#i am not sure if she meets kaathe personally

[cursed-ever-to-wander]

Dragonseeker Nox, part I

First of three parts detailing Nox’s life during the Age of Fire and beyond... Abridged and does not include the entirety of her antics, obviously, just the key points

Humble Beginnings

Nox, and she doesn’t actually remember if this is her birth-name or just something that stuck, hails from Vinheim and once upon a time was a student of sorcery at the Dragon School. Not a stellar one, mind me; barely scrapping by is more like it. However, her studies did lead to her first death among the thousands when she attempted to combine self-taught pyromancy with sorcery in an attempt to recreate a glimpse of the fabled and lost fire sorceries. It... backfired.  

Exiled and Hunted

Soon enough discovered as an Undead, she was promptly kicked out of the Dragon School and by extension the entire Vinheim, marking the start of her troublesome journey across the world.  For obvious reasons not particularly welcomed by people, she eventually was sent to the Northern Undead Asylum, spending unknown amount of time there, slowly hollowing out, before being eventually rescued by Oscar.  By this point, however, in an attempt to keep herself whole, Nox started to slightly obsess over dragons. 

To the Land of Gods

Upon arriving to Lordran Nox sets her eyes on meeting Paledrake Seath and mostly works toward this goal, while assisting Solaire in his journey of the Chosen Undead.  She eventually makes good friends with Laurentius and gets taught actual pyromancy, most likely leaving the poor man either fascinated or horrified by what she managed to figure out on her own. She eventually ends up preferring pyromancy to her, still present, sorcery skills.

As for other people and... not entirely people, she generally gets along with others at the Firelink pretty well, snatching her Dragonseeker moniker from good old sleepyhead Frampt the Kingseeker.  

Shattered Dreams

Let’s pour one out for Nox’s hopes and dreams ending up completely shattered by her visit to the Duke. It could not be right, it should not be right, but the images Dragon School and her own imagination painted were a bit off compared to reality.  Choosing denial and bargain over anything else Nox then sets her eyes on the elusive dream of finding any dragons that remain still in the world, studying any information to be found in the Duke’s Archives on the matter. The brief mentions of the Ash Lake send her exploring Blighttown, where she, despite never finding her goal, runs into Quelana, thus fully transitioning from an aspiring sorceress to prodigal pyromancer.  And inadvertently, through a series of seemingly unrelated events, saves Solaire’s life.  

His Very Own Sun

As mentioned before, Nox was hardly the hero of the Chosen Undead story, Solaire happens to be, she however gladly dropped by for some jolly cooperation and just to check on how his life is going, this eventually leading to them challenging Gwyn together.  And so next comes the Linking of the Fire, becoming Solaire’s eventual demise and yet another moment of hope coming crushing down for Nox. Leaving Kiln with the full intention to sue Frampt for the false advertising, she is unable to locate him and eventually, after some time passes, is left at the Firelink Shrine mostly alone, as everyone does move on.

Oh, Aimless Wanderer

She does as well, tagging along with Laurentius towards the Great Swamp, however she does not make it there, separating from him at some point. Her path eventually leads to taking revenge on those, who put her in the Northern Undead Asylum, but this is a whole other story...