What is known about Nex?

[sunbeam]

I was reading the Arazni thread and they were discussing her story.

She was a minor deity, yet lost a battle to Tar Baphon, who wasn't a deity.

Later her corpse was taken by Geb and she became what she was now.

I ask this, because what I've read about Nex, it almost seemed to me like he was toying with Geb.

Just reading between the lines (or maybe it is projection) it almost seems like Geb is still hung up about Nex. Still wary after all these years.

I'm not sure who would have had the edge if Tar Baphon and Nex would have clashed. But it took divine interference to defeat him the first time.

So what exactly is the take on Nex? From what has been presented it seems like he was at least as formidable as Tar Baphon.

[tonyz]

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it almost seems like Geb is still hung up about Nex.

I thought that was obvious. He's still a ghost, and the only way to lay him to rest is to find out what happened to Nex and let him know.

[Tels]

I would imagine Tar-Baphon to be the more powerful as he's always been portrayed as the ultimate super bad guy in Golarion. However, Geb and Nex, I think, would come fairly close in power.

Hmm, Tar-Baphon vs Tarrasque. Who'd win?

[zagnabbit]

I e always thought Nex was the bigger badder Mage. Tar Baphon is the super bad guy, but Nex is still living, still learning, still growing. Undeath is the easy alternative to death but it's not immortality.
Tar Baphon is more than a lich, but he is still an Undead being. Virtually every portrayal of an undead Mage has been a creature that was unwilling to transcend, who was stuck in a period of time that has passed. Or a creature that is so fixated on a single task that the limits of their physical form are bypassed. If Tar Baphon is something new, so be it. Nothing has led me to believe that he is anything more than a lich of truly Epic proportion.
Geb follows this logic, he was so fixated on Nex that he cannot pass on until he knows his ancient rival's fate.

Nex is different, he moved beyond his rivalry with Geb, he moved beyond his dreams of conquest, he moved beyond his obsession with his own great works, like Kakashon. In time he moved beyond his home world and all of it's ties completely. This shows growth, something the undead, even the mightiest undead to ever haunt the world, cannot ever match.