Selûne
Selûne (a.k.a. Our Lady of Silver)
Divine Domains
Moon, moonlight, and stars; beauty and purity; love and marriage; navigation and navigators; tracking, wanderers, and seekers; diviners and dreams; good and neutral lycanthropes; and autumn
Holy Books & Codes
According to superstition, one who mocked Selûne while aboard a ship would never complete their voyage. Moonstones were believed to be sacred to Selûne by her followers. Some folk believed silver to be Selûne's hardened tears.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Pair of eyes surrounded by seven stars
Favored Animal: Owls
Favored monsters: Song dragons, weredragons, good/neutral lycanthropes, shapechangers
Favored minerals: Moonstone
Favored colors: Blue, silver
Tenets of Faith
Cleric Subclasses: Nature, Peace, Twilight
Paladin Subclasses: Ancients, Devotion, Redemption, Watchers
Also patroness of Gloom Stalker and Horizon Walker Rangers and Divination Wizards
Physical Description
Body Features
Selûne appeared in many forms, like the phases of the moon. One was a dusky-skinned human woman with long limbs; perfect and exquisite beauty; wide, radiant, lime-green eyes; and long, ivory-hued hair that fell to her knees. Another was an ethereal young girl of slender frame, dark eyes, and dark hair, wearing diaphanous robes colored white or resembling dappled moonlight, which trailed her "moondust" or "moon motes". A third was a matronly middle-aged woman, plump yet fair and aging gracefully, with gray-streaked dark hair. This one sometimes lived among mortals; the most notable such avatar was the innkeeper Luna.
She was also ever changing, ageing but ageless. If watched over time, her appearance seemed to grow to full radiance or to age and fade away, in keeping with the waxing or waning of the moon. Such changes only affected her external appearance and did not reflect any change in might, at least to mortal eyes. In any form or state, whenever she was in darkness, Selûne's avatar continually emanated a faint blue-white glow like moonlight.
Special abilities
When manifested as an avatar, she could cast a wide variety of magical spells, except those of the plant sphere and any that conjured darkness. She would avoid reversed and injurious forms of healing spells and necromantic sphere spells, unless absolutely necessary. She could freely cast divination spells, even alongside other spells. Her spells all had a similar appearance, beginning as streaks of moonbeams and only revealing their true effect when they struck. She radiated protection from evil, and no good summoned creature within this range could be dispelled or banished. Meanwhile, a holy word from her automatically banished evil extraplanar beings.
She typically manifested as trails of dancing motes of light, similar to will-o'-wisps, commonly called "moondust" or "moon motes", which could shed moonlight where there should be none. In this form, she guided travelers lost in the night or journeying over hazardous terrain, and came to shine for her faithful when light was needed for a delicate action. These moon motes occasionally exuded a radiant, sparkling, pearly-hued liquid known as "drops fallen from the moon", which was the holy essence of Selûne and was prized by the faithful.
Mental characteristics
Intellectual Characteristics
Again like the cycles of the moon, Selûne had many and changing moods and natures. Her faithful, coming from many walks of life, viewed her in countless different ways, and she reflected this. Sometimes she was enthusiastic, vivacious, joyous, and majestic, given to action and dance. At other times, she was subdued, motherly, and almost poetic or tranquil and embracing. Then she was remote and weighed down by sadness at defeats and tragedies, even those that happened long, long ago. Finally, she could be aggressive and fierce, but cold, and with little mercy for her enemies. These shifting personalities made her versatile.She was generous and freely bestowed gifts and blessings on mortals. She also made few demands of her followers. When beseeched by her clergy, she always responded.
Relationships
Shared Secrets
Despite the mortals' beliefs around their so-called hatred for each other, the sun and moon keep their secret about their love for one another. They each have a necklace so they can hear each other sing.
Divine Classification
Deity
Age
Immortal
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Pronouns
She/Her
Gender
female
Eyes
dark brown, monolidded
Hair
long silver hair
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Silver skin
Height
7'6"
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