Nott

Nott (Noh-t) is the goddess of darkness and death. She sits in the cradle of the Tree of Knowledge, where her shadowy down drifts upwards to bless mortals with the release of death.

Nott is quiet, dull, and depressive, and speaks in a very soft, almost montone voice. She doesn't have any children, though she secretly is desperate for one. While she's reserved, she looks up to Pythia and Inua, and treats Knocta like an old friend. She's also friends with Erzulie, Ceto and Lucy, and prides herself with being the aunt of Iggy and Morrie. Most of all, her twin sister Vethfolnir is her best friend.

Her goddess form is a large, shadowy bird that absorbs all light around her, save for her bright, hollow eyes. She has long claws and a large beak, and when she speaks or opens her mouth, nothing but an eerie light can be seen. In her humanoid form, she keeps her wings and claws, but takes the appearance of a young, pale woman with long black hair and hollow eyes.
Nott
Basic information
Species: Shadow Phoenix
Sex: Female
Abode: Tree of Knowledge
Followers: Lost souls, shades, ghosts, the dead
Element: Death, darkness, limbo

Early life

Along with Vethfolnir, Nott was created when Pythia and Inua pulled a large egg out of the abdomen of the genocidal beast that radiated with power. Fearing that it would hatch into another god bound to lose it's mind, the two decided to split the egg into two twins.

When Pythia descend down to the mortal realms to find a suitable parent, she heard crying from a monastery. The woman explained that she was mourning the fact that she could not have children. When Pythia heard this, she gifted the woman two eggs and told her to guard and raise them as if she were their own mother. She agreed, and a few months later, Nott and her sister Vethfolnir hatched out of the eggs as newborn goddesses.

Pilgrimage and powers

As Nott grew as a child, she watched her sister gain mystical healing powers, while she did not. She watched the members of the monastery praise Veth, while shun her for her own lack of abilities. As they both grew together, Nott tried to learn Veth's abilities by her instructions. Unfortunately, Nott's powers involved death and decay, which caused the monastery to become aggressive towards her and her mother.

Eventually, the monastery became so terrified of Nott's touch of death that they told her mother that in order for her to stay, her and Veth would have to send her away. Her mother refused, staying by her daughter's side. The monastery then offered to make Veth one of the leaders as long as she stayed, but she also refused, cursing the church through her tears. Nott tried to reassure her sister that she was used to the behavior, which made her cry more. She watched as her sister's tears watered a seed that then became the tree of life.

Throughout their travels in the mortal realm, their mother taught Veth and Nott that both of them, life and death, were the natural cycle of being mortal. While the monastery they grew up in praised life and light, she taught the girls that natural death is the blessing of eternal rest, and life could not flow without it. Even still, she admitted that even she did not know that death would mark the end of someone's flow of time.

Planting of the tree

Now fully grown, the two girls had finished their pilgrimage at the top of the largest mountain, where their mother had grown elderly and weak.

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