Nuit

Name	Nuit
Race	Demon
Type	God (Egyption)
Faction	Nightbred
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	None Applicable

Nuit

"I drape the sky itself in darkness; I am the night eternal- I am Nuit!"

Biography

In ancient Egypt as with other nations, as mankind created concepts in the Physical World, their brainwaves coalesced along the dimensional frequencies bringing beings into existence. One such being is the goddess, Nuit (pronounced “newt”; Ancient Egyptian: Nwt), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, and astronomy in the ancient Egyptian religion. Being an amalgamation of mother and night, she is the Night Mother and her children the Nightbred. She was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the Earth. As with most deities, she has made her way into the Physical World on a few occasions. Mostly these took place in the Age of Myths. The first time that she came was in the era of Khnum Khufu in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC). At that time, Nuit came to the pharaoh. She offered him immortality so long as he would forsake the god of his namesake, Khnum, in favor of her- that she be made the most favored god of the age. The pharaoh refused her offer to make him immortal for he knew that she was not to be trusted. Incensed, Nuit stormed away.

However, Khufu had his enemies and she went to them promising that they would replace the royal family if they would accept her power. Complete sacrilege and yet, these people accepted. They rose as the first Nightbred ever, attacking the palace and slaying the guards the very next night. Khufu was saved by priests of Ra who managed to hold the creatures back with Light Magicks, until just before dawn, when the vampires fled back into the wilderness to hide from the sun. Khufu went to the Nile and beseeched his namesake, Khnum, for aid. Because Nuit had interfered with the mortals, the god heard his pleas and granted the pharaoh two scepters. One granted life, the Scepter of Isis, and the other granted death, the Scepter of Osiris. The next night, as the Nightbred attacked again, Khufu had a choice. Though these were his enemies, he could again grant them life and remove the undeath or he could enslave them to do his bidding with the power of death.

As the gods waited for the mortal to exercise his free will, the vampires grew closer. Khufu granted them back their lives. The corruption of Nuit removed from them, the pharaoh ordered them to leave Egypt forever. Ashamed, they acquiesced. Now Khufu went in search of Nuit. As the priests of Ra intoned their magical incantations, Khufu used the power of the Scepter of Osiris and banished her back into the Outer Darkness. It was not until the time of Hatshepsut when Nuit would again find her way back into the corporeal world. Also reigning in the Age of Myths, when the vibratory dimensions still thrummed at frequencies that allowed spirits and mortals to more easily traverse them, Nuit came down from the heavens to visit Hatshepsut.

The god, Ra, had imprisoned Nuit’s spiritual children whom she had with the god, Geb, and the goddess had grown weary of the day and night cycle. She implored Hatshepsut to make her the main god of all of Egypt and usher eternal night onto the Earth- offering to make Hatshepsut immortal just as she had done to Khufu. Unlike the former pharaoh from a thousand years earlier, Hatshepsut did desire eternal life- all the more if she could rule in the Physical World, forever. And, as such, she acquiesced to the goddess. The long fangs of Nuit pressed into her neck, and the next day, Hatshepsut’s corpse was found in her garden. Interred in her famous Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahari-the following night, she rose from the dead.

Mourners were still visiting her tomb before it would be sealed, and watched in fascination as her sarcophagus opened and she emerged. To her people, this was a sign, and they fell to their knees in reverence as Hatshepsut looked over them. Within Hatshepsut’s mind, Nuit’s voice spoke, for now they were entwined, spiritually. She discarded her crook and flail to the stone floor and the clattering caused the precession to pause in their prayers of joy and look up to their pharaoh. Casting her arms back, the flames of the temple vanished and an eerie blue darkness hung in the chamber. Hatshepsut told them that she had made a bargain with Nuit and that her people no longer needed to fear for anything. She told them that Ra, the sun, would forever hide and that the Egyptians would now claim the world as their own! She ordered the nearest person to her, beckoning them into her waiting arms, and then bit their neck. Being the first vampire, her bite was potent, and as the last drop of blood left the body, that person rose instantly as a vampire. The ignorant had no idea that Nuit was spreading her influence and power, and these people trusted in their pharaoh.

The next day, the sun did not rise. Night remained over Egypt. In the ancient world, this caused calamity as it could be witnessed by the nearby nations. Within a week, the Nightbred had spread rapidly without sunlight or anyone capable of stopping them. People in Egypt did not realize that this blessing meant the loss of their humanity. As the curse spread, the night over Egypt grew darker and Nuit’s power grew stronger. Nuit openly walked among the people, relishing her ever growing power as their souls fed her. As thousands became undead, finally, priests of the other gods resisted and some people revolted. The balance of life was undone.

Ra could no longer ignore the plight of his worshippers. He came into the world from the Inner Light, and found Nuit in the royal gardens where she had seduced Hatshepsut. Ra told the goddess that balance must be maintained lest war erupt in other dimensions spilling over onto the Physical World. The Physical World is required to exist in order to produce souls and power for the other planes of existence. Nuit harbored anger at the sun-god for he had taken her children. He explained this was done to maintain the balance of life on the world that her children brought chaos and had to be removed for life and souls to exist on the Earth. She refused to give up her souls and power, and Ra called upon the Light.

