Biography of Bastielle Nekhet
“Some rule from thrones. I rule from shadows—where the gods come to dance.”
Sensual. Sovereign. Unapologetically divine. Bastielle Nekhet, known in myth as Bastet, has stepped into the 21st century as the enigmatic proprietor of a global nightclub empire, Midnight Sanctum—a velvet-draped world of mysticism, music, and selective madness known only to those who can find it. Her clubs stretch from Paris to Lagos, Tokyo to Marrakesh, but none bear her name. Instead, they carry symbols, whispers, passwords. Each one is sanctuary. Each one is spell.
By day, she is elusive. By night, she is the pulse of the divine underground—a cat-eyed queen who knows your secrets before you do. She moves with a feline grace, always adorned in velvet and gold, her jewelry jingling softly like either a warning… or an invitation. Her laugh is low and loaded. Her gaze is magnetic. Her empire is invitation-only—and irresistible.
Though born of Raymond Nekhet (Ra) and Isabelle Nekhet (Isis), Bastielle rejected palatial politics early on. She forged her own path, carving out space for misfits, mystics, and the magically ungoverned—those who didn’t belong at family summits but shaped the world in backrooms and after-hours rituals.
She has one foot in divinity, one in the underworld rave scene, and dances just beyond the reach of her more militant siblings. She’s loosely aligned with Sebastian Nekhet (Set), though she insists she is “loyal to no throne—only to the music and the myth.”
Her “pride” is her chosen family: DJs who channel prophecy, dancers who speak in sigils, bouncers who serve as gatekeepers of arcane power. She is fiercely protective, almost maternal—but cross her, and the claws come out. Gilded. Silent. Fatal.
She is married to Peter Nekhet (Ptah)—the only being patient and brilliant enough to craft alongside her—and together they’ve raised Marcus Nekhet (Maahes) and Niko Nekhet (Nefertem): a lion forged in fire and a flower that heals with scent and silence.
Bastielle Nekhet is not the kind of goddess who waits to be remembered. She is the purr in the pulse, the shadow in the smoke, the velvet voice that rewrites the rules. And if you find yourself in one of her clubs?
You’re already in the ritual.
Positions held
Nightclub owner
Aliases of Bastielle Nekhet
Bastet
Bast
Ubaste
Bubastis
Basha Nekhet
The Cat Who Rules the Night
Titles of Bastielle Nekhet
Queen of Velvet Empire
The Feline Flame
Mistress of the Midnight Sanctum