#he became the personification of fear nut he was still so deeply afraid of death

[iris-nonsense]

As nodt always makes me a little bit insane like as far a s we know he spent most of his life bedridden with some type of illness that makes the mere act of staying alive painful, he's deeply scared of death because he's afraid that after it there will only be enternal suffering worse than what he's already experiencing. At some point he meets yhwach who promises to free him from fear and gives him the power to inflict that same fear on others. As nodt go to war and does exactly that and he enjoys it because for one he's not the one who's afraid but he's the one making others experience that overwhelming sense of primordial fear and this in some way exorcise his own. And then he comes face to face with rukia who mange to neutralize his power and he dies and it's cold and painful and scary. In the end yhwach doesn't keep his promise and, in his last moments, as nodt is still alone desperate and afraid. Nothing has changed he just postponed the inevitable