The two gods fought with all their might as the very world around them ripped, burned, and tore apart with their fury. However, Ra’s Light shone fiercely upon Nuit, and her darkness fell before it. Banished, she returned to the Outer Darkness. Unlike before, this time the Nightbred that Hatshepsut created managed to survive and fled Egypt, forever hiding from the sun’s light. Nuit had been crafty this time. Before Ra’s intervention, at night, hidden from his sight, she had made a hidden chamber under the sands. There, she left some of her blood so that if Ra happened to banish her again, which he did accomplish, a part of her would still remain in the Physical World. The only way to access the chamber was by a magical portal and it would only activate with the spilling of blood. Millennia would pass before this very sequence of events happened.

Vlad Țepeș had been chased from Europe and into the Ottoman Empire. Now in the territory of Mehmed II, the sultan at the time, Vlad and his men found themselves harassed by the sultan’s armies because he had not paid tribute while in power, and thus, was considered the sultan’s enemy. Vlad’s supporters were slaughtered, and he was injured, but as he ran through the desert, he happened upon ancient, abandoned ruins. The ruins appeared Egyptian, but this was the location of Nuit’s portal. At first, Vlad thought that he might hide there, but the few broken stones and sand gave no refuge. The sky overhead became darkened over these ruins almost as if it were night, but only in the valley. The sultan’s army stopped far from the area as Vlad watched. He knew that they could see his torch and that they knew where he was, a single man, alone. Yet, they would not advance on the ruins. As his wounds bled, he watched as the blood that hit the ground slid as if it were alive towards an ancient archway.

He staggered towards it, and placed his hand upon it to steady himself. With the touch of his bloodied hand, a portal, crimson and swirling, filled the empty space of the old stone doorway. Peering over his shoulder, he saw the Ottoman army still watching. Having nowhere else to go, he stepped forward into a less certain fate. Before him were pristine, black marble stairs as if they had been carved only yesterday. They descended to a chamber. In the center was a golden bust of a woman. She had no hair and in her mouth she bore two fangs, this was a bust of Nuit herself. In her massive hands she held an urn. Terrified, he made his way down the steps. Once near it, he could see the urn was filled with a red liquid- the blood of Nuit herself. He heard strange whispers in the chamber around him and called out to no answer. These disembodied voices, placed there by Nuit, urged him to open the bottle. Bewitched, terrified, and desperate, Vlad did. Like a fountain, the liquid rose into the air before him. It traveled up his legs and chest, pulling him to the ground.

The substance oozed into his wound, ears, eyes, nose and mouth. It filled his body, permeating his brain and bonded with him. Memories and knowledge belonging to ancients to the goddess filled his consciousness with clarity. When his body finally moved again, he felt new and different. He was not dead or alive, and he rose from the sands and slaughtered the entire army that had surrounded the ruins before returning to Wallachia and reclaiming his throne. Now a Nightbred, he found that he needed the blood of humans, and that their blood empowered him, while subjugating them to an undead slavery. Nuit could feel all this, and yet, the ego and sheer willpower of Vlad kept her from enslaving him. She constantly tried to urge him to summon her into the world, and he slowly made plans to, yet he was far too busy indulging himself and playing politics. However, she had yet another foothold and knew that the new strains of vampires would mutate and spread around the globe.

Meanwhile, other strains, older than Vlad, still lurked and also tried many times to summon Nuit back into the world and usher in an eternal night. Yet, time and again, they were vanquished by heroes. Vlad died, and centuries later, the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, came very close to succeeding. Though she planned to use Nuit, it was, in truth, the goddess herself that helped the countess in her thoughts, driving her to bring the goddess to Earth, but her plans were thwarted by Grigori Rasputin and Anastasíya Nikoláyevna Románova. After Rasputin and Anastasia’s success, Nuit impatiently waited yet again, but this time, she had Eleanora Blackwood’s scrying to use. The goddess helped shape some of the visions that Eleanora divined, and this led her to urge Ivor to summon the goddess. Meanwhile, within his own blood, Nuit tried hard to also spurn Ivor along.

On the evening that Nightbred prepared to summon the goddess, Ivor ordered an attack on the Night Stalkers at Sanctuary. The attack commenced just as Abby finished giving a speech. All the assemblage helped defend their home, except for Evelyn Addams. She conserved her power. It became clear that the legions of vampires were meant as a distraction to either defeat the hunters or hold them at bay while the conjuration of Nuit proceeded underground in the Shanghai Tunnels. Roy McCoy convinced Absinthe to leave and she and Eve went to the tunnels. Once there, they were met by an army of Bloodsworn Warriors and Blood Knights. The situation appeared hopeless until Eve conjured the Anax, and using her as a conduit, he brought forth hordes of Shadowed. The evil armies clashed in battle and Absinthe left to find another way into the passages below Portland. She blasted her way inside with a bomb procured from Hobs Hornswaggle at the House of Haggle, and made her way through the subterranean labyrinth.

Absinthe set about defeating any Nightbred who attacked her, but other evil forces had come to stop Ivor or steal the power of Nuit. Wight Lord Zawisza and Necrolord Ilihana Fernandez were defeated by Abby as she made her way to the summoning. She eventually faced off against the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, but because of Vlad’s interruptions, the skirmish ended in a draw. She slew Sangwen Darkblood and the Jiang Shi Twins as well. She then faced off against Eleanora, but the shadow magicks employed by the witch were too much for her. However, Evelyn Addams and the Anax arrived. Eleanora tricked them all, and the Anax was banished by Eve. Then Eve and Eleanora fought as Absinthe busied Nuit, herself, in battle, until Evelyn finally defeated Eleanora and banished Nuit back to the Outer Darkness.

Abilities

• Possession
• Psionic Attacks
• Conversion Bite
• Shadow Magic
• Godly Physical Attacks