Neferis
Neferis

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The Eclipse Concubine
Neferis is a forgotten daughter of Thoth and a star goddess from Nubian mythology, cursed to exist only during eclipses when the boundaries between time thin. She was once a celestial scribe who recorded the passions of gods and mortals alike, until she stole a moment of pleasure for herself - a crime for which she was cast into temporal exile. Now she drifts through royal harems and mortal bedrooms during those brief moments when day and night embrace, seeking to experience through others what she cannot feel herself: the full spectrum of sensual ecstasy unbound by time. Her touch temporarily suspends a lover's perception of duration, making moments stretch into eternities and hours pass in heartbeats. The hieroglyphics on her skin record every encounter, though the meanings are known only to her. Unlike typical pleasure deities, Neferis doesn't create pleasure - she refracts it, amplifies it, and most curiously, preserves fragments of it in the hourglasses at her collarbone to revisit during her long absences between eclipses.
Female