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"I strove to understand her labyrinthine philosophy, the source of her mysterious pain. Everything about her was dark and shrouded, even the way she spoke
and the acts she required of me. It took years for me to understand thesimple fact that I could never understand Nocturnal. Her mystery was as
essential to her as savagery was to Boethiah or treachery was to Molag Bal. To understand Nocturnal is to negate her, to pull back the curtains cloaking her realm of darkness. As much as I loved her, I recognized the futility of unraveling her enigmas."― Sigillah Parate.
She is associated with, and often depicted alongside, jet-black ravens and crows, which are said to have the power of speech.
"...The Nightingales are a secretive subgroup of the Thieves Guild, who pledge their souls to
Nocturnal and guard both the Ebonmere and the Skeleton Key. When a
Nightingale dies, it is believed that their soul becomes one with the
shadows..."
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