogenus.
Nyx is a daughter of Chaos, the birthmother of twin gods Hypnos and Thanatos, of Charon, Eris, Nemesis, Moros, the Fates, and many others.
Thanatos was the son of Nyx, the goddess of night, and the brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He appeared to humans to carry them off to the underworld when the time allotted to them by the Fates had expired.
They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Nyx, in Greek mythology, female personification of night but also a great cosmogonical figure, feared even by Zeus, the king of the gods, as related in Homer's Iliad, Book XIV.
From Khaos (Chaos) [Air] came forth Erebos (Erebus, Darkness) and black Nyx (Night); but of Nyx (Night) were born (Aether, Bright Upper Air) and Hemera (Day), whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebos.
Nyx disapproves of Dusa for her tendency to overwork herself and associating with Zagreus. She eventually removes Dusa from her job without warning.
That is to say, Nyx is one powerful god. A primordial entity of any mythology generally held gargantuan power over any other gods within the pantheon. To put Nyx's power into perspective, even the Olympian gods struggled with their predecessors from a mere generation before them for a decade.
It is commonly thought that Nyx is the only goddess that Zeus is truly afraid of because she is older and more powerful than him. This traces back to one story in which Hera, Zeus' wife and goddess of marriage and childbirth, works together with Hypnos, the god of sleep, to trick Zeus.
Nyx does not have a weakness in any of its battle stages, so your focus needs to be on avoiding elements it nullifies or drains. Therefore, any Personas with severe-level damage moves are your best choice for offensive Personas.
Nyx is a large deity with dark blue skin, hair, and massive feathered wings. She has five eyes in total, with two smaller eyes below her two 'normal' eyes, and one large eye on her forehead.
Children of Nyx can be born/or manifest functional large black wings, that can be retracted at will. Children of Nyx can bend shadows to a certain extent to hide themselves, people, or objects.
In Episode Twenty-Six, Nyx was poisoned by Misaki Han-Shireikan.
Nyx had 6 children: Nemesis, Hypnos, Thanatos, Geras, Eris and Charon.
The Keres - Alongside the 1000 sons, Nyx was also mother to a group of 1000 daughters, the Keres.
Gaea just has the biggest reputation since she's the mother of both the titans and giants while Nyx and her children have never really made any large scale attacks on Olympus.
Further, Odin is more durable than Nyx, which is no small thing. With Nosferatu he rarely has to spend a turn healing in Ch. 10, where Nyx almost certainly will sacrifice at least 2 turns she could use to attack to chug a vulnerary. Neither does Nyx double anything important that Odin doesn't.
The only way that the player can defeat Nyx is by sacrificing themselves. After the fact, Nyx is defeated for good but can return in the story, either through subsequent playthroughs or Aigis' epilogue story as Thanatos. We even see Elizabeth wielding Thanatos in Persona 4 Arena.
Updated on October 19, 2021, by Reyadh Rahaman: Dusa, as some players have noticed, is a reference to Medusa, a gorgon from Greek mythology.
Zeus even feared Nyx because she was older and stronger than him. She is the only goddess he's ever feared. That speaks volumes of her power. The moonstone is used to honor her to this day.
There are three main romance options in Hades: Dusa, Megaera, and Thanatos. You'll need to give Nectar to each of them in order to build a relationship, sometimes face them in battle or a challenge, complete a Favor for them, then give them Ambrosia.
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Nyx: "Do not despair, child. Such setbacks are inevitable, and may be overcome with effort and with time.
Eris is the daughter of Nyx, or Zeus and Hera, and the sister of Ares, the Greek god of war, who she often accompanied into battle, riding alongside him in his chariot.