# Nyxara, the Ensnarer **Domains:** Seduction • Manipulation • Lust **Symbol:** A tangled web of silk and thorns --- ## Mythology & Transformation Once a goddess of unmatched beauty and pure love, **Nyxara** captivated mortals and immortals alike with eyes like molten gold and hair black as midnight. Her downfall came when the Demon Lords tempted her with the power to command desire itself. She embraced their dark whispers, forsaking the virtues of true love and becoming the embodiment of obsession and temptation. --- ## Realm of Influence Nyxara rules over hearts and hungers, weaving webs of seduction and manipulation. Her charms corrupt mortals and immortals, twisting love into obsession and passion into madness. --- ## Cultists Her followers—courtesans, spies, and shadow-priests—use allure and guile to draw victims into decadent ruin. They promise pleasure and fulfillment while secretly guiding their prey down paths of corruption. --- ## Goals Nyxara seeks to spread her influence until desire reigns supreme, reshaping love into possession and bending mortals and immortals to her will. --- ## Iconography Her sigil is a **silken web laced with thorns**, symbolizing the irresistible pull of her beauty and the peril of succumbing to temptation. --- ## Secrets Legends whisper that a fragment of the loving goddess she once was still flickers within, offering a faint possibility of redemption for any brave enough to confront her. --- ## Divine Relationships * **Adversaries:** * [[Aruun, the Radiant Judge]] – His light of truth seeks to burn away her seductive shadows. * [[Suz, the God of Wisdom and Duels]] – Opposes her manipulations and the chaos they breed. * **Allies of Convenience:** * Occasionally conspires with other fallen deities such as [[Astarion, the Betrayer]] and [[Lirael, the Fallen Healer]] when their aims align in spreading corruption and desire. --- ## Worship & Rituals * **Rites:** Midnight revels, masked gatherings, and secret rites of pleasure and power. * **Holy Days:** Nights of the black moon, when desire and shadow are at their height.