Sehanine Moonbow

Sehanine Moonbow also called Daughter of the Night Skies, Goddess of Moonlight, the Lunar Lady, Moonlit Mystery, the Mystic Seer, the Luminous Cloud, and Lady of Dreams is an elven goddess of death, dreams, heavens, journeys, moon (full moon to be precise), moon elves, stars, and transcendence as well as the most powerful female member of the Seldarine.

Description

In her avatar form, Sehanine Moonbow looked like a 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall youthful, ageless, female elf clad in a diaphanous gown, that looked like it was made of moonbeam and dropped moonbeam drops every 10 minutes, that could be bottled as potions of invisibility.

Another depiction of Sehanine was as a male elf. This depiction portrayed the Protector and Sehanine as lovers. Characteristic about Sehanine's willowy male form were his eyes. They showed a sense of melancholy and tenderness when he was depicted with Corellon.

Personality

The Lunar Lady is a very protective deity towards elves. She sends omens to keep her people from danger, crafts illusions around elven hideouts like Evermeet, Myth Dyraalis, Rucien-Xan, and Synnoria, and organizes the journeys for elves to these lands.

She hates undead and her followers make it their duty to destroy these beings. She is intolerant towards necromancy in general, with the sole exceptions being the practice of white necromancy (only tolerated) and the creation of baelnorn liches, which she won't tolerate if it is not necessary.

Nonetheless, she is quite an aloof deity and apart from the aforementioned deeds, she keeps herself apart from the happenings of Toril.

As a general rule, she does not speak in a direct manner. Instead, she relies on dreams, visions, etc. to relay information. This does not mean that she is incapable of speaking in a clear manner as she is seen doing that too.

Divine Realm

Sehanine Moonbow has her realm in Arvandor, which is found on the layer of the same name within the plane of Arborea.

Activities

As mentioned, Sehanine Moonbow protects her people's hideouts via illusions. She directs her followers to use illusions to hide elven settlements, guide elves to elven hideouts like Evermeet in the wake of the Retreat, kill undead, and seek out/excavate magical lore, especially ones concerning divination and illusion magic.

Elves believe in reincarnation and the Mystic Seer, alongside Corellon Larethian, are believed to be the ones to guide the elves towards an end point of perfection.

Relationships

Seldarine

Sehanine Moonbow was a member of the Seldarine and had good relationships with the other members. She was either the daughter or wife of Corellon Larethian and had at least one son, Tethrin Veraldé with him.

Her personality trait of kindness was such, that she could bring Fenmarel Mestarine, who isolated himself after an affair with Lolth, to Arvandor on occasion, as well as to calm down Shevarash during his fits of rage.

She was an aspect of Angharradh alongside Aerdrie Faenya and Hanali Celanil. However, she was the primary aspect and the others merely secondary ones. Dark Seldarine

Sehanine Moonbow was an enemy of the Dark Seldarine. She opposed Lolth and was specifically hated by Vhaeraun for escaping his prison. The one exception to this rule was Eilistraee, whom she considered an adopted daughter, but had a strained and distant relationship with. Allies

Sehanine Moonbow was an ally of Baravar Cloakshadow, Cyrrollalee, Dumathoin, Kelemvor, Leira, Lurue, Milil, Mystra, Oberon, Savras, Segojan Earthcaller, Shaundakul, Selûne, Titania, and Urogalan. Enemies

Sehanine Moonbow was an enemy of Cyric, Gruumsh, the Gods of Fury, Myrkul, the Queen of Air and Darkness, Shar, and Velsharoon.

History

How Sehanine Moonbow came to be was unknown, but one theory posited, that she was Corellon’s daughter. It was believed, that the elves originated from a mixture of Corellon’s blood and Sehanine’s tears. She and Araushnee (later known as Lolth) were rivals over the favor of the Protector. She was one of those who participated at the creation of Sahandrian, Corellon's sword.

When Araushnee tampered with the sheath of Corellon, so it would break during Corellon's fight against Gruumsh, he did so under a full moon, not only when Sehanine was at her strongest, but also in plain sight of her. When the sword broke, Sehanine came in to help Corellon prevail against Gruumsh.

Sehanine confronted Araushnee during daytime, and got trapped and imprisoned by Vhaeraun. Around the time, when the War of the Seldarine ended, she came free under heavy but undefined sacrifices and kept Araushnee from poisoning Corellon. She then created Angharradh with Hanali and Aerdrie.

Sehanine Moonbow

Intermediate deity

Basic Information

Titles

Daughter of the Night Skies
Goddess of Moonlight
Lady of Dreams
The Luminous Cloud
The Lunar Lady
Moonlit Mystery
The Mystic Seer

Adjectives

Sehanite

Pantheons

Seldarine

Serves

Corellon Larethian

Served By

Mythrien Sarath, Naralis Analor

Attributes

Alignment

Chaotic Good

Symbol

Full moon under a moonbow

Realm

Olympian Glades of Arborea/Olympus/Arvandor/Crescent Grove

Portfolio

The Moon, The Stars, The Heavens, Dreams, Mysticism, Journeys, Death, Moon Elves

Favored Weapon

Moonshaft (quarterstaff)

Following

Worshippers

Diviners
Elves
Half-elves
Illusionists
Opponents of the undead

Alignments

NG, CG, CN

Domains

Darkness (Loss, Moon, Night)
Death (Psychopomp)
Travel (-)
Void (Stars)

Favored Aspects

Monsters

Baelnorn
Celestial elves
Lythari
Celestial horses
Pixie
Silver dragon

Minerals

Mithral
Moonstone
Silver
Sunstone

Colors

Silvery-white
Silver

Manifest- ations

Dreams

Waking visions

Possession

Meteor showers

A single falling star